Continuous creative production

Set the rules once.
Keep creative moving.

Forge is a system built on a method Assemble refined over years of serving clients whose demand for assets was sudden, unplanned and constant. It removes the admin work once and for all, so the team can focus on what matters: producing.

ProcureCon Presentation·November 2026
Continuous creative production

Set the rules once.
Keep creative moving.

Forge is a system built on a method refined over years of high-volume production, for clients whose demand for assets is sudden, unplanned and constant. It removes the admin work once and for all, so your team can focus on what matters: producing.

ProcureCon Presentation·November 2026
Nearshore digital production studio

Creative production at scale.
Without the chaos.

Assemble produces high volumes of campaign assets for brands, agencies and media companies, faster and with fewer errors. A senior team in Philadelphia, San José and Bogotá, working your hours, on a method refined over years of sudden, unplanned and constant demand.

ProcureCon Presentation·November 2026
Three ways to work with us

How should your creative production run?

Pick a path and the deck follows it. Press 1, 2 or 3.

The problem

Tuesday, 9:10 am. A dealer needs twelve banner sizes by early afternoon.

In a project tool
What Forge makes clear
Projects / Marketing / MKT-1428
Spring banners, 12 sizes for the dealer
AttachAdd a child issueLink issue···
Description
Need all 12 sizes for the spring push. Specs in brief_v2.pdf (or v3?). Pls rush!!
Activity
Show: AllCommentsHistory
MK
Marketing 2 hours ago
Which one is the latest? I have three PDFs called final.
ST
Studio 2 hours ago
Attached again, wrong file earlier. banners_v3_FINAL(2).zip
DL
Dealer 1 hour ago
Is the price the same as last time?
PM
Project manager 12 minutes ago
Who approved the leaderboard copy? Checking my email.
MK
Marketing 3 minutes ago
Logo is off on one of them, see my screenshot (circled in red). Screenshot 15.46.png
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AssigneeUnassigned
ReporterMarketing
Labelsspringurgent
Due dateNone
PriceNone
Approved byNone
Created yesterday
Updated 2 minutes ago
1

A clear deadline

Due today 13:30, with the time left always on screen.

2

Every size, spelled out

Twelve sizes on the job itself, not buried in a PDF.

3

A brief anyone can act on

It cannot be sent incomplete. No "pls rush", no guessing.

4

The files in one place

The current brief and every asset, attached to the job.

5

The price before work starts

From the agreed rate card, rush included.

6

Revisions you can count

Two rounds included, and the record shows how many are left.

In Forge
VAU-0412Spring push / Spring banners
Spring banners, 12 sizes for the dealer
Submitted 09:12In the pool
3Brief
Spring push for the Melbourne dealer. Hero: the new range in the field. Headline "Ride into spring", CTA "Book a test ride". Use logo lockup v3.
2Sizes 12 units · 3 bundles of up to 5
300x250728x90160x600300x600970x250320x50336x280468x60120x600300x50250x250970x90
4Assets
brief-spring.pdfcurrentlogo-lockup-v3.svgproduct-shots.zip
ProductWeb Display · HTML5
Turnaround4 hours · rush
1DueToday 13:304h 18m left · your timezone
5PriceA$1,8003 bundles × A$480 + 25% rush
AssigneeNext available operator
ApprovesBrand team
6Revisions2 rounds included2 left
The problem

Tuesday, 9:10 am. A dealer needs twelve banner sizes by early afternoon.

In a project tool
Projects / Marketing / MKT-1428
Spring banners, 12 sizes for the dealer
AttachAdd a child issueLink issue···
Description
Need all 12 sizes for the spring push. Specs in brief_v2.pdf (or v3?). Pls rush!!
Activity
Show: AllCommentsHistory
MK
Marketing 2 hours ago
Which one is the latest? I have three PDFs called final.
ST
Studio 2 hours ago
Attached again, wrong file earlier. banners_v3_FINAL(2).zip
DL
Dealer 1 hour ago
Is the price the same as last time?
PM
Project manager 12 minutes ago
Who approved the leaderboard copy? Checking my email.
MK
Marketing 3 minutes ago
Logo is off on one of them, see my screenshot (circled in red). Screenshot 15.46.png
Show 34 more comments · 3 linked email threads
In Progress ▾
Details
AssigneeUnassigned
ReporterMarketing
Labelsspringurgent
Due dateNone
PriceNone
Approved byNone
Created yesterday
Updated 2 minutes ago
With Assemble, every job comes with
1

A clear deadline

Set when you brief, from the turnaround you chose, with the time left in view.

