The Workiz alternative you own outright.
Forge Built AI is the Workiz alternative for shops that want to own their field service software instead of renting it by the seat. Workiz is a monthly subscription that grows with your team. Forge builds you a custom back office in six weeks for one flat price, and you own all the code and data. No monthly rent, no lock in, backed by a $50,000 revenue guarantee.
Workiz is a rental. You never own it.
Workiz is field service software you pay for every month. It is also a subscription: you pay forever, and you own nothing at the end.
The monthly bill looks manageable, then seats and add ons stack up. Your customer data lives on their servers. Customizing means their roadmap or an add on. Every month you pay is rent on software that stays theirs.
Own the whole system.
Forge builds you a custom back office in six weeks. You own the code, the data, and the integrations. Built to your shop, not a template you bend yourself to fit.
You own it
All the code and all the data are yours. Modify it yourself, hire any developer, or export everything and leave. No license expires. No monthly dependency on us.
Built to your shop
We build around how you actually run jobs. Lead intake, dispatch, follow up, upsell, reporting. Need something the platform does not offer? We build it in instead of waiting on a vendor roadmap.
One flat price
$25,000 for the build. Optional $3,000 a month if you want us handling updates and support, and you can cancel anytime. No forced upgrades, no surprise price hikes.
Rent versus own.
Workiz pricing varies by plan, seats, and add ons. These are approximate 2026 ranges, not a quote.
| Forge Built | Workiz | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $25,000 one time | ~$200 to $500+ a month by plan and seats (approx 2026) |
| Five year cost | $25,000 | ~$18,000 to $40,000+ over five years |
| You own it | Yes, code and data | No |
| Built to your shop | Yes, custom | No, shared platform |
| Leaving later | You own it, take it anywhere | Your data stays on their platform |
Optional maintenance with Forge is $3,000 a month and you can cancel anytime, so your long term cost is your call, not a locked contract.
When Workiz is the right call.
Straight answer, because that is what earns trust.
If you are smaller, early on, and need something live this week without an upfront build, Workiz is a fair choice. Owning makes sense once you have scaled, your process is set, and the monthly rent plus the lock in cost you more than a one time build would.
One shop. One year. Real numbers.
This is one anonymized build, a roughly $3M per year HVAC shop, measured year over year from 2025 to 2026. One shop's results, not an industry average.
Jobs: 159 to 283
Up 78 percent in a year. Same market. The difference was owned data, faster follow up, and a system built to how they run.
Customers: 168 to 256
Up 52 percent. When you can see and track every customer, you stop letting them fall through the cracks.
$26 cost per lead
Their best performing ad creative hit $26 per lead, at a 4.12 percent click through rate, roughly twice a typical contractor rate. This is one creative in one market, not a benchmark for every shop.
A 7x tracking fix
Their Meta pixel was undercounting real conversions by seven times. Because they owned the system, we caught it and fixed it the same day, instead of filing a ticket and waiting.
$50,000, or we keep working.
Within 12 months of your system going live, we guarantee it generates at least $50,000 in new revenue. If it does not, we keep working at no charge or refund the difference. It is a floor, not a ceiling, and there is no other timeline attached beyond that 12 month window.
Workiz, answered.
Is Workiz bad?
No. It is a real field service platform. The tradeoff is that you rent it forever and never own the system or the data. Forge is for shops that have outgrown that and want to own what they run on.
What do I own with Forge that I do not with Workiz?
The code, the data, and the integrations. Change it, hire any developer, or move it. With a subscription you own none of that and you keep paying every month.
Is Forge more expensive than Workiz?
Upfront, yes, at $25,000 for the build. Over five years, once you factor the monthly bill and add ons, owning usually costs less and you keep the asset. Optional maintenance is $3,000 a month and cancelable.
Can a custom build replace Workiz for my shop?
For most shops, yes: lead intake, scheduling, dispatch, follow up, and reporting, built to how you actually work. We scope it on a call so you only build what you need.
How fast is it live?
Six weeks from kickoff, then it is yours, backed by the $50,000 revenue guarantee.