Walk the job.
Leave with the estimate.
Forge turns a recorded walkthrough into a structured, trade-by-trade scope and a priced estimate. In minutes. Not the night before you were going to send it. Built for general contractors and remodelers.
The 75% is Harris & Sons’ result, from their own books. Harris & Sons is owned by a Forge cofounder.
Estimating still means a night of typing.
You walk the job. Then you get home and turn a voice memo and a notes app into a scope of work and a line-item bid. By hand. One missed line item and you’re eating the cost, or fighting for a change order.
Forge does that part while you’re still standing in the kitchen.
Walk the Job. We'll Handle the Notes.
Start a job walk and Forge records everything: audio up to 4 hours, plus photos, saved to the walk with the time they were taken.
- Audio recording up to 4 hours
- Photos saved with the walk
- All media stored under one project
Raw Walk → Priced Estimate in Minutes
Forge organizes your walk into a scope broken out by trade and a priced, line-item estimate. Anything it's not confident about gets flagged, so you check it, not guess at it.
- Scope + questions organized by area
- Line-item estimate priced by trade
- Assumptions and low-confidence lines flagged for you to check
Buildertrend-Ready in One Export
Review the AI output, make edits inline, apply your markup, then export a Buildertrend import file (CSV), a PDF, or a CSV. Your PM gets an email when you hand the job over.
- Inline editing: add, edit, delete
- Buildertrend import file (CSV)
- PDF download
From Walk to Estimate in Three Steps
Walk it.
Hit record on your phone and walk the job. Talk like you would to your PM. No forms, no "what type of meeting is this" screen first.
Forge structures it.
In minutes, Forge turns the walk into a scope broken out by trade and a priced estimate. Anything it's not confident about gets flagged, so you check it, not guess at it.
Review, then send.
Edit any line, apply your markup, export a Buildertrend import file, PDF, or CSV. Estimates and scopes reach your client only when you send them.
Your Forge Data, in Your Own Tools
Forge has an MCP server and a public API. Use them from any MCP or agentic tool, not just Claude, or from your own software, to read your jobs, scopes, estimates and walk transcripts. Data access is on by default; an owner or admin can turn it off any time in Settings.
For AI Tools
Any AI tool that supports MCP can connect and ask Forge about your jobs.
- Connects with the tool's own sign-in
- An owner or admin approves one company
- Reads and edits (only with your permission)
For Your Software
Your own programs read the same data with plain web requests.
- An API key, or OAuth for products that serve many companies
- Each key or connection reads one company
- Read only: it cannot change anything in Forge
Owners and admins see every connection and can end any of them at any time.
Read the docsSee how Forge structures a job walk.
Press play on a sample kitchen-remodel walk and watch it become a trade-by-trade scope and priced estimate.
Press “Try a sample walk” to play a scripted kitchen-remodel walk.
Want to see it on one of your own jobs instead?
Book a live walkthrough →CompanyCam and tools like it are great at documenting a job once you’re building it. Forge is built for the walk before that. The one where you have to turn what you saw into a number the client can sign.
Record the walk. Forge hands you the scope and the estimate. That’s the whole difference.
Every walk is timestamped and saved. When a client says they were never told about a cost, you have the record instead of your memory against theirs.
Speed wins jobs. Walk the house, get in your truck, and the estimate is already built by the time you’re back at the office. Same day, sometimes the same meeting. The next three bids haven’t even gone out yet.
Two weeks to three days.
Harris & Sons Construction cut estimating time 75%, prevented a $40,000 scope-dispute loss, and grew projected revenue 60%. All in their first 90 days on Forge. Harris & Sons is owned by a Forge cofounder.
less time estimating
Forge-attributed revenue
scope-dispute loss prevented
“It was good, I’m impressed. It was super quick and pretty accurate. I just talked into it, and all the scopes it spat out were pretty darn good.”