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Assess. Build. Operate.

PressForge sells three things to a print shop: a written technology assessment ($2,500, 10 business days), fixed-price implementation projects ($3,000 to $25,000), and monthly managed operation ($500 to $2,000 per month) with a one-page proof-of-value report every month.

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Assess

We inventory the network, MIS, workflow, backups and security, interview the people who hold the tribal knowledge, and deliver a written findings report with a prioritised modernisation roadmap. You keep the report whether or not you hire us for the next step.

$2,500 · 10 business days
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Build

Dashboard suites, storefront-to-MIS order intake, payment reconciliation, imposition and prepress tooling, cloud migrations, network and backup remediation. Every project is scoped to one measurable outcome and quoted as one number.

$3,000 to $25,000 per project · fixed price
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Operate

Hosting, monitoring, backups, dashboard upkeep and a support line, with a monthly report in dollars and incidents. Start on one workflow (usually Found Money or Chaser), not a platform.

$500 to $2,000 per month

Named products

Start on one workflow, not a platform.

Found Money

Accounts receivable audit

Found Money is a 10-business-day audit that tells a print shop owner which open invoices are really owed, which were already paid and never applied, and which are errors, by matching the MIS against 12 months of bank data.

$2,500 flat, or 20% of cash recovered · 10 business days from data access to written findings

Watchtower

Print-floor monitoring

Watchtower monitors the specific things that stop a print shop (stuck hot folders, dead storefront intake, backed-up RIP or DFE queues, failed backups) and alerts a named person before a customer or an operator finds out.

$300 to $600 per month · Installed in 2 business days

Vault

Print-shop disaster recovery

Vault is offsite backup for the systems a print shop cannot reopen without (the MIS database, the job file server, press and DFE configurations) with a restore that is actually tested, every quarter, in writing.

$1,500 setup, then $250 to $500 per month · Setup in 5 business days; restores tested quarterly

Chaser

Overdue-invoice follow-up

Chaser chases only the invoices that are genuinely owed: it drafts each follow-up with the invoice details attached, a person at the shop approves and sends it, and the monthly report counts dollars collected.

$500 setup (waived after Found Money), then $250 to $400 per month · Live within 5 business days of a Found Money audit

Operating safeguards

Written into every contract.

Five conditions are written into every PressForge contract: we never hold your passwords, nothing is touched without written access authorisation, a human at your shop approves every money- and customer-touching step, tax and compliance questions go to your accountant, and we carry errors-and-omissions and cyber insurance before the first managed contract.

  1. Never hold client passwords: named accounts and revocable keys only.
  2. Written access authorisation before the first login, listing every system and access level.
  3. A named human approves every customer-touching and money-touching step.
  4. Tax, legal and compliance questions are deferred to the client's accountant or counsel.
  5. Errors-and-omissions and cyber insurance in place before the first managed contract.

Who this is for

Best fit: commercial print shops of 5 to 50 people on PrintSmith, another EFI MIS or QuickBooks, with no internal IT, outside the Denver metro market. We do not take on shops that compete directly with our own.

Why automate at all: 79% of commercial printers report no or minimal automation, and 85% say it is essential to stay competitive (source 1).

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