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Built by someone in it.
Erin Brady built FORGED while in IOP at Legacy. The app exists because the founder needed it at 2am and the existing tools were a streak counter or a meditation bell.
Clinical aftercare · Built for 2am
The thing that picks up when no one else can. FORGED is an operating system for life after treatment — an iOS client that knows when your body is under load, a clinical dashboard that closes the gap between session and street, and a family portal that turns the people who love you into part of the structure.
In pilot with · Integrated with
The Recovery Triangle
The body needs structure. The clinician needs visibility. The family needs a way in. FORGED is the only system built so all three sides carry weight at once — and so the load is shared the moment one side starts to buckle.
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01For the individual
You don't have to remember to use it. The app reads your body and shifts itself. Steady week? It gets out of the way. Bad night? It shrinks down to one thing: breathe with me, stay here, you are safe.
HRV and sleep drive a RED / YELLOW / GREEN state machine. The app's tone, surface area, and prompts shift with you.
Six dimensions, thirty hand-built icons. Not a slider that rewards apathy — a choice that means something.
A clinically-aware companion that has read your last seventy-two hours of biometrics. Trained on the moment, not the marketing.
RED state locks the nav and opens the orb. 4 in, 7 hold, 8 out. The app works on you.
Good morning, Marcus.
Tuesday · Day 47
STEADY
HRV 58ms · 7h 12m sleep · Nervous system clear
BREATH OF THE DAY
4 · 7 · 8 — start when ready
CHECK-IN
Ready
FORGE AI
3 unread
The state machine
02For the family
The Family Portal is the part of recovery families have been improvising for a century. A shared language, a way to know how they're doing without interrogating them, and a script for the night you don't know what to say.
Your person controls what you see. When it's RED, you'll know. When it's not, you can let them have their day.
Plain-English prompts for the texts you've been redrafting in your head. Written by people who have made the mistakes.
Short, honest, specific. What enabling actually looks like. What boundaries actually sound like. No wellness gloss.
When something is off and your gut knows, send it. The clinician sees it inside KIPU, next to everything else they're tracking.
FAMILY PORTAL · MARCUS
Last check-in 2 hours ago. You don't have to do anything.
GREEN · DAY 47
Consented · Marcus shares state-level signal with you. Details remain private.
If you want to reach out
"Thinking about you. No need to reply."
"Got time for a coffee on Sunday?"
"47 days. I see it. I'm proud."
03For clinicians & facilities
Built with pilot partners at Legacy Healing (Parsippany, NJ) and Shorepoint (Wareham, MA). KIPU integrated. ASAM auto-doc. Crisis routing. The hours your team has been spending on paper now spent on the client.
Every aftercare client, one screen. Sort by RED. Sort by drift. Sort by who hasn't checked in in 36 hours.
ASAM PROGRESS_NOTE on every check-in. INCIDENT_REPORT on every Safety-4/5. Queued, never auto-published.
Engagement, state distribution, escalation cadence, cohort retention. The numbers behind your approval rates.
Tune thresholds and escalation rules to your facility's clinical model — not the other way around.
FORGED · Clinical
Legacy Healing · Aftercare caseload
CASELOAD
88
+6 wk
90-DAY RETENTION
72%
+14 vs facility avg
DOC TIME SAVED
19h/wk
ASAM auto-doc
CRISIS ROUTED
4
last 7d · all resolved
| State | Client | Day | HRV | Sleep | Last seen | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED | M. Reyes | 23 | 34ms ↓18% | 4h 02m | 22m ago | CRISIS ROUTED |
| YELLOW | J. Acosta | 61 | 41ms | 5h 48m | 1h ago | Outreach due |
| YELLOW | K. Lin | 14 | 39ms | 5h 12m | 3h ago | Sponsor pinged |
| GREEN | D. Bauer | 89 | 62ms | 7h 30m | 20m ago | — |
| GREEN | S. Okafor | 112 | 58ms | 7h 02m | 4h ago | — |
How it works
The body produces one piece of data. The system routes it three different ways — to the person who lives in it, the team that treats it, and the family that loves it.
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HRV, sleep, and the daily ASAM check-in produce a single state — RED, YELLOW, or GREEN — that the rest of the system rotates around.
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The phone surface bends to the state. GREEN gets out of the way. YELLOW softens. RED locks the nav and starts breathing.
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Clinicians see the shift in the dashboard. KIPU receives the note. Crisis routes the moment Safety crosses 4.
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With the client's consent, the people who love them know the weather inside — without needing to ask, interrogate, or guess.
Why Forged
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Erin Brady built FORGED while in IOP at Legacy. The app exists because the founder needed it at 2am and the existing tools were a streak counter or a meditation bell.
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No motivation required. The state machine is automatic. The breathing protocol is automatic. You do not have to remember.
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Underneath: HRV thresholds, ASAM scoring, KIPU posts. On top: a breathing orb. The machinery is invisible.
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A missed day is a data point. After a gap: "You're here now." Never "You missed 3 days." Shame is the disease, not the protocol.
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Individual, family, clinician. One state machine, three views. The first system designed for everyone in the room.
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Live at Legacy Healing and Shorepoint. KIPU integrated. Apple HealthKit native. Epic FHIR R4 on deck.
Impact
72%
90-day engagement across pilot cohorts
19h
Clinical documentation hours saved per week (per 50-client cohort)
4.3×
Faster crisis routing vs. legacy aftercare check-ins
88%
Of clients in pilot say "this is the first one I actually opened at 2am"
Pilot data · Legacy Healing + Shorepoint · Jan–Apr 2026 · n=88 aftercare clients · HIPAA-cleared, anonymized at reporting layer.
"I didn't have to decide to use it. It already knew. The phone was breathing before I was."
"It cut my UR documentation in half. The team now has time to do the work the documentation was supposed to describe."
A note from the founder
I didn’t build this because I read a paper about HRV.
I built it because I was sitting on the edge of my bed at 2am, eleven months sober, and the apps on my phone were either counting my streak or playing whale sounds. Neither of them knew anything about me. Neither of them was going to do a single thing.
So I built the thing that does.
FORGED is what I needed and couldn’t find. It works on you instead of the other way around. It picks up at 2am. It tells your clinician before you have to. It gives the people who love you a way in that doesn’t burn the relationship down.
This is the thing. I built it for me. You can have it too.
Erin Brady
Get started
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I'm in recovery, or about to be.
Join the iOS waitlist. Early access opens by facility cohort first, then to the public in Q3.
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I love someone in recovery.
Get the Family Portal guide — plain-English, no wellness gloss — and a heads-up when the consumer Portal opens.
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I run, or work in, a treatment program.
30-minute pilot conversation. We bring the KIPU walkthrough and a one-pager built for your UR team.