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Forge. A modular app prototype.

DAX designed and built a modular product system that adapts across operations, commerce, support and AI. Use the controls to inspect how the delivered prototype behaves.

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No templates — watch it assemble

01 · Delivered product system

One foundation. Several business uses.

DAX designed one product foundation for several business uses. The controls are evidence of the build, not a self-service app maker.

App type step 01

Features step 02

Build step 03

Screens

4

Files

8

Rebuild

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This config ships as

Standard — $850 · 12 days

auth + database + admin, up to 8 screens

Map to offer

Export downloads the exact page in the preview — open it in any browser. On a commission, this button is your repo.

forge://preview/wordsmith — 4 screens · 2 modules

live build

Build manifest

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Architecture — redraws per config

what you own at handoff

02 · Off the Forge

The same modules, grown into client builds.

Two exports that kept going — the module you toggle above, taken to production scope.

LeadPilot AI lead-scoring dashboard with KPI cards and a sortable lead table — LeadPilot — lead scoringdashboard module
The dashboard toggle at production scale: KPI cards, live-scored lead table, sort and drill. Same architecture node you see redraw above.

Wordsmith SaaS writing app with user accounts and usage limits — Wordsmith — AI writing SaaSauth + payments modules
Auth and payments in the wild: user accounts, usage limits, billing. The pricing screen you assemble in the preview is its ancestor.

03 · The Offer

Scope you can toggle, priced in the open.

Three fixed tiers. The Forge above maps your configuration onto one of them — the highlighted card is where your current build lands.

← matches your build

Starter

$320· 5 days

1 AI feature, up to 3 screens, one model wired in
Web platform
Deployed to a live URL
Full source code
2 revisions

← matches your build

Standard

$850· 12 days

Up to 8 screens, auth, database, AI features, basic admin
Web or mobile
Deployed + setup doc
Full source code
4 revisions

← matches your build

Pro

$2,400· 21 days

Unlimited screens, user accounts, Stripe billing, admin panel, RAG over your data
Web + mobile, one codebase
Deployed + setup doc + handoff call
Full source code
Unlimited revisions within scope
14 days free bug fixes

Rush delivery — compress timeline ~40% · from $250 Monthly maintenance retainer · $180/mo

You own it outright — repo, accounts and keys in your name. Take it to any developer later with zero lock-in. After delivery: fourteen days of free bug fixes on what we shipped, then an optional retainer or just the code. No forced subscription.

04 · What the Market Gets Wrong

Buyers keep reporting the same five wounds.

Pulled from real marketplace reviews across development gigs — no names, just the pattern, and what this page does about each.

Pain 01 · silence

"I messaged several sellers. Nobody replied — the one who finally did diagnosed it in minutes."

The DAX answerThis page answers before we do: the Forge shows you the build, the price and the timeline without waiting on a reply. Humans follow inside a working day.

Pain 02 · guessed scope

"They built the wrong thing because nobody asked what I actually needed."

The DAX answerThe Forge is the scoping call. What you toggle is what gets quoted — modules, screens, price, days — in writing before any work starts.

Pain 03 · talked down to

"I'm not technical, and I felt rushed and patronised the whole project."

The DAX answerThe architecture map above is how we talk to owners: plain nouns, labeled boxes, no jargon quiz. If a diagram needs a translator, we redraw it.

Pain 04 · the black box

"Weeks of nothing, then a surprise at delivery."

The DAX answerThe live preview you're clicking is the working method: every real project gets a build link that updates as we work, so delivery day has no reveals — you watched it assemble.

Pain 05 · stale on arrival

"The cheap build arrived already outdated — I paid twice to rescue it."

The DAX answerCurrent stack, no recycled templates — this builder assembles from scratch in front of you, and the export proves the artifact stands alone. You own the repo from day one, so nothing rots behind someone else's login.

05 · Field Index · Programming & Tech

Fifteen trades, one proving ground.

Every development service we sell, tied to the part of this demo that proves it.

01Web development

The Forge shell itself — layout, motion and state hand-rolled with zero libraries; the preview you're clicking is live HTML/CSS/JS.

02Backend & APIs

Flip the API toggle: the diagram grows a versioned REST layer with keys and rate limits, and the preview gains a console that answers requests.

03Mobile apps

Every assembled preview holds together at 375px untouched — the same one-codebase discipline we ship to both app stores.

04Database design

db/schema.sql sits in every build manifest above, and the Postgres node reshapes as your modules change its tables.

05AI/ML engineering

Pick the AI assistant product: the preview wires a model-backed flow the same way we wire RAG and fine-tuned models into client builds.

06Chatbots & AI agents

Mendly — the support copilot you can assemble above — is the working miniature of the agent systems that are our home turf.

07Blockchain & Web3

The export button is deterministic — config in, artifact out, verifiable by anyone. That is exactly how we treat smart-contract builds and deploys.

08Trading bots

The dashboard module's recomputing KPIs and charts are the same telemetry we bolt onto strategy runners and backtests.

09Game development

Watch the rebuild counter: every toggle re-renders the whole app in tens of milliseconds — game-loop discipline applied to the web.

10Browser extensions

Forge packs an entire working app into one self-contained file you can download — the same packaging rigor Manifest V3 demands.

11Data engineering

The build manifest is a pipeline in miniature: configuration in, files out, identical on every run — that determinism is the whole job.

12DevOps & cloud

Export hands you a deployable artifact on click; on commissions that click is a CI/CD pipeline to your own cloud, monitored and backed up.

13Website maintenance

Toggle anything off and back on — the build regenerates cleanly, no debris. Maintained systems should rebuild this calmly, every time.

14QA & testing

Run the test checkout inside the preview: scripted, repeatable, passing in front of you — which is what a real test suite gives your app.

15Embedded & firmware

Config becomes a verified artifact you flash somewhere else — the export flow above mirrors how we hand off ESP32 and STM32 builds.

Market context · the bar this page is built to clear Top-rated development sellers run at 5.0 from 4,395 reviews (website development, member since 2019) and 5.0 from 1,002 reviews with a 1-hour response time (software development). At that altitude the differentiator is no longer the rating — it's whether a buyer can see the work before paying. Hence: a builder that builds in front of you.

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