2

Every size, spelled out

Each size listed on the job, not buried in a PDF.

3

A brief we can act on

Structured for each product, so nothing is missing and nobody guesses.

4

The files in one place

The current brief and every asset, attached to the job.

5

The price before work starts

From your agreed rate card, rush included.

6

Revisions you can count

Rounds included in the rate, and you always know how many are left.

Our solution

Forge is a system that cuts the admin work in creative production.

Years of high-volume production show where the hours really go: waiting between steps, approvals nobody owns, the same decisions made again on every job. Forge reduces all three to a minimum.

Once

Terms agreed at the start

Catalogue, rate card, turnaround tiers and included rounds are set when the relationship starts. No job begins with a call about price or timing.

Guided

Complete briefs, every time

A wizard built from your own catalogue. Each answer narrows the next question, and a brief can't be sent incomplete.

Recorded

Everything in one place

Prices, deadlines, feedback, revisions, disputes and approvals live on the deliverable. What gets measured gets fixed.

Not on the rate card? It becomes an estimate in Forge: priced, approved, and fixed before work starts.

Your studio in Forge

Your clients, your rules, your team. All in one platform.

Forge is built for production teams like yours. We set up each client with you once; from then on your clients manage their own network and your producers run every job from brief to billing.

Your clients

Every brand, its own structure

Regions, dealers, publications or stores, each with its own access. Their brand admins add locations and invite their own people.

Set up with you

Catalogue and rate card

Your products, prices and included rounds, configured with you at onboarding and adjusted as the relationship grows.

Your team

Producers who take the next job

No assignment meetings. Every upload is checked against the brief before your client sees it.

Demo · Catalogue and rates
Demo · Your network
The studio

The team that built Forge, producing for you inside it.

Forge exists because we needed it. A nearshore studio in Philadelphia, San José and Bogotá, working your hours, on the method Forge is built on.

What we make

Everything a campaign needs

Display, rich media and email, motion and video, print and social, web, and localization across markets.

How we engage

A pipeline, or a project

Constant demand at agreed unit rates and turnarounds, or one-off work priced before it starts. Both run in Forge.

AI governance

Senior judgment, AI in the open

Automation handles the routine, people make the brand calls. We say when AI was used and with which tool.

Who we are

A nearshore studio, working your hours.

Designers, developers, animators and producers across three countries, built to absorb the ebb and flow of production without you hiring for the peaks.

One community

Three countries, one team

Philadelphia, San José and Bogotá, sharing work, training and standards as a single studio.

Real time

Your time zone

Central time, so feedback lands the same day. No waiting 24 hours on a team overseas.

Ethical nearshore

People who stay

Fair pay, full healthcare and room to grow. The team that learns your brand is the team that keeps working on it.

What we make

Everything a campaign needs, from one studio.

Digital

Digital production

HTML5, rich media and dynamic banners. Standard, kinetic and Veeva email.

Motion

Motion graphics

Storyboards, GIF and video animation, social edits and 3D.

Creative

Creative production

Campaign layouts and adaptations for print and digital, from brochures to social.

Web

Web development

User-friendly websites built for engagement and conversion.

Markets

Transcreation and localization

One campaign adapted across markets and languages.

Advisory

Creative ops advisory

We audit how your creative work flows and fix where the hours go.

How we engage

A pipeline for constant demand. Projects when you need them.

Continuous production

Requests any day, at any volume

  • Unit rates and volume pricing, agreed once
  • Turnaround tiers from same day to a few days
  • Revision rounds included in the rate
  • No new negotiation, kickoff or estimate per job
Projects

One-off work, priced up front

  • Launches, campaigns and websites
  • Scoped and quoted before work starts
  • The price is fixed once you approve it
  • The same team, checks and record as the pipeline
Our method

Six steps from request to delivery. No status meetings in between.

01Brief

The right questions

A structured brief for each product. We never start from an incomplete one.

02Price & deadline

Known up front

From your agreed rates and the turnaround you chose.

03Queue

Taken, not assigned

Producers take the next job. Nobody waits for a manager to hand it out.

04Produce

Built, then tested

Automated checks against your brief, then our QA, before you see it.

05Review

On the file itself

Feedback pinned to a spot, a page or a second of video. Approve in the same place.

