Done-for-you AI agents shipped to your repo in 2 to 6 weeks. Flat fee from $25k. The code is yours. Your inbox is the only meeting.
"I run Forge solo on purpose. One technical partner, async by default, four weeks from discovery to deploy. The agent ships on time or I extend support free until it does. That's the contract."
A capable AI engineer in 2026 costs $220-340k all-in. The agent feature you need is one or two well-scoped builds — not a full-time hire. The platforms charge per-call forever. The agencies want retainers. You want the agent shipped, the code in your repo, and your team able to maintain it.
$220-340k all-in. 60-90 days to find, 30 days to ramp. Cap-table dilution if you give equity. Wrong shape for one or two well-defined builds.
Per-call billing forever. Vendor lock-in. Your data sits in their infrastructure. The day you outgrow it, the migration is your problem.
Retainers. T&M billing. Scope creep. Calls every Tuesday. The agent works at handover and starts breaking three weeks later when nobody on your side knows the codebase.
Forge is the fourth option: one technical partner, flat fee, four weeks, code yours.
Same arc for every engagement. Asynchronous by default — daily Slack updates, two scheduled checkpoints, no recurring meetings. You ship code with your team while we ship code into your stack.
Workflow shadowing on a recorded screen-share. Test data review. Exhibit A drafted and signed by Friday. The scope is binding from there — additions become Phase 2 contracts, not surprise-bill line items.
Agent built into your stack against scoped credentials. End-of-week demo on the real workflow. You see the artefact, not slides.
Tuned to ≥80% success rate on the agreed test set. End-of-week demo on production-shaped data. Edge cases logged for week 4 polish.
Deploy to your infrastructure. Code repo transferred to your GitHub. Runbook + monitoring dashboard delivered. 7-30 days of free post-launch support depending on tier. Done.
The agent code lives in your GitHub at deploy. No portion of it stays behind a Forge platform. If we vanish tomorrow, your team owns enough to maintain it.
$25k, $50k, or $100k — picked at signing, not a moving target. We absorb scope risk inside the tier. Out-of-tier asks become Phase 2 conversations, not invoice surprises.
Daily Slack standups in a private channel. Two scheduled checkpoints (Discovery + Production). Your founder time stays on your product, not on our calendar.
Sized to ship the actual thing your team needs in the time you actually have. Pricing is fixed and public on purpose — your time is too valuable to spend on procurement theatre.
50% deposit at signing, 50% at production deploy. Stripe Connect or wire. Service contract template available on request before signing.
Success criteria are written into Exhibit A in week 1. They're concrete, testable, and agreed by both sides before code starts. We don't ship vague.
Reply with the use case in plain English. I'll respond within four hours with a service-agreement template and one calendar slot for a 30-minute discovery call.