A small team.
A serious craft.
ForgeWorks Labs builds professional automotive software for people who actually work on cars. We started in a driveway. We are still close enough to one to remember why this matters.
Built from a real problem.
ForgePoint started as a late-night experiment. One Vauxhall, one stubborn instrument cluster, one belief that there had to be a cleaner way.
Years of retrofits and quiet research into how GM modules actually communicate turned that experiment into a product. ForgePoint is what we wished we had when we started, and what we now use ourselves every week.
We are independent. There is no roadmap dictated by an OEM. Every decision is shaped by the technicians who use the tool, and the cars they need to put back on the road.
How we work.
Reliability over novelty.
We will not ship a feature we are not willing to use on our own car. Every release is validated on real vehicles before it leaves the lab.
Plain language.
Documentation, errors, and status all read like a sentence. If a session fails, the cause is shown. If the next step is unclear, the app says so.
No lock in.
No subscription required. No tethered hardware. Credits never expire. Your tools should work to your schedule, not ours.
The long way here.
- July 2022
First retrofit.
A Cadillac UDV cluster lands in an Astra J. The first real glimpse into GM module programming.
- 2022 to 2025
Quiet research.
Retrofits and long conversations with friends in the community shape an understanding of SPS, calibrations, and inter-module behaviour.
- July 2025
ForgePoint v0.0001.
A small Windows app written to flash a single DID configuration. Proof that the idea works.
- Today
Building in public.
Continuous improvements, expanding coverage, listening closely to the people who use ForgePoint every day.
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