resource guru alternativefor agencies

Resource Guru schedules your team. Forge builds your client tools.

Resource Guru is the simple, much-loved resource scheduling tool - who's working on what, when - one internal capacity view, priced per seat. Forge builds, brands, hosts and runs the custom client-facing tools your agency needs - client portals, status pages - on your domain, for one flat monthly price.

no code · we run the infrastructure · flat monthly pricing
the bottom line

Forge isn’t an app builder. It’s the managed internal-tools team for your agency.

honest take

Resource Guru nails simple scheduling. Forge owns the client-facing layer.

Resource Guru does one thing extremely well: a clean, simple capacity view your team actually uses. If you want to kill spreadsheets, see who's available at a glance, and pay per seat as the agency grows, it's hard to beat for that role.

But Resource Guru is deliberately for your team, not your clients - it doesn't do branded client tools, status pages, or anything custom to how your agency works. Most agencies still want the thing clients log into or watch progress in - shaped to them, on your domain - without building or hosting it. Forge builds exactly that, runs every piece of it, and charges one flat fee no matter how many people use it.

why forge instead

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.

side by side

Forge vs Resource Guru

ForgeResource Guru
Who it's forAgencies that want branded, client-facing tools, managedTeams that want simple internal capacity scheduling
What you actually getA custom client portal or status page, built for youA simple drag-and-drop schedule of who's doing what when
Who runs itWe do - end to endYou set up and maintain Resource Guru yourself
Client-facingYes - a branded, isolated tool per clientNo - Resource Guru is internal scheduling only
Customisable to how you workYes - shaped to your agency's processOne scheduling model, the Resource Guru model
Pricing modelFlat monthly - no per-seat costPer user, per month
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The Resource Guru 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.