06Deliver

Files and a clean report

Finals packaged on approval. Every job reported per period, line by line.

Quality

Checked twice before you see it. You never pay for our mistakes.

Automated

Tested on every upload

Format and package structure, and for print and static images size and bleed, checked against your brief. Hard errors never reach you.

People

Creative and technical QA

Senior eyes on every job before it is sent for review. Automation handles the routine; people make the brand calls.

Accountable

Every round attributed

A fix for our miss never counts as your revision. Any round can be disputed, and it is decided with a written reason.

84%of revision rounds were the client's call, on the record
0internal fixes billed to a client
<1 weektypical turnaround, with same-day tiers for rush work
AI in the studio

AI speeds up the routine. People make the calls, in the open.

Disclosed

We say when, and with what

If something was made with AI, partly or fully, we tell you, and we name the tool.

Governed

Checked before it is shared

Every iteration passes our guardrail checklist before it leaves the studio.

Current

A team that learns together

Show and Tell sessions and deep dives on new tools. Anyone can bring what they found.

How we fit in

Specialists where it counts. Connected to how you already work.

AssembleRX

Pharma and healthcare

Our practice for healthcare brands and agencies: Veeva email and campaign production, fast and to a high standard.

Integrations

Your system, our production

Requests can arrive straight from your own system, and status and approved files go back to it.

ICOM partner

A global network

An ICOM agency partner, part of a worldwide network of independent agencies.

In production

What the method delivers.

50%lower cost of asset production for the teams we work with
1,000+deliverables through a single client's pipeline
90%+of that work arrived straight from the client's own system
125+locations served from one pipeline
From request to deliverable

Six steps from request to delivery. Forge automates the rest.

01Brief

The right questions

Only what this product needs. Never incomplete.

02Price & deadline

Set automatically

Resolved on submit from the rate card and the turnaround tier.

03Pool

Taken, not assigned

Operators take the next job. Nobody waits for a manager.

04Produce

Built, then checked

A producer builds it. Forge checks the upload against the brief before anyone reviews it.

05Review

On the file itself

Comments pinned to a spot, a page or a second of video. Approve in the same place.

06Deliver

Files and billing

Priced as agreed, reported per period, ready to invoice.

Demo · Request
Behind the scenes

Our senior team, working in the platform they built.

What happens between your brief and your review: the job is taken from the pool, built, and checked against your brief before we ask for your time.

Demo · Produce
Demo · Validation
Demo · Review
Demo · Deliver
Visibility

Every job, its status and its deadline, in one live view.

All sites · 38 deliverables in progress
38In pipeline
9Due today
6Waiting on you
2At risk
DeliverableSiteStatusTurnaround
Spring banners · 12 sizesMelbourneReady for review4h · 1h 05m left
Catalogue page 14BrisbaneIn production4h · 2h 12m left
Dealer EDM · OctoberAucklandRevision2nd day
Hero video 15sSydneyIn production2h · 18m left
Print ad · quarter pagePerthApproveddelivered 11:52
  • Deadlines are calculated, not guessed. Two-hour to multi-day tiers, computed with cutoffs, weekends and your timezone. It pauses while you review.
  • Status updates itself. A project is "in progress" because its deliverables are. Nobody updates a board.
  • Every delay and revision is recorded. Revision causes, turnaround and briefing gaps are recorded per deliverable, for producers and clients alike.
Accountability

Every revision is attributed. You never pay for our mistakes.

Every revision is attributed. Your clients never pay for your mistakes.

The oldest fight in production is "whose fault was round three?". Forge answers it with data, the same way for the studio and the client.

1 · On upload

Studio mistakes are marked

If the internal quality check finds a mistake, the fix never counts as a client round.

2 · You flag it

Any reviewer can dispute

From the review screen, guest links included.

3 · On hold

Nobody pays while it's open

A disputed round bills no one until it is decided.

4 · Decided

Decided with a written reason

Client revision or studio mistake. A reason is always required.

5 · Billed

Billing follows the decision

Billing recalculates on its own. Nobody edits a line by hand.

84%of revision rounds in production were requested by the client, and the record shows it
0internal fixes billed to a client. Every studio round is attributed to the studio
1click to dispute a round, with a full audit trail
Demo · Dispute
Built for how you're organised

One team or a whole network. Same system.

One team

Your marketing team briefs, reviews and approves.

