Modal started building its forward-deployed engineering team a few years ago and expanded it significantly this year.

“We're in a new era of, like, building applications and, and, and, you know, things that we couldn't build, you know, just a few years ago. And we see a lot of companies that, you know, they need a little bit of help, right? Like, you know. And, and so we started investing in FDEs a couple years ago, but it, but it's really been this year we've kind of scaled it up a lot.”