Five primitives. One sovereign runtime.
Compute, networking, storage, observability, and evidence. Each one a property of the platform before the first line of business logic ships. Each one composing into the next, so you never wire the substrate yourself.
How the primitives compose.
The runtime is a stack, not a menu. Each layer takes the layer beneath as given. Each layer makes the one above smaller.
Append-only audit log. The BAA is a description of how the layers below behave.
Logs, metrics, traces emit into the sovereign LGTM stack the moment the workload is alive.
mTLS east-west. Residency bound by route. Tenant keys. No implicit trust.
Hardware-isolated Firecracker microVMs. One workload, one machine, one kernel.
Bare metal in named data centres. Private optical backbone. Six jurisdictions.
You build at L4. The layers beneath are ours to defend.
IsoCell
The problem.
A shared kernel is a soft boundary. A soft boundary is a boundary you argue for in an audit.
The principle.
One workload. One machine.
Every workload runs inside its own Firecracker microVM. Real kernel, real memory, real vCPUs, enforced by KVM. No shared kernel between tenants. No noisy neighbour, because there is no neighbour.
Boot is under 125ms. Container speed, virtual-machine isolation. You deploy the same OCI image you would to any modern runtime. The shape of the machine underneath is the difference.
- 01Verify image signature+3ms
- 02Allocate memory+8ms
- 03Pin CPU cores+6ms
- 04Mount encrypted volume+14ms
- 05Establish ForgeMesh+17ms
- 06Boot guest kernel+52ms
- 07Start application+18ms
- Firecracker microVM per workload
- Dedicated CPU cores (Pro+)
- Static memory allocation
- Signed image provenance (SHA-256)
- Sub-second elasticity
- GPU instances (Pro+, T4 / A10)
- OCI-compatible image format
- Forge CLI + REST API
- Cold start
- < 125ms
- Memory overhead
- < 5 MiB
- Isolation
- KVM hardware
- Kernel
- Dedicated per VM
- Provenance
- SHA-256 signed
- Image format
- OCI / Firecracker
- Max vCPU
- 64 (Enterprise)
- Max memory
- 512 GB (Enterprise)
- Clinical AI
Run inference inside a jurisdiction-bound microVM. Patient data never leaves the perimeter.
- DICOM ingest
Diagnostic-scale workloads on dedicated cores. No noisy neighbour to fight.
- Multi-tenant SaaS
One customer per IsoCell. Hardware-bounded blast radius.
A soft boundary is a boundary you argue for in an audit. We don't have one.
ForgeMesh
The problem.
Network policies are written once, then drift. Every drift is an audit finding waiting to happen.
The principle.
No implicit trust. No configuration to forget.
Every service talks through a private IPv6 mesh built on WireGuard, enforced by eBPF in the kernel. Every packet encrypted. East-west isolation is a property of the runtime, not a policy a customer remembers to apply.
- Private IPv6 mesh (WireGuard)
- eBPF-enforced east-west policy
- Mutual TLS on every hop
- DNS-native service discovery
- Default-deny egress
- Per-tenant network isolation
- Transport
- WireGuard
- Enforcement
- eBPF
- Encryption
- AES-256 / ChaCha20
- Discovery
- DNS-native
- Intra-region
- Free egress
- Internet egress
- $0.02/GB
A perimeter you didn't have to draw.
ForgeVault
The problem.
Residency policies are marketing claims until the route can prove them.
The principle.
Bound to a jurisdiction by route, not by tag.
Storage sits on physical infrastructure inside a named jurisdiction. Data cannot drift to another region because the network path does not exist. Tenant keys. Immutable provenance. Right-to-be-forgotten as a primitive, not a procedure.
- Object storage (S3-compatible)
- Block volumes (encrypted)
- Hardware-bounded residency
- Tenant-held encryption keys (BYOK)
- Append-only provenance log
- Right-to-be-forgotten as primitive
- Model
- Object / block
- Encryption
- AES-256 at rest
- Keys
- BYOK · tenant-held (Pro+)
- Residency
- Hardware-bound
- Object cost
- $0.02 / GB-mo
- Block cost
- $0.15 / GB-mo
Storage that cannot leave the country it's in.
