A GeoBit Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) is part engineer, part intelligence analyst who embeds with your team, learns your operation, and builds live geospatial intelligence around the problem in front of you. We don't hand you software and walk away — we deploy GeoBit directly into your operation, on your site, anywhere in the world.
The term comes from how the best software teams work with operators: instead of shipping a product over the wall, you put an engineer next to the people doing the job. They see the real workflow, write code against the real problem, and ship a working solution in days — not a roadmap in months.
For GeoBit, that means a single point of contact who owns the outcome. Our FDE sits with your security, operations, or intelligence team — virtually or in person — and turns "we need to know what's happening around our people and assets" into a live, running system.
They speak both languages. They can stand up a PostGIS pipeline and a Mapbox front end and read an all-source risk picture, geocode an event feed, and tell you what it means. That combination is what lets them move from your problem to a deployed answer without a translation layer.
You get the GeoBit platform — chat-to-map situational awareness fusing 100+ live feeds — configured to your mission, integrated with your tools, and deployed where you need it: our cloud, your cloud, your site, or a disconnected environment.
A tight, four-step loop. Most engagements have something live in front of your team within the first week.
A short call to understand your mission, your area of operations, the assets and people you need to protect, and how your team works today.
Your FDE stands up GeoBit configured to your operation — your regions, your threat profile, your feeds — and connects it to the data you already have.
Working alongside your team, they build the custom maps, alerts, briefs, and integrations that turn the platform into your operating picture.
We train your people, document everything, and keep it running. Stay on retainer for evolving needs, or take the wheel yourself.
Where you want us, that's where we work. GeoBit can run from our secure cloud, inside your own cloud or network, on hardware at your facility, or in a disconnected / low-connectivity environment in the field. Your forward-deployed engineer comes to you — on site, on the ground, or fully remote — and meets your operation where it actually is.
An engineer on the ground at your facility, operations center, or forward location to build and deploy in person.
Deployed inside your own AWS / Azure / GCP tenancy or private network, behind your controls and compliance.
Edge and disconnected deployments for low-connectivity, austere, or high-risk environments where the mission is.
Embedded virtually with your team across time zones — same ownership, same speed, no travel required.
Bring us in for a focused build, keep us on as an extension of your team, or have us run the whole capability. Pricing is scoped to the engagement — these are starting points.
Whatever the mission needs — these are the things teams ask for most.
A live map of your areas of operation, assets, and people with the threats around them in real time.
Geofenced triggers that push the right warning to the right person the moment something happens nearby.
Your feeds, sensors, and systems merged with our 100+ open sources into one queryable picture.
Daily country, regional, and asset-level intelligence briefs generated and delivered on your schedule.
Plain-language questions turned into operational maps — no GIS expertise needed on your side.
GeoBit wired into your travel, duty-of-care, ticketing, or comms tools so it lives where your team works.
Corporate security and duty-of-care teams · global risk & intelligence firms · NGOs and humanitarian operations · defense, government, and allied programs · logistics, energy, and critical-infrastructure operators — anyone who needs to know what's happening around their people and assets, and act on it.
Tell us about your mission and where you need us. We'll come back with a scope, a timeline, and the engineer who'll own it.
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