the offering
Advisory
We sit between your executives and your IT department.
One side wants more of this. The other does not want the exposure. Every engagement has a name, a fixed price, and an end product: a verdict memo, a working prototype, or a spec ForgeWorks can build.
Your problem
a one-page memo per problem, a ranked shortlist, and a fixed quote for the next step — or a no.
Fixed price · ends in a verdict
§2What the work is.
Three rungs, each priced up front.
A Working Session
Bring every problem on your list. One structured session, one fixed price, verdict within three weeks.
An AI Operating Sprint
Five working days. Your team runs real work through AI on your own data and leaves operating it.
A retainer
The same people, month after month, so the knowledge stays when a person leaves.
Your team already uses AI. Our job is to make them better at it.
Someone in your company gets real work out of Claude Code right now.
The probable cause is the same every time: the work crossed from personal use to company use, and the controls did not cross with it.
what we usually find
Your people are already building with AI. These are the conditions we arrive at:
Thirty-eight Power BI workspaces and no one agrees what gross margin means.
Forty-five agents querying in thirty-seven ways through personal keys, none of it logged.
The prototype mostly works, and it runs on a laptop with credentials in a config file.
Nobody can produce the list of AI tools when counsel asks.
§3What you build it over.
Before you build an app, you build the layer underneath.
we bring — built and running
we build with you — only exists in your company
Both are AI infrastructure for your organization. See the full layer breakdown →
§4Guardrails.
Nothing acts until you have watched it work and said go. Every call lands in an audit log your auditor can read. A named owner gets the 2 a.m. call, written down before anything runs.
Don't turn these tools loose on your production environment. And before anything runs: does gross margin mean the same thing in your BI tool and in the model?
§5Retainers.
Advisor
A named advisor who knows your business.
Builder
Embedded in your priorities every month.
Operating Partner
Roadmap, drivers, and the hard conversations.
Managed Hours
A prepaid capacity block, drawn by appointment.
Fractional CI Manager
Value-stream workshops and weekly project drives.
AI Stewardship
Governance, review, and audit of what you run.
The 70 percent trap
The builder loves it, it mostly works, and every one-off feature makes it harder to replace. Our one question: would a new hire choose this tool? If no — the prototype still did its job. It told you what to build for real.
The Worst-Week Floor
A Sprint week can go sideways: fire drills, missing data, the champion out sick. Whatever happens, you keep the spec, the signed controls, and the practice. In writing.
Ends in a verdict, not a deck.
A working prototype you own.
Audit log on. Your repo on exit.
Bring us a problem worth solving
Start with a Working Session. It ends in a verdict you can act on, and the verdict names the next step if there is one worth doing.