Forge · Backlog Delay, Eliminated
Sep 2026Your customers build.You ship the best.
Every customer-specific request is a signal. Forge turns those signals into shipped features — without a sprint. Customers define what they need in plain English. Minimal delivers a live, governed application scoped to their data slice. Your team ships what matters. Customers write the roadmap.
The cycle
The backlog is not an execution failure.It is a structural one.
Customer knows what they need
Carrier A wants shipments by region. Carrier B wants shipments by driver. Both are right. Both are different.
PM submits a ticket
The request enters the backlog. It competes with product work. It waits.
Engineering ships a generic version
One endpoint that half-fits everyone. Carrier A and Carrier B both get something they did not ask for.
Customer asks again next quarter
The cycle repeats. The backlog grows. Engineering time goes to reporting, not product.
Forge ends this cycle. Customers build what they need. Engineering ships what matters.
How Forge works
You — the vendor
- ·Define each customer's data slice — tables, columns, time ranges
- ·Set access rules — enforced at the runtime level, always
- ·Publish the governed workspace to your customer
- ·Watch what they build — the best apps become your features
Your customer
- ·Receives a governed workspace scoped to their data
- ·Describes what they need in plain English via MCP
- ·Gets a live, governed application — minutes, not weeks
- ·Iterates on their own — no ticket, no wait
Minimal
- ·Enforces the data boundary — customer cannot exceed their slice
- ·Governs every action — same audit log as every API call
- ·Delivers the live application connected to production data
- ·Prevents permission escalation — customer cannot elevate their access
MCP-Native
Customers use the AI client they already have.Minimal governs the data they can reach.
Forge is built on MCP. Every app a customer builds is composed through MCP — which means it works with any AI client that speaks the protocol: Claude, Cursor, and every agent runtime building on the standard.
Your customers are not filling out a form to define their app. They are using their AI client of choice — and Minimal Forge is the governed backend it connects to. The vendor controls the data boundary. The customer uses whatever interface they prefer.
This is "we complete you" in both directions: Minimal completes your product for your customers. And your customers' AI clients complete themselves with Minimal's governed data access.
Governance
Full self-service within the slice.Full governance over the slice.
Data boundary enforced at runtime
Customers operate entirely within the slice you defined. They cannot query data outside their boundary — not by accident, not by intent.
Permission escalation prevented
Customers cannot elevate their own access. The runtime enforces it, not trust.
Every action logged
Every app composition, every query, every API call — same audit log as everything else in Minimal.
Revocable at any time
Remove a customer's workspace access in one action. Everything they built stops working immediately.
This hits hardest in
Logistics and Supply Chain
Every carrier, every warehouse, every region has different reporting needs. The backlog is permanent because the requirements are genuinely different. Forge lets each tenant define their operational view — governed by your data boundary rules.
Fintech and Payments
Reconciliation reports, transaction views, chargeback summaries. Every merchant has a version. Engineering writes all of them. Forge ends this.
Healthcare Data Platforms
Site-specific cohorts, outcome tracking, operational metrics. Forge scopes each customer to their data slice — without touching data they are not authorised to see.
Enterprise SaaS
Every customer with a data team wants a custom view. Forge turns that demand from a support burden into a self-service feature.