Nadia Chen
Co-founder and CEO
Ran site reliability for a large streaming platform and carried the pager for nine years.
Company
We build the engineer we always wanted on call.
Forge started with a simple frustration: the people who keep production running spend their nights on problems a careful machine could have caught.
Why Forge exists.
Between us we have carried the pager for more than forty years. We have watched good engineers burn out answering alerts that did not matter, and we have watched real problems slip past dashboards nobody had time to read.
We started Forge to give every team a colleague who reads everything, forgets nothing and never gets tired: one that maps the system, follows every thread to its cause and hands back a fix that has already been checked.
The goal has never been to replace the people who run production. It is to give them their nights back.
What we hold ourselves to.
Earn trust before access
Forge starts read-only and asks for more only when it has shown it can be trusted with it. Every permission is narrow and every action is recorded.
Show the work
A finding without evidence is a guess. Every conclusion Forge reaches links to the traces, metrics and changes behind it.
People stay in charge
Forge proposes and your engineers decide. It remembers the calls your team makes and never quietly overrides them.
Quiet is the goal
We measure success in pages that never had to happen, not in dashboards. A good week with Forge is a week nobody notices.
- Founded by former on-call engineers
- 2023
- People across Toronto and London
- 46
- Engineering teams running Forge
- 180+
- Alerts handled without a page last month
- 4.1M
The people behind Forge.
Owen Brightwater
Co-founder and CTO
Built the deploy and observability tooling behind thousands of services at a cloud provider.
Leila Sato
Head of Research
Studies how agents reason over noisy telemetry and how to make that reasoning checkable.
Jonah Mbeki
VP of Engineering
Leads the teams building the System Map, triage and the fix pipeline.
Ana Ruiz
Head of Security
Owns Forge’s access model, compliance programs and the audit trail behind every action.
Tom Whitfield
Head of Customer Engineering
Sits beside every new customer during their pilot and stays through the first year.
Where we work.
- TorontoHeadquarters, product and researchSpadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
- LondonCustomer engineering for EuropeClerkenwell Road, London
Give production a steady hand.
Forge joins your team, learns how your environment really works and makes it a little more reliable every week.
