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Forge · The foundation
Forge is the engine that produces every Canarlo build. Auth, data model, payments, search, security posture — already built, already audited, already correct. Your money funds the part that is yours.
Why we built Forge
Failure
01
A six-week discovery phase is a six-week tax on the prospect's hope that the project might still be on time. It produces decks. Decks do not authenticate users. Decks do not survive a customer trying to upload a 200MB PDF.
→ Forge starts with the foundation already built — so the first conversation is the only one that needs to be exploratory.
Failure
02
Auth. Authorisation. Per-row security. Payments. Webhooks. Audit trails. Search. File uploads. CSP. CSRF. Rate limiting. Migrations. These are solved problems. Every agency that solves them again from scratch is charging you for their team's learning curve.
→ Forge ships eighteen security patterns enforced structurally, by default, in every project — not aspirationally, in writing, on a slide.
Failure
03
The discovery call is with the principal. The Slack messages, three weeks in, are with someone who joined six months ago. The architecture, the schema, the security choices — made by the people with the least context. The cost of correcting course is paid by you.
→ At Canarlo, the people on the discovery call are the people writing the code. Always.
Side by side
Security baseline
Not aspirational. Not on a slide. Every Forge-shipped project carries them by default — caught at the generator, audited at every regen, present in code with a name on it.
Holds up in a security review
Studio principle
You can prompt your way to a demo. You cannot prompt your way to a business.
Engagement model
Most projects fall between £25,000 and £75,000. Twelve-week build, two-week discovery, two-week architecture, eight to ten weeks of production. The codebase is yours. The keys are yours.