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Gnar Forge is a productized vibe coding service where a senior product engineer builds your custom internal tools in 2 to 6 weeks using AI-assisted development, backed by a fixed price, outcome guarantee, and 12-month bug-free warranty. Built by people who've shipped 100+ products, not someone who just discovered Cursor last Tuesday.

Vibe coding becomes expensive when untrained employees build production software without understanding architecture, maintenance, or scale. Your $180K-per-year director spent a month building an internal tool in Cursor. Now three departments depend on it, and nobody can fix it when it breaks.
This is happening everywhere. For a few weeks, everything seems fine. Then reality hits:
The tools aren't the problem, they're genuinely impressive. The problem is that building software and building good software are completely different skills. Knowing what to build, what to leave out, and how to keep it running takes a decade of experience.


Get It Right The First Time
Gnar Forge pairs a senior product engineer with your team for 2 to 6 weeks. One person who can shape your idea, cut the right scope, and build the whole thing using the same AI-powered tools your team tried to use on their own.
The difference: our people have built software for a living. They use a methodology we call Context-Driven Development, where senior engineers direct AI tools with the product knowledge, architectural judgment, and edge-case awareness that only comes from shipping over a hundred products. They know which features to say no to, how to structure an app so it doesn't collapse under real use, and what "done" looks like.
What you get:
Most agencies won't make a single promise about outcomes. We make three.
You'll know the cost before we start. If the project goes over, that's our problem, not yours.
The app will do what we agreed it would do. Period.
If something doesn't work as specified, we fix it. For a full year after delivery. No charge.
"I always felt like they cared about us and our success more than just completing the work."
We start with what you're trying to accomplish, not what you want built. Most projects shrink by 40% in this phase because we cut the features that sound important but don't move the needle.
Senior engineers using our Context-Driven Development methodology. AI-assisted development with real product judgment behind every decision. Your app takes shape fast, with check-ins along the way so you can see progress and course-correct before it matters.
This is the part most vibe coding projects skip entirely, and the reason most of them fail within a year. AI code maintenance requires someone who understands both the codebase and the business.

Many companies come to us knowing they want to integrate AI but aren’t sure how. Gnar Ideate helps you explore AI-driven features – like automation to intelligent user experiences – to bring the best of AI capabilities to your product without adding unnecessary complexity.

Qeepsake’s MVP validated their concept but couldn’t scale. With a waitlist of over 100,000 users, they needed a product that could deliver, and quickly. We built their 1.0 app with optimized onboarding, messaging integrations (Twilio, Facebook), and Stripe-powered payments. 700,000+ users later, Qeepsake is growing – and fast.
"After seeing 20x growth in our user base and meaningful revenue, we've seen Qeepsake mature from a product into a thriving business—a huge leap forward."
Apply for a Gnar Forge scoping call. We'll spend 30 minutes on what you're trying to solve, whether your company is the right fit, and whether we can help. No pitch deck. No pressure. Just a conversation with someone who builds software for a living.
The fastest way is to apply. The scoping call takes 30 minutes, and we'll be direct about whether Forge is the right fit. Generally, if you're a large enterprise or PE-backed company with multiple departments building their own tools (or wishing they could), you're in the right zone. If you're a small startup looking for a cheap MVP, we're probably not your team.
You can. And your team probably already is. The question is whether the result will still be working in six months, whether it integrates with your existing systems properly, and whether anyone thought about what happens when three departments depend on an app that one person built as a side project. If those questions don't concern you, DIY is fine. If they do, that's why Gnar Forge exists.
A freelancer builds what you ask for. We challenge what you're asking for before we build it. The product thinking, the scope discipline, and the long-term maintenance plan are what separate a tool that lasts from one that gets abandoned in 90 days. Plus, we back everything with three guarantees that no freelancer can match.
Internal tools, operational workflows, approval systems, reporting dashboards, data integrations, client portals, and custom process automation. If it's a focused application that solves a specific business problem, it probably fits. We'll tell you on the first call if it doesn't.
Gnar Forge projects range from $15K to $30K. Engagements are fixed price and result in a working application.
That includes product guidance, the complete build, deployment, and a month of maintenance to make sure everything is running clean.
After that, ongoing maintenance starts at $1,000 per month. You get hosting, monitoring, support, and a standing relationship with the person who built your app.
Compare that to the cost of your $180K-per-year director spending a month on something that ends up in the trash. Or the operations lead who spent six weeks in Lovable before realizing the app couldn't handle their actual workflow. Or the PE portfolio company that let three departments build their own tools in Cursor, only to discover none of them talk to each other and nobody can maintain any of them.
$15K to $30K gets you a finished product. Guaranteed to work. Guaranteed on price. Warranted for 12 months.
Good news. We do that too. Our Gnar Ignite engagements handle larger builds at $150K and up, with the same triple guarantee. Gnar Forge is designed for smaller, focused projects. But if we scope your project and realize it needs more, we'll be upfront about it and offer you the right engagement model.
Yes. This is one of the most common ways Forge engagements start. Someone on your team built something in Cursor or Lovable, it's now in production, and it's breaking, slow, insecure, or impossible to update. We assess what's there, determine whether to fix it or rebuild it (rebuilding is often faster and cheaper), and deliver a production-grade version with a 12-month bug-free warranty. If your company is sitting on AI-generated code that nobody knows how to maintain, that's exactly what Gnar Forge is built for.
It's our proprietary methodology for AI-assisted software delivery. Instead of letting AI tools generate code unsupervised, our senior engineers direct every decision with deep product context, architectural judgment, and a decade of experience shipping production software. The AI handles the volume. Our people handle the thinking. That's why we can deliver in weeks what used to take months, without sacrificing quality.