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The Flagship Website, Reimagined

Forged Sites

Websites with near-perfect PageSpeed, accessibility built in, and a full AI content engine on board. No CMS to log into. No plugins to break. No visual builder to wrestle. Just a fast, beautiful site with an AI agent living inside it, managing the work for you.

The Concept

What is a Forged Site?

A Forged Site is a custom-built, high-performance website that replaces the traditional CMS model entirely. Instead of logging into WordPress and wrestling with plugins, or dragging blocks around a visual builder, your site is managed by our AI operations team. You tell us what you need, and changes go live in minutes.

Sumi-e ink art: a craftsman arrives to a worksite already finished — no CMS, no builder to fight

No CMS, No Builder

No dashboard to learn, no plugins to update, no page-builder to fight, no security patches to worry about. You focus on your business while our AI handles the tech.

Sumi-e ink art: a calm steward watching over a small house — MOG Site Director

MOG Site Director

Our AI site operations agent, MOG, monitors your site 24/7, handles updates, manages content changes, and keeps everything running at peak performance.

Sumi-e ink art: an elegant ink clock — site changes that deploy in minutes

Changes in Minutes

Need a new page? Updated hours? A seasonal banner? Just ask through your client dashboard or chat with MOG directly. Changes deploy in minutes, not days.

Plans

Choose Your Forged Plan

Every plan includes your site build, hosting, Cloudflare CDN*, the MOG AI Site Director, and monthly Vigil + Catori scans.

Forged Lite

$79.99 /month

24-month commitment

  • Up to 5 pages
  • DraftDash Lite (1 post/mo)
  • MOG AI Site Director
  • Up to 1 change order / month (up to 30 min total)
  • Vigil monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan
  • Catori monthly SEO, AEO & GEO audit
  • Citations not included
  • Ethel not included
  • Thea not included
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Forged Basic

$149.99 /month

24-month commitment

  • Up to 10 pages
  • DraftDash Basic (4–5 posts/mo)
  • Ethel Basic AI-powered forms
  • MOG AI Site Director
  • Up to 3 change orders / month (up to 30 min total)
  • Vigil monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan
  • Catori monthly SEO, AEO & GEO audit
  • Citations: Data Axle, Foursquare
  • Thea not included
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Forged Standard

$224.99 /month

18-month commitment

  • Up to 15 pages
  • DraftDash Standard (~10 posts/mo)
  • Ethel Basic AI-powered forms
  • MOG AI Site Director
  • Up to 3 change orders / month (up to 45 min total)
  • Vigil monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan
  • Catori monthly SEO, AEO & GEO audit
  • Thea coming soon
  • Citations: Data Axle, Foursquare, Neustar Localeze, Yellow Pages
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Forged Professional

$337.49 /month

12-month commitment

  • Up to 20 pages
  • DraftDash Advanced (~20–22 posts/mo)
  • Ethel Standard (multilingual, analytics)
  • MOG AI Site Director
  • Up to 5 change orders / month (up to 1 hr total)
  • Vigil monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan
  • Catori monthly SEO, AEO & GEO audit
  • Thea coming soon
  • Citations: All major aggregators
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Forged Pro

$449.99 /month

12-month commitment

  • Up to 35 pages
  • DraftDash Premium (daily, ~28–31 posts/mo)
  • Ethel Professional (adaptive RAG, voice)
  • MOG AI Site Director
  • Up to 10 change orders / month (up to 2 hrs total)
  • Vigil monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan
  • Catori monthly SEO, AEO & GEO audit
  • Thea coming soon
  • Citations: All aggregators + 50 extra directories
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Change-order time always includes work with the MOG AI Site Director — so the minute budgets above go much further than traditional web-design hours. Batching requests into fewer change orders is the efficient path (see FAQ below).

Vigil runs a monthly WCAG / ADA compliance scan on your site. Catori runs a monthly SEO, AEO, and GEO audit. Both are included on every plan.

Additional pages beyond your plan limit: $45/page one-time fee. Extra directory citations beyond your plan: $2 each a la carte.

Forged Site plans are offered through the Idea Forge Studios partnership with IDFS.AI. Site build is included with your commitment term. E-commerce sites require a traditional custom build.

*Third-party services including Cloudflare CDN, SSL, DDoS protection, and similar included features are provided under a fair use policy. Usage significantly beyond typical small-to-mid-size business levels may require upgraded service tiers at additional cost.

