Everything you'd ask,before you ask it.

There are two ways to work with North-Forge: you have a business problem, or you have a product idea. Below: how each track works, what's possible, how long it takes and what you own at the end. No open-ended hourly contracts, no surprises halfway through.

Written proposal within one working day by email
No hourly billing, no open-ended contracts
Third-party services stay in your own accounts
Code, data and infrastructure fully yours

Two ways of working

Every project starts as one of these two: you have a business problem that needs solving, or you have a product idea that needs building. Both follow the same five steps and end in a working product.

TRACK 1 I HAVE A BUSINESS PROBLEM

Something in the business costs too much time: a spreadsheet that outgrew itself, manual quotation or order handling, paper forms, systems that do not talk to each other. North-Forge maps that process and replaces it with one system.

  • Starts with an audit of one process
  • Written current state, bottlenecks and estimated saving
  • Ends in a business application, portal, field app or automation
TRACK 2 I HAVE A PRODUCT IDEA

You want to know whether an idea works before committing a year and a budget to it. North-Forge builds the core as a working, clickable product so you can validate it with real users instead of discussing documents.

  • Starts with a product sprint and a prototype in your own branding
  • Validation with your first users before the big build
  • Industrialised into a production product once it holds up

How a project is set up

Whichever track you start on, the work is scoped up front, never a blank hourly cheque.

Digital audit first

Optional starting point. A few focused hours to map the process, the problems and the roadmap, credited towards the project if you continue.

Phased delivery

Larger products are split into phases with their own scope and delivery date. The first working version lands early; later phases are optional.

Optional support plan

Monitoring, updates and small changes on a monthly plan after launch. Always optional, your product runs fine without North-Forge.

Typical timelines

Indicative delivery windows for the kinds of solutions on the Examples page. Your exact timeline is confirmed in the proposal.

North-Forge PortalCustomer portal1–4 weeks
North-Forge AssistAI support assistant2–6 weeks
North-Forge BookingBooking & payments1–2 weeks
North-Forge ControlOperations dashboard1–5 weeks
North-Forge CommerceMobile webshop1–3 weeks

Still have a question?

Describe the problem and you'll have a written proposal with scope, phases and timeline within one working day. Free, and with no obligation.