The vocabulary of Forward Deployed Operations.
Three terms Vantelira formalized to describe a category of operational work that lacked a shared vocabulary. Definitions written by the operator who uses them, not the marketing department that imported them.
A trained operator who owns operational change across people, process, technology, and execution: understand, diagnose, redesign, build, deploy, and own the outcome. FDEs deploy technology. FDOs deploy change.
A 14-day, fixed-scope diagnostic that maps the real process — workarounds, undocumented handoffs, and every step that lives in someone's head. Surfaces three named, fixable money leaks.
The diagnostic discipline practiced inside the Truth Audit. Excavating the operational layers a business has accumulated to find the real process underneath the SOP.
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