Target Companies

Shortlist companies here when they become serious prospects.

Use the job ops app for the raw listing, score, brief, and suitability reason. Use this page for the shortlist, note template, and active/inactive organization. Use individual company files for the human layer: why the company matters, how to position the application, what to research next, and which interview stories to prepare.

How To Use This Page

For each company, capture only enough to support the next action:

• Decide whether to apply, research, network, or defer.
• Identify the 2-3 strongest fit arguments.
• Name the biggest gap or risk honestly.
• Link to relevant FDE wiki notes.
• Prepare one interview story and one smart question.

Active Notes

• Counterpart — Product Engineer.
• Fixify — Forward Deployed Engineer.
• Salt AI — Senior Full Stack Product Engineer.
• Knotch — Senior Technical Product Manager / Product Builder.
• Unqork — Staff AI Engineer.
• Fieldguide — AI Engineer.
• Zendesk — Forward Deployed Engineer, AI & Solutions.
• Finite State — AI Software Engineer.
• Hightouch — company target; current role selection pending.

Company Note Template

Copy this block into active/company-name.md when a target needs more research. Move the file out of active/ if the target becomes inactive.

# Company Name

Status: `researching | apply next | applied | interviewing | deferred`

Priority: `1 | 2 | 3`

Role:

Job ops data:

- Score:
- Status:
- Source:
- App brief:
- App suitability reminder:

Company thesis:

- What they sell:
- Who they sell to:
- Why customers need implementation help:
- Why this could be an FDE-style environment:

Fit for me:

- Strongest match:
- Second match:
- Third match:
- Biggest gap:
- Risk or concern:

Relevant wiki links:

- [Customer Discovery And Requirements Gathering](../../fde/field-patterns/customer-discovery-and-requirements-gathering.md)
- [Proof Of Value And Customer Migration](../../fde/field-patterns/proof-of-value-and-customer-migration.md)
- [Customer API Onboarding](../../fde/field-patterns/customer-api-onboarding.md)
- [AI Enablement And Adoption](../../fde/study-topics/ai-enablement-and-adoption.md)

Signal to research:

- Product:
- Customers or vertical:
- Funding / maturity:
- Implementation motion:
- Technical stack:
- Competitors:
- Recent company news:

Interview prep:

- Story to prepare:
- Technical topic to refresh:
- Customer scenario to practice:
- Smart question to ask:
- Resume / cover letter angle:

Next action:

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## Back

- [Target Companies](../target-companies.md)

Research Checklist

Use this when moving a company from "interesting" to "apply next."

• Read the company homepage and product pages.
• Find one customer story, case study, or implementation example.
• Find the docs or API pages if they exist.
• Identify the customer/user and the buyer.
• Identify the systems the product integrates with.
• Identify the likely messy workflow.
• Name why this company needs FDE-style work.
• Pick 2 relevant wiki links.
• Write one interview story and one smart question.
• Decide: apply, network, defer, or watch.

Back

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