Forge Applied Science & TechnologyAI Implementation · Feasibility Studies

Founder’s Portfolio

Owned work — and what’s next.

The founder’s own inventions, engineering, and research, shown openly. Proof of range that sits apart from the firm’s client services. Owned work is named; proprietary methods are withheld; anything still in development is labeled as such.

Owned innovations

Shown openly

Independently validated log 4 to 6 pathogen reduction for the RLX MK1
Independently validated pathogen reduction — RLX MK1 (log 4–6).
Technology Readiness Level progression from 1 to 7, RLX MK1 at level 5
Concept to validation-ready prototype — TRL 1→7.
Rendered RLX MK1 UV-C reactor, hood closed, showing the brushed-metal lid and control interface with the F.A.S.T. mark
The RLX MK1, rendered — validation-ready UV-C reactor and control interface.
Rendered RLX MK1 enclosure, hood closed, showing the manufacturable housing with handle and latches
Engineered for manufacture — the sealed enclosure.
E. coli control agar plate covered in bacterial growth beside an RLX-treated plate that is clear
Kill test — E. coli control (full lawn) vs. RLX-treated (clear).
Six agar plates cultured from environmental swabs of everyday surfaces — toilet handle, office armrest, handwashing station, front door, cell phone, computer mouse — all showing heavy bacterial growth
Environmental sampling — swabs from everyday ‘clean’ surfaces (untreated), showing the baseline contamination the RLX is built to eliminate.
The Rushlight MK 3/4 Easy Bake — the first hand-fabricated UV-C prototype, sheet-metal enclosure with an exposure-level control panel, on a conference table
The first prototype — Rushlight MK 3/4 “Easy Bake,” ~May 2020. Enclosure, circuit, and controls all hand-built; the kill and environmental tests above were run on this unit.
First prototype · 2020

From lockdown to working hardware in weeks

Enclosure, circuitry, liners, panels, and brackets — all fabricated by hand. The MK 3/4 was the first working Rushlight, standing up in-house kill and environmental testing within weeks of the March 2020 shutdown. The timestamps, more than the sheet metal, are the point: proof of how fast Forge turns a problem into working hardware.

The Forge team standing with the validation-ready RLX MK1 sterilizer
The team behind the build, with the validation-ready RLX MK1.
A fleet of finished RLX MK1 sterilizer units staged for shipping with READY TO SHIP shelving behind
Pre-production units staged to ship — built in the U.S. within 16 months of lockdown.
Medical device

RLX MK1 Rapid Surface Sterilizer

Invented, engineered, and fabricated a validation-ready UV-C surface sterilizer (TRL 5) on a novel proprietary dosing model. In independent ISO 17025 laboratory testing — under deliberately simulated improper loading and a challenge inoculum set above the ISO requirement — it achieved >99.9994% (>5.20-log) reduction of sporulated Clostridioides difficile and >99.995% (>4.27-log) of Candida auris (recorded January 2022, ahead of the CDC’s urgent-threat classification). The mechanism remains proprietary.

Independently tested by Microchem Laboratory (ISO 17025) — Study NG19003, modified ASTM E1153, report author Brady Ryan, B.S.

Read the independent validation report (PDF) →

Systems engineering

Porsche 928 — systems simplification

Re-engineered the interior wiring architecture of the Porsche 928 — widely regarded as one of the most complex analog vehicles ever built, “the engineer’s car” — removing roughly 180 feet of harness with no loss of function, and making the system far easier to maintain and troubleshoot. The F.A.S.T. thesis in physical form: take out the waste, keep all the capability.

Intellectual property

Patents & filings

Named inventor on multiple U.S. and international patent filings in sterilization and disinfection systems, with a documented path from a 2020 provisional through PCT to a U.S. non-provisional application. USPTO filing acknowledgements available on request.

Manufacturing

Pre-production under pressure

Orchestrated U.S.-based manufacture of 22 pre-production units within 16 months of national lockdown, across operations spanning three states, with thousands of pages of technical-assembly and compliance documentation.

The 928 build, in pictures

Complexity removed, function intact

Porsche 928 raised on jack stands in the workshop during the wiring re-engineering project
The 928 — “the engineer’s car” — mid-rebuild.
Porsche 928 interior stripped to the floor pan, exposing the wiring during the rebuild
Interior out — tracing every circuit before simplifying it.
Porsche 928 interior wiring harness removed and laid out, showing roughly 180 feet of wiring reduced
Interior harness removed — ~180 ft of wiring eliminated, no loss of function.
Custom-rebuilt amplifier wiring loom in the Porsche 928
Rebuilt amplifier wiring — cleaner looms, full functionality retained.

In development

Emerging capabilities

Described by outcome only — methods withheld. Several are research-stage and not cleared products.

Research-stage demo — a patient-specific 3D vertebral model reconstructed from the founder’s own diagnostic imaging, with on-model angular measurement. Investigational; not a cleared medical device.
Flagship · research stage

Surgical planning & patient-specific modeling

A research-stage engineering capability that turns diagnostic imaging into patient-specific, 3D-printable anatomical models and models range-of-motion change to inform spine and orthopedic implant selection and custom design. The demonstration model is reconstructed from the founder’s own diagnostic imaging — the same work behind Unknown Distance, his forthcoming book. Investigational; not a cleared medical device.

In development

Forensic records & compliance auditing

An AI-assisted review layer that reads large record and document sets and surfaces discrepancies, omissions, and compliance gaps for human sign-off.

In development

Custom AI/ML decision models

Bespoke models that turn messy data into a defensible number — valuation and pricing thresholds, signal extraction from unstructured media, and predictive purchasing.

In development

Data instrumentation & metrics frameworks

Define what “good” looks like, instrument it, and act on leading indicators rather than lagging ones.

Research & writing

The work behind the work

Neuroimmunology

Research on cytokine signaling and aberrant patterns in neurodegenerative disease (MS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s-type dementia), including a two-part lecture series and review-paper drafting.

Unknown Distance

A doctor reclaims his life, and finds new purpose, after spinal cord injury · forthcoming

Braiding memoir, a patient playbook, and a clear-eyed critique of the system, it’s written to help patients become their own advocate when the outlook has radically changed. It’s the authority foundation beneath Forge’s health work: learning to read his own imaging became the patient-specific modeling capability, and reconstructing his own care from the records became the forensic records-and-compliance auditing tool. Evidence, not just experience.

Owned work is named freely; client work is anonymized elsewhere on this site; proprietary methods are never disclosed.

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