Your ERP knows what was ordered. Your MES knows what the machines did. Nothing knows how your plant actually ran today. Polyforge is the AI-native system of record for the daily management layer — handovers, meetings, plans, and the work in between — built for biotech and pharma manufacturing.
Live product, not a deck · No validation burden · Onboarding design partners now
Wet floor near Buffer Prep — barriered, facilities notified. No injuries.
Batch 24-118 transferred to Bioreactor 3 at 02:40. On schedule.
Chromatography skid B pressure trending high — flagged for day-shift check.
Work item PEC-141 created · assigned to Day Shift Lead.
A plant on Polyforge quietly builds something no binder, spreadsheet, or point tool ever produces: a web. The work item knows the handover that first flagged it, the meeting that assigned it, the incident it answers, the project it serves, and the person who owns it — because they were captured as one linked record, not five disconnected notes.
The graph draws that web. Hover any record and its world lights up; click and pivot — handover to work item to meeting to follow-up — the way your plant actually lived it. A second brain for the operation's day: the full context behind any piece of work, one click away.
We've watched a lot of manufacturing software. None of it can draw this picture — because none of it captures the connections in the first place. The graph isn't a feature bolted on top; it's what your daily management looks like once it's finally recorded as one connected system.
Every line is a real relationship between real records — go ahead, drag one.
Not a mockup. What that spoken handover becomes: one linked record in a web of them — the work item, its owner, the meeting that assigned it, the incident it answers. Everything below runs in the same build our design partners use.
For site directors and VPs: a two-minute brief at the start of every day — what changed overnight, what's slipping, what's waiting on your decision, and what's happening again — every claim cited to the records your team already captured. Not last week's summary, assembled the night before a review: this morning's plant, with receipts.
The part no dashboard does: recurrence, caught by meaning. Ten records across six days, logged by three different people in different words, surface as one pattern — "6th time in 90 days" — with every source one click away. Decisions first, news second, and nobody on your team typed a word of it.
Owns transactions. Orders, inventory, money.
Owns machine data. Recipes, equipment, batches in execution.
Owns maintenance. Work orders, parts, preventive schedules.
Owns regulated compliance. Incidents that must be reported.
The actual day — who's doing what, what broke, what the last shift saw, what the tier meeting decided — lives in Excel, whiteboards, and someone's memory. That's the layer Polyforge owns.
of drug shortages trace to quality and manufacturing failure — not science, not demand. The biggest reason drugs don't get made is operational.
FDA · Drug Shortages: Root Causes and Potential Solutions
of drug substance at risk in a single complex biologic batch — before counting the investigation, revalidation, and lost finished product that follow a failure.
BioProcess International · industry ranges
the average drug shortage lasts once it starts. Some critical drugs have been in shortage for over a decade. Prevention is the only cheap option.
ASHP / HHS ASPE
We're not promising a dashboard prevents a $3M batch loss. We're saying the failures behind that number start as unclosed actions, missed handoffs, and forgotten precedents — the exact events Polyforge captures, structures, and refuses to let disappear. And while it's closing that gap, it hands your team their day back:
Spoken in two minutes at the end of a twelve-hour shift — structured into six reviewed sections, not reconstructed from a binder and a hallway conversation.
Answered in seconds with citations to your own records — instead of an afternoon of spreadsheet archaeology, or a shrug.
Drafted from a short brief into phases, gates, and owned work items — then reviewed and confirmed by the person accountable for it.
Read straight from the live plan — every project carries a projected finish, and slip is flagged before it's a surprise — not assembled by hand the night before the review.
Most software serves one audience and orphans the rest. Polyforge is built on the tiered management structure your plant already runs, so information moves up and decisions move down without re-typing anything. Each tier gives up a chore; every tier above it gets the information without asking for it.
Tasks, handovers, and observations captured where the work happens — fast enough that people actually do it.
Time backThe end-of-shift write-up. Speak the handover in two minutes; the record writes itself.
Tier boards, escalations, and shift-to-shift continuity. The morning meeting runs from live data, not a hallway summary.
Time backAssembling the morning meeting. The board is already current when you walk in.
Cross-area visibility, programs and projects with real projected finishes, and recurring-problem tracking — without chasing fifteen spreadsheets.
Time backChasing status. Projected finishes come from the live plan, not a Friday email round-up.
What changed, what's stuck, and where the risk is — across every plant, in one view, with the full audit trail underneath. Not last week's summary, assembled the night before the review: the state of the operation as of this morning, and the exceptions flagged to you instead of buried in someone's inbox.
