Uravation Launches 3-Month Program to Train In-House FDE Staff
The program bets that employees who know their own business best can be turned into AI builders in 12 sessions, rather than companies hiring dedicated AI engineers.
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Uravation, a Tokyo-based generative AI training and consulting firm, has started a one-on-one program that trains non-engineer employees to automate their own company's work with AI agents within three months. The course runs 12 weekly 60-minute sessions, using only the trainee's actual work as material. Trainees follow a five-level roadmap, and many reach level 3 or 4, building their own automations. List price is 300,000 yen per month per person.
FDE, short for Forward Deployed Engineer, is a role that goes into the field and builds working systems with AI and software. Uravation says major Japanese companies are increasingly hiring for it, with 2026 listings showing upper annual salaries around 15 million yen. The program is an alternative to hiring: it trains the employee who knows the business best to build. It grew out of Uravation's Claude Code individual tutoring, reframed as corporate training. All trainees are non-engineers, and the first session often starts with 'What is a terminal?' Uravation cites three cases from its instruction logs, including a department head who built a bot that collects and summarizes over 20 daily reports. CEO Suguru Sato said the goal is that after three months, one person in the company can build working AI systems.
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