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Operator Forge builds modern SaaS for the underserved corners of industrial work: calibration shops, weighing operations, substation crews, pipeline teams. Domain depth. Modern software. No hype.
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What We Do
We pair, build, ship, and iterate for the operators running fragmented industrial work. No dashboards as decoration. No hype.
SaaS founder experience plus modern AI plus people who've actually worked the floor.
We co-build with technical operators and seasoned founders. Engineering, product, and AI sit beside someone who's calibrated a scale, commissioned a transformer, or run a hydrotest in the rain.
PE roll-ups, family-run shops with deep technical work and thin software.
We build full-stack SaaS for verticals everyone else has skipped, the ones still running on Access databases, Excel macros, and decades of tribal knowledge. Domain-first. Operator-first.
Every shift generates signal. We build it back in, then pair again.
Real usage surfaces what a spec never could. We fold that back into the roadmap with the same operators who found it, and the loop starts over.
Not another dashboard. An actual answer.
We ship software that runs in the field: on a tablet in a substation yard, on a phone over LTE in a tank farm, on a shop terminal next to the test bench. If it can't hold up on day one, it doesn't go out.
Then back to Pair
Verticals We Care About
Six sectors where we're either already building, actively researching, or pairing with founders. Each one has the same shape: deep technical work, thin software.
Constant changeovers, custom job routing, thin margins. The ERPs built for long-run manufacturing don't fit shops that never run the same job twice.
Dispatch built around how field techs actually take notes, not how some product manager imagined the workflow from a slide.
Cert generation, traceability, ISO 17025 paperwork. Your techs deserve a tool that doesn't fight them at every turn.
Your NTEP-certified scales deserve better than a spreadsheet for tracking calibration intervals, test weights, and compliance paperwork.
Transformer commissioning still runs on paper test sheets and manually assembled PDF reports. We match how your crews actually work.
Hydrotest documentation, ILI scheduling, anomaly tracking. Your data shouldn't live across six disconnected systems and a Sharepoint folder.
These aren't the only places we work. If your sector lives in spreadsheets, clipboards, and tribal knowledge, we'd like to talk.
Who We Are
We've built, grown and sold SaaS companies across industrial sectors. Twenty-plus years sitting next to operators in plants, shops, and scale yards; not just in conference rooms drawing process diagrams.
Operator Forge exists because the markets that keep industry running are still being sold the same generic dashboards and one-size-fits-all ERPs. We build software that respects the work and the people doing it.
Get in touch
We'd rather have a real conversation than a form. Pick the path that fits, or skip to the bottom and just write.
For Operators
You know the workflow better than we do. Send us the messy version: the spreadsheet, the screenshot, the rant. We'll tell you if we can help.
Email the studioFor Investors
One-pager on why fragmented industrial verticals are the most underbuilt SaaS opportunity nobody is pricing, and our model for going after them.
Request the deckFor Curious Peers
Notes from the shop floor, posts on why industrial SaaS is stuck in 2005, and the occasional rant on procurement.
Follow on LinkedInOr book a 15-minute call. No deck, no demo, just questions and answers.
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