Want to know more about how this works so well — and why Forged outperforms traditional builders and platforms by a wide margin?

Read on below for the full case, ownership model, and the humans who stay in the loop with you.

See why it wins
Why Forged?

The Case for a Forged Site

Why a Forged Site outperforms the site you have now — and the traditional rebuild you were about to pay for. Not a visual builder. A full stack with humans still on the wire.

Sumi-e ink art of a swift bird in flight — blazing PageSpeed
Performance

Blazing Google PageSpeed Scores

Forged Sites are static-first and carry no CMS overhead, so pages load almost instantly. Expect near-perfect desktop scores and around 90 on mobile — the kind of Core Web Vitals most traditional WordPress sites struggle to reach. Faster pages rank better, convert better, and lose fewer visitors to slow loads.
  • Static-first architecture — no database queries, no plugin bloat
  • Cloudflare CDN edge delivery, HTTP/3, and Brotli compression
  • Automatic image optimization on every asset
  • Core Web Vitals tuned on every deploy
Accessibility

ADA + WCAG Compliance, Built In

Accessibility is not an add-on we bolt on later. Every Forged Site is built to WCAG 2.2 AA and re-checked automatically on every deploy by our Vigil compliance engine — proper heading structure, alt text, color contrast, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader support from day one. That reduces your ADA exposure and opens your site to every visitor.
  • Built to WCAG 2.2 AA on every page
  • Vigil compliance engine scans every deploy
  • Alt text, contrast, heading order, keyboard nav
  • Cookie consent + privacy-law checks included
Sumi-e ink art of an open torii path — accessibility for everyone
Sumi-e ink art of a koi turning mid-stream — pivot without a rebuild
Agility

Pivot in Hours, Not Rebuild Projects

Need to shift messaging across every page, change keywords, update your tone, or rebrand a service? Because there is no CMS to fight and no page-builder to wrangle, changes go live in minutes to hours — not the multi-day developer tickets or full rebuild projects a traditional site demands. Request a change by email, phone, or chat, and it deploys.
  • Content changes in minutes to hours
  • Request by email, phone, or chat
  • Site-wide messaging and keyword shifts, done fast
  • No developer backlog, no rebuild cycle
The Difference

An AI Agent Lives In Your Site — Not a Visual Builder

Traditional platforms hand you a visual builder and make site changes your problem. A Forged Site is the opposite: MOG, your AI Site Director, lives inside the site itself. It monitors performance 24/7, deploys your changes in minutes, manages backups, and keeps everything running at peak speed. You describe what you want in plain language; MOG does the work. No dashboard to master, no plugins to update, no builder to fight.
  • MOG, AI Site Director, runs the site for you
  • 24/7 monitoring, backups, and deploys
  • Natural-language requests instead of a page builder
  • No CMS login, no plugin maintenance
Sumi-e ink art of a vector web and switch — AI living in your site
Sumi-e ink art of a person at a modern desk on the phone — human always in the loop
Always Human

A Human Is Always in the Loop

AI runs the heavy lift. People stay on the critical path. Every material change and every DraftDash draft still passes a human audit before it goes live. You are never talking only to a bot: our designers and code-fluent team members partner with you to push the project forward, answer general questions, and keep quality where it belongs.

Need a conversation? You can usually schedule a Google Meet within a day or two. In a true emergency, we make contact the same day — phones get answered when it matters, and someone gets back to you.
  • Human designer on every Forged build
  • Human audit before publish / approval
  • Code-aware people you can actually talk to
  • Meetings typically within 1–2 days; same-day on emergencies
Content Engine

Auto-Drafted Blogs with DraftDash

Every Forged Site includes DraftDash, our AI blog engine. It researches your industry, writes original SEO content, and publishes on a schedule — from a few posts a month up to daily on higher plans. Every post runs through a multi-stage quality gate with fact-checking and source-citation verification, and you approve drafts before they go live. Your blog stays active without you lifting a finger.
  • Researches your industry and drafts original posts
  • From ~4 up to ~31 posts per month by plan
  • Fact-checking and citation verification on every post
  • You review and approve before publish
Sumi-e ink art of a brush writing across a scroll — auto-drafted blogs
Sumi-e ink art of a waterfall filtering into messages — Ethel keeps forms clean
Lead Capture

Ethel Keeps Your Forms Clean

Static contact forms are magnets for spam and bot submissions. Ethel, our AI-powered forms agent, sits between your visitors and your inbox — capturing genuine inquiries through natural conversation while filtering out the bot noise and junk that clogs an ordinary contact form. Real leads reach you; spam does not.
  • AI-powered forms replace static contact forms
  • Filters out bot and spam submissions
  • Captures genuine inquiries conversationally
  • Available 24/7 with instant response
No Lock-In. Ever.

