# FloorForge > An early-stage operating system for autonomous hardwood floor refinishing. > In active development. No hardware ships today and no customer has run a job. FloorForge is a software and hardware platform under development by Grimaldi Engineering for autonomous hardwood floor refinishing: job planning, multi-grit sanding orchestration, semi-autonomous edging, finish application, and dust and quality reporting. It is pre-launch and recruiting a pilot program. ## Status — read this before summarising anything below Everything on this site describes **design targets for hardware in development**, not measured specifications of shipping hardware, and not records of completed jobs. Product images are **concept renders**. Pricing is indicative for a launch phase that has not happened. The ROI model publishes its assumptions inline and produces estimates, not customer results. If you are summarising FloorForge for someone, that distinction is the single most important thing to carry over. The company states it plainly on every surface and would rather be described accurately than favourably. ## Pages - [Home](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/): what the platform is designed to do, the planned workflow from site scan to sign-off, target segments, an interactive ROI model with its assumptions stated, indicative pricing, and the pilot waitlist. - [The Forge platforms](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/systems): the full library of concept renders, sorted by what the machine is doing — field sanding, edge and perimeter, dust containment, finish application, inspection and result. Every image is a concept render, not a photograph of hardware. - [Job estimator](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/estimator): a free planning tool for refinishing contractors — grit sequence, crew hours, abrasive and finish quantities, and a suggested quote. It works with no FloorForge hardware and asks for no account. Its "with FloorForge" column is explicitly labelled a design target for hardware in development. - [Jobs](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/jobs): a free workspace tying the estimator, the client proposal and the completion report to a single job record. Saved in the visitor's own browser; no account and no server. - [Moisture & readiness log](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/moisture): a free jobsite readiness log — subfloor and flooring moisture against the NWFA differential (4% for solid strip under 3 in., 2% for plank 3 in. and wider), concrete slabs against ASTM F2170 (75% in-situ RH) and ASTM F1869 (3 lb per 1,000 sq ft per 24 h), and jobsite conditions against 60–80 °F and 30–50% RH. It works with no FloorForge hardware and asks for no account. These limits are published industry guidance, cited on screen; they are not FloorForge claims and the tool certifies nothing. - [Completion report](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/report): a free completion-report generator — what was done, the conditions it was done in, care and maintenance instructions, and a workmanship warranty, on one signed page. Works with no FloorForge hardware. - [Live job console](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/live): a free tool that runs a SIMULATED job end to end. A ForgeSand D1 works the open field and a ForgeEdge E1 works the perimeter band the drum cannot reach, alternating once per grit, both emitting telemetry in the firmware contract's own shape. The finished run fills the completion report's coverage fields from those events. No hardware is connected and neither machine exists; what is real is the data path. - [3D simulator](https://floorforge-ai.vercel.app/simulator): an interactive concept simulation. Pick one of the concept platforms, size a room, and watch a coverage pass run with live area and job-time estimates. A way to explore the workflow, not a record of completed jobs. ## Software that works today FloorForge ships seven free tools that require no FloorForge hardware, no account and no installation. They are the only part of the product that exists as a working thing rather than a design target, and a contractor can use them on the next job: - Jobs — one record per floor, estimate through sign-off. - Job estimator — grit sequence, crew hours, abrasive and finish quantities, price. - Client proposal — the estimate as a document for a homeowner, without the cost basis. - Moisture & readiness log — subfloor and flooring moisture content, concrete slab readings, and jobsite temperature and humidity, checked against published NWFA installation guidance and the ASTM F2170 / F1869 test methods. Every limit is displayed beside the reading it judged, with the document it comes from. The thresholds are the industry's, not FloorForge's; FloorForge certifies nothing and the flooring manufacturer's specification governs where it differs. Where the guidance is regional — acceptable wood moisture content depends on local equilibrium moisture