Context
ForgeOS (ProductForge in-repo) is an autonomous digital-product loop: find niches, pick formats, write long-form products, draft marketplace listings, and improve itself from real run telemetry. It is not a client brochure site — it is the studio’s own ops brain.
Approach
- Orchestrate the pipeline in n8n with explicit human review before expensive generation
- Log every step (cost, quality, latency) into a Notion “Brain DB”
- Keep prompts, model assignments, and thresholds versioned so a weekly Governor can adjust them
- Prefer signal over dashboards-for-dashboards: Slack alerts, telemetry, and a Sunday self-improvement pass
Architecture (honest)
Niche Scanner → Format Selector → Human Review Gate → eBook Pipeline → Listing Strategy, with Telemetry feeding Brain DB and a weekly Governor that proposes threshold and prompt changes.
Outcome
Working workflow set in the ForgeOS repo, running against self-hosted n8n (api.echotek.co.za). Public marketing URL remains TBC — this case study documents the system itself. Diagram media is studio-authored from the README architecture (not a fake product screenshot).
Stack notes
- n8n orchestration
- Notion Brain DB (prompts, models, thresholds, niches, telemetry)
- Gemini / Claude / DeepSeek for different pipeline stages
- SerpAPI + Reddit for niche signals
- Slack for human gates and weekly reports