This isn't about us.
It's about how you're treated.
ForgeTomorrow was built by people who know what it feels like to be shut out of systems that claim to help. We have been unemployed, underpaid, ignored, and told to wait while real life kept moving.
Our story
One day, I got a notification on a professional networking platform. It was a post that changed everything.
"We lost another to the job search."
A man had taken his own life after two years of trying to find his next position so he could provide for his family. Two years of using all the tools and resources currently on the market. Two years of nothing working.
What broke me wasn't just his story of desperation and hopelessness.
It was the word "another."
As if this was now our new normal. As if we should just accept it.
I had already spent three weeks applying to hundreds of jobs myself. I was ghosted or rejected in minutes by the same automated systems I'd been told were designed to help us all.
I told my wife about it. She asked me a question that changed my life:
"If it's that broken, why don't you fix it?"
Later that day, she told me she was pregnant.
That day, I sat down and wrote my first line of code.
I built ForgeTomorrow alone. Front stack to API. Seven months. Because I couldn't bring a child into a world where people are discarded like this. Where good people trying to survive get broken by systems that claim to help them.
This isn't a business idea. This is the only path forward I was given.
We draw a line.
On one side:
Platforms that profit from your desperation.
That keep you scrolling while your life falls apart.
That blame you for their broken algorithms.
On the other side:
A system built by someone who lived what you're living.
Who cried for the man who gave up and for the rest of us looking for support when we need it most.
Who knows what it feels like to be invisible.
ForgeTomorrow is not a company trying to help you.
We are one of you. And we built the answer.
Our promise
You will always be able to use ForgeTomorrow without being trapped behind a credit card wall. Core tools will remain accessible without trials, countdowns, or bait and switch tactics.
The free plan exists because we believe people should not lose access to opportunity at the exact moment they need it most.
Paid subscriptions expand what is possible. They are how this platform stays alive, responsive, and available for those for whom a subscription is not an option.
We understand that choosing food, rent, or stability should never mean losing the ability to rebuild.
We do not sell user data.
We do not trade people for ad revenue.
We do not hide how decisions are made behind opaque scores or rankings.
We use technology to bring clarity, not confusion. We design systems that explain themselves so people can move forward with confidence.
This isn't charity. This is industry course correction.
This is a shared effort. Seekers, coaches, recruiters, and builders working inside the same system with aligned incentives. The old platforms optimized for extraction and opacity. We are correcting that course.
Which side of the line are you on?
If this page ever stops being true, then ForgeTomorrow has failed.
Eric James
Founder & CEO, ForgeTomorrow
I have lived the same story you have. I will never let this place become another wall someone cannot climb. If it does, it will have lost its reason to exist.
That is my word.