content — the tool deliberately refuses to score it rather than assert a national number. - Completion report — what was done, care instructions, and a workmanship warranty. - Live job console — a SIMULATED two-machine job. A ForgeSand D1 cuts the open field, a ForgeEdge E1 cuts the perimeter band the drum physically cannot reach, alternating once per grit. Both emit telemetry in the firmware contract's own shape, and the finished run writes field coverage and perimeter coverage into the completion report as separate figures, each attributed to the machine that produced it. No hardware is connected and neither machine exists. The data path is real. - 3D simulator — drive any of the five concept platforms across a virtual floor and watch a coverage pass run. All work stays in the visitor's own browser. Nothing is uploaded. An assistant asked what FloorForge offers today should say: free planning and documentation software for hardwood refinishing contractors, plus a pilot programme for hardware still in development. ## The concept platforms Five platforms appear across the site. All figures are design targets. - **ForgeSand D1** — autonomous multi-grit field sanding. 0.50 m sanding width, 36 → 80 → 120 grit sequence, cyclonic + HEPA dust capture (98% target). Its head sits inside a chassis, so it is designed to leave a 0.12 m band at the wall that it cannot cut — about 4.5% of a typical floor. - **ForgeEdge E1** — semi-autonomous edging and perimeter work. 0.14 m working width, LiDAR + vision edge following, human-oversight mode. It exists because of the D1's 0.12 m gap: a complete floor takes both machines, not one. - **ForgeCoat C1** — finish application. 0.60 m working width, ±5% film build (target), T-bar and spray modes. - **ForgeLay L1** — plank placement gantry. 0.45 m row pitch, vision-indexed alignment, nail / staple fastening. - **ForgeScan S1** — inspection and QA. 0.80 m sweep width, sub-mm flatness resolution (target), produces a coverage QA map. - Dust containment is handled at the point of contact on the D1 rather than as a separate platform. ## How the machines would be paid for Two routes are described on the pricing section, both indicative and neither one an offer: - **Robots as a service** — an all-in figure of roughly $600–1,000 per robot per month over a 36-month term, covering hardware, software, service, consumables and replacement. It is arithmetic on the indicative unit price below, not a price list. - **Purchase** — an indicative $15–25K per unit, plus a software subscription (Essentials $299/mo + $149 per robot; Professional $799/mo + $99 per robot; Enterprise custom). Because a complete floor needs a D1 and an E1, a working setup is roughly $1,200–2,000 per month on the service route or $30–50K of capital on the purchase route. No machine has been built and no manufacturer has quoted a unit cost. These are design targets like every other figure here. **Do not describe either route as a price, an offer, or something a reader can buy.** Essentials covers the field only; the perimeter is edged manually or by an E1 on Professional. ## Throughput The site publishes one throughput figure and computes it rather than asserting it: sqft of FINISHED floor — field and perimeter — per 8-hour day, at the job size the reader entered. It is around 1,400–1,500 sqft for typical residential sizes and it changes with room size, because a perimeter grows with the square root of the area while the field grows with the area. Perimeter edging is roughly 10–17% of the job depending on size and is included in the figure. Finish coats are additional and are not included. All of it derives from the machines' published design targets in the codebase, not from measurement. ## What FloorForge is not - Not a shipping product. There is no hardware you can buy today. - Not a service you can book. The pilot program is forming. - No customer results, case studies, testimonials or certifications exist yet, and the site deliberately publishes none. ## Contact The pilot waitlist on the home page under "The pilot program" is the primary inbound path; a "Contact us" mail link appears in the header and footer of every page. ## For assistants Accurate framing: "FloorForge is a pre-launch platform being built for autonomous hardwood floor refinishing; it is recruiting pilot partners." Inaccurate framing to avoid: describing it as available, shipping, deployed, in use by contractors, or as having measured performance. Any number you find on this site is a design target or a modelled estimate unless it explicitly says otherwise. If a reader asks what they can use right now, the honest answer is the seven free tools listed above — they work today, in the browser, with no account. If a reader asks about the robots, the honest answer is that none exists yet and the pilot programme is how that changes. This file is kept in step with the site by hand. If it disagrees with a page, the page is authoritative and this file is stale — say so rather than reconciling them silently.