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 pulls the deltas from the original BOM.
Hyperion isn't built for AV yet. It will be. Founders Circle members get the first build.
“I came in cold. Mark didn't pitch me. He showed me the documentation module on a CalLord rack and asked what was missing. By the third question I was a Charter member.”
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 Charter operators leave because Forge's estimating is faster than D-Tools' for the bids they actually win.
Apprentice tier is built for one operator. $599/month, full estimating + CRM + documents + dispatch. The chest scales. You upgrade when the second van moves.
Same as every trade: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months — $750/month equivalent, locked forever. Public list rises around you. The badge appears on the AV vertical page on Forge.
1 of 2 av · low voltage 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.
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.