ForceForge helps small and mid-sized organizations put AI to work where it actually pays: the back office. We assess, build, and deploy complete solutions on your infrastructure — or we embed with your people and train them to build their own. Either way, you grow without spiking costs, and without depending on consultants forever. Including us.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and priced in advance. Start where it makes sense; climb only if it pays.
A fixed-fee readiness assessment of your operation. We map your back-office workflows, score the automation candidates, and run honest build-vs-buy analysis on any vendor you're considering.
Purpose-built tools designed around your needs, privacy requirements, and budget — deployed to your infrastructure. Local, on-premises AI available for complete dominion over your data.
Your domain experts already know the business better than any consultant will. We embed with your team, learn how the work gets done, and train your people to streamline it themselves.
For small business, AI's payoff isn't a chatbot on the homepage. It's process improvement and automation in the unglamorous work — intake, records, reporting, follow-up — where hours hide and margins live. Don't take our word for it. MIT counted.
A small team that knows how to use these tools can carry the workload of a much larger one. That's how you expand capacity and take on more without spiking headcount or cost.
You should be able to build and run the tools that drive your business without renting a consultant forever. We measure success by how little you need us afterward.
AI finally lets a small team build custom software at a price a small business can afford. You no longer have to rent one-size-fits-nobody seats from an impersonal platform. The craftsman model is back, and we intend to prove it.
Our Embedded Solution Engineers have delivered bespoke tools inside defense, intelligence, and some of the most consequential enterprises in American industry. Small teams, short timelines, working software, at a fraction of what the big consultancies charge for a slide deck about it.
Staff-assisted resume drafting and tailoring with strict anti-fabrication controls and export-ready output.
Deployable nowCandidate-to-job matching against an organization's own job board, with fit scores and written rationale.
Deployable nowTurn an 800MB export into a three-page, executive-ready briefing. Data to decision without the all-nighter.
Deployable nowBuild-vs-buy analysis, vendor security questionnaires, and grant-compliant technology cost structuring.
Engagements openData is processed by named, US-based AI providers under written terms — or fully on your premises. No mystery supply chain.
Data enrichment comes from licensed commercial sources under their terms of service. We don't scrape, and we can prove it.
Every record lives behind login-gated, role-appropriate access with encryption in transit. Sensitive data never rides in an email attachment.
Your data is never used to train or improve AI models — ours or anyone else's. It's in the contract, not just the marketing.
Data providers and AI models are swappable components. Your tools are never hostage to a single vendor's pricing or roadmap — including ours.
Anything we generate for the real world carries hard rules: no invented facts, figures, or credentials, and a human review step on every output.
We publish the questions we'd make any vendor answer, and we hold our own tools to them first.
A forge is where raw material becomes something useful.
The metal was always strong — it just wasn't shaped yet. That's your business data, your workflows, your people's untapped hours. Force is where we come from: twenty years in the armed forces, where being careful is the job. Forge is what we do: take what you already have and hammer it into tools that work.
And the anvil? It's not the flashy part of the shop. It's the steady, precise thing underneath — the surface everything gets built on. That's the role we want in your business: not the show, the foundation.
Jim Garton served twenty years in the Army: a decade in Explosive Ordnance Disposal, defusing bombs in Baghdad and training partner forces around the world to do the same, then seven more as a logistics warrant officer, running the systems that keep an army supplied. It's a career that teaches you two disciplines most consultants never get: stay calm while you work the problem, and respect what happens at scale when the process is wrong.
He's spent the years since building AI and data tools inside defense, intelligence, and enterprise environments, and now brings that discipline to organizations that can't afford recklessness: systems that treat your data like the sensitive material it is, and that measure success in outcomes you can count, not activity dashboards.
(We do, however, make outstanding dashboards.)
ForceForge is the practice built around that standard.
Bring us the problem, the workflow, or the team. We'll tell you honestly whether to build it, buy it, or learn it — and then we'll help you do exactly that.
