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FORGE / Cohort 02 EST. NAIROBI · 2026
— A new class of operating leverage

An AI chief of staff,
forged for founders.

FORGE deploys a private, white-glove AI agent that runs your inbox, defends your calendar, tracks your KPIs, and ships your deployment health checks — at executive standard, around the clock. Not a chatbot. A second mind.

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Forged with operators from
Stripe M-PESA Andela Twiga Flutterwave Sendy Cellulant Y Combinator Anthropic Vercel OpenAI Stripe M-PESA Andela Twiga Flutterwave Sendy Cellulant Y Combinator Anthropic Vercel OpenAI
01 — Manifesto

We don't sell software. We deploy a second mind for the operators who refuse to be out-executed.

Most founders lose two hours a day to inbox triage, calendar tetris, and admin debt. Time that should be spent on product, capital, and customers is bled out by work that no human should have to do anymore.

FORGE was built to give those hours back. Not by replacing your team. By giving you an agent that never sleeps, never forgets, never asks twice — and writes at executive standard from day one.

2.4h
Returned to founders / day
87%
Inbox triaged before 9am
0
Missed deployments since launch
24/7
Uptime, every cohort
02 — The Agent

Meet your chief of staff.

FORGE delivers a single private operator across five disciplines. It opens every day with a structured executive briefing — pulled live from your inbox, calendar, Notion, Vercel, Cloudflare, and any custom MCP you connect.

Decisions surface to you. Drafts wait for your approval. Everything else is handled, logged, and reported.

Drafts emails in your voice
Defends focus blocks before meetings stack
Detects production incidents before users notice
Tracks every KPI; flags any deviation > 10%
Owns the small decisions. Escalates the consequential ones.
forge.brief / 17.04.2026 · 06:42 EAT
Live
Tier 1 · Decision required
Standard Bank requires signed term sheet by 13:00 EAT today to hold pricing on the $2.4M facility. Recommended: sign as drafted; counsel reviewed yesterday.
Tier 2 · Drafted, awaiting approval
Reply to Sarah @ Index Ventures declining the call this Friday — re-proposed Tuesday 14:00.
PREVIEW · 4 sentences · executive tone
Follow-up to Tobi @ Twiga on partnership memo — re-attached v3 with redlines accepted.
PREVIEW · 6 sentences · warm-direct
Tier 3 · Awareness
Vercel · prod
All deployments green. P95 = 142ms.
Cash position
$184k · 11 mo runway
Calendar today
3 meetings · 2.5h focus protected
Inbox handled
37 of 42 · 5 escalated above
Briefing complete · 47 seconds to read
FORGE //
03 — Capabilities

Five disciplines, one operator.

Every FORGE residency runs across the same five modules — each one tuned to your stack, your tone, and your tolerance for noise.

M.01

Inbox Command

Triages every message into Decision, Action, FYI, or Noise. Drafts replies in your voice. Escalates only what requires you. Zero-inbox by 09:00 — every day.

M.02

Calendar Defense

Protects deep work blocks. Kills meetings that should have been an email. Reschedules conflicts before they reach you. Briefs you 24 hours before any meeting that demands prep.

M.03

Operations Cortex

Live sync with Notion, Linear, Asana. Re-ranks tasks by impact, not creation order. Detects bottlenecks. Surfaces the unblocking action — not just the blocked state.

M.04

Finance Watch

Daily snapshot: revenue, receivables, runway, committed expenses. Flags overdue invoices. Produces CFO-grade investor briefs on demand. Never speculates — only what's verifiable.

M.05

Tech Ops Sentry

Monitors Vercel, Cloudflare, Railway in real time. Detects production incidents the moment they appear. Pinpoints root cause from runtime logs and recommends the remediation step.

M.06 · Custom

Bespoke Modules

FORGE residencies above the Apprentice tier ship with custom MCP integrations — your CRM, your billing system, your warehouse, your fleet, your bespoke ops dashboards. Anything your stack speaks, FORGE speaks.

04 — The Residency

Three phases. Seven days to live.

FORGE is invitation-grade by design. We do not onboard everyone who applies — every residency is hand-built by a senior architect from our forge team.

01
Day 1 — Apply

The 5-minute fit check

Submit a short application. We vet for fit — stage, sector, and what you're trying to defend. We respond inside 48 hours. Roughly 1 in 4 applicants is admitted to the cohort.

