fde.builders

Forward deployed engineers for AI companies entering Europe.

Official partners

You sell AI to European enterprises. We embed the engineering team that makes it work inside each customer, backed by MODULOR, an established group of design and engineering studios.

The group behind it

Around 130 people across a group of studios. Bootstrapped since 2017, and still growing.

  • The Modulor team gathered in December 2025
  • Modulor Studios Summer Summit 2026
  • The Modulor team at its latest gathering
  • The team listening together at the Modulor summit
  • Celebrating Tailor Hub joining Modulor
  • The SSTIL team
  • The team gathered in 2023
  • The audience at a design systems conference
Visit modulorstudios.com

Working with

  • Inditex
  • Zara
  • McKinsey
  • Repsol
  • Telefónica

How it works

Three roles, one team inside your customer. Engineers ship, a manager leads, an account partner owns the relationship.

Your customer
Manager
Account partner
Engineers

Your culture, deployed in Europe

Your way of building reaches your customer. A partner learns how you work in San Francisco, then leads your deployment in Europe.

San FranciscoYour team
SpainYour customer
Our partner learns your culture
and brings it to the deployment
    01

    Joins your team in San Francisco. Standups, reviews, planning. Enough time with your people to think like them.

    02

    Learns how you build. Your engineering standards, your product judgment, how you talk to customers.

    03

    Leads the deployment from Spain. The embedded team works your way inside your European customer.

Why engineers stay in Modulor

Hiring in Europe takes time. Keeping good engineers engaged inside a company that is not their own takes a system.

They learn the deployment. Your product, your customer's stack and the reasons behind both.

They are followed up and connected. A manager, 1:1s and reviews, and time with your team in San Francisco.

So they stay. And your customer keeps the people who know the deployment best.

Why Europe is hard

Every European country buys differently, speaks its own language and expects someone local in the room.

Regulation comes first. GDPR and the EU AI Act decide how data moves and how models ship. Your engineers need to know both.

Hiring takes quarters. Opening an entity and recruiting a senior team is slower than the deals you are closing.

Why Spain

Spain covers Europe. Same time zone as Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, a short flight from every major capital.

Senior talent, sustainable cost. Engineers cost less than in London, Paris or Munich, and the quality of life keeps them.

The door to the IBEX 35. Our studios already work with Spain's largest companies and know how they buy. Many European deployments start there.

What changes

Your customer gets senior engineers who ship fast, report clearly and know when to push back.

You get a team shipping in Europe from week one, with hiring, onboarding and performance handled by us.

The studios

Entering Europe? Tell us about the deployment and we will propose a team.

jorge@modulor.ventures