Everything we do is delivered through a single monthly engagement. Pick a tier based on how much of our time you want; the work flexes to fit. No per-project pricing — a website is one or two months of retainer, an automation build is a workstream within it. Specialising in construction and the trades.
One specific issue or workstream. A first month before you commit to more.
Active project plus ongoing operations. Where most engagements settle.
Fractional digital-ops or commercial lead. We're effectively part of the team.
Multi-stream engagements, board-level work, or programmes that don't fit a tier.
How to run the business, not just what to sell. Where to focus next quarter, what to drop, where AI earns its keep, what the team should stop doing on Monday. The strategic groundwork you'd do with a board if you had one — backed by data Forge harvests from the business, not consultant intuition.
Wherever the work happens, Forge holds the workflow and the AI agents that run it. Quoting and invoicing. Quality assurance. Procurement and supply chain. Project management. Compliance certificates. Field data capture from site. Document indexing. Personnel records. Client acquisition pipelines. The fragmented SaaS you're paying for becomes one workspace that just works.
Most small business sites are a digital business card. We build sites that close the enquiry on their own — fast, credible, integrated with how the business actually runs. Part of the operational stack, not a separate service.
Not vanity traffic. Not cold-call lists. Search and content work that brings the right buyers to you, then closes them on the site we built. Inbound, not lead-gen.
Tenders, variation orders, contract negotiation, procurement. The Commercial-Director skillset most subcontractors and trades firms can't justify hiring full-time — available through the same retainer as everything else. Built on years of running construction commercials in the field.
All tiers cost the same per hour. The differences are in cadence, access, and how embedded we are. Higher tiers don't get a discount — they get more of us.
| Pilot£1,000 / mo | Standard£2,000 / mo | Embedded£4,000 / mo | BespokeTalk to us | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hours per week | 5 | 10 | 20 | Custom |
| Cadence | Async + monthly readout | Weekly call + monthly readout | Always-on Slack/Teams + weekly | Bespoke |
| Forge workspace | Shared | Dedicated | Custom build | Custom build |
| Strategic reviews | Quarterly | Monthly | Embedded throughout | Embedded throughout |
| Response time | Standard | Priority | Same-day | Same-day |
| Best fit | One workstream, or a first month | Active project + ongoing ops | Fractional ops or commercial lead | Multi-team or board-level work |
You pick a tier (Pilot, Standard, Embedded, or Bespoke). You get the matching hours of senior operator time per week, delivered against whatever's most useful for your business that month — strategy, ops, websites, search, or commercial work. Three-month minimum, then monthly. You can switch tiers up or down between months without renegotiating.
Because the way we deliver is fundamentally different. AI leverage means a website that used to take 80 hours now takes 30. A retainer model means you get the AI productivity gains as faster delivery, not as a smaller bill — and the relationship continues into the maintenance phase that traditional project pricing always skips.
Yes — that's what the Pilot tier is for. £1,000 buys you 20 hours, which fits a website, an ops audit, a small tender response, or an SEO sprint. After the engagement you're free to walk; many clients move up to Standard once they've seen how we work.
The strategy, ops, search, AI builds, and commercial work we do directly. For visual design and larger development pieces we bring in two long-term collaborators — same people every time, paid through the retainer when scope warrants it. No black-box subcontracting.
Construction and the trades primarily — electrical, mechanical, M&E. The commercial discipline transfers across sectors, and we also do website and operations work for B2B services. The thread is operations-heavy small to medium businesses where the model is real, not a demo.
Book the call. It's thirty minutes, free, and if we're not the right people we'll say so and point you somewhere better. About one in five conversations end there — those referrals come back later.