Forge AI
End-to-end advisory, engineering, and managed services to drive real business value in an AI-first world.
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AI that thrives on resilient, trusted foundations.
We don’t add to the noise. We start by finding your breakpoints — where decisions stall, data hides, and value quietly leaks. Then we work with you to prioritize, build, and scale what works.
The AI vendor landscape is noisier than ever. Separating signal from noise is consuming your team. When a path forward does emerge, it raises harder questions: who trusts the output, who’s accountable when it’s wrong, and how work gets redesigned around it.
That’s the “forge” in Forge AI. Real strength doesn’t happen despite pressure. It happens when you apply the right expertise at exactly the right point.
The clearest path from AI ambition to AI value starts here
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THE GAP BETWEEN AI AMBITION AND OUTCOMES
%
%
of organizations see actual revenue growth from AI
%
cite data quality as the #1 barrier to AI adoption
“Most AI projects don’t fail because of the technology. They falter because the data wasn’t ready, the infrastructure couldn’t scale, or security was an afterthought.”
Justin Rice, Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO)
We don’t lead with demos. We start with your breakpoints: where decisions stall, data hides, and value quietly leaks.
Most AI partners hand you a piece of the puzzle. CBTS Forge AI delivers the whole picture — advisory, engineering, and managed services that cut through the hype, remove the blockers to AI value, and deliver real business outcomes.
SOLUTIONS SUITE
AI Consulting
Link AI strategy to measurable business outcomes
AI Data Readiness
Build a trusted data foundation.
AI Infrastructure Readiness
Optimize compute, network, and storage for AI.
AI-Native Security
Embed governance, threat assessment, and compliance.
FIND YOUR PATH
Where are you on your AI journey?
AI Consulting
Turn competing ideas into a prioritized AI roadmap — backed by strategy workshops, readiness assessments, and hands-on POC execution that links every decision to a tangible business outcome.
AI Data Readiness
Transform your biggest AI liability into your most defensible asset — through data modernization, AI model data pipelines, and compliance and governance frameworks your models and your auditors can trust.
AI Infrastructure Readiness
Run production AI at full scale — on AI-ready infrastructure platforms and private, hybrid, or public cloud architectures engineered for the workloads your proof of concept never had to prove.
AI-Native Security
Harden your organization against AI-powered threats with security frameworks built for an AI-first world — so you can pursue AI offensively, not just defensively.
WHY CBTS?
We meet you where you are and stick with you at every stage — strengthening the foundation your business is built on.
Complete AI lifecycle partnership
CBTS supports the full AI journey — strategy, advisory, deployment, scaling, and 24×7 managed operations. We meet you where you are and stay with you at every stage.
Infrastructure mastery
Three decades of infrastructure, networking, security, and cloud expertise give CBTS a unique ability to build the foundations AI demands — and the credibility to back it.
Security by design
We integrate AI-specific security capabilities from day one — eliminating the primary concern that keeps most organizations from deeper AI adoption.
Battle-tested at enterprise scale
CBTS implements AI internally before scaling to customers — delivering tested methodologies and proven deployment experience, not theoretical frameworks.
A best-in-class partner ecosystem matched to your needs, not ours.
CLIENT STORIES
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A national field services organization managing operations across multiple business units and a growing acquisition portfolio.
Where they started
A growing services organization with operational data scattered across multiple disconnected systems. Leadership was discovering critical performance issues weeks after they happened. Ownership was demanding scalable, acquisition-ready data infrastructure that the business couldn’t yet produce.
The foundation we built together
Unified disparate systems into a single governed data platform — bronze, silver, and gold data zones with enterprise-grade governance built in. AI-ready architecture configured from day one, with curated datasets aligned directly to the KPIs leadership prioritized.
What they’re building now
Predictive maintenance, agentic analytics, and an acquisition onboarding pipeline — all running on a governed data foundation built for scale.
A highly regulated energy organization managing complex operational knowledge across a large, safety-critical facility.
Where they started
Decades of operational knowledge were trapped in handwritten records and unstructured meeting notes — completely unsearchable. Leadership had no visibility into how teams spent time or what issues were recurring across the organization.
The foundation we built together
A phased AI implementation starting with an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) proof of concept that digitized decades of records and validated successfully. Expanded into a multi-agent platform capturing meeting intelligence and automating condition reporting — each phase tied directly to an operational outcome.
