Circuit Forge LLC — Product Brief

Tagline: AI for the tasks you hate most.

Company: Circuit Forge LLC Status: Proof-of-concept (Peregrine) in active development. All other products deferred until Peregrine proves the model.

The Idea

There is a category of task that is:

High-stakes — getting it wrong has real consequences (denied claim, missed appointment, bad lease)
Opaque — the rules are unclear, the process is inconsistent, the UI is hostile
Time-consuming — hours of hold music, form-filling, or inbox-watching
Repeated — you'll face this again, and so will everyone you know

These tasks are not hard because they require intelligence. They are hard because they are designed — intentionally or by neglect — to exhaust the person trying to complete them. Bureaucratic friction as a feature.

The Circuit Forge model: AI handles the research, drafting, monitoring, and preparation. A human reviews and approves before anything is submitted or committed. For the hardest cases (CAPTCHAs, phone calls, wet signatures), an operator steps in under the Ultra tier.

Architecture

Every Circuit Forge product shares the same underlying scaffold:

Monitor / Discover → AI Assist → Human Approval → Execute → Track

Implemented as:

Pipeline engine — SQLite staging DB, status machine, background task runner
LLM router — fallback chain across local (Ollama/vLLM) and cloud (Anthropic/OpenAI-compat) backends
Wizard — 7-step first-run onboarding, tier-gated features, crash recovery
Integrations — pluggable connectors (calendar, storage, notifications)
Operator interface — thin admin UI for Ultra tier human-in-the-loop execution

Products are separate apps sharing a private circuitforge-core package (extracted when the second product begins). Each ships as a Docker Compose stack.

Product Suite

Product	Domain	Key pain	Status
Peregrine	Job search	Applications, cover letters, interview prep	Active development
Falcon	Government forms	Benefits, immigration, permits, FAFSA	Backlog
Osprey	Customer service	IVR queues, complaint letters, dispute tracking	Backlog
Kestrel	Gov't appointments	DMV, passport, USCIS slot monitoring	Backlog
Harrier	Insurance	Prior auth, claim disputes, appeals	Backlog
Merlin	Rentals	Listing monitor, applications, lease review	Backlog
Ibis	Healthcare	Referrals, waitlists, records, prior auth	Backlog
Tern	Travel	Flights, itineraries, visas, disruption	Backlog
Wren	Contractors	Quotes, scope of work, milestones, disputes	Backlog
Martin	Home / car	Maintenance, scheduling, warranties, recalls	Backlog

Tiers (across all products)

Tier	What you get
Free	Core pipeline, basic AI assist, local LLM only
Paid	Cloud LLM, integrations, email sync, full AI generation suite
Premium	Fine-tuned models, multi-user, advanced analytics
Ultra	Human-in-the-loop execution — operator handles what AI can't

Ultra Tier — Human-in-the-Loop

The hardest tasks can't be fully automated: CAPTCHAs, phone calls, wet signatures, in-person appearances. The Ultra tier provides a trained human operator who:

Receives a queued task with all AI-generated context (brief, filled form, talking points)
Executes the task (submits the form, makes the call, books the appointment)
Marks it complete with an audit trail

The user must explicitly approve each task before the operator acts. Pricing is per-task or bundled, not flat-rate — complexity varies too much.

Bootstrap strategy: Waitlist + small trusted operator team to validate the workflow manually before investing in operator tooling. The browser autofill extension (in development for Peregrine) becomes the operator's primary tool across all products.

Naming

All products are named after birds. The names were chosen for:

Peregrine — the peregrine falcon: fastest animal on earth, precise hunter
Falcon — strength, directness, cutting through bureaucracy
Osprey — patient, circles overhead, dives with precision when ready
Kestrel — hovers perfectly still before striking (waiting for the appointment slot)
Harrier — low, fast, persistent — the insurance fight you don't give up on
Merlin — small but fierce; also evokes the wizard (documents, magic)
Ibis — sacred to Thoth, Egyptian god of medicine and healing
Tern — Arctic tern: the world's greatest traveler, pole to pole every year
Wren — legendary nest-builder, meticulous and structural
Martin — house martin: nests on buildings, returns every year to maintain them

What to build next

Prove Peregrine: paying users, validated LTV, operator workflow tested
Extract circuitforge-core when starting the second product
Second product TBD based on Peregrine user feedback — likely Falcon (government forms) or Osprey (customer service) given overlap in skill set and user base

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