— The Open Innovation OS
Pilot the hottest
startups in 90 days.
No procurement. No RFPs. Just outcomes.
NextForge is the Open Innovation OS where corporations discover, pilot, and scale top startups — curated by industry, setup time, and LLM-privacy tier. Most deals start on a credit card. All deals start with proof.
Backed by Powertrain Ventures · 20+ curated Latam startups · SOC 2 Type II · Trusted by leading corporations
— The Problem We Solve
Innovation dies in procurement.
Your marketing lead found a startup that could 3x campaign ROI. Your CFO wants to test an AI tool that automates reconciliation. Your operations director needs a logistics platform that understands Latam routes.
All three got the same answer: “Submit it to procurement. We’ll evaluate in Q3.”
That’s the gap NextForge closes — a curated, pre-cleared list of startups your department heads can pilot in 90 days, without committees or RFPs.
The Old Way
- 12-month RFP cycle
- 4 stakeholders, 200-page vendor docs
- 1 vendor evaluated per quarter
- 40+ promising startups never considered
The NextForge Way
- 90-day pilot, 1 champion, credit card
- 3–5 curated startups, all pre-vetted
- Under $5K — bypasses procurement thresholds
- Results by Day 30, convert or walk at Day 90
— How It Works
Four steps. Ninety days. Real results.
Tell us your pain point.
Describe what you’re trying to fix, who it affects, and the data sensitivity involved. Our AI matches your context to the right shortlist — no vendor demos, no LinkedIn scraping.
Pick from the curated shortlist.
Three to five startups, ranked by fit. Compare by industry, setup time, LLM-privacy tier, time-zone, and pilot pricing. All under one Master Pilot Agreement.
Pilot in a Sovereign Sandbox.
Isolated environment, your data stays yours. Pre-cleared compliance. 30/60/90-day scorecards auto-generated. IT gets the audit trail; your team gets the results.
Scale what works.
Pilot-to-annual conversion is one click. Lock in pilot pricing for year one. Walk away from what didn’t work — no penalties, no awkward calls.
— The Forge Drop
This quarter's curated batch.
AI lead-qualification for B2B sales teams. Triages inbound in real time.
Brand-asset workflow for distributed marketing teams. Cuts approval cycles by 60%.
Personalized email orchestration. Stripe-style developer UX for marketers.
Sample startups from our current Drop · View the full current Drop →
— Built for Every Department
Innovation isn't just an IT problem.
Most innovation platforms are built for CIOs. We’re built for the department heads who actually feel the pain — and have the budget to fix it.
CMO
For CMOs
Pilot martech, personalization, and creative AI tools from the startups your competitors haven't found yet. Latam-first, time-zone aligned, English-and-Spanish ready.
- —3–5 martech shortlist in under 2 minutes
- —Pilot pricing under your discretionary budget
- —90-day ROI scorecard, board-ready, auto-generated
CFO & FP&A
For CFOs & FP&A
Test reconciliation AI, treasury automation, and forecasting tools without locking into a 3-year contract. Pilot pricing under your discretionary spend limit.
- —All pilots under $5,000 — below most procurement thresholds
- —Invoice option up to $15K for high-limit buyers
- —Pilot ROI Ledger tracks contract value vs incumbent cost
Strategy
For Heads of Strategy
Run a portfolio of strategic experiments in parallel. Get benchmarking data on how peers in your sector deploy the same tools. Make build-vs-buy decisions on real evidence.
- —Cohort pilots — 5 corporations, same startup, shared benchmarks
- —Forge Index: anonymized cross-pilot sector benchmarks
- —Build-vs-buy memo generated from pilot data
Innovation
For Heads of Innovation
Replace your scout team with a curated pipeline. Show your CEO concrete pilot-to-conversion metrics. Stop reporting on events attended; start reporting on outcomes shipped.
