# ForgeCode

> ForgeCode is a software factory you set up once. GitHub issues, forum posts, Slack threads, production alerts, or a user prompt start work; the factory builds, tests, reviews, ships, deploys, and monitors that work for months.

## Core Product Model

- **What is a ForgeCode software factory?** An isolated cloud environment (provisioned in ForgeCode Cloud or in your own AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account via Bring Your Own Cloud / BYOC) where software engineering work runs end to end.
- **Mission board (per factory):** Splits a goal into discrete issues with priorities, runs, and dependencies. Each issue runs in parallel inside that factory.
- **Four pillars:**
  1. **Proactive:** Work starts from any trigger: GitHub issues, forum posts, Slack threads, production alerts, or a prompt.
  2. **Durable:** Checkpoints automatically. If the cloud environment crashes, it restarts on its own and resumes from the last checkpoint.
  3. **Always on:** Automations watch, nudge, re-run, and escalate so work keeps progressing across weeks and months of uptime.
  4. **Self-improving:** Improves its procedural skills, codebase and incident memories, automations, executive reports, evaluations, and benchmarks over time.
- **Sovereignty (BYOC + BYOK):** Run in ForgeCode Cloud or Bring Your Own Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure). Bring your own provider keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, Vertex AI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, Z.ai).

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://forgecode.dev/): Overview of the ForgeCode software factory, Tuesday timeline story, harness vs factory velocity comparison, BYOC/BYOK, and use cases.
- [About ForgeCode](https://forgecode.dev/about/): The 2026 empirical data on why software delivery lags individual developer speed (GitLab June 2026, CircleCI Feb 2026, DX April 2026) and our vision for organisational throughput.
- [Pricing](https://forgecode.dev/pricing/): Pay as you go from $0.20 per agent-hour (each agent billed separately) on a Small machine (2 vCPU), $0.40 Medium (4 vCPU), $0.80 Large (8 vCPU), $1.60 Ultra (16 vCPU); 300+ model providers out of the box with your own keys, or a few hyper-optimised models through the ForgeCode gateway at API pricing from prepaid credit; usage limits on automations, artifacts, knowledge, reports, crons and cloud machines; community support. Enterprise (book a demo, priced case by case): custom usage limits on automations, artifacts, knowledge, reports, crons and cloud machines, Bring Your Own Cloud, organisations and teams, SAML SSO, and a forward-deployed engineer who works with you on your business domain, understands your requirements, sets up the factory for your use case and keeps optimising it to deliver your goals.
- [Support](https://forgecode.dev/support/): How to reach the ForgeCode team: support@tailcall.run for product questions, account, billing and data requests, and security reports.
- [ForgeCode Blog](https://forgecode.dev/blog/): Essays on software factories: why 10x engineers gave the organisation 1.5x, where the bottleneck went, and what a factory has to get right.

## Essays

- [Anatomy of a Software Factory: Why 10x Engineers Gave the Org 1.5x](https://forgecode.dev/blog/what-is-a-software-factory/): Why individual productivity (10x) did not become organisational velocity (1.5x), how the bottleneck moved from code to review, test and deploy, why more people and more tokens both fail, the factory loop (triggers, mission board, parallel workers, gates, monitor, self-improve) and the six tenets: works autonomously, highly scalable, cost effective, measurable, self-improving, business driven.