Research
What ForgeKit is learning in public.
ForgeKit’s central bet is that people should be able to own useful software without becoming software engineers.
This is where the evidence for that lives — what’s already proven, what’s a live experiment, and what’s still an open question, named honestly instead of blurred together.
Where each piece actually stands
Proven, in progress, and still open.
- 1Real, not yet hands-off
In production
Owned Software, in production
MedinaCHF is where the Owner Loop gets tested for real — a hundred-plus real requests from a non-technical coordinator, made real in production. Proof the loop works, not proof it’s hands-off yet.
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Live experiment
Empty Canvas
A live experiment, not a shipped product: how little software expertise should an ordinary owner need to go from a real problem toward useful, increasingly mature software? Several real owners are running it right now — with real friction, not a smooth demo.
Read more - 3Not proven yet
Open question
Humanity’s Workshop
Something we’re exploring: whether people outside software teams can contribute real judgment to real work. Not proven yet — here’s where it actually stands.
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