# Forward

> Forward is an AI forward-deployed engineer that automatically installs your API into your customer's codebase and opens a pull request for them to merge.

Forward is an AI-powered integration agent built for SaaS vendors who ship APIs. It automates the entire customer onboarding integration flow — reading the customer's codebase, installing the vendor's product in the right place, running tests, and opening a pull request — so the customer only needs to merge. The product was live on Product Hunt at the time of writing, with early access available via a demo booking.

## What It Is

Forward positions itself as "a forward-deployed engineer, shipped with your product." It is an AI agent that SaaS API vendors embed into their distribution flow. When a customer runs a single CLI command (e.g., `yourco-install`) pointed at their repository, Forward reads their code, determines where the integration belongs, wires the SDK, tests it, and opens a pull request — all without the customer needing to read documentation or make architectural decisions.

## The Problem It Solves

The homepage identifies a specific drop-off pattern: most signups never finish integrating. Every manual step between "signed up" and "it works" — reading docs, understanding the data model, finding the right insertion point, wiring the SDK, debugging — is a place where potential customers abandon the process. Forward collapses all of those steps into a single command and a PR review.

## How It Works

The setup flow for vendors has three steps:
- **Connect your docs & API.** Forward generates the tool layer automatically from existing documentation and API definitions.
- **Teach it your patterns.** Vendors show Forward three integrations they consider exemplary; it learns the playbooks from those examples.
- **Ship your installer.** Customers then run the vendor-branded install command against their own repository.

The agent operates on a branch — never directly on `main` — and gates any output on a passing build and a real test, running inside an isolated sandbox. Nothing reaches the customer's codebase without a merge approval.

## Target Audience

Forward is aimed at SaaS vendors with developer-facing APIs across categories the homepage explicitly names: analytics, payments, auth, messaging, and observability. The value proposition is framed around day-one activation — ensuring every signup successfully completes integration rather than churning during the technical onboarding phase.

## Current Status

Forward launched on Product Hunt and is currently in an early-access phase. The team is offering demos where they will demonstrate a self-installing agent running against a real repository. Early access requires bringing existing documentation and three reference integrations.

## Features
- Automated API integration into customer codebases
- AI reads customer repo and installs product in the right place
- Opens a pull request for customer review and merge
- Runs on a branch — never directly on main
- Gated on passing build and real test
- Runs in an isolated sandbox
- Vendor-branded installer command (e.g., yourco-install)
- Learns vendor integration patterns from example integrations
- Generates tool layer automatically from docs and API
- No customer action required beyond running one command and merging PR

## Integrations
Any SaaS API (analytics, payments, auth, messaging, observability)

## Platforms
CLI, API

## Pricing
Freemium — Free tier available with paid upgrades

## Links
- Website: https://forward.codeongrass.com
- Documentation: https://forward.codeongrass.com
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/forward-codeongrass