CBTS launches Forge Agents to build custom AI agents in days
SiliconANGLE Duncan Riley
CBTS launched Forge Agents, a tool that turns plain-English work into AI agents. It’s aimed at midmarket firms that need enterprise controls without a giant engineering team.
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CBTS Technology Solutions has launched Forge Agents, a platform built to turn a simple description of a job into a working AI agent and then keep it inside enterprise security rules. The pitch is aimed squarely at midmarket companies: they face the same regulatory scrutiny and security reviews as bigger rivals, but usually don’t have the staff to build and run all of that themselves.
The company is leaning hard on speed. It says agents can be built from a library of 187 prebuilt artifacts and 34 cross-industry blueprints, which gets projects into production in days. Buyers can start with one use case, pay only for what they use, and expand later without replacing what’s already there.
Forge Agents can run on cloud tenancy a customer already uses, including Anthropic, Google, Amazon Web Services and Cisco, or on hardware in the customer’s own data center. CBTS says the platform brings access controls, intake gates, auditable decision trails and explainable outputs, which is its way of promising something that can survive a boardroom argument and a compliance review.
There’s also a control story around data and model choice. Sensitive workloads can stay in a customer’s own tenancy, with CBTS providing managed hosting and network security, while encryption key management and data lineage governance remain on the buyer’s side. The company also says buyers can choose among proprietary, third-party and open-source models based on cost or data residency needs.
CBTS says it has already been using the software internally across customer experience, finance, operations and workforce functions, with more than 2,300 employees working alongside the agents. It says the rollout paid back within three months. Forge Agents is available now, and it extends Forge AI, the advisory and infrastructure practice CBTS introduced in March.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sane end of the AI market: less wizardry, more wiring and audit trails. The real product isn’t the agent, it’s the promise that someone will take responsibility when the shiny thing touches payroll, customers, or a regulator. That’s not sexy, but it’s the part companies actually pay for.
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