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How pricing works

We do not publish dollar amounts on this site. Fees are quoted after qualification, using the same method every time: buyer labor saved, loss prevented, or deploy scope — not seat-based SaaS math. If the economics do not fit your team, we will say so before you pay anything.

  • No free pilots — paid evaluation or full license
  • License + royalty — no equity, no co-development that touches IP
  • Sealed binaries on your hardware — no source, no cloud upload required
  • Same inputs → same output hash — auditable, not "AI cleaned it"

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Data Forge

Offline merge and cleaning for recurring spreadsheet workflows

7-day private evaluation

Run your files locally. Keep the artifacts. Prove the workflow before a license. Fee quoted after qualification — priced against one team-year of manual merge labor.

  • Sealed desktop + CLI build on your machine
  • Your data (or anonymized stand-in) — nothing uploaded to us
  • Merged CSV, cleaning report, and manifest every run
  • One technical review call
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Enterprise license

Production deploy after a successful evaluation or direct qualification. Floor quoted on order form — typically multi-year, tied to recurring savings on your side.

  • Air-gapped or on-prem sealed binaries
  • Golden tests your team can rerun in CI
  • Maintenance + security membrane updates
  • Royalty on derivative products (defined in order form)
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How we calculate a quote (Data Forge)

  1. Count how many people spend real time each month merging vendor files, fixing headers, and reconciling duplicates.
  2. Multiply by fully loaded salary (salary + benefits + overhead for your region).
  3. Multiply by the fraction of their year on that work (often 25–40% once you include meetings and rework).
  4. That annual labor number is the anchor. Evaluation is priced so one week of proof is rational versus one year of that spend. License is priced so multi-year savings clear a strong return.
Worked example (your numbers go in the cells)
Analysts on merge/clean work (N) your headcount
Fully loaded cost each (L) your loaded salary
Fraction of year on that work (f) your %
Annual labor on cleaning N × L × f
Realistic reduction with Forge (s) your assumed %
Annual savings labor × s

Paid evaluation is proof on your files, not a free trial. Enterprise license follows successful eval or direct qualification. We send a written quote when your labor math supports a serious deploy.

Good fit

  • ✓ Six or more people touch vendor or internal file merges monthly
  • ✓ Conflicts between sources are resolved in notebooks or email today
  • ✓ Reviewers ask "where did this number come from?" and the answer is unclear
  • ✓ Air-gapped, regulated, or no-cloud-upload policy

Probably not a fit

  • One analyst cleaning a single CSV occasionally
  • Shopping for low-cost monthly SaaS ETL
  • Need source code or white-label without a separate agreement

Other licensed platforms

Qualified buyers only

Cybersecurity Fortress

Deterministic perimeter defense — no AI, no cloud dependency

Quoted after qualification · perpetual or annual · royalty per order form

Full platform for one corporate footprint. Priced against the cost of a single major breach in a regulated or critical-infrastructure environment — not against SaaS seat counts.

  • Utility, grid, telecom, finance, or healthcare at scale
  • Procurement needs reproducible acceptance tests, not black-box scores
  • Air-gap or on-prem requirement
Inquire

By inquiry

GraniteForge

Terrain and spatial pipeline — local, deterministic

Enterprise annual or perpetual · quoted per studio scope

GIS and game-studio terrain workflows. Perpetual and studio tiers available under order form.

  • Map authoring teams replacing fragile script chains
  • Studios needing repeatable export packages
Inquire

Custom bundles (Data Forge + security modules, regulated vertical packs, simulation stacks) start at component quotes from your order form. Ask on contact — we price from scope, not invented discounts. Platform catalog →

Common questions

Can we negotiate below the floor?
Floors exist because below them the buyer's own economics do not support a serious deploy. If your team's annual cleaning labor is modest (small team or occasional merges), Data Forge is probably not the right fit — and we will tell you that directly.
Why not a free trial?
You receive a sealed binary, documentation, and vendor availability. That is a deliverable, not a marketing funnel. Free trials attract browsers; paid evaluations attract teams with real merge pain.
Do we get source code?
No. You get sealed binaries, golden tests, audit artifacts, and optional source escrow under a master agreement with a neutral third party — not a GitHub repo.
How do we pay?
Wire or ACH after qualification and signed order form. Quotes are delivered in writing; high-value agreements are invoiced, not impulse checkout.
What about equity or revenue share instead of license fee?
No. License fee plus contract-defined royalty. No equity, ever.

Start with qualification

Tell us your team size, how you merge files today, and whether you need air-gapped deploy. We will send a written quote or tell you honestly that this is not the right product.

Contact — Data Forge Product details