Time backWaiting for the deck. The risk finds you the day it appears — not in next week's report.
Nobody writes a status update. The status exists anyway.
From the floor to the VP — what needs attention today, what's blocked, what shipped — without a status meeting to find out.
The pharma-standard SQCDP board every plant works at shift start. Polyforge keeps the streak behind every cell: the trend, the incidents, the actions that turned a red day green.
Solid = live in the product today · Dashed = on the roadmap
Plant-floor software dies from data-entry friction. Polyforge puts AI to work across the whole day — capturing, recalling, reasoning, and increasingly acting — while a person owns every decision and every record. Each rung is only possible because the one below it captured clean, structured data.
A supervisor talks through the shift; the handover writes itself into structured sections — you watched it happen at the top of this page. Tier meetings capture the same way. A person confirms every word before anything is saved.
Search your plant's history by meaning, not keywords — the same problem described differently three months ago surfaces in seconds. Ask a question in plain English and get a plain-English answer, every claim cited back to your own records.
An answer braided from handovers, meetings, and work items — every claim cited to the record it came from. Nothing invented.
"Which projects are behind schedule?" is answered from the live plan — every project carries a projected finish derived from the actual work and its dependencies. Cross-module pattern and recurrence detection is in build.
Phase-gate timelines compute projected finish on the critical path — and flag it before the target date arrives, not after.
Agents assemble the tier board before the meeting, chase overdue actions up the escalation ladder, and draft the incident write-up — so your team spends its time deciding, not assembling. And because the plans, the people, and the history live in one structured system, this rung is where scenario planning becomes possible: what happens to the schedule if the changeover slips a week, if Suite B loses two operators, if the incoming material holds. Today that question costs a spreadsheet and a weekend. This is the layer we're building so it costs a sentence.
In the product today
AI drafts, routes, and chases. Humans confirm and decide. No model writes directly to your records, computes a compliance state, or touches the audit trail — even as it takes on more of the busywork. Every AI-drafted entry is flagged as such, permanently. In your industry, that's not a limitation — it's the requirement.
First your operations become recorded. Then searchable. Then queryable. Then the busywork starts running itself.
Every handover, meeting, plan, and decision becomes structured, attributed data the moment it happens — not a memory to reconstruct later. That corpus is what changes how a plant runs: the tier meeting starts from a board that built itself, the overdue action gets chased without a supervisor babysitting a spreadsheet, the weekly ops report arrives drafted, and the recurring failure gets named the third time — not the tenth.
That's the operating layer we're building toward, one rung at a time — and we'll always tell you plainly which rung is live, which is in build, and which is still direction. What never changes: a human owns every record and every consequential call.
Polyforge runs the daily management layer — the work that happens outside your validated systems. No 21 CFR Part 11 scope, no validation project, no six-month IT review before your first tier meeting runs on it.
Everything your team captures belongs to your organization — Polyforge is the custodian, never the owner. It lives encrypted (AES-256 at rest, TLS in transit) on SOC 2 Type II audited infrastructure, isolated per organization at the database row level. If you leave, your data leaves with you. We will never sell it, share it, or mine it for anyone else's benefit.
The AI is Anthropic's Claude, accessed under commercial API terms that prohibit training on customer data. Your records are never used to train a model — not ours, not Anthropic's. The AI reads them to draft and answer, then forgets; the learning stays with your team, where it belongs.
When AI processes a handover or meeting, the screen says so — and nothing persists until a person reviews and hits Submit. What isn't confirmed isn't stored. This site follows the same manners: no trackers, no ad pixels — the only data we collect here is what you type into the form.
Polyforge is being built shoulder-to-shoulder with a small group of design partners. Partners pay a nominal fee — skin in the game on both sides — and shape the product around how their plant actually works.
I'm Jared Broberg. I've spent my career in biotech manufacturing operations — inside the plants this software is for, sitting in the tier meetings, reading the handover binders, watching critical knowledge live and die in spreadsheets named FINAL_v7_USE_THIS_ONE.xlsx.
Polyforge exists because the tools offered to plant teams were built by people who'd never stood in one. Every feature here started as a real problem I watched a real team work around. I use the product every day, and design partners talk directly to the person writing the code.
No sales team. No implementation consultants. Just software that knows how a plant runs.
Tell us a little about your operation and we'll set up a 30-minute walkthrough — the live product, your questions, no deck.
Prefer email? Write to hello@polyforgehq.com — it goes straight to the founder.
Thanks — your note is in. Jared will follow up with you personally.