Forge offers shipyards a dedicated AI platform that trains on their contract histories, design archives, and operational data to automatically generate new vessel designs within days. The system integrates a continuously updated 3D digital twin, tracks federal regulations, and unifies BOMs and purchase orders to flag supply shortages and compliance issues, exporting results to standard CAD tools for seamless workflow integration.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
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Problem
Shipyards rely on fragmented contract histories, legacy CAD files, and manual regulatory checks, causing lengthy design cycles, frequent material conflicts, and difficulty keeping multiple yards synchronized. The shortage of in‑house naval architects further slows the creation of compliant new vessel designs.
Solution
Forge offers an AI‑driven platform that trains a dedicated model on each yard’s historical contracts, 3D design archives, bill‑of‑materials, and USCG/ABS regulatory libraries. The model automatically generates a compliant preliminary ship design within days, propagating dimensional changes through the vessel’s frames and stability calculations. Integrated 3D digital twins provide a live shared model that links every design revision to its originating discussion, enabling real‑time traceability. The system continuously cross‑checks the evolving design against regulatory rules and BOM data, surfacing potential conflicts before material procurement. Outputs are delivered in standard CAD formats for seamless import into existing engineering tools.
Target Audience
Forge is aimed at shipyard engineering departments and naval architecture teams that need rapid, compliant vessel design generation, as well as larger shipbuilding consortia requiring shared, traceable design collaboration.
Features
- On‑premise AI model trained on yard‑specific contract, CAD, BOM, and regulatory data
- Automatic generation of preliminary ship designs in 1–2 days from closest historical projects
- Real‑time 3D digital twin that synchronizes across allied yards and links changes to source meetings or emails
- Continuous compliance engine with built‑in USCG/ABS rule libraries and auto gap‑analysis during design build
- BOM integration that flags supply shortages, price changes, and material conflicts early in the workflow
- Propagation of dimensional adjustments through hull frames and stability calculations
- Export of finished designs to standard CAD files for downstream analysis and tooling