https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/840bcf43-ed2e-45e7-8b32-f743b7de0754 Decagon builds the customer support agent that answers when you email a brand, and making that agent good for a specific enterprise is the forward deployed job. It splits in two: one side configures the agent brain, the instructions and the handoff rules for when a human should take over; the other works like product engineering, figuring out what a new enterprise needs and anticipating the requests that have not been made yet. Sunny Rekhi's point is that the line between forward deployed and product is thin, because a customer ask is often just a product feature waiting to be built. What changes at scale, from 50 people to 500, is that this splits into specialized lanes and a few disciplines start to matter. One is restraint: some problems belong to the customer, and getting the boundary in writing keeps everyone honest. The bigger one is that custom work does not stay custom. Every integration a forward deployed engineer builds gets upstreamed into the platform, so custom becomes self serve and the agent compounds, and the next customer inherits it for free. You still have to prove value fast, because the relationship is multi year but the trust is won in the first weeks. Speaker info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunny-rekhi/, Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction: forward deployed at Decagon 1:06 - What Decagon's support agent does 2:24 - Offloading support and proactive outreach 3:40 - Two kinds of forward deployed work 6:12 - Scaling from 50 to 500 people 8:20 - Restraint, and getting it in writing 9:59 - Ramping a new enterprise deal 11:18 - Solving a problem so it scales 13:00 - Proving value fast 14:18 - Custom becomes self serve Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:02:02 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/840bcf43-ed2e-45e7-8b32-f743b7de0754 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.