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Forge

What Forge is

Forge is a company that acquires exceptional AV integrators and gives them the infrastructure, managed services, and shared scale to grow stronger, faster, and better.

Vision and Mission

Vision

Define the next chapter of AV

We acquire the strongest independent integrators and accelerate their growth. Together, our operating companies set a new standard for AV's role at the center of delivering experience in a space.

Mission

Build the platform exceptional AV companies want behind them.

Forge exists for the operating company. We give great AV businesses the infrastructure, managed services capability, and shared scale to grow stronger, faster, and better while they keep their culture, people, and relationships.

Our Platform Model.

The Forge platform provides support as "back of house" to accelerate growth.

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Platform + Operating Companies

Shared scale, local identity

Each Forge Operating Company keeps its local brand, leadership, culture, and customer relationships while the Forge platform provides back-of-house support that helps the business grow stronger.

  • Operating Company: Local teams continue to lead sales, service, delivery, and customer relationships in their market.
  • Forge Platform: Shared finance, HR, IT, recruiting, managed services infrastructure, purchasing leverage, and growth support.

We get AV

Leadership Forge leadership brings decades of experience from inside the AV industry.

We’ve grown integration businesses from the inside, scaled managed services with an industry-leading churn rate, and led multi-national growth programs. We don’t just understand the industry, we’ve run it from inside before.

Josh Davis, CEO
Josh Davis CEO
David Judy, President & COO
David Judy President & COO

A forge. Not a factory.

A factory makes every part the same. A forge strengthens what's already there, shaping something already strong into the best version of itself.

We named it Forge because that's exactly what we're trying to do.

We bring the same infrastructure, capability, and support to every operating company and apply it to what they need. The goal isn't uniformity. It's making already-great businesses stronger.

What becomes possible

Better for everyone.

  • More services over time, including enterprise-grade managed services.
  • Faster innovation powered by shared platform resources.
  • Delivery supported by stronger infrastructure and shared expertise behind the scenes.
  • Access to new technologies and capabilities across the platform.
  • Collaboration, learnings, and events across partners.
  • Expanded investment in training, development, and career growth.
  • Liquidity today while maintaining identity and legacy.
  • Cash at close with the option to stay invested in platform growth.
  • Flexible paths to continue leading, transition over time, or step back.
  • Resources and capital to evolve beyond what's possible alone.
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