Built by a working officer, not retired-chief advisors.
The credibility here is current, not historical. The person who built Forge is still sworn, still in uniform, still on the radio.
It started with the radios. Every feature was a real problem.
Built one real problem at a time.
Forge started with a question the founder’s department couldn’t answer: how many radios do we have, and what shape are they in? Helping run the department’s radio program, he found nothing tracking inventory, programming, or what had been issued — even the radio shop’s data was scattered across multiple tools that didn’t connect, with hundreds of new accessories sitting un-issued because nothing accounted for them. So he built the fix: a radio-inventory app, the prototype that became Forge Radio.
Building it surfaced a bigger problem next door — the department’s fleet manager keeping more than 1,200 vehicles running, across 70-plus units and dozens of sites on a multi-million-dollar budget, out of a database with no real front end. A glorified spreadsheet holding up a fleet a city depends on — same disease, far higher stakes. He knew that pain from the line too: arriving for a night shift to find his car gone, with no way to know whether it was getting an oil change or had blown an engine in a pursuit. So he made the call — build the fleet system first, return to radio later.
He sketched it at his kitchen table, had a working prototype within months, and watched it spread — officer to officer, then up four levels of command to a deputy chief, every answer yes. The department’s technology division backed taking it cloud-native in AWS GovCloud. The field kept handing him the next problem: inspecting AEDs and extinguishers in vehicles and stations grew it into asset management, then facilities, then one inspection layer across the suite. Built by someone who had the problems he was solving.
The builder lives with the consequences.
Nothing ships that fails the shift. When the person who writes the software is the person who depends on it, the incentives line up with yours — reliability over roadmap theater, accountability over feature counts. Responder-built. Department-tested.
There is a second guarantee, quieter but just as binding. In this line of work, nothing that doesn’t work survives contact with the people in the field — and no one stakes their name on tools their own shift would ridicule. Forge ships first to the people the builder works beside every day. The developers own teammates rely on what he ships. That’s the warranty.
“You don’t put your name on something that fails your own watch.”
Public-safety grade is the new standard.
Forge is proven on the hardest home turf there is — a major U.S. metropolitan police department, in an active pilot. Clearing the responder bar de-risks the buy for every agency and enterprise that follows. If it holds up there, it exceeds everyone else’s requirements.
- Ruggedness — built for the field, not the demo
- Reliability — nothing ships that fails the shift
- Accountability — a record behind every asset
Get on the pilot list.
Forge is rolling out module by module. Get on the pilot list and we'll keep you posted — and reach out as pilot spots open for the modules your agency runs on.