Liftable. Suitcase-able. Yours.

Every forged site is built so you could pick it up like a suitcase and walk away with it. We think that's exactly why you'll stay.

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You Own Every Line

All content, code, images, and data belong to you — full stop. No proprietary platform holding your website hostage, no export fees, no strings.

Sumi-e ink art of a precise brush stroke — clean hand-coded pages

Clean Hand-Coded Pages

No page-builder spaghetti, no drag-and-drop bloat. Forged sites are plain, readable code — the kind any developer (or any AI) can open and understand instantly.

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Ready for the AI Future

Page editors are becoming a thing of the past. Because a forged site is clean manual code, tomorrow's local AI tools will be able to update it directly — no editor required, no hiccups.

Performance Promise

Scores That Speak for Themselves

Every Forged Site is built for near-perfect PageSpeed. Not "pretty good." Genuinely fast, on real Google metrics.

Migration Guarantee

If your current website is scoring poorly and we build you a Forged Site, we build it to hit near-perfect desktop PageSpeed and roughly 90 on mobile. If we fall short, we fix it at no charge.

Note: Sites with heavy third-party embeds (live chat widgets, video players, complex ad scripts) may see slight mobile reductions due to external script weight, not our code.

Included with Every Plan

Everything You Need, Built In

Client Dashboard

  • Website analytics and visitor data
  • Form submissions and lead tracking
  • Support tickets and direct messaging
  • Chat with MOG for instant site changes
  • Media library for images and files

Business Continuity

  • Triplicated backups across multiple locations
  • Pre-change snapshots before every update
  • Disaster recovery with rapid restoration
  • Cloudflare CDN with global edge delivery
  • SSL certificate included and auto-renewed

Hosting + Cloudflare CDN*

  • Enterprise-grade hosting included in every plan
  • Cloudflare CDN for global edge delivery
  • DDoS protection and web application firewall
  • Automatic image optimization and compression
  • HTTP/3 and Brotli compression

Blog, Authors, Testimonials & Portfolios

  • Full blog with categories, authors, and RSS feed
  • Testimonial collection and display system
  • Portfolio/project showcase pages
  • Author bio pages with social links
  • Dynamic sitemaps for search engine indexing
Monthly Intelligence Report

Catori Analytics

Every month, Catori delivers a comprehensive intelligence report that analyzes your site's performance, search visibility, and growth opportunities. This is not a generic dashboard. It is a detailed, AI-generated analysis written specifically for your business.

Catori connects to your Google Search Console and Google Analytics to surface insights that most agencies charge to produce by hand.

What Catori Analyzes

  • Google Search Console: impressions, clicks, CTR, position changes
  • Page-by-page performance: which pages drive traffic, which underperform
  • Google Analytics: sessions, bounce rates, conversion paths, audience data
  • AI Search visibility: how your content appears in AI-powered search results

What You Receive

  • Actionable recommendations prioritized by impact
  • Keyword position changes and new ranking opportunities
  • Content gaps your competitors are covering that you are not
  • Technical health score with specific fix-it items
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ADA & Compliance Sweeps

Vigil Watches Compliance

Vigil is our compliance agent. While Catori watches search, Vigil watches accessibility and site compliance — running ADA / WCAG-oriented scans and sweeps so issues get caught on a schedule, not only when someone happens to notice.

On Forged Sites, Vigil re-checks as part of the deploy and ongoing operations rhythm: heading structure, alt text, contrast, keyboard paths, and the compliance pages every serious site needs. Findings feed the human loop — we do not ship fixes blind.

  • ADA / WCAG-oriented scans and sweeps
  • Re-checked on deploys and ongoing cycles
  • Flags issues for human review and fix
  • Paper trail that supports a good-faith compliance posture
Learn more about Vigil
Prefer Traditional?

WordPress Design, Still Offered at Full Rates

Forged is our flagship — but it is not your only option. If you want a traditional WordPress build, Idea Forge Studios still designs and develops them at our standard, full design rates, with access to our full team of designers.

