You hired engineers.
You got status meetings.
Botworx Forge replaces guesswork with a system.
This is how most engineering projects actually run.
Re: Cable Schedule Rev 2 — Status Update
Hi Mark, just checking in on when we can expect the updated cable schedule...
Mark T: Still waiting on the final I/O list. Can't finalize cable sizing without it.
Project Alignment Meeting #7
14 attendees · 90 min · Recurring weekly · "Discuss outstanding dependencies"
Who's updating the P&ID? I thought that was finalized last month.
Mark T: Rachel was on it, but she got pulled to commissioning at Site 4. Motor specs changed — P&ID needs a revision first.
Re: Re: Re: Motor Specifications — URGENT
We still haven't received the updated motor specs from the vendor. Can someone follow up?
Emergency Design Review — Scope Change Impact
8 attendees · 2 hours · "Motor spec change requires P&ID revision"
Customer PM → Vendor PM · No answer · 3rd attempt this week
Re: Re: Re: Re: Cable Schedule — Any update at all?
No response. Thread started 24 days ago.
Emergency Stakeholder Escalation — Project 4 Weeks Behind
22 attendees · "Full cost impact assessment required by EOD"
Costs are unknown until the invoice arrives.
Changes cascade silently. Nobody maps the impact.
When the engineer leaves, the knowledge leaves too.
A vetted pool of specialist engineers
Every engineer on the Forge network is vetted, onboarded, and managed through the system. You get the right specialist for each deliverable — not whoever happens to be available.
Controls
PLC, HMI, SCADA, instrumentation
Electrical
Power, schematics, panels, cabling
Mechanical
Process, piping, equipment
Software
Integration, data, AI systems
Here's how it works on Forge.
Follow a project from scoping to delivery.
A controls upgrade project arrives. Every deliverable is priced before work begins.
The project is broken into artifacts — control narratives, I/O lists, cable schedules, FAT plans. Each artifact's price is composed from atomic engineering functions — discrete units of work like "review motor datasheet" or "calculate cable sizing" — each with a first-principles time estimate and a cost rate per unit of time. You see the full breakdown. You approve before anything starts.
Requirements captured from RFI-042. Customer confirmed 3 motor variants.
Config snapshot: Ignition 8.1.38 — tag structure exported (1,247 tags)
Recording: MCC panel walkthrough — Dandenong plant
Draft v0.1 uploaded — functional description + I/O mapping complete.
Auto-review: Style compliance check passed. 3 minor issues flagged, 2 auto-corrected.
Review requested from customer. Review window: 5 business days.
Everything is captured. Nothing walks out the door.
Every artifact has a thread — a complete record of everything that went into it. Requirements, config snapshots, site recordings, design decisions, review comments, file versions. When the next engineer picks it up, they have full context. When the client needs to audit, it's all there. Our system integrates directly with your existing workflows and tools, so everything is captured automatically — no manual logging, no human overhead.
An RFI goes unanswered. The system doesn't wait — it escalates.
When Forge sends an RFI and the response is late, timelines adjust automatically. Escalation follows a ladder you configure at project start — PM first, then engineering manager, then program director. Past a configurable threshold, the project auto-pauses to protect both sides. And it works in reverse: if Botworx causes a delay, credits are returned automatically proportional to the hold-up.
RFI-042: Motor Specifications
Sent: Mar 12 · Due: Mar 17
Day 1–3 · Awaiting response
Day 4 · Reminder sent to Project Manager
Day 6 · Escalated to Engineering Manager
Day 8 · Critical — Program Manager notified
Day 10 · Auto-pause threshold — project paused
Configured at project start
Review SLA: 5 business days
Escalation: PM → Eng Mgr → Program Dir
Auto-pause: 10 business days overdue
Works both ways
If Botworx causes a delay, credits are automatically returned proportional to the delay. Forge attributes all causes from the audit trail — no disputes needed.
Continuous Verification — Add-on
Ongoing automated verification against this system. Alerts on drift.
15 cr / month
The I/O list is done. The agentic system verifies it before it leaves.
We've built an agentic verification system that operates across a range of operating systems and software surfaces — from PLC programming environments to SCADA servers to documentation tools. Our engineers use it to ensure that builds, test plans, manuals, and configuration documents are verified programmatically, with human supervision at every step. If the target environment is accessible, verification runs against the live system. Discrepancies are flagged before delivery, not after commissioning.
The same system records engineer activity in real time — screen context, tool usage, and progress — generating automated status reports without anyone stopping to write one.
Every dependency is mapped. Every action shows its impact before you confirm.
Forge builds a full dependency graph for your project. When you want to pause a deliverable, reprioritize the queue, or change scope, the system runs an impact analysis across the entire graph before anything happens. You see exactly what it costs, what it delays, what downstream artifacts are affected, and where the critical path runs. Then you decide.
You requested: Pause "Electrical Design"
One dashboard. Complete visibility.
Everything from scoping to delivery — tracked, priced, and under your control.
Water Treatment Plant — Controls Upgrade
PRJ-2847 · 8 artifacts
This is how we started.
Botworx began as a consulting and engineering firm — delivering large-scale control systems for enterprise clients across Australia and internationally. Power, water, mining, manufacturing — national and international projects with complex SCADA, PLC, and integration requirements.
We still do that work. Our engineers deliver control systems projects for some of the largest operators in the country. But over the years, we saw the same problems repeated on every project — opaque timelines, untracked dependencies, cost overruns, and no transparency for the client.
Forge is our answer. It takes everything we know about delivering engineering at scale and turns it into a system — one where every deliverable has a price, every dependency is visible, and the client is in control.
At the same time, we've been building Glia — our AI-native PLC OS — which our engineers use internally to accelerate delivery. Forge and Glia are two sides of the same coin: the tools and the system that make engineering predictable.
Forge is launching soon.
Detailed process walkthroughs, the full deliverables catalog, and transparent pricing — all coming shortly.
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