FORGE OS

FORGE OS is an AI-native procurement execution engine. You give it a product brief — what you want to make, in plain language — and it discovers candidate manufacturers, qualifies them, generates professional RFQs (requests for quotation), sends them from your own email, and reads the quotes that come back so you can compare them side by side. It replaces the spreadsheet-plus-guesswork phase of sourcing with one structured workspace.

Yes — that's precisely who it's built for. You describe your product the way you'd describe it to a friend; FORGE handles the industry mechanics: which suppliers to approach, what a proper RFQ must contain, what MOQ and lead-time answers mean, and how to read a quote. The workflow was designed by people who have sourced professionally since 2012, so the 'what do I even ask a factory?' problem is solved for you.

Nothing you couldn't do — it does it in minutes instead of days. A sourcing run performs the discovery, legitimacy screening, and contract-manufacturer qualification you'd normally spread across directories, LinkedIn, and reference calls, then drafts send-ready RFQs and normalizes incoming quotes into one comparison table. You keep every judgment call; FORGE removes the grunt work and gives you a wider, better-screened funnel per brief.

No. FORGE doesn't sell listings and suppliers can't pay to appear. Candidates are generated per brief by AI trained on the global manufacturing landscape, enriched with live web evidence, and scored for legitimacy. Every run is specific to your product, your materials, and your constraints — not a static database dump.

Every candidate is scored on factory confidence and intermediary probability, using signals like export records, registrations, and web evidence. Traders and brokers are flagged as such. FORGE also applies a stricter test most tools skip entirely: does this company manufacture for third parties at all? Brand-owners who run factories only for their own products are automatically disqualified from outreach — a world-class factory you can't hire is not a supplier.

Your briefs, assets, and quotes live in your private workspace, isolated per account with row-level security. Nothing you upload is shared with suppliers until you explicitly send an RFQ — and every send passes a human confirmation gate. Uploaded assets are analyzed to grade their sensitivity, so you know what should stay behind an NDA before anything goes out. We don't sell or share your data. See our Privacy Policy for the specifics.

Never. RFQs are drafted by AI but dispatched only after you review and confirm each one, and they send from your own connected Gmail account — suppliers see you, not a platform. Incoming replies are read and parsed into structured quotes, and quote data is only written to your records after a review step. Human gates sit on every irreversible action.

One sourcing run takes one product brief through discovery, qualification, and ranking — typically producing a ranked slate of candidate manufacturers with scores and reasoning. One run per product is usually enough to start outreach; teams sourcing multiple products or revisiting categories each month simply pick a plan with more runs. Plans range from Explore (3 runs/month) to Enterprise (unlimited).