The cable run is still a cable run.
The documentation is what kills you.
The AV install where the GC's schedule slipped two weeks and your crew sat idle billing nothing. The rack you couldn't find a wiring diagram for because the last integrator left a spreadsheet. Forge is the chest a low-voltage contractor would build if he had the time.
The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.
Boxed quotes per room, per rack, per drop. AVB, AVIXA assemblies. The bid you used to spend three hours building lives in twenty minutes.
As-built drawings, rack elevations, cable schedules, and DSP files in one document plate. The next integrator inherits the truth.
When the GC slips, the crew flexes. When the GC slips again, the change-order writes itself. The two weeks idle becomes two weeks billed elsewhere.
AV scope creep is documented in writing, in the truck, before the GC walks it back. Treasury (coming soon) will pull the deltas from the original BOM.
Hyperion isn't built for AV yet. It will be. Founding Charter members get the first build.
“Full disclosure: CalLord is the founder's own AV and low-voltage company — he owns about half of it. It runs its real installs on Forge, which is exactly why the AV and documentation tools get hardened here first, against live jobs, before any outside operator relies on them.”
The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.
Plate (the document module) ingests Q-SYS, Symetrix, and BSS configurations as first-class artifacts attached to the project. Rack elevations import from D-Tools or are drawn natively. The next integrator picks up where you left off without playing email archaeologist.
No. Forge's federation reads from D-Tools and writes to it. The decision to leave is yours, and most Founding Charter operators leave because Forge's estimating is faster than D-Tools' for the bids they actually win.
Starter is built for the small shop at $349/month — full Core capability (estimating, CRM, documents, dispatch), auto-graduating to Forge Core ($599/mo) as you grow. The chest scales. You upgrade when the second van moves.
Same as every trade: by application: roughly half off the modular stack you need, from $299/mo (MSRP $599), locked for the life of the subscription, ten seats (one claimed). Public pricing is a la carte from Forge Core $599/mo flat plus modules. The badge appears on the AV vertical page on Forge.
1 of 2 av · low voltage seats
filled.
Founding 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.
The needs have been the same for 4,000 years.
Signal moved through the air for the first time 4,000 years ago. Forge is the chest for the operator running the cable today.