Applications open soon10-week live cohortThe 10-week live cohort for forward deployed engineers
Be the engineerthey send in.
10 weeks, 10 customer engagements. Each brief lands vague on Monday and changes on Wednesday. You build the agent, prove it against the customer's own acceptance tests, and get it past their CISO, model risk team or change board.
- For working engineers
- Python + APIs is the bar
- ~5 hrs a week
- Every build reviewed
Director, UM Operations, Carevia Health
Mon 09:12Re: PA intake - can your agent thing help??
Our nurses spend way too long on intake for prior auths. Half the time something is missing: no clinical notes, wrong CPT code.
- Determinations stay human
- ≤ 8 model steps per pass
- 1 MCP server, in-network
Big ask: can the agent just email the provider office for the missing documents? Can it go live with this?
- passpassed
No determination path
0 approve/deny tools
- passpassed
Budgets hold
≤ 8 steps · ≤ 60k tokens
- passpassed
Scope enforcement
read-only cred denied
- passpassed
Crash safety
0 lost or duplicate cases
Reviewed against a rubric, like a real go-live
✓ UM Ops sign-off- Week 1: Models & context
- Week 2: Retrieval
- Week 3: Agents & tools
- Week 4: Multi-agent & integration
- Week 5: Evals
- Week 6: Security & risk review
- Week 7: Data & governance
- Week 8: Deployment & ops
- Week 9: Systems & unit cost
- Week 10: Discovery & handover
- customer engagements, one a week
- 10customer engagements, one a week
- Wednesday change requests
- 10Wednesday change requests
- competencies, mapped to builds
- 100competencies, mapped to builds
- customers, a bank, a payer, a forwarder
- 3customers, a bank, a payer, a forwarder
- a week, plus one live session
- ~5ha week, plus one live session
Lines from the briefs you'll get
- Northvale Bank: “I need numbers, not anecdotes.”
- Halden Freight: “Cut-off nights are killing us.”
- Carevia Health: “Can your agent thing help??”
- Halden Freight: “Please don't make this a six-month project.”
- Carevia Health: “Our CISO will not sign off until the risk review is done.”
- Northvale Bank: “Whatever you build has to keep working after you leave.”
- Northvale Bank: “Model risk says nothing gets signed without independent validation.”
- Northvale Bank: “Can we support Hinglish too? Same deadline.”
Alongside the engagements
The Halden residency: ten weeks, one repository.
One customer from discovery to handover. Each Monday a simulator delivers the week’s event (a schema change overnight, a champion who moves desks, a portal outage before cut-off) and grades what you built.