Forgeahead Solutions Inc.

Forgeahead Solutions Inc. is a software product development firm based in Palo Alto, California. It sells its work as a single managed service it calls Build as a Service, which brings design, cloud engineering and testing together in one team. Clients use it to turn a product idea into working software.

What Forgeahead Solutions Inc. offers

• UI and UX design — user experience work for new digital products, including designs aimed at younger audiences.
• SaaS product development — building software-as-a-service products on AWS, including serverless architecture.
• DevSecOps — setting up delivery pipelines with security built into the process.
• Quality assurance and testing — test work carried out alongside the build.

Who it works with

Forgeahead builds products for companies that need an outside product team. One published example is a research platform for K-12 students made for NoodleTools, which lets pupils organise notes, cite sources, work together in real time and get feedback from teachers.

Key facts

• Based in: Palo Alto, California, USA
• Platforms: AWS, serverless
• Case study reach: the NoodleTools platform is described as used by over one million students in more than 20 countries