Operator-honest stance
We tell you what an AI assistant does well and where it stops. No overselling.
FIG. 07 · ABOUTWHO RUNS NORTH FORGE
An architect-operator collective.
We design the system, then build it out. Built by a contractor, for contractors, and useful for any small business that runs on judgment and repeat decisions.
The small-file method
Anthropic's own team keeps a short instruction file and adds a line whenever they catch a mistake. We build yours the same way: small, specific, kept current. The value is a file followed closely, not a long one ignored.
Construction fluency
We use the trade vocabulary because we work in it.