ForgeObserve
The problem.
Telemetry contracts leak. Once the logs are at the vendor, the perimeter is fiction.
The principle.
Observability that ships with the runtime.
A fully integrated LGTM stack inside the sovereign boundary. Instrumentation via Beyla and eBPF, so RED metrics emit without code changes. No third-party telemetry contracts. No data crossing the perimeter.
Append-only. AES-256. Compliance-tagged at ingest.
Query, visualise, alert. SSO-bound. Pre-built healthcare boards.
End-to-end trace IDs. Beyla emits without code changes via eBPF.
Prometheus-compatible. 13-month retention.
- Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir
- Beyla auto-instrumentation (eBPF)
- Prometheus-compatible metrics
- 13-month retention (Pro+)
- Pre-built healthcare dashboards (DICOM, HL7/FHIR, PACS)
- SSO-bound Grafana workspace
- Stack
- Loki · Grafana · Tempo · Mimir
- Instrumentation
- Beyla / eBPF
- Retention
- Up to 13 months
- Export
- On-demand · SIEM-compatible
- Auth
- SSO · SAML · OIDC
- Egress
- None
Evidence as a side-effect of how the workload runs.
ForgeAudit
The problem.
BAAs are usually negotiated. The architecture is asked to live up to the document. We do it the other way around.
The principle.
The BAA is a description of how the runtime already behaves.
Every deployment writes to an append-only audit log. Every configuration is signed. Every region change is recorded. Compliance evidence emerges from the runtime, not from a separate process you run before the auditor arrives.
- Append-only audit log
- Signed configuration manifests
- Regional change recording
- On-demand evidence export
- BAA included on Pro + Enterprise
- HITRUST CSF r2 (in progress)
- Log model
- Append-only
- Retention
- 13 months default · custom (Ent)
- Export
- On-demand · SIEM
- BAA
- Included on Pro / Enterprise
- DPA
- Available across EU regions
- Audit cadence
- Continuous
Audit-ready isn't a project. It's the default state.
Four real shapes of work.
Each scenario uses a different combination of the five primitives. The product underneath is the same.
Running diagnostic models with PHI.
Models run inside a jurisdiction-bound microVM, with patient data never leaving the perimeter. Inference latency stays inside the region; evidence emits to the LGTM stack on every call.
Shipping a PACS overlay to hospitals.
Each hospital tenant gets its own hardware boundary. DICOM ingestion runs at diagnostic scale. The auditor sees per-tenant residency, per-tenant audit trail, exported on demand.
Shipping a patient portal to a regional hospital network.
Sign the BAA on day one. Deploy with the compliance posture already in place. Spend the next six months on product, not on a hardening guide.
Running multi-tenant digital pathology.
Customers buy the OEM's product and inherit Forge's sovereignty, residency, and audit chain. The OEM competes on workflow; the substrate is solved.
Same primitives. Different scale.
Every tier ships with every primitive. The difference is what you can put through them.
| Primitive | Tester | Dev | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IsoCell compute | 2 microVMs · shared | 10 · 4 vCPU | 100 · 16 vCPU · GPU | Unlimited · 64 vCPU · GPU |
| ForgeMesh network | Public ingress | mTLS east-west | Dedicated LB · mTLS | VPN · peering · IP |
| ForgeVault storage | 1 GB | 10 GB · S3-compat | 100 GB · BYOK ready | 500 GB+ · cross-region replication |
| ForgeObserve | 24-hour retention | 7-day retention | 13-month retention | Custom retention · export |
| ForgeAudit / BAA | Not included | Not included | BAA included | Custom BAA · HITRUST |
| Sovereign regions | 1 (SYD) | All public | All public | Private regions |
Full pricing detail at /pricing.
See pricingStandards. Open source. Partners.
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- NHS DSPT
- BSI C5
- IRAP (pending)
- HITRUST (pending)
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- Terraform
- Pulumi
- OCI containers
- Helm
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI
- Intelerad
- GE Healthcare
- Mach7
- Equinix
- Dell
- NetApp
Build on the forge.
We're selectively onboarding the teams shipping clinical software. Apply for early access, or talk to an engineer about a sovereign deployment.