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GROW by Good Combinator is the skills library for building AI-era ventures, products, and institutions. The flagship track is the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Certification — eight courses that take you from what an FDE is through running a practice as a founder. Each lesson pairs a working operator's method with a concrete artifact you can use the same day. Course 1: FDE Foundations is free. Hosted by Doug Liles, founder of Good Combinator and an elected Special District Commissioner in South Walton, Florida. New lessons drop Tuesdays. Start at goodcombinator.com/grow.
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Translate business language into Jira-ready specs: user stories, AC, DoD, INVEST. In Lesson 2.5 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. A translation method that turns a sponso
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Answer first: structure any exec memo with SCQA and the Pyramid Principle. In Lesson 2.4 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. An answer-first memo structure executives can a
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Break a vague AI strategy into MECE pieces: three levels, twelve leaves, no overlaps. In Lesson 2.3 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. A MECE decomposition you can run on
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Run the 5-Whys ladder on a real claims-denial case and find the problem under the problem. In Lesson 2.2 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. A repeatable discovery-call str
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Why 77% of AI agent pilots die from non-technical causes — and the Soft Stack. In Lesson 2.1 of GROW Course 2 (Discovery & Communication), Doug Liles works through it with you. The five Soft Stack disciplines, framed as
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The three capabilities — engineer, consultant, product owner — that define an FDE. In Lesson 1.2 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: the Trinity model and an ho
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Land, Expand, Scale, Embed: the loop that turns one pilot into an owned account. In Lesson 1.3 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: the four-stage loop and the s
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From signed pilot to Day-2 ownership: the full FDE implementation lifecycle. In Lesson 1.4 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: the end-to-end lifecycle map so y
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Pick the one workflow worth automating first — and ignore the rest. In Lesson 1.6 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: a selection test for the first workflow so
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The personal operating system an FDE runs to stay senior at speed. In Lesson 1.7 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: a working set of habits and tooling that ke
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Put Foundations together: position yourself as an FDE in one artifact. In Lesson 1.8 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: a single positioning artifact that prov
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Why the best FDEs act like founders inside someone else's company. In Lesson 1.5 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: the ownership posture that separates an FDE
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Why the collapsing cost of intelligence rewrites who builds — and what an FDE actually is. In Lesson 1.1 of GROW Course 1 (Forward Deployed Engineer Foundations), Doug Liles works through it with you: a clear definition
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