May 23, 2026
The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
Why the next generation of B2B product companies will be built by engineers deployed directly inside customer workflows.
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Iβm Baptiste, co-founder and CTO of Clustor, an AI-native B2B SaaS we grew from 0 to ~800 daily active users and ~$55k ARR in 12 months, with 3 months on the ground in San Francisco. I now take freelance missions where I can ship real product, not slides.
~800
Daily active users
$55k
ARR in 12 months
3 mo
in San Francisco
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Built end-to-end
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Why the next generation of B2B product companies will be built by engineers deployed directly inside customer workflows.
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