ClickUp gives your team a PM tool. Forge gives your clients a tool of their own.
ClickUp is a powerful project-management product if you want to configure one. It's not a client-facing tool - sharing views feels like sharing a backstage spreadsheet, branding is theirs, and the feature shelf takes weeks to tame. Forge skips all of that: a separately-branded, separately-isolated tool per client, built and run for you.
no code · we run the infrastructure · flat monthly pricingForge isn’t an app builder. It’s the managed internal-tools team for your agency.
ClickUp is a tool for your team. Forge is a tool for your clients.
ClickUp is a comprehensive project-management product, and plenty of agencies run their internal team on it. If you want the feature shelf and you have someone to configure it, it does the internal job.
But ClickUp wasn't designed to be a client-facing experience. Shared views look like shared dashboards; branding is ClickUp's; and the complexity that's an asset for power users is a liability for client onboarding. Forge takes the opposite approach: a separately-branded portal and status page per client, shaped to the agency-client relationship - and run by us so you never see configuration.
Built for agency owners, not builders.
Opinionated presets, not a blank canvas
You don't want to describe an app from scratch - you want the right one. Forge gives you a catalog of agency tools (client portals, status pages, time tracking), set up by answering a few plain questions.
Fully managed - zero tech tax
Hosting, database, domains, secrets, updates - all on infrastructure we own and run, that your clients never see. You never connect a service, watch a meter, or redeploy anything.
Built for your whole client roster
Forge is designed around the agency-to-client relationship: a separate, branded, separately-tracked tool for each client - not one app at a time.
It gets better after launch
Every tool ships with usage analytics you can share with clients to prove value, and a feedback channel that quietly improves it - without you lifting a finger.
Flat, predictable pricing
One monthly subscription covers the AI and the hosting. No credits to burn, no usage meter to watch, simple to expense.
Improves for everyone, automatically
Because tools are built from structured presets, feedback from one agency improves the preset for all of them. The whole catalog gets better over time.
Forge vs ClickUp
| Forge | ClickUp | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | The agency-to-client relationship | Internal project management |
| Per-client tools | A separate, fully-branded, separately-isolated tool per client | Shared views from one workspace |
| Branding | Your logo, colors, custom domain - clients see your agency | ClickUp branded throughout the client experience |
| Setup time | Live in days, from a few plain questions | Weeks of configuration and team training to land it |
| When workflows change | Ask in plain English - we update and republish | Reconfigure, retrain the team, hope nothing broke |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly per agency, unlimited tools and clients | Per-user, per-feature - cost climbs with the team |
Glossary & calculators
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The ClickUp alternative your agency can actually hand off.
Pick a tool, answer a few plain-language questions, and we build, host and run it for you. No code, no infrastructure, nothing to maintain.