02
Day 2 – 7 — Forge

A private, hand-built agent

A senior architect builds your agent across your stack. Your tone is studied. Your priorities are encoded. Your escalation tiers are tuned. By day 7, your agent is live in shadow mode — already drafting, already triaging.

03
Day 8+ — Residency

24/7 operation, weekly reviews

Your agent is live. You receive a daily executive briefing. A weekly architect review tunes tone, scope, and SOPs based on what the agent learned. Month-to-month — cancel any time, no penalty.

— A founder in cohort 01
"I stopped checking my email at 6am. FORGE handles it before I'm awake. The first hour of my day is now mine again. I would pay 5x what I pay for this."
Daniel K. · Founder & CEO · Logistics infra · Nairobi
05 — Residency Pricing

Three tiers. No setup fee. No long lock-in.

FORGE is concierge-grade — every tier is hand-built. Pricing is flat monthly. Cancel any time after the first month with seven days' notice.

Tier 01
Apprentice
$499 / month
Solo founder · 3 connected systems
  • Modules 01 – 03 (Inbox, Calendar, Ops)
  • One daily executive briefing
  • Drafted reply approval flow
  • Bi-weekly architect review
  • Email + Slack support · 24h SLA
Apply for Apprentice
Most chosen
Tier 02
Forgemaster
$999 / month
Founder · unlimited systems
  • All five modules (Inbox → Tech Ops)
  • Twice-daily briefings + on-demand
  • Drafted comms in your voice (auto-train)
  • Weekly architect review + SOP build-out
  • 2 custom MCP integrations included
  • Priority support · 4h SLA
Apply for Forgemaster
Tier 03
Sovereign
$1,999 / month
Founder + leadership team
  • Everything in Forgemaster
  • Up to 4 leadership-team agents
  • Unlimited custom MCP modules
  • Single-tenant deployment
  • Dedicated architect (named on contract)
  • 1h critical SLA · 24/7 incident desk
  • Quarterly executive offsite (virtual)
Apply for Sovereign
East Africa pricing
Founders headquartered in EAC pay 30% less across all tiers — verified at application.
Annual prepay
Pay annually and receive two months free. Locks pricing for 12 months even after a tier change.
Data residency
Single-tenant on Cloudflare. Your data is encrypted at rest. No training on your data — ever.
06 — Direct Answers

Questions, answered.

Anything not covered here? Apply and ask in the form — we read every submission within 48 hours.

Is this just a chatbot? +
No. A chatbot waits for instructions. FORGE acts. Your agent runs on a daily operating loop, executes scoped autonomous actions, and only escalates what genuinely requires you. It also writes — at executive standard — in your voice.
What systems does FORGE connect to? +
Out of the box: Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, Slack, Linear, Vercel, Cloudflare, Stripe, and any standard MCP server. Forgemaster and Sovereign tiers ship with bespoke MCP integrations for whatever your stack requires — from your CRM to your warehouse to your fleet.
How do you handle security and data privacy? +
Single-tenant deployment on Cloudflare Workers + D1. Encrypted at rest with per-residency keys. Zero training on your data — your agent is fine-tuned with prompt-level adaptation, never weight-level. Sovereign tier includes a signed DPA and the option for EU or US data residency.
Can I cancel? +
Yes. Month-to-month after the first month. Seven days' notice. We do not lock founders into contracts — if FORGE is not paying for itself in returned hours, we have failed.
Why is FORGE invitation-grade? +
Because every residency is hand-built. We are constrained by senior-architect bandwidth — not by software. Cohort 02 admits 40 founders globally. Cohort 03 opens June 2026.
Who built FORGE? +
FORGE is built by an East African team of senior agent architects, designers, and infrastructure engineers — formerly shipping at Stripe, M-Pesa, Andela, and Anthropic. We operate from Nairobi and serve founders globally.
07 — Request Residency

Apply to cohort 02.

Cohort 02 closes 30 April 2026. We respond to every application inside 48 hours.

5-minute application
Six fields. Nothing wasted.
48-hour response
From a senior architect, not a queue.
7-day forge
Live agent in shadow mode by day 7.
forge://apply
Accepting
— Founder name
— Working email
— Company
— Stage / sector
— Tier of interest
— What is the single hour you most want back?
⌁ End-to-end encrypted · No data stored beyond your residency