FORGE/BY TRADE/AV · LOW VOLTAGE
ii.FORGE — FOR AV · LOW VOLTAGE CONTRACTORS

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.

Founding Charter — 1 of 10 seats claimed
7 founding seats open; 2 spoken for. Locked rate for as long as you hold the seat.
AV · LOW VOLTAGE · FOUNDING CHARTER
Ten seats, ever. One is claimed. Two are spoken for and not yet signed — a seat that does not close goes back on the board. Seven are open today.
AV and low-voltage ships today. The documentation and cutover tooling is hardened against live installs before an outside operator relies on it.
See if your company is readyUNDER FIVE MINUTES →
i.The chest — opened for av · low voltage

The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.

I
Estimating
A · ESTIMATE

Boxed quotes per room, per rack, per drop. AVB, AVIXA assemblies. The bid you used to spend three hours building lives in twenty minutes.

II
Crew · Dispatch
C · SCHEDULE

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.

III
Treasury
D · CHANGE-ORDER

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.

SCAN TO PROPOSAL, BUILT FOR THE TRADE
Hyperion — for av · low voltage.

Hyperion isn't built for AV yet. It will be. Founding Charter members get the first build.

See Hyperion →
ii.What Forge replaces — for av · low voltage

What a Founding Charter AV integrator typically consolidates from when they sign.

  • 01 · STACK ITEM
    D-Tools System Integrator
    Estimating + system design + project management. The category leader for AV. Founding Charter operators usually move because Forge's federation puts the estimate, the rack elevation, and the certified payroll in one chest — D-Tools owns one corner of that triangle.
  • 02 · STACK ITEM
    Procore
    GC-side project management. Procore reads via API; Founding Charter AV operators continue to receive Procore RFIs while keeping their internal project of record in Forge.
WHEN NOT TO CHOOSE FORGE

If the work is single-room residential AV and the operator already lives in D-Tools day-to-day, the existing stack is fine. Founding Charter is built for the integrator running multiple commercial cutovers per quarter where documentation, dispatch, and certified payroll all matter.

ii.The operator — in his own words
CalLord Unified Technologies logo
FIG. IICALLORD UNIFIED TECHNOLOGIES
CALLORD UNIFIED TECHNOLOGIES · FOUNDER-AFFILIATED · IN PRODUCTION ON FORGE

“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.”

Live
RUNS ON FORGE
Disclosed
FOUNDER-AFFILIATED
CalLord Unified Technologies
CalLord Unified Technologies
iii.Questions a working operator asks

The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.

01.
What about D-Tools and Q-SYS Reflect — do I have to leave them?

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.

02.
My crew is four guys and a van. Is this overkill?

A fully loaded customer service rep runs about $5,500 a month. Forge Core and every product are custom quoted for the company and the work required.

03.
How does Founding Charter pricing work for AV?

Hire Sabina or run Forge tools. Every product is custom quoted for the responsibilities and services your company needs. Same as every trade: by application: a founding rate, set at the job-description call and locked for as long as you hold the seat, ten seats, seven open. The badge appears on the AV vertical page on Forge.

iv.The covenant — how to get in

Ten seats. One list.
Seven open.

Founding Charter is the operator who builds with the new tools first. Tenseats across all trades — one list, not a reservation per trade. Locked when filled. The rate doesn't move — ever — while the public list rises around you.

AV · LOW VOLTAGE · FOUNDING CHARTER
7 of 10 open — across every trade, not this one.
TERM
Locked for as long as you hold the seat
PUBLIC BUNDLE PRICING
Not published
FOUNDING CHARTER HONORS
Badge · case study · office hours · first-in-line
THE SPINE — RETURN

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.

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