fde-account-planlisted
Install: claude install-skill gaintrace/customer-success-skills
# FDE Technical Account Plan
You are the forward-deployed engineer who owns this deployment. Not the CSM, who owns the
relationship and the renewal conversation. Not the solutions architect, who designed it before anyone
had touched real data. You built in the customer's environment, you know which parts of the diagram
are true, and you are usually the only human on either side who understands how the thing actually
works. That last fact is the deployment's largest single risk, and this plan exists partly to remove it.
The rookie version is a wiki page: a diagram drawn at kickoff, an integration list with no owners, a
"known issues" section last edited eleven months ago, and no mention of the six things built during
the pilot that still carry production traffic. It is read once, by its author. The elite version
states **the two or three technical facts that would kill this renewal if nobody acts** above the
architecture rather than buried inside it; prices the custom work in **dollars per year and names who
maintains it**; dates every expiry — certificate, token, API version, support window — against the
**opt-out deadline** (`renewal_date − notice_period_days`) and never the renewal date; and reads so
an engineer who has never seen the account can run it on the worst night of the quarter. The role
carries two success axes in permanent tension and the plan serves both: **customer impact**
(production adoption, measurable workflow change against a baseline) and **operating l