- —AI-matched shortlists — no scout team overhead
- —Innovation KPI dashboard: pilots launched / converted / walking
- —Quarterly Forge Drop = built-in innovation calendar
IT & Security
For IT & Security
Every pilot runs in a Sovereign Sandbox with pre-cleared LLM-privacy tiers, data residency controls, and SOC 2 attestation per startup. IT gets the audit log. Departments get speed.
- —Tier 1 / 2 / 3 privacy tiers, pre-attested per startup
- —One Master Pilot Agreement — sign once, pilot all startups
- —Audit trail auto-generated at 30/60/90 days
— NextForge OS — Free With Every Pilot
Strategy AI that already
knows your business.
Every NextForge account comes with the Open Innovation OS — free for pilot buyers. Feed it your pain points, personas, and pilot results.
Investor or board-ready, in minutes.
Generates PPTX/Slides/PDF from your strategy context and pilot results.
Tailored to your buyer persona and product.
Built from your pilot data and pain-point inputs. No generic templates.
Customer discovery, NPS, or pilot feedback.
AI-powered survey questions generated from your pilot context.
Build-vs-buy, pilot rec, quarterly review.
For cross-functional alignment. Export as PDF or Google Doc.
Context-aware across your entire workspace.
Knows your pain points, pilot KPIs, and OKRs. Ask anything.
The OS we use to run our own accelerator. Now it runs your pilots too.
— Why Latam Startups, Why Now
Same time zone.
Half the cost. Twice the hunger.
The best enterprise startups in Latam build world-class products at a fraction of the cost of their US peers. They sell in English. They integrate with US-standard tools. They show up on your call at 10 AM.
Time-zone overlap
Full overlap with US Central, Eastern, and Mountain. Show up on time, every time.
Below US-startup pricing
Pilots typically 40–70% below US-equivalent solutions. More experiments per budget.
Inside Latam's ecosystem
We know which founders ship, which products scale, and which teams pick up the phone.
Curated, not crowdsourced
Every startup vetted by founders, operators, and corporate buyers. No open directory spam.
— Trust & Compliance
Move fast. Stay covered.
Every startup agrees to one Master Pilot Agreement. Every pilot runs in an isolated sandbox. Every LLM-enabled tool is tagged with one of three privacy tiers so you know exactly where your data lives.
Cloud LLMs allowed
Public-facing inputs only. No regulated or internal data. Fastest setup time. Same-day onboarding.
Region-locked LLMs
Non-regulated business data. Region-locked LLMs, no training on your data. DPA pre-signed.
On-prem or VPC-isolated
PII, financial, health data. SOC 2 + ISO 27001 attested. Full audit log. Data deleted on request.
— From the Buyers Who Got Tired of Waiting
Real results. Real buyers. Real pilots.
“My team piloted three martech tools in one quarter — would have taken us a year through procurement. Two are now in our annual stack.”
Marketing Director
Latam Consumer Goods · 10,000+ employees
“I needed an AI reconciliation tool, not a six-month vendor evaluation. NextForge gave me three options on Tuesday. We were live on Friday.”
Head of FP&A
US-Mexico Manufacturer
“The cohort pilot was the unlock. Knowing four peer companies were testing the same tool in parallel — and seeing their results — made the buy-in conversation trivial.”
Chief Innovation Officer
Financial Services
— For Startups
Get in front of enterprise buyers who actually buy.
NextForge is the only marketplace where buyers come pre-qualified to pilot — not to “learn more.” Every company that contacts you has a budget, a use case, and a 90-day window.
- —Featured placement based on performance, not pay-to-play
- —Master Pilot Agreement — one contract, every buyer
- —Pilot supervision tools — spend less time on status calls
- —Performance leaderboards driving inbound from corporate scouts
Apply to the next Forge Drop
Applications reviewed quarterly. Every accepted startup gets featured placement, a pilot supervision dashboard, and access to 20+ corporate buyers actively looking.
— Get Started
Stop pitching ideas.
Start shipping pilots.
Every quarter you wait is another quarter your competitors get the head start. NextForge is built for the leaders who would rather test ten startups in a year than evaluate one for two.