Understand your own numbers without waiting on the bookkeeper.
Accounting software is built to produce financial statements, not to answer 'is this project profitable' or 'what's our cash position going to look like in six weeks' in a form a non-accountant can act on. Leadership ends up waiting for a monthly close, or a bookkeeper's translation, before making decisions that needed an answer weeks earlier. The Forge does not replace the general ledger or file your taxes — it shows leadership the day-to-day financial picture, connecting revenue and cost data from delivery, sales, and payroll to the numbers already sitting in the accounting platform.
Does The Forge replace my accounting software or file my taxes?
No. The Forge reads from your accounting platform and shows leadership the numbers they need day to day — project margin, cash position, spend by category. Your accounting software keeps the official financial record, and your CPA or tax software still files your taxes. The Forge closes the gap between what the ledger contains and what a non-accountant can actually read from it.
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One connected platform, set up for this domain
Where it breaks down today
Project or job profitability is only known after the monthly close, if it's calculated at all.
What runs on its own
Auto-categorize revenue and cost data from delivery and sales records before it reaches the accounting platform.
What changes
Project and job margin visibility while the work is happening, not after the monthly close.
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How this shows up day to day
The information this runs on
Revenue record
Closed-deal and invoiced revenue, connected back to the delivery and sales records that produced it.
Cost record
Labor, materials, and overhead costs, attributed to the project or department that incurred them.
Cash position record
Receivables, payables, and bank balance, reflected together instead of checked separately.
Expense / spend category record
Categorized spend, kept current for both operating visibility and year-end tax preparation.
Who touches this workflow
Finance / Accounting
Owns the ledger and financial close; benefits from operating data arriving pre-categorized instead of reconciled after the fact.
Operations / Delivery
Generates the cost data (labor, materials) that determines project margin; needs to see it, not just report it upward.
Leadership
Makes decisions based on financial visibility; needs cash position and margin data without waiting for a monthly close.
External CPA / tax preparer
Still files your taxes; benefits from continuously categorized records instead of a year-end reconstruction.
Intake through improvement
- Problems that need attention — A project trending toward negative margin, or an uncategorized transaction, flags for review before it distorts the monthly close.
What surfaces automatically
What stops requiring a manual step
The systems you keep, and what they stay in charge of
Accounting platform
The Forge reads from and shows information connected to your accounting platform; that platform keeps the official financial record.
Tax preparation / CPA
The Forge organizes tax-relevant records for handoff; your CPA or tax software still does the filing, and The Forge does not file taxes or provide tax advice.
Payroll provider
Labor cost data can inform project margin; the payroll provider stays in charge of pay calculation and payroll tax.
Banking / payment platforms
The cash-position view reflects connected bank and payment data; those institutions keep the official record of the actual funds.
Current, connector-by-connector integration status lives at /integrations.
What changes once this is in place
What you control
Where this shows up by industry
Other areas worth connecting
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Explore- Project and job margin visibility while the work is happening, not after the monthly close.
- A cash-position view leadership can check without asking finance to pull it manually.
- Fewer surprises at tax time because spend has been categorized continuously, not reconstructed at year-end.
- A shared set of revenue and cost numbers across departments instead of conflicting versions.
See exactly how The Forge would run finance & tax visibility for your operation.
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