What is STUDIO
Hire vs. traditional outsourcing vs. Respectify STUDIO
Respectify STUDIO reimagines the engineer embedded inside your company — known overseas as the FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) model — for Japanese B2B, built on AI-native development and a monthly retainer.
You get a dedicated team running from the week after signing, without carrying the fixed cost or hiring lead time of an in-house engineer. There's no need to spend weeks locking down scope and requirements the way you would with traditional outsourcing.
Faster than hiring. More flexible than outsourcing. We deliver something working, every week.
What is FDE
Not a seat. An outcome.
FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) is an engineering role established at overseas tech companies — most notably at data-driven firms such as Palantir. Rather than handing over a product or a proposal and calling it done, the engineer embeds in the client's day-to-day work and keeps building until results show up.
In Japanese B2B, it's often mistaken for on-site staffing. But the essence of FDE has nothing to do with sitting in a seat — it's about continuing to build the business's actual output, driven by whatever the front line's priorities are.
Respectify STUDIO reimagines this model with no physical on-site presence required — AI-native, and billed as a monthly flat-fee retainer.
Starting from the backlog, moving every week.
The process is three simple acts.
We move forward step by step, starting with the first meeting, week by week.
Write down everything you want to do, in one list
In the first week, we write out everything scattered across your organization that people want done, and rank it by revenue impact (e.g. pricing page revamp, automating event follow-up emails, scaling case-study production). This one sheet replaces the spec document.
Weekly sprints, weekly demos
We build in one-week increments and show you something working at a demo every week.
Monthly report on hours worked and outcomes
We roll up hours worked (person-days) and outcomes into a monthly report, and plan next month's priorities together.
Weekly Cadence — decide on Monday, build all week, demo on Friday
What the flat fee means
Traditional contract work vs. Respectify STUDIO's decision-making flow
Under a traditional contract-work agreement, once you lock requirements and get a quote, the authority to decide the execution order shifts to the vendor. Changing priorities after signing means re-quoting and renegotiating.
With Respectify STUDIO, backlog priority is always yours to decide. The contract itself doesn't change even as the market or your internal situation shifts. That's what the flat monthly fee means.