We're building Forum Atlas at single-FTE + AI-agent scale.

The conventional way to build an industry-intelligence platform is to hire forty analysts, pick a vertical, charge $50,000 a seat, and grow by adding more analysts as the corpus expands. Janes did it that way. Wood Mackenzie did it that way. Bloomberg Government, Forecast International, Govini, IQVIA — all of them did it that way. They produce excellent product. They have to charge what they charge because of how they produce it.

The agent-built answer is not to displace them at the human-analyst layer. It's to skip the human-analyst layer entirely. Forum Atlas runs as a continuously-ingesting corpus across twelve commercial sectors (defense, cyber, space, materials, tech, health, energy, finance, comms, infra, auto, ag) under a single founder, with a multi-agent ensemble producing per-persona briefs, Monte-Carlo forecasts, and a cross-sector entity graph. The marginal cost per customer-seat is the AI inference + storage + serving cost, not an analyst's time. The pricing reflects that.

Operating commitments

1. Public information only. No paywalled / proprietary data redistributed without license. Sources disclosed by URL on every claim.
2. Citation by default. Every brief, paragraph, analytical claim attributed to source. No anonymous synthesis.
3. Sector-native, not generic. Each sector speaks its industry's vocabulary.
4. Mid-market by design. Free → Enterprise. No $50K minimums.
5. US-based, US-hosted. Delaware C-corp. US-region cloud. Edge middleware blocks Tier-1-restricted jurisdictions.
6. Bootstrap by intent. No outside investors (until revenue justifies). Single FTE + AI agents.
7. Agent-built, not AI-bolted-on. Conversational interface, continuous synthesis, multi-agent ensembles.
8. Free-data-first ingestion. EDGAR + gov APIs + Wayback + GitHub + arXiv + OpenStreetMap + FOIA foundational.

The company

Forum Atlas is operated by Forum Atlas, Inc., a Delaware C-corp. Justin is the founder + CEO + sole employee. The build is intentional single-FTE for at least the first eighteen months — proving that AI agents can do the work historically done by analyst teams is the core thesis, and a real test requires not having analyst teams.