Three ways to engage. No retainers until you've seen the Brief.
Two weeks. We produce a Product Requirements Brief that your board can read. You walk away with a document that captures every assumption, every requirement, every regulatory constraint, every open question — even if you choose not to continue with us. This is the front door, and it is a real one.
A single bounded custom application. Brief → Blueprint → Build → Validation → Handover. Twelve to twenty weeks from kickoff to production release. One-time engagement fee plus monthly hosting from go-live. Most first engagements are Workpieces. Most second engagements are Long Engagements.
Multi-project relationship for an enterprise that wants The Forge as their effective custom-software team. The knowledge graph from project one becomes the foundation for projects two, three, four. Each project gets faster and cheaper than the one before it. This is the tier where the studio model compounds — and where the comparison to a $1M/year Big Four engagement becomes a one-tenth comparison in real numbers.