2026 COHORT OPEN

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Feedback that
actually moves the needle.

Get brutally honest, battle-tested feedback from operators who have built, scaled, and exited $100M+ companies.

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Joined by founders from Ramp, Deel, Vercel, Linear

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THE REALITY

Most feedback is worthless.

You’ve probably experienced it: generic advice from people who have never shipped at scale, or worse — from investors who just want you to pivot into their thesis.

92%

of founder feedback comes from people who have never raised >$5M or built a product with >100k users.

17x

difference in outcome between founders who receive high-signal feedback vs generic advice (Source: 2025 Founder Survey).

FORGE exists to close that gap permanently.

THE FORGE METHOD

Four steps. Zero fluff.

Submit Your Ask

Share your deck, metrics, or specific blocker. Our AI + human team triages within 4 hours.

Match to the Right Operator

We match you with 1–2 council members who have solved the exact problem you’re facing (ex-Stripe, ex-OpenAI, ex-a16z, etc.).

Live 60-min Session

Unfiltered, recorded conversation. You walk away with a prioritized action plan + Loom summary.

Follow-up + AI Digest

30-day async support + personalized AI model trained on your feedback history.

THE FORGE COUNCIL

Operators, not advisors.

Every member has either built a company to $50M+ ARR or led product/engineering at a unicorn that exited.

Alex Rivera

Ex-Stripe • Founded & sold to Ramp (Series C)

"I’ve seen every pricing, retention, and go-to-market mistake you can make. I’ll tell you which ones you’re about to make."

47 sessions completed

Priya Sharma

Ex-OpenAI • 2x Founder (acq. by Google & Meta)

"Most founders optimize for the wrong metrics. I’ll show you the three numbers that actually predict whether you’ll raise your next round."

61 sessions completed

Marcus Chen

Ex-a16z • Built & sold two infrastructure companies

"I’ve reviewed 400+ decks as an investor. The ones that win all have the same three patterns. I’ll tell you if yours has them."

39 sessions completed

Sofia Patel

Ex-Linear • First 50 employees at Vercel

"Product velocity and hiring are the only two things that matter at your stage. Everything else is theater. I’ll help you focus."

52 sessions completed

+ 28 more operators • All verified with signed NDAs

REAL FOUNDERS. REAL OUTCOMES.

Don’t take our word for it.

"FORGE paid for itself in one session. We were about to raise a $12M round at a $60M valuation. Alex told us we were leaving $40M on the table. We followed his advice and closed at $95M three weeks later."

— Maya Patel, CEO @ Arcade (Series B, $95M raised)

"I was burning $180k/month with no clear path to profitability. Priya forced me to kill our biggest feature and focus on the one thing 12 customers actually loved. We went from $420k to $1.8M ARR in 4 months."

— David Kim, Founder @ Vanguard AI (acquired by Anthropic)

"Marcus reviewed our pitch deck and told us it was ‘technically impressive but emotionally flat.’ We rewrote it in 48 hours using his framework. We raised our Series A at a $42M valuation — 2.3x what we were targeting."

— Lena Torres, CEO @ Helix (Series A, $42M)

PRICING

Choose your level of intensity.

All plans include access to the full council, recorded sessions, and AI-powered follow-up.

SIGNAL

$299 /mo

Billed quarterly • Cancel anytime

1 × 60-min session per month

AI feedback digest within 24h

Access to council member pool

Private Slack channel

Ready to get better faster?

Spots are extremely limited. We accept ~12 new founders per month.

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Next available slots: March 4–7, 2026 • NYC / SF / Remote

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