Frequently Asked Questions

Forgement is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training and development platform. It follows a simple loop: you train at your academy, log your sessions, and reflect, then ForgeIQ turns that activity into personalized insights, daily challenges, recommended focus, and a Development Score, while mentors can verify your skills. Every skill and milestone builds a long-term Development Record. Forgement is fully focused on BJJ today, and the underlying model is designed to grow into other disciplines over time.

ForgeIQ is Forgement’s intelligence layer. Rather than a generic chatbot, it helps you think about your training: it reviews the practice, reflections, and verifications you log, then surfaces personalized insights, patterns in your development, recommended focus areas, daily mental challenges, weekly summaries, and a Development Score you can track over time. It also explains why your Development Score changed, so your progress stays transparent.

BJJ is a discipline with deep, structured progression, which makes it an ideal first implementation and a clear example of what every Forgement pathway can become. It demonstrates how guided development, mentorship, and verification work together, while we actively research and build additional disciplines.

Practitioner memberships are $4.99/month or $49.99/year, and every membership starts with a 30-day free trial with full access. A payment method is required to begin the trial. Cancel anytime during the 30 days and you won’t be charged; if you don’t cancel, your subscription begins after the trial. Mentor accounts are free.

No. Forgement pathways are development tools designed to provide structure and guidance. Completion of a Forgement pathway does not guarantee promotion, rank advancement, certification, or qualification. Advancement decisions remain solely at the discretion of an instructor, mentor, academy, organization, or governing body.

Forgement Pathways are structured development frameworks built around widely recognized BJJ skills, concepts, progression principles, research, practitioner feedback, and established training practices. They are designed as general development guides, not official promotion requirements or replacements for an academy’s curriculum.

Not yet. We are exploring ways for academies and experienced instructors to bring their own development frameworks into Forgement over time. This is not available today. If you would like to help shape it, reach out through the Collaborate page.

Forgement is designed from the beginning to support any discipline where mentorship and measurable development matter. Additional disciplines are already being researched and actively developed, with future areas potentially including other martial arts, fitness, executive protection, leadership, skilled trades, healthcare, military training, and professional certifications, among many others.

Yes. Rather than building every discipline internally, Forgement grows through collaboration. We welcome instructors, mentors, coaches, educators, business leaders, and subject matter experts who have a proven ability to develop people. We are interested in expertise, not industries. Visit the Collaborate page to learn more and reach out.

No. Forgement is designed to support coaches and instructors by giving them a structured way to track development. It does not replace real-world coaching, instruction, or evaluation. Your coach remains your primary source of technical instruction, and belt promotion is always their decision.

Mentor accounts are free. Mentors can review practitioner progress, verify skills, provide feedback, track development over time, and support multiple practitioners. Practitioners can connect with multiple mentors to receive guidance from different perspectives.

Forgement stores only the information needed to support user development, such as name, email, active pathways, skills trained, progress updates, journal entries, mentor verification, and completed pathways.

No. Forgement does not sell user data, run advertisements, or build advertising profiles.

No. Forgement is designed for real-world development. Users are encouraged to train, practice, and improve outside the app, then return periodically to update progress.

Forgement is built for BJJ practitioners tracking their own development, and for coaches and instructors who want to guide them with free Mentor accounts. We are also exploring deeper support for academies over time.