--- schema: 1 type: video title: How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Ramp — Leo Mehr description: >- It's Friday night, an enterprise sales rep needs an SAP S4 HANA integration to hit quota, and the reflexive Forward Deployed answer is yes. Leo Mehr's first principle is to pause instead: always be scoping. Saying yes to everything buries the team and often does not even serve the customer, so the job is to weigh what actually matters against the rest of the queue and decide with that context. Ramp's FDE function looks different from its Palantir origins, pointed at enterprise customers, but the discipline is the same: scope hard before you roll up your sleeves and ship. The second half is what tokens change. Look at the FDE pipeline and ask which stages an agent can take over. Intake is a good one: requests pour in through account managers and solutions engineers, and someone has to read each and turn it into a spec. Ramp wired that step to an agent with Notion as the surface, and after a couple of iterations account reps were using it directly. The unglamorous parts are what make it work: an agent harness, evals with rubrics and human feedback, and past requests and help articles as grounding. The close is that the future of Forward Deployed needs both, humans for judgment and agents for the volume. Speaker info: - https://x.com/leomehr - https://www.linkedin.com/in/leomehr - https://leomehr.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction: FDE principles at Ramp 2:10 - Principle one: always be scoping 3:16 - The Friday night SAP integration ask 5:04 - When scoping goes wrong 6:33 - Using agents for the FDE pipeline 7:57 - Automating request intake into specs 9:14 - Building the spec agent in Notion 11:16 - The agent harness and evals 13:27 - The future of FDE needs both canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/how-forward-deployed-engineering-is-done-at-ramp-le-72e5c59a604f markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/how-forward-deployed-engineering-is-done-at-ramp-le-72e5c59a604f.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T06:29:59.266Z' language: null children: [] videoId: ITMXwI6QL6A durationSeconds: 845 publishedAt: '2026-07-28T19:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 23 endSeconds: 136 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=23' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 23 endSeconds: 136 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=23' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 147 endSeconds: 202 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=147' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 213 endSeconds: 310 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=213' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 213 endSeconds: 310 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=213' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 320 endSeconds: 395 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=320' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 320 endSeconds: 395 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=320' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 407 endSeconds: 484 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=407' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 498 endSeconds: 554 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=498' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 554 endSeconds: 565 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=554' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 565 endSeconds: 684 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=565' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 565 endSeconds: 684 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=565' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 696 endSeconds: 816 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=696' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 696 endSeconds: 816 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=696' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 696 endSeconds: 816 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=696' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 696 endSeconds: 816 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/ITMXwI6QL6A?t=696' heldReason: rights --- # How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Ramp — Leo Mehr It's Friday night, an enterprise sales rep needs an SAP S4 HANA integration to hit quota, and the reflexive Forward Deployed answer is yes. Leo Mehr's first principle is to pause instead: always be scoping. Saying yes to everything buries the team and often does not even serve the customer, so the job is to weigh what actually matters against the rest of the queue and decide with that context. Ramp's FDE function looks different from its Palantir origins, pointed at enterprise customers, but the discipline is the same: scope hard before you roll up your sleeves and ship. The second half is what tokens change. Look at the FDE pipeline and ask which stages an agent can take over. Intake is a good one: requests pour in through account managers and solutions engineers, and someone has to read each and turn it into a spec. Ramp wired that step to an agent with Notion as the surface, and after a couple of iterations account reps were using it directly. The unglamorous parts are what make it work: an agent harness, evals with rubrics and human feedback, and past requests and help articles as grounding. The close is that the future of Forward Deployed needs both, humans for judgment and agents for the volume. Speaker info: - https://x.com/leomehr - https://www.linkedin.com/in/leomehr - https://leomehr.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction: FDE principles at Ramp 2:10 - Principle one: always be scoping 3:16 - The Friday night SAP integration ask 5:04 - When scoping goes wrong 6:33 - Using agents for the FDE pipeline 7:57 - Automating request intake into specs 9:14 - Building the spec agent in Notion 11:16 - The agent harness and evals 13:27 - The future of FDE needs both Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/how-forward-deployed-engineering-is-done-at-ramp-le-72e5c59a604f · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:13 to 2:16) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (2:16 to 3:33) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (3:33 to 5:20) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (5:20 to 6:35) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (6:35 to 8:04) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (8:04 to 9:25) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (9:25 to 11:24) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (11:24 to 13:36) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 8: Document excerpt (13:36 to 14:05) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.