FORGE
The Work // Case Studies
Three Problems.
Three Solutions.
Zero Compromises.
Every engagement starts with a problem statement in the client's own words. The architecture follows the problem — not the other way around.
"Our internal dashboard was built by three different contractors over four years. Nobody could explain why it took 14 seconds to load a single report."
Replaced a jQuery/PHP monolith with a Next.js edge-rendered dashboard backed by ClickHouse. Query aggregation moved from application layer to materialized views. Zero cold starts.
Report Load Time
Down from 14.2 seconds
"We had a 9-year-old Rails monolith that our entire $40M revenue ran through. Every deploy was a gamble. Black Friday was a prayer."
Uptime Post-Migration
18-month rolling average
Strangler-fig migration over 11 months. Extracted checkout, catalog, and fulfillment into Go microservices behind an API gateway. Rails kept for internal tooling only. Zero downtime cutover.
Kafka-backed event stream feeding a Rust processing layer with sub-50ms latency. ksqlDB for real-time aggregations. Flink for complex event processing. Deployed on self-managed k8s for cost control at $2M+ ARR scale.
"We were processing 2 million events per day through a Python script that ran as a cron job. Series B investors wanted real-time. We had batch."
P99 Event Latency
Across 12M daily events
7 yrs
Average Engineer Tenure
Not a body shop. Not a rotation.
The Craft // Our Philosophy
Bespoke Furniture
for Your Stack.
We don't take on more than 8 clients per quarter. Each engagement gets the full attention of a senior team — not a project manager and offshore handoff.
Hand-Joined
No scaffolded boilerplate. Every architectural decision is deliberate and documented. Your engineers inherit code they can reason about.
Load-Tested
We simulate 10× your projected peak before a single line ships to production. Stress testing is not an afterthought — it is the deliverable.
Decade-Grade
We choose boring technology on purpose. Postgres over the new hotness. Explicit over clever. Your platform should outlast your next three engineering hires.
Fully Documented
Architecture Decision Records for every major choice. Runbooks for every service. Your team owns the knowledge, not just the code.
Primary Stack
Trusted by Engineering Leaders At
"Forge did in four months what two previous agencies couldn't do in two years. They didn't just deliver a platform — they delivered a system our team actually understands, can modify, and will own for the next decade. The architecture documentation alone was worth the engagement fee."
David Chen
CTO · Axiom Health
Series C · 140-person engineering org
Q4 2026 // Intake Open
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We open 8 slots per quarter. When they're gone, the next intake is 3 months out. This isn't artificial scarcity — it's the only way to guarantee the attention your platform deserves.
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