Overview
Forge is the Strata Model Trainer: an Electron + Next.js desktop application that turns fine-tuning a custom LLM into a guided workflow. It provisions GPUs on vast.ai, manages datasets and hyperparameters, launches and monitors training runs, and pulls the finished model back — the toolchain behind ConstructionAI, packaged so it can be repeated for any model.
The Challenge
Fine-tuning a model usually means a tangle of SSH sessions, rented GPUs, and shell scripts that only the person who wrote them can run.
The Solution
Wrap the whole loop — GPU provisioning, dataset prep, hyperparameters, launch, and monitoring — in a desktop GUI on top of vast.ai, so a training run is a few clicks instead of a terminal marathon.
Key features
✓One-click GPU provisioning on vast.ai
✓Dataset and hyperparameter management
✓Launch and monitor training runs from a GUI
✓Electron + Next.js desktop app
✓The pipeline behind ConstructionAI, productized