Forge is a one-person operation in Calhoun, Georgia that builds AI voice receptionists for home repair shops across North Georgia. Handyman, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, painting, drywall, flooring. When the phone rings and the owner is on a ladder, the call gets answered, the job gets booked, and the next quote does not walk to the competitor.
Build the most hyper-realistic AI receptionist on the market for North Georgia home repair shops. Not a script-reader. Not a phone tree. A voice that asks the right questions, takes the address, schedules the call, and texts the owner before the truck even pulls in the driveway.
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, roofers, and handymen run their whole business from a ladder or under a sink. The phone keeps ringing. Forge picks it up.
Forge runs one product hard: Forge Voice, an AI receptionist built specifically for home repair shops in North Georgia. Calhoun, Rome, Dalton, Cartersville, Canton, Gainesville, and the towns in between. The agent answers in the shop's own voice, asks what is broken, takes the address, books the visit on the owner's calendar, and texts a clean summary the second the call ends.
Why this lane: home repair shops lose more revenue to missed calls than to almost any other operational problem. The owner is in an attic or a crawl space. The phone rings out. The caller hits a competitor's number on the next Google result. That call was a four-figure job and it is gone. Forge was built to catch those calls and turn them into booked work.
Run by one person in Calhoun. No VC backing. No account managers. No call center handing your calls off to whoever answered first. The same person who builds the agent answers the support line, which is also a phone number, and it works the same way for every shop.
Corey Redwine started Forge after a decade in QC engineering at Intertek and CEA, then shifted into software when modern AI made it possible for one person to ship the kind of product a venture-backed team used to need a year to build. He grew up around this work. His dad runs a CCTV install business in Rome. Half his neighbors swing hammers for a living. The home repair lane is not a market study. It is the people he already knows.
North Georgia is the territory: Calhoun, Rome, Dalton, Cartersville, Canton, Cedartown, Chatsworth, Gainesville, LaFayette, Summerville, and Atlanta when the work pulls south. One territory means one person can actually know the trades, the call volume, and the kind of jobs that walk in. It also means a shop owner in Gordon County can call the founder directly and get a same-day answer.
The voice has to sound like a real receptionist. The booking has to land on the right calendar. The text summary has to read clean. No half-baked agents that the owner has to babysit.
A shop owner does not have six weeks for an onboarding. Forge Voice answers its first call within days of signup, not months. If something needs to change, it changes the same day.
Every call is logged. Every transcript is in the Console. Every booked job lands in the owner's inbox with the customer's name, address, and what they need. No black box.
Home repair shops have been told to make do for too long.
A voicemail instead of a receptionist. A $1,500-a-month answering service that still misses half the after-hours calls. A phone tree that sends three out of every five callers to a competitor before the owner ever sees the number.
The big software vendors aimed everything they built at the national chains. The shop with three trucks and a dispatcher in the back office got a free trial of an app nobody asked for. When modern AI showed up, nobody pointed it at the people answering phones in Calhoun, Rome, and Dalton. Forge was built to point it there.
Every missed call is a job your competitor just won. Forge makes sure the next one is yours.
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