On the ground
Understand needs where work happens
Business, product, technology and delivery teams work together to connect on-site challenges with business goals.
FDE · FRONTLINE DEPLOYED ENGINEERING
FDE works alongside your teamsto bring AI into your processes
Business, product, technology and delivery teams work on site with your people to understand workflows, orchestrate capabilities and take responsibility for business outcomes.
FDE OPERATING MODEL
FDE is a cross-functional team embedded in your business
Business, product, technology and delivery specialists work side by side with your teams to explore use cases, test ideas and continuously improve workflows.
FDEFrontline Deployed Engineers
Working alongside your team to bring AI into real business workflows.
BusinessProductTechnologyDelivery
Co-create use cases
Find opportunities in real work
Work with domain experts to map critical steps and turn experience and ideas into practical improvements.
Build and validate
Put promising ideas to work sooner
Prototype quickly, gather feedback on site and refine the solution in real business settings.
Grow value together
Keep improving for lasting value
Improve against business outcomes and turn proven experience into capabilities your teams can reuse.
AI FOR PROCESS
Bring AI into workflows. Grow value over time.
Start with business scenarios, connect data and knowledge to critical workflow steps, and improve through human-AI collaboration.
Discover
Map workflows and critical decision points
Understand
Connect scenarios, knowledge and business rules
Decide
Choose next steps against business goals
Act
Coordinate AI and people in execution
Govern
Apply review, access controls and traceability
Evolve
Review outcomes and codify experience
Experience feeds back. Workflows keep evolving.Reviewed data, expert decisions and business outcomes continuously strengthen knowledge, rules and AI capabilities.
METHODOLOGYAI for Process Blue
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TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE
Platform capabilities for on-site collaboration
From compute, models, data and knowledge to agents and workflow execution, the platform gives FDE teams composable engineering capabilities to bring AI into your existing business environment.
Agent applicationsAI applications for
business scenarios
AgentSkillWorkflow
templatesIndustry components
Workflow runtimeBring AI into real
business processes
Task orchestrationWorkflow
designAgent collaborationHuman-AI review
Data & knowledgeTrusted context for
workflows
Data integration &
governanceKnowledge platformOntology &
semantics
Model servicesManageable model
capabilities
Model managementModel
assetsPost-training
Compute foundationPower models and AI
applications
Dedicated computeOpen
computeDeployment & scheduling
PRODUCT SUPPORT
Put AI to work in business processes
Combine the capabilities you need to map workflows, validate use cases and run AI applications in everyday work—then keep improving.
AI applications & workflow platform
Smart Vision Enterprise Agent Platform
Connect compute, models, knowledge and applications to build enterprise AI engineering capabilities—and bring agents, knowledge and workflows into daily operations.
Build
multiple application typesVisual workflow
orchestrationEnterprise knowledge governance
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Enterprise AI control plane
Smart Vision Lingguo Routero
Connect models and tools through one control plane. Set routing, budget and security policies for business applications, with governed and traceable AI calls.
Unified model
& tool accessPolicy routing & budget
controlsSafety guardrails & audit
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CUSTOMER STORIES
Customer stories
See how data, knowledge and expert experience enter real workflows to bring AI and business teams together.
Clinical decision support
PUMCH preoperative anesthesia assessment agent
Brings together patient data, clinical guidelines and expert experience to support preoperative checks, risk assessment and anesthesia planning.
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Processes & standards
Standards and processes are the foundation of digital transformation
Digital China's Tang Kai explores how standards and structured processes help digital technology and AI become part of business operations.
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Drug discovery
A new AI approach to the first mile of drug discovery
Combines literature, patent, clinical and competitive intelligence to identify promising drug targets and analyze their mechanisms.
View caseNEWS & INSIGHTS
News & insights
Explore Digital China's perspectives on organizational capabilities, productivity and advanced manufacturing.
2026 / 10 / 15
Digital China wins the Ram Charan Management Practice Award again, with insights on sovereign AI
How FDE brings business and delivery teams on site to embed AI in workflows and build lasting organizational capabilities.
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2026 / 07 / 24
Guo Wei at WAIC: Data as a right, intelligence as an asset
How AI for Process and data assets can reshape workflows and raise organizational productivity.
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2026 / 06 / 15
AI for Process: A new methodology for advanced manufacturing
Explore how AI for Process reshapes advanced manufacturing workflows and captures expert experience.
Read storySOLUTION CONSULTATION
Turn business experience into workflow intelligence and lasting organizational capability
Talk with the FDE team about AI opportunities in your workflows and explore a practical path forward.
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