AI is already in your business, and not under your control.
Your people are pasting company and client documents into public AI tools. Most do not realise it breaches client confidentiality, gives away what makes the business competitive, and puts the company on the hook with regulators.
And separately, AI is being built into the processes the business runs on, with unpredictable outcomes.
Until now there was no single tool to fix both. You had to stitch together separate products. Forge is a governed workspace for confidential work, and it solves both: leaking sensitive data to AI models, and business processes you cannot predict.
Three principles behind Forge
Protect the data. Determine the process. Prove what happened.
Confidential documents
Protect sensitive data before it reaches an AI model.
Not by telling people what not to paste. Email addresses, phone numbers and card numbers are replaced with placeholders before the message leaves, and put back in the answer your person reads. On by default, and an administrator can lock it for everyone.
Reliable workflows
Bring AI into the workflow. Do not hand the workflow to AI.
AI is probabilistic. Ask it twice and you can get two answers, and no model will change that. So your policies, rules, calculations and checks run as ordinary software. The model is asked only where it is genuinely better, and a person handles the steps that need judgement.
Accountable to auditors and regulators
Make the work reconstructable.
Six months later: who brought the document in, who could reach it, what was sent to the model, which rules applied, who approved it and what it cost. Every step captures evidence.
The three are a progression rather than a list, and together they are a bet about what AI should be inside a business. Read the thesis.
How work moves through Forge.
Who Forge is for.
- Professional services
- Consultancies, accountancy and audit firms, law firms, IT and software services companies, recruitment and executive search, architecture and engineering practices, and design and marketing agencies. They all hold client material under contract.
- Financial services
- Banks, insurers, lenders, brokers and asset managers.
- Regulated industries
- Healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and other sectors with statutory rules on how data is handled and where it is kept.
- Government departments and public sector bodies
- Both usually come with specific requirements on where data is stored and what certifications a supplier holds. We work through those with you as part of the engagement.
- Businesses with high-volume, repeatable document work
- Sales enquiries, purchase orders, invoices, expense claims, insurance claims, job applications, vendor onboarding, statement reconciliation, contract review. Anywhere the same kind of document arrives every day and a person has to process each one.
- Universities, training providers and corporate learning teams
- Where teaching exercises use real data containing personal information rather than synthetic examples.
- Schools and colleges
- For staff handling student and safeguarding records.
The opposite bet from agentic AI
Agentic AI optimises for autonomy. Forge optimises for predictable business outcomes.
An agent is given a goal and works out its own steps. For open-ended work that is exactly right. For a business document process it means the steps can come out differently on the next run, and nothing records which ones were taken. No finance, procurement or compliance process can be run that way.
So the workflow is defined by you, not invented at runtime. Inside it, each part of the job goes to whatever is actually good at it:
- AI models read, interpret and reason over the document.
- Your own programs handle computation and data processing.
- Deterministic rules enforce your policies, checks and business logic.
- People review and approve where judgement is required.
The next step does not change because an AI decided it should. Forge brings AI into your business process without handing the business process over to it.
Bring your confidential documents into Forge.
Governance first, then the work, then the workflows. The three steps.
Set up a workspace, add your organisation’s own AI provider keys, and start working. One fee for the organisation, scaled to its size and use, plus the model cost. Nobody needs a seat.
Talk to us if you have questions, or if you want your organisation’s workspace set up for you.
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