v1.0.0

FlowForge 1.0 — the first public release. A single developer, orchestrating a fleet of AI specialists, shipping production software with the discipline of a whole team — and getting paid for every minute of it. This is the launch.

The release candidates below (rc1–rc8) are the pre-launch development log; 1.0.0 is the version the world meets first. Here is what it gives you.

The cockpit — your whole project, one beautiful screen

A full-screen terminal cockpit, built on the Charm stack, that you actually want to live in. Switch between projects, drag work across a kanban board, plan milestones and sprints, watch your fleet, read your stats — all keyboard-driven, all responsive, all rendered to a single quality bar: every screen is a hit, not merely functional. Time tracking runs underneath the whole thing, always on.

ACE + the worker fleet — never code alone

ACE is the controller that runs your session: a voice-and-text co-pilot that orchestrates a worker fleet of parallel agents, each in its own isolated git worktree, each driving a ticket from branch to GREEN pull request. Dispatch many at once and they work in parallel; auto-merge lands the ones that pass clean, autochain pulls the next ticket the moment one finishes, and the rail keeps talking so you are never alone at the keyboard. Walk away — the fleet keeps shipping.

ForgePlay — guided plays, including "Plan a Feature"

ForgePlay turns a complex workflow into a guided, gated play you can run end-to-end. The headline is the Loop-2 "Plan a Feature" blueprint play (T1–T10): it interviews you for intent, drafts requirements, an ADR, and a visual blueprint, pauses at exactly the founder checkpoints it designed — no more, no less — and on ratification emits the tickets automatically. Planning that produces a real, traceable plan instead of a wall of chat.

FF-Workflow-Seal — the self-driving guarantee

The Workflow-Seal (ratified #2742) is the promise that the machine actually self-drives: a walk-away run of N workers either merges N pull requests hands-free (auto-merge ON) or flips N PRs to READY for your go (auto-merge OFF), handles its own hiccups within sanctioned hatches, and never fabricates a gate signal. The guarantee is enforced in code — not left to an agent's memory.

Proof-of-work billing — get paid for your time

Time tracking is not a side feature; it is the point. Every session runs on a ticket and a timer, every PR and commit ties back to it, and that record becomes a proof-of-work invoice your client can read at a glance — totals up front, a clear payment memo, and an honest trail from work to bill. The tool that sells work-tracking tracks its own work to build itself.

Blueprint-first discipline — do it right, do it once

FlowForge holds itself to a method: blueprints are sacred. Feature-sized work carries its requirements, PO brief, ADR, and mockup before code; size-tiered gates keep small work fast and big work honest; every PR earns a reviewer GOLDEN verdict and a seal-and-grade pass before it lands. The specs are the source of truth — implementation follows the blueprint, never the reverse.

FlowForge Desktop — the cockpit, no terminal required

FlowForge Desktop runs the entire cockpit as a native Mac app — signed, notarized, and installed to /Applications — so you get the full fleet, kanban, stats, and ACE without ever touching a terminal. A graphical login, a one-click buy-Solo signup flow, and a guided onboarding funnel take a new customer from landing page to a running cockpit. Solo is $22/mo, Team is $33/seat/mo, and Desktop is included in every plan.

Visual HTML blueprints — ERDs, flows, and charts you can show

Every plan can render itself as a branded, self-contained HTML blueprint — ERD diagrams from your schema, workflow flows, and charts — openable in a browser straight from the cockpit. The plan a stakeholder approves looks like something a stakeholder would approve.

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