THE AI COACH FOR BUILDERS · BETA

Every podcast you wish you had time for,
answering your startup's hardest questions.

ForgeLM searches 5,224+ transcript passages from the interviews builders already trust — and answers with real quotes from real people, timestamped and cited.

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TRAINED ON INTERVIEWS YOU ALREADY TRUST
PODLenny's Podcast PODMy First Million POD20VC PODAcquired PODTim Ferriss PODa16z PODInvest Like the Best PODHow I Built This PODGeneration Do It Yourself FR PODThe Knowledge Project + 20 more
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INTERVIEWS
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FORGES
STRUCTURE · 6 FORGES

Not one giant chatbot.
Six specialists.

Every transcript passage is tagged by domain. When you ask a pricing question, ForgeLM pulls from founders and investors — not from athletes or philosophers.

Founders
Building, shipping, scaling the company
1,420 interviews
Investors
Fundraising, term sheets, board dynamics
890 interviews
Creators
Audience, distribution, solo-ownership
760 interviews
Leaders
Managing teams, culture, hard calls
640 interviews
Minds
Strategy, philosophy, long-term thinking
820 interviews
Athletes
Discipline, performance, energy management
470 interviews
Founders SAMPLE PASSAGE
"The first ten customers should feel like co-founders. Call them weekly. Send them the changelog personally."
JF
Jason Fried
37signals · Tim Ferriss Show
THE MECHANICS · 4 STEPS

Not a chatbot. A coach.

Every answer follows the same loop: clarify, search, synthesize, cite. No vibes, no hallucinations, no "as an AI…"

01

You describe your situation

Plain language. The more specific, the better the coaching.

> I'm building a dev CLI, 800 WAU, $0 rev, debating pricing
02

It asks before it answers

Like a real coach — stage, market, context — before committing to advice.

clarifier: CLI, IDE extension, or hosted?
03

Searches 200K+ passages

Hybrid semantic + keyword across every transcript, tagged by forge.

vector.search("pricing pre-revenue") → 1,820 hits
04

Synthesizes with receipts

Every claim linked to a real person, a real podcast, exact timestamp.

answer: 6 citations · 3 forges · 4 quotes
SEE IT IN ACTION · REAL ANSWER, REAL CITATIONS

One question.
Six interviews. Zero guessing.

FORGELM · COACH CHAT 6 CITATIONS · 3 FORGES
YOU ASKED I have 800 weekly active users on my CLI tool, zero revenue. Should I charge now or keep it free to grow?

Charge now. 800 weekly CLI users is enough signal — DHH, Adam Wathan, and Sahil Lavingia all argue that "free forever" costs you the information you need most: what it's worth.264

Start at $9/month individual, $29/team. The $9 anchors "hobbyist not cheap"; $29 signals pro.5

Grandfather your first 200 users at 50% for a year — they'll be your loudest advocates.13

SOURCES

1
Jason Lemkin
SaaStr · 28:14
2
DHH
Tim Ferriss · 12:08
3
Sahil Lavingia
20VC · 41:22
4
Sahil Lavingia
My First Million · 19:50
5
Jason Fried
Lenny's · 33:10
6
Adam Wathan
The Knowledge Project · 55:30
WHY NOT JUST USE CHATGPT?

General AI knows everything.
That's the problem.

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5,000+ founder interviews
Asks before answering
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Always — it's a coach
Citations
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Every claim, timestamped
Organized by
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6 forges · filterable
Remembers your startup
Only this chat
Persistent profile
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