Fix the data foundation once. Every AI initiative after it gets cheaper.
The board wants an AI story. You have a portfolio of stalled pilots and an app estate that costs more every year. The practical move is one governed foundation under all of it.
Start here.
Three pains, three mechanisms.
Every AI pilot starts with six months of data and security groundwork, and most die there.
On Forge the groundwork is the platform. Tenancy, permissions, and audit are derived from the schema and enforced at the data path, so a pilot starts on governed data on day one instead of building governance as a side quest.
How the security engine works →App sprawl: every system carries its own license, its own integration, its own specialists.
One platform provides the data layer, API, auth, audit, integration, reporting, and admin console. Consolidating even a few line-of-business systems onto it removes whole license lines and the seams between them. Run the consolidation math yourself on the pricing page.
The consolidation calculator →Vendor platforms mean re-platforming the data and living in someone else's cloud.
Forge runs over the SQL Server you already have, on-prem or managed inside your own cloud account. No data migration to adopt it. No hostage data if you leave.
Deployment options →Straight answers.
The fixed-price pilot is 4 to 6 weeks on your real schema: security model configured, a working application, and governed AI access demonstrated. You'll know by week six whether this is real, for $45K, with a findings document either way.
It sits over your existing SQL Server and beside your existing systems. The integration layer pulls from and pushes to what you run today. It's a foundation for the next ten applications, not a rip-and-replace of the last ten.
The core engine, the API, identity, integration, and the admin console run today. SQL Server is the supported database; PostgreSQL and Oracle are roadmap. We're early, we're direct about it, and early is why a division-scale deployment costs $113K a year instead of $250K.
Anchors are published: a $50K platform base billed yearly, then $12 per employee seat per month and $95 per admin seat per month, with volume breaks. Seats are monthly because headcount moves, with a floor at 80 percent of the committed count. The pricing page shows the arithmetic. Above 2,500 seats we negotiate.
Bring the initiative that's stuck.
One assessment on the schema behind it will tell you more than another vendor deck.