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The AI movement coach that
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Forge builds a personalized training program around your body, your history, and your schedule — then adapts it every week to how you respond. Built by two Doctors of Physical Therapy.

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Why we built Forge
What you actually get

Built around your outcomes — not someone's template.

Most apps hand you a fixed plan and hope. Forge runs the loop a great coach runs: understand you, build for you, and change course when your body says so.

Adapts every week

Check in, and your program adjusts to how you actually felt and recovered — progress, hold, or scale back. No more grinding a plan that stopped fitting.

Works around injuries

A tweak or flare-up doesn't end your training. Forge reasons about the setback and routes around it — keeping you moving safely, not benched for weeks.

Reasons, doesn't look up

It understands the why behind your goal and decomposes it from first principles — physics and training science — instead of matching keywords to a library.

Remembers you

Your history, your goals, what flared last time, how you respond — it carries forward, so every conversation builds on the last instead of starting over.

Safety in the engine

A deterministic safety rail flags anything that should see a real clinician. Forge coaches — it never pretends to diagnose, and it never guesses with your health.

Do less, better

Trained on the minimum effective dose, not maximum grind. You get the smallest plan that moves the needle — so it's sustainable, and you actually stick with it.

Built by clinicians

Made by two Doctors of Physical Therapy.

Forge isn't a content library with a chatbot on top. It's the way two practicing PTs actually reason about movement, load, and recovery — encoded into a coach you can talk to. Real clinical judgment, made accessible.

Dr. Joe Rivieccio, Doctor of Physical Therapy, co-founder of Forge
Joe Rivieccio
Co-founder · Doctor of Physical Therapy
DPT · OCS · CSCS

Practicing PT & strength coach. Forge encodes the pacing judgment he uses with patients every day.

Dr. John Ribeiro, Doctor of Physical Therapy, co-founder of Forge
John Ribeiro
Co-founder · Doctor of Physical Therapy
DPT · OCS · SFMA · CrossFit

Practicing PT, movement-assessment specialist. He leads the coaching engine — every program reasons like a clinician.

Care that's actually reachable

Expert coaching, without the expert price.

The reasoning of a great coach and physical therapist — at software prices, for the people the system prices out or leaves too far from a clinic.

A fraction

of the cost of 1:1 coaching or in-person PT

No insurance maze

cash-pay and direct — no referrals, no deductibles, no gatekeeping

Anywhere

on your phone, on your schedule — no clinic within driving distance required

The loop

How Forge thinks.

The same loop a great coach runs with you — just always available, and it never forgets.

1

Listen

A real conversation finds your goal, your why, and the limiter.

2

Decompose

Break the goal into the qualities you actually need to train.

3

Prescribe

A lean program you review and approve — never a bloated checklist.

4

Adapt

Each week it adjusts from your real response and recovery.

5

Protect

A safety rail refers you out when something needs a human.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions.

What is an AI movement coach?

An AI movement coach is a training app that does what a human coach does: learns your goals and history, builds a personalized program, and adjusts it based on how you actually respond week to week. Forge was built by two Doctors of Physical Therapy, so its coaching logic reflects real clinical reasoning about load, recovery, and progression — not a template library.

How is Forge different from ChatGPT or a generic fitness app?

Generic AI starts from zero every conversation — you have to re-explain your training, your history, and your numbers each time. Forge holds your full training context: your program, your logs, how last week felt, what flared up and when. Ask it a question and it answers about you, then updates your actual program.

Can Forge help me get back into training after time off?

That's what it's built for. Forge paces your return deliberately — building in blocks, ramping gradually, and adjusting when something feels off — because doing too much too soon is the most common way a comeback ends early. It coaches around discomfort rather than ignoring it, and flags anything that should be seen by a healthcare provider.

Do I need a gym or equipment?

No. Forge builds your program around whatever you have — a full gym, a garage setup, or just bodyweight in a hotel room — and around your schedule.

How much does Forge cost?

Forge is $29.99/month after a 7-day free trial — a fraction of the cost of 1:1 coaching or personal training. You can cancel anytime during or after the trial.

Is Forge a replacement for physical therapy or medical care?

No. Forge is a coaching and wellness tool, not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It was built by clinicians and includes safety screening that refers you to a licensed healthcare provider whenever something needs human care.

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