The flagship
Brand, website, Google presence and tracking — designed and shipped as one connected build, in about four to six weeks.
Why one build
Buy these four things separately and every seam becomes a place for something to quietly break. On the last engagement, 70 canonical, Open Graph, sitemap and JSON-LD references all pointed at a domain that had no DNS record. Every URL in the site returned a clean 200. A standard link checker passed the whole thing.
Nobody catches that unless the same person is holding the brand, the build and the search layer at once.
Bought separately, these services total $11,900. Bundled, the Forge Package is $10,500 — and the seams are somebody’s actual job.
What you get
$4,000 value
$4,800 value
$600 value
$1,900 value
Included
This is the difference between a brand you like and a brand you can prove is working.
Timeline
One working session on your customers, competitors and offer. You leave with positioning and messaging pillars in writing.
Mark drawn and approved, then the system built from it. Colours sampled from the artwork, type paired to the lettering, tokens carried straight into code.
Site built and hardened. Schema, canonicals, sitemap, headers, image pipeline, accessibility, link audit against the live origin.
Live and indexed. Google profile reconciled, GA4 verified firing, handover walkthrough recorded.
Built through an agentic coding workflow in Claude Code — which is why a solo studio can hold four workstreams at once and still ship in weeks.
Founding cohort
Not a discount and not charity. The founding builds exist to produce a documented, repeatable delivery process and five verified case studies. Once that’s in hand, the cohort closes and it never reopens.
Every founding client signs the same agreement as a paying one — same scope, same IP terms, same standards. The fee line reads “Forge Package — $10,500” and “Founding Cohort Grant — −$10,500”, so nobody is confused about what was delivered.
Bundle only. No à la carte. Real operating businesses only.
Plus pass-through hard costs — domain, hosting, any licensed fonts or stock. Usually $50–$150.
Pricing ladder
There’s no negotiating below the current rung — the ladder is the negotiation. When demand outruns capacity, the studio moves up a tier rather than opening a waitlist discount.
| Tier | Clients | Forge Package | À la carte | What you give back |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Founding | 1–5 | $0 | Bundle only | All seven founding terms |
| Charter | 6–12 | $3,500 | Yes | Testimonial, before/after rights, one referral |
| Early Access | 13–19 | $7,000 | Yes | Testimonial, permission to list you as a client |
| Standard | 20+ | $10,500 | Yes | Normal terms |
Charter and up: 50% to book, 50% on delivery. Non-negotiable.
Two concurrent builds, maximum. Past that it’s a waitlist, not a rush job.
Every build carries a “Made by ForgeBrands” footer credit. White-label removal is a paid add-on from Charter up — never for founding clients.
Questions
About four to six weeks from kickoff, across four phases: Heat (one strategy session and written positioning), Shape (mark and design system), Temper (site build, schema, security and accessibility) and Ship (launch with the Google profile reconciled and tracking verified).
The five founding builds exist to produce a documented, repeatable delivery process plus five verified case studies, five testimonials and a referral base. They are not charity: every founding client signs the same agreement, reimburses hard costs, and commits to a written and video testimonial, a Google review, case-study rights, two referral introductions and a footer credit link kept live for twelve months.
From the Charter tier onward it is 50% to book and 50% on delivery. Founding clients pay nothing beyond pass-through hard costs such as domain, hosting and any licensed fonts or stock.
Yes. A “Made by ForgeBrands” footer credit is a standard term of every engagement. Founding clients keep it live for at least twelve months; paid clients keep it for the life of the site. White-label removal is available as a paid add-on at the Charter tier and above, and is never offered to founding clients.
From Charter onward, everything is available à la carte at published prices. The founding cohort is bundle-only, so that every founding case study shows the full range of the work.
No — not at any price. That work is out of scope for ForgeBrands entirely.
Next step
Tell me about the business. If it’s a fit you’ll get a scope and a start date, not a sales sequence.
