FORGE/BY TRADE/ACCESS CONTROL
vii.FORGE — FOR ACCESS CONTROL CONTRACTORS

The reader is still the reader.
The door schedule is what nobody can find.

The access-control install where the door schedule lived in one estimator's spreadsheet and nobody could reconcile it against the panel layout at cutover. The certified-payroll filing on the prevailing-wage door job that ate a weekend. Forge is the chest a working access-control integrator would build for himself — and Access Control is a drawer Forge is opening next, not one it ships today.

Charter — 0 of 2 seats filled
2 seats remaining. Locked rate forever.
ACCESS CONTROL · CHARTER
Two Charter seats open for access control. The drawer is in Charter development — the first members shape it before it ships.
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i.The chest — opened for access control

The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.

I
Estimating
A · ESTIMATE

Built to carry door-by-door assemblies — readers, controllers, REX, mag-locks, strikes, power supplies, the head-end. Designed so the bid lives in twenty minutes instead of an afternoon in a spreadsheet. Charter members tune the assemblies to what their crews actually install.

II
Plate · Documentation
B · DOCUMENT

Designed to hold the door schedule, panel layout, and as-built on one version-controlled document plate, so the next integrator inherits the truth instead of a network-drive spreadsheet. In development for access control — Charter members get it first.

III
Compliance · Payroll
C · COMPLIANCE

Treasury already runs certified payroll, Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage, and WH-347 for shipping trades. Built to extend to access-control labor on prevailing-wage door work — the same engine, a new drawer.

IV
Crew · Dispatch
D · SCHEDULE

Designed to flex the crew when the GC slips and to write the change-order off the scope delta. Dispatch is live across Forge's active trades; the access-control configuration is what Charter members shape during development.

THE ONE NO ONE ELSE HAS
Hyperion — for access control.

Hyperion is the iPad/iPhone LiDAR instrument that walks a roof and returns a line-item estimate today for roofing and solar. For access control it's designed to scan corridors and entries — door counts, opening locations, mounting heights, line-of-sight for readers and REX. Same instrument, a drawer still on the bench. Charter access-control members get it first, and they shape what it captures.

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ii.What Forge replaces — for access control

What a Charter access-control integrator typically runs today — and what Forge is built to consolidate.

  • 01 · STACK ITEM
    Brivo / Avigilon Alta (Openpath)
    Cloud access-control platforms. These run the doors at the head-end and stay where they are — Forge isn't a competing access platform. What Forge is built to carry is the estimate, the door schedule, the dispatch board, and the certified payroll around the install, which these platforms don't cover.
  • 02 · STACK ITEM
    Genetec Security Center / Lenel S2 OnGuard
    Enterprise access + video management. Strong at the management software layer. Charter members run these for the system itself; Forge is designed to own the project record, BOM, and labor side that lives outside the VMS.
  • 03 · STACK ITEM
    D-Tools System Integrator
    Estimating + system design for low-voltage integrators, access control included. The category tool many access integrators already use. Forge's federation is built to put the estimate, the door schedule, and the certified payroll on one chest — D-Tools owns one corner of that.
  • 04 · STACK ITEM
    Spreadsheet door schedules + paper submittals
    The door schedule, hardware sets, and AHJ submittals that today live in Excel and PDF. Plate is designed to carry that workflow inside the project record with version control. Where a Charter member is unsure of a fit, Forge will say so rather than overclaim.
WHEN NOT TO CHOOSE FORGE

If the operator is access-control service only — adds and moves on existing platforms with no commercial install bidding and no prevailing-wage exposure — the existing Brivo/Genetec stack is the right call today. Charter is built for the integrator running commercial door installs where the estimate, the door schedule, dispatch, and certified payroll all have to reconcile.

ii.The page that fills itself

The first access control Charter member
writes their own page here.

The quote, the metrics, the photograph — all of it. The Forge team supports every word; the operator carries the page. If you've been waiting for the moment that earns you the badge, this is it.

ACCESS CONTROL · CHARTER · 0 OF 2 FILLED

Two Charter seats open for access control. The drawer is in Charter development — the first members shape it before it ships.

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iii.Questions a working operator asks

The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.

01.
Does Forge serve access control today?

No — and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Forge ships today for roofing, security and fire, AV and low-voltage, solar, HVAC, and electrical. Access control is in Charter development: the estimating, documentation, dispatch, and certified-payroll modules already run for the active trades, and the access-control configuration is being built. Charter members who sign now shape the drawer before it ships rather than inheriting it after.

02.
Is Forge an access-control platform like Brivo or Genetec?

No. Forge is the integrator's operating system — the estimate, the door schedule, the BOM, dispatch, certified payroll, and the project record. The access platform that runs the doors at the head-end stays yours. Forge is built to own the work around the install that those platforms don't carry.

03.
How would Hyperion apply to an access-control job?

Hyperion is Forge's LiDAR scanning instrument — today it returns a line-item estimate from a roof or array scan for roofing and solar. For access control it's designed to scan entries and corridors for door counts, opening locations, and reader line-of-sight, then feed a door-by-door estimate. That's built-to, not shipped — it's a drawer Charter members get first. Forge publishes its Hyperion accuracy methodology (±0.8% on commercial flat/low-slope geometry, ±2% on complex geometry) at /proof/hyperion-accuracy; that figure graduates to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification.

04.
What does Charter cost while the drawer is still in development?

Charter is by application: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months (~$750/mo equivalent), locked forever, ten seats. Two access-control seats are open. Public pricing is a la carte: Forge Core $499/mo flat (unlimited users, no per-seat) plus modules (Hyperion $399, Atlas $149, Torch $99, Treasury $99 + $8/employee, Sigil $49, Calliope $149/function, Mentor $79/rep, Herald $59/rep), packaged as Starter $299, the Working Stack about $900 (Core + Hyperion + Sigil), and Full Platform about $1,999. Charter members get future tools — including the access-control drawer — included as they ship.

iv.The covenant — how to get in

0 of 2 access control seats
filled.

Charter is the operator who builds with the new tools first. Ten seats across all trades. Locked when filled. The rate doesn't move — ever — while the public list rises around you.

ACCESS CONTROL · CHARTER
2 access control seats remaining.
RATE
$750/mo · locked forever
TERM
$27,000 prepaid · 36 months
FULL PLATFORM (PUBLIC)
~$1,999/mo
CHARTER HONORS
Badge · case study · office hours · first-in-line
THE SPINE — RETURN

The needs have been the same for 4,000 years.
The door is one of the oldest controls there is. Forge is building the chest for the operator who installs it next.

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