Independent software studio · Kingston, NH

One person. A fleet of AI agents. Real software, shipped fast.

Colossus Forge is a one-person studio. I direct a fleet of AI agents, running on hardware I own, to design, build, and ship apps, AI tools, and games. Bootstrapped. No VC. No tracking.

See what shipped How it's built
1operator, Kingston NH
FleetAI agents on owned hardware
4categories: tools, apps, games, platform
0trackers, analytics SDKs, cookies

Build velocity

ClubUp Access

Live-events platform

Contractor estimate (recalled)

4 months / $50k

What an agency scoped the build at.

Built and shipped

3 days

One operator, directing AI agents.

Three days from empty repo to a working, deployed product. The quote was months.

Open the demo

Phase 1 demo: real flows, sample event data. Accounts and payments are the next phase. The estimate above is a recollection of a verbal quote, not a published figure. The link is live, check it yourself.

What shipped

Software across four categories, same operator, same method.

Live products link out. In-development work is labeled honestly. No dead links.

AI Tools

AI products, built with AI.
Live
🎨

Portrait Forge

AI character-portrait creator

Set fantasy character traits, art style, and background, and get a unique AI-generated portrait in seconds. Includes a Chaos Slider that runs from royal oil painting to cosmic delirium.

Web AppPWAAI
Visit app
In Development
🧠

PromptGrader

Learn prompt engineering through play

A gamified prompt-engineering tool. Write prompts to solve maze, code, and logic puzzles. Get graded across six dimensions and climb a leaderboard. Ten-level campaign with roguelike Phase 2 mechanics.

Web AppEducationAI
In development
In Development
🎙️

Voice Agent Auditioner

Test and audition AI voice agents

Real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech for evaluating voice AI. Multiple agent profiles, session management, and a mobile-friendly web interface.

Web AppVoiceAI
In development
In Development
✈️

TripForge

AI travel companion

A travel-planning app in early development. Set the trip, and the planner builds the itinerary. More to come.

MobileTravelAI
In development

Apps

Practical software, privacy-first.
Live
🌤️

NOAA Weather

Clean weather, no ads, no accounts

Weather on the official NOAA / National Weather Service API. City search, GPS auto-detect, seven-day forecast, dynamic backgrounds. No API keys, no tracking, no upsells.

Web AppNOAA APINo tracking
Open app

Games

The hardest thing the pipeline builds. Same operator, same method.
Live
📖

Forge the Kingdom

Fantasy visual novel, with comedy

A story-driven visual novel where a wizard, a golem, and a talking cat try to save, or accidentally destroy, a kingdom. Branching dialogue and original art, with the Portrait Forge character creator built in.

PCMacVisual Novel
View on itch.io
In Development
⚔️

Protect the Forge

Extraction RTS

A 2D top-down extraction RTS set in the Forge the Kingdom universe. Design modular golem units, escort convoys through hostile ground, and extract resources. Every unit you lose is gone for good.

PCMacStrategy
In development
In Development
Two colossal Precursor Constructs in a full-body energy duel under an aurora, a planet on the horizon
Concept art · Precursor

Precursor

God game: Black & White meets Evangelion

You are a digital consciousness raising a massive combat Construct on an alien world. Bond with your creation, shape its growth, and face threats that dwarf imagination. Built in Godot 4.6 with AI-directed cinematic cameras.

PCGodot 4.6God Game
In development
A Precursor Construct standing in a lava field beneath an erupting volcano
Concept art · Construct, volcanic field
A colossal Precursor structure emerging from the ocean beside a lighthouse at dusk
Concept art · Emergence

Platforms

End-to-end products, not just apps.
Phase 1 demo
⛳

ClubUp Access

Live-events platform

A platform for charity golf events: signup, onboarding, and event flows. A contractor scoped it at four months and $50k. Built and shipped a working deployed version in three days by directing AI agents.

WebEvents3-day build
Open the demo

The operating system

How one person ships across four categories.

I am the scheduler. Work routes to a fleet of AI services running on hardware I own, plus specialist roles I invoke per task. Owned hardware: two RTX 3090-class GPUs and a Mac mini. The heavy model serving runs local. Here is the honest split.

Running on owned hardware

persistent services
Design + specs
Zoey
Local model on a dedicated GPU. Design partner, spec author, and keeper of the knowledge base.
Code + vision
Jinu
Local model served by vLLM. Writes code, reads images, and drives engine work.
Orchestration
Anna
Runs on a Mac mini. Coordinates batch work and the knowledge store.
Always-on ops
Mira
Local model on the Mac mini. Health checks and fast triage when something stalls.
Daily foreman
Gabe
Wakes on a schedule. Assembles the daily brief and tracks goals.
Knowledge store
Open Brain
Postgres plus vector search. Every artifact registered, versioned, and searchable.

Specialist roles I invoke per task

prompts, not running agents
Architecture
Archon
Structure, interfaces, what bears load.
Stress-testing
Dialectic
Failure scenarios. Strengthens a plan by attacking it.
Code
Linus
Pragmatic implementation, existing codebase first.
UX
Maya
Human-first design and accessibility.
Research
Finch
Primary sources with confidence labels.
Narrative
Lyra
Story, lore, and the feel of a thing.
The honest line: the named services run on hardware I own. The specialists are roles I put on per task, not autonomous agents. Nothing here runs unsupervised or spends money on its own.

Methodology, not magic

The same loop, every time.

Repeatable, not heroic. This is an operating model, not a personality.

01

Spec the intent

Write the build as a spec: why, what, constraints. The spec is the contract.

02

Route the work

Hand each part to the agent or model that fits: design, code, art, research.

03

Verify

Check output against the spec. Load it, test it, read it. No false greens.

04

Ship

Deploy, then record what shipped and what did not.

Map it to your portfolio: the same loop runs inside a company. One operator plus a fleet turns a multi-month roadmap into weeks. That is the engagement.

How the studio operates

Bootstrapped and independent. Revenue and owned hardware, not venture funding. Every product is built with care: clean design, honest pricing, no dark patterns, and respect for your privacy.

Privacy firstNo analytics SDKs. No trackers. No cookies. Open your browser network tab and check.
BootstrappedNo VC. No growth hacking. Revenue plus hardware I own.
Honest by defaultReal status on every product. No dead links. No dark patterns.
Built to lastThis site is static HTML on a CDN. No framework, no tracking, on purpose.

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