Plank Research
Research
We publish what we learn from building and deploying AI in production: first-party data on the forward-deployed engineering market, and technical deep-dives from real engagements.
The state of FDE as a service, 2026
How forward-deployed engineering went from a Palantir job title to a multi-billion-dollar category in under a year, with third-party market data and first-party analysis of Plank engagements.
ReadThe FDE job market, mapped
A first-party census of open forward-deployed engineer roles across hundreds of companies, filterable by vertical, funding stage, region, and salary, down to the individual posting.
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LangGraph templates to solve the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
An open-source, stateful multi-agent LangGraph template that combines memory, vision, planning, and spatial reasoning to solve LS20, the first game in the ARC-AGI-3 reasoning benchmark.
ReadPut an embedded AI team on your roadmap
Forward-deployed engineers to deploy, AI-native engineers to build, and on-demand QA pods to validate, embedded with your team, starting the same day.