We keep those rates at full price on purpose. A Forged Site delivers the speed, accessibility, and hands-off management most businesses want, for a fraction of the ongoing effort. Forged is how our clients save. WordPress is here when you specifically need it.

Getting Started

Two Paths to Your Forged Site

Fast Track

Already Have a Website?

No consultation meeting needed. We can start building immediately. Just send us what we need and we handle the rest, including migration, redirects, and Search Console cleanup.

What we need from you:

  • Your current website URL
  • 2-3 reference sites you like the look of
  • Access to your Google Photos or Google Drive for images
  • Font or color preferences (optional, we can choose for you)
Start Your Migration

Starting Fresh?

Building your first website or launching a new brand? We start with a consultation to cover everything: domain registration, LLC considerations, logo direction, social media setup, and marketing goals.

Additional services:

  • Custom design sessions (scoped per project)
  • Logo and brand identity packages
  • Domain registration and DNS configuration
  • Social media profile setup and branding
Learn About New Builds
Questions We Get

Forged Sites FAQ

Straight answers about change orders, the AI Site Director, and how the plans actually work.

Why do plans count change orders instead of just open-ended hours?

Because the expensive unit is not a stopwatch — it is a dispatch.

Every time you open a change order, the MOG AI Site Director boots with its full site memory and audit trail intact: your pages, prior decisions, constraints, and history. That context is what lets changes ship in minutes instead of multi-day tickets. It is also what costs real compute.

Five piecemeal emails mean five cold boots of the same memory stack. One batched request means one boot and everything done together. As a site ages and its memory grows, that gap only widens. Counting change orders keeps the incentive honest for both of us: batch what you can, and the minute budget goes much further than traditional design hours — because the Director is already in the room with full context.

That is not a prediction. It is how the system actually runs. We would rather sell you that efficiency than invent a scare story about runaway pricing.

What counts as one change order?

One change order is one coordinated request we can execute in a single dispatch — for example a set of copy updates across a few pages, a new section, hours/seasonal banner, or a small package of related fixes. If you send five separate emails on five different mornings, that is five change orders even when each is small.

Send one list (“please do all of these this week”) and we treat it as one. The plan minute caps are the ceiling for how much wall-clock work that dispatch includes; the change-order count is the ceiling for how many times we spin the Director up.

Does every plan include MOG, Vigil, and Catori?

Yes. Every Forged plan includes the MOG AI Site Director, a monthly Vigil WCAG / ADA compliance scan, and a monthly Catori SEO, AEO, and GEO audit. What changes across tiers is page count, DraftDash volume, Ethel, citation coverage, and how many change orders (and minutes) you have each month.

What if I need more citations than my plan includes?

Extra directory citations beyond your plan are available a la carte at $2 per citation. Forged Lite does not include a citation package; higher tiers include progressive coverage of the major aggregators.

Is a human still involved, or is this only AI?

A human is always in the loop. Material changes and DraftDash drafts pass a human audit before they go live. You can reach a designer and code-fluent team member — usually a Google Meet within a day or two, same day when it is an emergency. The AI does the heavy lift; people stay on the critical path. See A Human Is Always in the Loop above.

*Fair Use Policy

All Forged Site plans include third-party services such as Cloudflare CDN, SSL certificates, DDoS protection, and similar infrastructure at no additional cost. These services are provisioned under standard-use tiers appropriate for small-to-mid-size businesses.

If your site's traffic, bandwidth, or resource usage significantly exceeds levels typical for your plan tier, we may need to upgrade the underlying third-party service to a paid tier. In such cases, we will notify you in advance and work together to find the most cost-effective solution. Any additional costs will be transparently communicated before they are incurred.

This policy applies to all included third-party services and is designed to ensure reliable performance for every client. The vast majority of businesses will never be affected by this policy.

Ready to Forge Your Site?

Whether you are migrating an existing site or starting from scratch, we will build you a Forged Site that loads fast, ranks well, and manages itself.

Our Strongest Offering

Forge Your Next Website

Forged Sites are custom-built, static-first websites with a full AI content engine on board — no CMS to log into, no plugins to break, no builder to fight.

  • Near-perfect PageSpeed scores, static-first architecture
  • ADA + WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility, built in and re-checked on every deploy
  • MOG, an AI Site Director, lives inside your site and deploys changes in minutes
  • DraftDash auto-drafted blogs keep your content engine running
  • Ethel AI-powered forms filter spam and capture genuine leads
Explore Forged Sites Plans from $79.99/mo