The moderntoolchain forforward-deployed teams.
Deliver impact & repeat deliberately.
Turn customer requirements into last-mile solutions—without starting from scratch every time.
Just as Cursor transformed coding with AI, Heliograph is the AI-native platform that transforms how forward-deployed engineers ship custom solutions—combining project management, version control, and stakeholder tracking in one place.
Stop living in disconnected worlds
One platform where Product, Engineering, and Customer teams finally sync.
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See it in action
Watch a 1-minute walkthrough of how Heliograph connects your Product, Engineering, and Customer teams.
1 minute • Project Management • Version Control • Stakeholder Tracking
Your teams use different tools. They don't talk.
Product lives in Linear and Notion. Engineering lives in GitHub. Sales lives in CRMs and spreadsheets. The moment you need to ship a custom solution, you're cobbling together workflows across three worlds that were never designed to connect.
What you have
Great tools—for their own worlds
Where it breaks
- Product roadmaps disconnect from engineering reality
- Customer requirements live in someone's CRM notes
- Engineering ships—but sales doesn't know what changed
- Three tools, three sources of truth, zero sync
What's missing
One platform that connects Product, Engineering, and Customer teams
One integrated platform
Three core modules. Built for the way forward-deployed teams actually work.
Project Management
Built for custom solutions
Ship many solutions to individual customers, not one product to many users. Tasks connect directly to CRM data—see which client needs what, who's working on it, and what's next.
Version Control & Review
For everything, not just code
Git-style versioning for presentations, project plans, and documentation. Branch for client-specific variants while maintaining connection to your core "main" version.
Stakeholder Management
Requirements meet reality
Stop keeping requirements in someone's head or scattered Notion docs. Track different requirement versions for different stakeholders in one place.
The moment is now
Building is faster than ever
AI has shifted the bottleneck from "can we build it?" to "should we build it and for whom?"—exactly where forward-deployed teams operate.
Forward-deployed teams are the new standard
Palantir. Databricks. Every AI startup. Customer-facing building has become a core function, not an experiment.
AI-native by design
Building now means AI integration from day one—structured data, clear APIs, workflows where AI searches, implements, and iterates.
Built for forward-deployed teams
Builders who sit at the intersection of sales, consulting, and engineering.
Why Heliograph is the Cursor for FDEs
Cursor gave developers an AI-native editor that understood their codebase. Heliograph gives forward-deployed engineers an AI-native platform that understands their customers, requirements, and delivery workflows.
AI that knows your customer context
Like Cursor indexes your codebase, Heliograph's AI agents index your stakeholder requirements, project history, and delivery patterns—so every suggestion is informed by real customer context.
Version control beyond code
FDEs don't just write code—they create proposals, presentations, and project plans. Heliograph brings git-style branching and review to every artifact, not just source files.
Built for many customers, not one product
Traditional project management tools assume you're building one product for many users. Heliograph is built for the FDE reality: shipping many custom solutions to individual customers.
One platform, zero context-switching
Stop jumping between Linear, GitHub, and Salesforce. Heliograph unifies project management, version control, and stakeholder tracking—the complete toolchain for forward-deployed engineers.
Frequently asked questions
What does “Cursor for FDEs” mean?
Cursor revolutionized software development by building an AI-native code editor that deeply understands your codebase. Heliograph does the same for forward-deployed engineers (FDEs)—an AI-native platform that understands your customers, requirements, and delivery workflows. It's the purpose-built toolchain for the people who sit between sales, consulting, and engineering to ship custom solutions.
What is a forward-deployed engineer (FDE)?
A forward-deployed engineer is a technical role at the intersection of sales, consulting, and engineering. FDEs work directly with customers to design and build custom solutions. The role was pioneered at Palantir and has become standard at companies like Databricks, Scale AI, and virtually every AI startup. Related titles include solutions engineer, customer engineer, technical account manager, and implementation engineer.
What tools do forward-deployed engineers need?
FDEs need tools that bridge three worlds: project management (like Linear or Jira), version control (like GitHub), and customer relationship management (like Salesforce). Most FDEs today cobble together workflows across these disconnected tools. Heliograph is the first platform to unify all three with AI-native capabilities purpose-built for forward-deployed engineering workflows.
How is Heliograph different from Linear, Jira, or Notion?
Linear, Jira, and Notion are built for teams shipping one product to many users. Heliograph is built for teams shipping many custom solutions to individual customers. It combines project management with git-style version control for non-code artifacts (presentations, proposals, project plans) and stakeholder management—all powered by AI agents that understand customer context and delivery history.
Stop living in disconnected worlds
One platform where Product, Engineering, and Customer teams finally sync.
Get Early AccessJoin the forward-deployed teams transforming how they ship custom solutions.