What they’re building now
A full multi-agent AI environment with automated operational reporting, a governed data platform, and OCR moving from proof of concept into full production.
A financial services organization providing correspondent banking and compliance infrastructure to a large network of member institutions.
Where they started
A financial services organization with a highly specialized Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance challenge that off-the-shelf platforms couldn’t solve. Their business model required institution-level behavioral profiling, anomaly detection, and audit readiness — none of which existing tools were built to handle.
The foundation we built together
An enterprise-grade data and AI platform on Azure — compliance-first governance, role-based access controls, data masking by environment, and a full medallion data architecture ingesting production data from day one. Audit ready from first deployment.
What they’re building now
Expanding data ingestion across additional source systems, adding new compliance dashboards, and transitioning into a long-term evergreen managed services engagement.
A multi-facility post-acute care organization managing complex clinical, financial, and operational data across its network.
Where they started
Locked into a third-party dashboard vendor with no path forward. Clinical, financial, and operational data fragmented across systems. Dashboards surfaced historical information but made no recommendations and had zero predictive capability.
The foundation we built together
Built and demo-validated a purpose-built AI accelerator — unifying clinical, financial, and operational data into a unified patient view with ML-powered forecasting, and an agentic concierge answering natural-language operational queries in real time.
What they’re building now
A fully configurable, production-ready AI platform with multiple dashboards and live predictive optimization plus a clear expansion roadmap already in motion.
A growing academic institution whose aging network infrastructure had become a barrier to the modern, secure digital experience students and faculty expected.
Where they started
The institution’s 14-year-old network couldn’t keep pace with modern demands. Students were arriving with devices that struggled to connect securely, aging infrastructure was causing daily disruptions, and what should have been a seamless digital experience had become a daily frustration.
The foundation we built together
CBTS started by listening — a detailed site survey revealed complexity a simple refresh couldn’t solve. Two solution paths with full lifecycle analysis gave leadership confidence. Deployed during summer break, hands-on through Welcome Week.
What they’re building now
An AI-native network delivering the fastest campus speeds ever recorded. Juniper Marvis AI automates troubleshooting, learns campus rhythms, and proactively surfaces issues — a foundation built for whatever comes next.
AI MATURITY DIAGNOSTIC
Find out exactly where your organization stands on AI — in 3 minutes.
Whether you’re just getting started or already scaling, most organizations have blind spots. The CBTS Forge AI Maturity Diagnostic evaluates six critical pillars to give you an AI Value Maturity Score, pinpoints your biggest opportunities, and delivers a prioritized action roadmap so you know exactly where to focus first.
FAQs
The questions every executive is asking about AI – answered.
How do I know which AI investments will actually deliver ROI?
The organizations capturing the most value from AI aren’t the ones moving fastest — they’re the ones who prioritized ruthlessly before they spent. CBTS Forge AI starts every engagement by mapping your highest-impact use cases to measurable business outcomes, so every AI investment has a clear line to value before a single technology decision is made.
Why do most AI projects fail to reach production?
The most common culprits are foundational failures — misaligned stakeholders, unclear success criteria, data that wasn’t built for AI, and infrastructure that can’t handle production workloads. CBTS Forge AI is designed end-to-end to close exactly these gaps — so your AI initiatives don’t stall between strategy and execution.
How do I know if my organization is ready for AI?
Readiness isn’t binary — and most organizations are further along in some areas than others. The fastest way to find out where you stand is the CBTS Forge AI Maturity Diagnostic. In three minutes, you’ll get an AI Value Maturity Score across six critical pillars, your biggest opportunities, and a prioritized action roadmap tailored to your results.
How do AI-powered cyber threats differ from traditional ones?
AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape. Attacks are now hyper-personalized, automated at scale, and increasingly difficult to detect — phishing that mirrors your colleagues’ writing styles, deepfaked executive voices authorizing transactions, reconnaissance that moves faster than any security team can manually respond to. Organizations need security infrastructure built for this reality, not retrofitted against it.
How long does it take to see results from an AI engagement?
Most organizations see meaningful progress within the first 90 days. From there, the journey runs in three phases: building your data and governance foundation in months one through three, deploying production-ready AI infrastructure in months three through nine, and scaling use cases with compounding ROI beyond that. The organizations that move fastest start with a clear picture of where they stand — and a roadmap built from it.
Ready to move faster on AI?
Talk to a CBTS AI strategist — get a candid assessment of your biggest blockers and a concrete next step in 30 minutes.