Announcement
TAMPA, Fla., November 2, 2026 — Forge ERP today introduced an AI-native enterprise resource planning system designed for the finance team rather than the field, now open to construction contractors in a private beta, by application. Forge combines a strict, auditable general ledger with AI that carries out the preparation work of construction accounting: converting awarded estimates into schedules of values, handing estimates off to project budgets, identifying blocked subcontractor payment applications and the reason for each, and drafting month-end accruals from reviewed bills.
"Construction CFOs do not have an AI problem; they have a WIP problem," said Austin Enno, founder of Forge ERP. "Every system on the market can show a job cost report. Few can promise that the report, the bank reconciliation and the WIP schedule all balance to the same ledger. We built the ledger first and put the AI inside it, so the AI can do the work and a person still approves every post."
Forge ERP covers purchasing, accounts payable, progress billing and accounts receivable, job cost and work-in-progress reporting, bank reconciliation and period close, with cutover tooling that imports a contractor's existing customers, vendors and employees with duplicate matching and a true revert. The AI layer takes plain-language instructions and stops at the approval points each company configures; every AI action is recorded in the same audit trail as a human's. Teams that already work in Claude, ChatGPT or Codex will be able to use those assistants with Forge under the same controls, available on request at launch.
The beta is aimed at general contractors and specialty subcontractors with $10 million to $150 million in annual revenue that run Procore, BuildOps or another major field platform and have outgrown QuickBooks or spreadsheet-based WIP. Forge is designed to work alongside those platforms rather than replace them; integrations with Procore, BuildOps, Salesforce, HubSpot, BILL, Ramp, Expensify, ADP and bank feeds are set up on request as part of onboarding.
Forge ERP is in private beta, by application; approved companies get a 14-day free trial. Contractors can apply at https://www.theerpforge.com/apply and read more at https://www.theerpforge.com/ai-native-construction-erp.
About Forge ERP
Forge ERP is an AI-native construction ERP for finance teams, built on a permanent, auditable ledger. It is in private beta, by application; approved companies get a 14-day free trial. Native, self-serve connectors for Procore and Plaid are planned. Learn more at https://www.theerpforge.com.
Media contact
Austin Enno, founder — austin.enno@theerpforge.com