The Forge
The platform that
powers your AI.
The Forge is the operational platform behind Lone Iron's AI transformation services. RAG agents grounded in your knowledge. Per-employee AI keys with spending controls. Built for teams of 5 to 500.
Working today
What's live right now.
Phase 1 of The Forge is operational. These capabilities are built, running, and ready to deploy for your organization.
Agents that know your business
RAG-Powered AI Agents
Deploy specialized AI agents grounded in your company's actual documents, policies, and procedures. Every answer is cited. Every response is accurate.
How it works ↕
Multiple agents per organization — Sales, Operations, HR, Finance. Each configured for its role with custom system prompts, model selection, and knowledge base assignments.
Your documents, indexed and searchable
Company Knowledge Bases
Upload PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, and plain text. The Forge processes, chunks, and indexes everything so your agents can find the right information at the right time.
How it works ↕
Document ingestion pipeline with async processing. Upload triggers an automated indexing job. Status tracking from empty → indexing → ready.
Right model, right cost, every time
Iron Router
A unified gateway to multiple AI providers — Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and local models. Automatic fallback chains so your agents never go down.
How it works ↕
Routes requests across Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and open-source models with automatic fallbacks. If one provider is unavailable, the next one handles the request — no interruption to your team. Each organization controls which providers hold their data, and we design the model mix around your budget.
Every employee gets their own key
Per-Employee API Keys
Each employee gets a personal AI key bound to their identity, department, and compliance tier. Keys are auto-provisioned when they join and revocable instantly.
How it works ↕
Keys carry metadata: employee name, role, department, compliance tier. Regulated employees are restricted to pre-approved compliance models and have models blocked at the access level — enforced at the proxy, not the UI.
Visibility into every dollar
Usage Tracking & Billing Controls
Track AI spend at the organization, department, and employee level. Admins can set spending limits per team and receive alerts before budgets are exceeded.
How it works ↕
Hierarchical budget management: Lone Iron sets the org ceiling, org admins allocate across departments, department admins set per-employee limits. All enforced through the Iron Router.
In development
Coming next.
Features actively being built. These will be available as part of The Forge roadmap — some as included capabilities, others as paid add-ons.
Coming next
Employee Performance Partner
Every employee gets a private AI career partner that tracks their OKRs, captures achievements from email and calendar, and helps them shine at review time — without any manager visibility into the data.
Coming next
TUI Distribution
Organization-branded CLI tools distributed through a private npm registry. Employees get @acmecorp/opencode that routes through the Iron Router with their personal key — tracked, controlled, revocable.
On the roadmap
What's ahead.
Compliance Tier
Dedicated infrastructure for healthcare, legal, and financial clients. HIPAA BAA, SOC2, data residency controls, and AWS Bedrock routing for regulated environments.
Integrations
Embeddable chat widget for your website. Slack and Microsoft Teams integration so employees can ask agents without leaving their workflow.
How we deliver
The platform behind every service.
Every engagement Lone Iron offers is delivered through The Forge. The Survey maps your AI opportunities. The Branding builds your knowledge base. The Herd deploys your agents. The Ranch keeps everything running. The platform is the permanent result.
The Survey
Discovery + mapping
Ironwork
Infrastructure prep
The Branding
Knowledge base
The Herd
Agent deployment
The Ranch
Monitoring + ops
The Full Drive
Everything above
Ready to see what The Forge can do?
Start with a free survey call. We will show you exactly how The Forge would work for your business — no generic demo, no pre-recorded walkthrough.
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