Bearing 090 · Selected work
Ten working platforms, each built in-house to solve a problem a real industry has. ForgeBid and BuildForge run on live data. Every one of them is deployed, functional, and open for you to click through right now. None were built for a client, which is exactly why a one-to-four week timeline is realistic: the architecture already exists.
Construction
Scope gaps found after the contract is signed. The erosion control the permit requires but the drawings omit, caught at 11 PM the night before the bid is due.
An estimating engine that checks every quantity against the scope items a project type requires, flags what is missing, and prices the bid against a win-probability curve.
Analysis that consultancies bill five figures for, rendered in five seconds.
Aesthetics
Multi-room scheduling, memberships, and treatment records handled across a booking tool, a spreadsheet, and paper.
One system holding room availability, membership status, and treatment history against a single client record.
Clients book themselves, at any hour, against live room availability.
Healthcare
Patients calling to book, calling to reschedule, and calling again to ask what was discussed at the last appointment.
Patient-facing scheduling and records access built to clinical privacy standards, with no third-party data processor in the path.
From kickoff to live in two weeks.
Construction
Subcontractor bids tracked across email threads and spreadsheets, with no version history and no way to compare like for like.
A procurement platform with structured bid intake, side-by-side comparison, and a full audit trail on every revision.
Bid cycles compressed from three weeks to six days.
Food service
Sysco, US Foods and CBI change prices almost daily across separate portals. An operator who stops checking drifts onto worse pricing a few cents at a time, and nobody catches it until the year is over.
Every supplier compared on true cost per usable unit after yield, not sticker price. Recommendations weighted by fill rate and delivery reliability, so a cheaper supplier who short ships is not treated as cheaper. Order minimums enforced, so a saving the tool finds can actually be ordered. Ingredient price moves linked to the dishes losing margin because of them.
The demo identifies 7,653 dollars a month across pricing, buy timing and menu margin, with the arithmetic shown on every line.
Legal
Enquiries arriving after hours going to voicemail, then going to whichever firm called back first.
Structured intake that captures matter type and urgency at the point of enquiry and routes it before anyone picks up a phone.
An after-hours enquiry is captured and routed before anyone picks up a phone.
Hospitality
Reservation platforms charging per cover, taking a cut of every seat in a business already running on single-digit margins.
An owned reservations and covers system with no per-transaction fee and no third party sitting between the restaurant and the guest.
The platform cost stops scaling with the number of people served.
Real estate
Listings, agent pipelines, and client intake living in three unrelated tools that never agreed with each other.
A single brokerage operations layer where a listing, the agent working it, and the client enquiry are the same record.
Listings, agent pipelines and client intake stop being three separate systems.
Home services
Homeowners waiting days for a ballpark number, then chasing progress by phone and approving finishes across text threads full of tile photos.
A contractor platform with an instant estimate engine priced on real project data, and a client portal where progress, selections and approvals live in one place.
A quote in ninety seconds, with no sales call in the way.
Automotive
Seven-figure inventory presented in the same template as a used lot, with enquiries arriving as a contact form and no sense of discretion.
An inventory and private-viewing platform built for high-value vehicles, where the listing, the viewing request and the assigned advisor are one record.
Inventory priced into the millions presented with the discretion the buyer expects.
Each figure is the starting point for a build of that scope, not a quote. What you pay depends on how much of it you need, and every platform is built around the workflow your industry runs on rather than adapted from a template. Every build includes full source ownership transferred to your name, deployment on decentralized infrastructure, and no monthly hosting.
Open any of them and click through before you decide.
Bearing 135 · Start here
It rarely is. The architecture is the same regardless of the industry: what changes is what we point it at.
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