The camera is still a camera.
The coverage plan is what wins or loses the job.
The bid you built one camera at a time in a calculator while the design lived in a separate VMS tool and the certified payroll lived in a spreadsheet. Three tools that never met. Surveillance is a trade Forge is moving into — it does not ship a surveillance drawer yet. The chest a working CCTV integrator would build is being built. Charter members shape it first.
The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.
Designed to box quotes per camera, per NVR, per drop — IP camera, lens, mount, PoE switch, storage, and cabling assemblies that match what a CCTV crew actually installs. Built to replace the per-camera calculator with a real bid. In development; Charter operators shape the assembly library.
Built to carry the coverage plan, camera schedule, as-built, and VMS configuration as version-controlled artifacts on one document plate. Designed so the next integrator inherits the truth, not a folder of screenshots. In development for the surveillance vertical.
The same Treasury compliance engine the active security and fire vertical already runs — Davis-Bacon, prevailing wage, certified payroll, WH-347 — designed to extend to CCTV install crews on prevailing-wage jobs. Built and shipping for security today; mapped to surveillance for Charter members.
Designed to hold remote-monitoring and video-as-a-service revenue in the same chest as the install, with renewals on the RMR ledger instead of in email. Built on the recurring-revenue ledger Forge already ships; the surveillance configuration is what Charter members help define.
Hyperion is built to scan a space and return geometry — for surveillance that means walking a site and capturing room dimensions, mounting heights, sight lines, and obstruction data to inform camera placement and coverage, the same instrument the active roofing and security verticals already use, pointed at a different drawer. It is not shipped for surveillance yet. The accuracy methodology Forge publishes (±0.8% on flat/low-slope, ±2% on complex geometry, documented at /proof/hyperion-accuracy as methodology and sample plan, graduating to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification) is the roofing/security capture context, not a surveillance result. A surveillance line-of-sight workflow is designed-for, not delivered. Charter members get the first build and help define what a coverage scan should return.
The first surveillance · cctv 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.
Two Charter seats open for commercial surveillance and CCTV. The drawer is in development — Charter members get it first and shape what it becomes.
Apply for Charter3-MIN ASSESSMENT →The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.
Honestly, no — not yet. Surveillance is a vertical Forge is expanding into. The shipping verticals today are roofing, security and fire, AV and low-voltage, solar, HVAC, and electrical. The surveillance drawer — camera assemblies, coverage documentation, and a Hyperion line-of-sight workflow — is in Charter development. Charter members get the first build and shape what it becomes. We won't claim a feature ships before it does.
Close, which is why it's the next drawer. The active security and fire vertical already runs certified payroll, document submittals, dispatch, and an RMR ledger — all directly relevant to CCTV install crews. The surveillance-specific work is the camera-design assembly library and the coverage/line-of-sight workflow. The compliance and recurring-revenue engines are built and shipping; the camera drawer is what's in development.
That's what it's designed for — scan a space, return geometry, mounting heights, and sight lines to inform camera placement. It is not shipped for surveillance yet. Hyperion's published accuracy (±0.8% flat/low-slope, ±2% complex geometry at /proof/hyperion-accuracy) is the roofing and security capture context, published as methodology and sample plan, graduating to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification. A surveillance coverage workflow is built-to, not a delivered result.
Charter is by application: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months (~$750/mo equivalent), locked forever, ten seats. You join early precisely because the drawer is in development: Charter members shape the assembly library and the coverage workflow, and lock the rate before the public list (Forge Core $499/mo flat plus modules) rises around them. Two surveillance Charter seats are open.
0 of 2 surveillance · cctv 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.
Watching the perimeter is one of the oldest needs. Forge is building the chest for the operator who wires the eyes.