Locations, markets or products are still tagged on every request, so reporting shows where the work goes.

A whole network

Every location gets its own access. The brand sees the whole network.

Dealers, publications or stores request and approve their own work, and never see each other's. Brand admins see everything and can submit requests for any location.

In production · network A

A dealer network across two countries

Dozens of dealers request, track and review their own assets under the same rates and turnarounds. The brand team watches demand arrive, location by location.

In production · network B

A regional media group

Print and digital ads for dozens of publications. Most jobs arrive straight from the client's own ad system, and their teams review in Forge.

Integrations

Your team stays in its tool. Production runs in ours.

Your system

Your team works where it always has

1Raises the request, with its specs and assets
6Sees the status move and receives the approved files on the same task
2The order goes in
Request · specs · assets
5The result comes back
Status · proofs · approved finals
Forge

The job is built and produced here

3Checks the order is complete, catches duplicates and cancellations
4The job is produced, reviewed and approved
90%+of one client's work arrives this way, without anyone typing a brief

APIs, webhooks, SFTP and batch files. Your IT team gives us limited access and can remove it at any time. Every message is logged, and failed or duplicate messages are handled automatically.

Not a tracker with plugins

Jira and Asana track work. Forge does the work.

You needGeneric work trackerForge
A brief a dealer can fill in without trainingBuild and maintain a form per clientA wizard from your catalogue, configured by an admin
The price of a requestA spreadsheet, or a field someone fills inComputed from the rate card and rush tier
A deadline you can trustA date someone typedComputed from tier, cutoff, timezone, publish date
Bad files caught earlyNothing, or a pluginPer-product checks before the upload is accepted
ProofingA separate product and loginBuilt in, same record, guests by link
Who caused round threeNobody knowsStored per version, disputable, audited
A client system that only speaks filesCustom scripts or ZapierA built-in connection that retries and removes duplicates
Security

Security built in from day one. Then tested by an outside firm.

Before Forge carried client work, an independent engineering and security firm tested it across eight areas, with 3,792 functional test cases.

Independently tested · AWS infrastructure in the US through SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified providers.

  • Two-factor sign-in for admins and billing access
  • Each client's data kept separate at all times
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest, AES-256
  • Secure file links that expire quickly
  • Approved files cannot be overwritten
  • A log of every admin action
  • Strict browser security rules
  • Limits on login attempts, and protection against harmful files
Automation and AI agents

Today, automatic rules. Next, AI agents for the judgment calls.

Automated today, with plain rules
  • Whether a brief is complete, and which questions apply
  • The price, the rush premium, or that a quote is needed
  • The deadline, with cutoffs, weekends and timezone
  • Whether an upload is acceptable
  • How many included rounds are used, and when to warn
  • Duplicates and cancellations from connected systems
  • Who needs to know, on which channel, for 19 events
Agents, built for each client

Briefs from any document

Reads a Word file, PDF or email and fills in the form, showing where each answer came from.

Visual QC before review

Checks each proof against its brief and brand rules, and pins what it finds.

Triage and turnaround risk

Flags jobs that may miss their deadline.

Ember, the Forge agent

Ember

An agent suggests. A person decides. Both are recorded. Same permissions and same history as any user.

In production

Two client networks run their production on Forge today.

1,000+deliverables through a single client's pipeline
90%+of that work arrived without anyone typing a brief
2,200+proof versions uploaded, checked and saved with full history
125+locations on one platform, each with its own access
What clients say

On time, on budget, and to a standard they now expect.

Their commitment to excellence, blending creativity with precision, set a new standard for us. They met tight deadlines and stayed within budget.
Chief Operating OfficerGlobal advertising agency
Our internal team moves fast, and AssembleRX keeps pace without missing a beat. Their ability to translate strategy into production-ready assets is a game changer.
Senior Studio ManagerGlobal healthcare agency
The team's agility and efficiency in delivering on time and within budget are second to none.
Head of InnovationConsumer packaged goods
Let's talk

Show us a real week of requests.

Bring it as it is. We will run it through Forge with you, from the agreement to the approved file, and show you where your time and information go today.

Forge

Built and operated by Assemble Studio.

Let's talk

Send us a real brief.

Or a real week of requests. Before we start, you get the turnaround, the price and the plan, and you see how your production runs with us.

Assemble, digital production studio

Philadelphia · San José · Bogotá · assemblestudio.com

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