Startups

Move fast. Don't burn the runway.

67% of 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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67%
Of teams hit a surprise AI bill before deploying 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        $200.00 / month
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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Throttle engages automatically 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 throttles automatically 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

Every AI call is tagged with project, feature, and engineer before it leaves 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 as a local proxy in under 2 minutes. No containers, no Kubernetes, no IAM roles. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and local models out of the box.

Scales With You

Start on Developer at $9/mo. Move to Team or Enterprise as you grow. Your data, rules, and attribution history carry forward — no migration, no replatforming.

Move fast. Don't burn the runway.

Developer starts at $9/mo. 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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