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Renting Back Your Own Business Logic: Who Owns What Your FDEs Learn?

Name: Renting Back Your Own Business Logic: Who Owns What Your FDEs Learn?
Start: 2026-10-27T18:00:00.000Z
Location: Austin

Tue, Oct 27 · 1:00 p.m.CDT

Austin · Austin

**\*\*Note: This event is in Austin TX downtown (not Dallas) \*\*** (Street address will be shared with registered attendees the evening before) Complex AI software rarely sells, or sticks, on its ow…

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Tue, Oct 27 · 1:00 p.m.CDT

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AustinAustin, TX, USA, Austin, TX

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Date and time: Tue, Oct 27 · 1:00 p.m.CDT — local Austin time
Location: AustinAustin, TX, USA, Austin, TXAustin

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**\*\*Note: This event is in Austin TX downtown (not Dallas) \*\***

(Street address will be shared with registered attendees the evening before)

Complex AI software rarely sells, or sticks, on its own. The pilots that convert are the ones where an engineer sat with the customer and shaped the product to their problem. The hard part is doing that on purpose without turning into a staffing shop.

That engineer learns a lot on site. How your workflows actually run. Where the edge cases live. Which rules nobody wrote down. None of it ends up in the repo.

Vendors are turning that knowledge into reusable templates. Customers risk paying to rent their own business logic back. What gets left behind has to be designed on day one.

[Aater Suleman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aatersuleman/), co-founder of Vixul, has built and sold an AWS services firm and now helps Saa

S and services companies stand up forward-deployed engineering functions. He'll walk through what FD

Es really produce, who sh