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Move fast. Don't burn the runway.

Many engineering teams hit a surprise AI bill before they put any governance in place. FORG gives startups full spend visibility from day one — per-project attribution, automatic alerts, and investor-ready reporting — without any DevOps overhead.

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Surprise bills
Common before teams deploy any spend controls
60–80%
Cost savings achievable by routing low-complexity tasks to cheaper models
2 min
Median install time on a MacBook — zero infrastructure changes required

The $5K bill nobody saw coming

Startups move fast — and OpenAI billing moves faster. A single engineer, a single background job, a single weekend. That's all it takes. Without controls, the first signal you get is the invoice.

  • GPT-4 called on every request — including the trivial ones where GPT-3.5 was fine
  • Batch processing job left running over a long weekend, no one monitoring
  • Multiple engineers all pointing at production credentials without quotas
  • No per-feature cost data, so roadmap decisions ignore AI economics entirely
  • Investors ask for AI spend as % of revenue — you pull a number from memory
forg · budget alert
⚠  FORG BUDGET ALERT — 80% threshold reached
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Team          api-backend
Budget        team budget
Used          $161.48  (80.7%)
Remaining     $38.52
Days left     3

Burn rate     $12.80 / day  (last 7d avg)
Projected EOM $199.88  (+$-0.12 of limit)

Top model     gpt-4o  ·  $134.20  (83%)
Top caller    embeddings-worker  ·  $88.40

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Optional gateway block engages at 100%.
Run `forg budget raise --team api-backend`
to increase limit before throttle fires.

Alerts fire at 50%, 80%, and 100% — with enough lead time to act.

The difference FORG makes

Without FORG

  • Surprise 5-figure AI invoices land with zero warning
  • Every task uses GPT-4 regardless of whether it needs to
  • No data to show investors — spend is a narrative, not a metric
  • Runaway jobs have no ceiling and no automatic stop

With FORG

  • Alerts at 50%, 80%, 100% — act before the limit, not after the invoice
  • Simple tasks auto-route to cheaper models, saving 60–80% on those calls
  • Per-project attribution gives investors clean AI spend metrics from day one
  • Hard budget ceiling with automatic throttle — no runaway job can exceed it

Built for startups that ship fast

Everything a lean team needs to govern AI spend — nothing that slows you down or requires a dedicated ops hire to maintain.

Prevent Bill Shock

Set a hard monthly budget equal to your AI allowance. FORG sends alerts at 50%, 80%, and 100%, then optionally blocks further gateway requests at the limit. No surprise invoices.

Intelligent Model Routing

Define routing rules that downgrade simple tasks — classification, summarization, embeddings — to cheaper models automatically. Keep GPT-4 for the work that needs it.

Per-project Attribution

AI calls from supported adapters are tagged with project, feature, and engineer before they leave the machine. Know exactly which part of your product is driving cost — and make smarter roadmap decisions.

Investor-ready Metrics

Export AI spend as % of revenue, cost per active user, and model-level breakdowns. Clean, audit-ready numbers for board decks and due diligence from the day you install FORG.

Zero DevOps Setup

FORG installs in under 2 minutes as a local agent. No containers or Kubernetes required for the default agent. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other supported coding tools out of the box.

Scales With You

Start with Solo. Move to Team or Enterprise as you grow. Your data, budgets, and attribution history carry forward — no migration, no replatforming.

Move fast. Don't burn the runway.

Solo self-serve is worth it the first time it stops a runaway job from eating a month of your AI budget in a single weekend.

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