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Startup Programme · AI & Bare Metal · V1.0

RapidSwitch Forge

Built for AI startups, SaaS platforms and ambitious teams that need serious infrastructure. Long-term savings, dedicated bare metal experts and priority support, from day one.

Built for AI startups & SaaS platformsUK data centres. Premium SLA includedPriority CoreOps support
Who Forge is for

Built for teams whose product depends on serious compute

If your roadmap lives or dies on GPU access, bare metal performance or unmetered bandwidth, you're exactly who we built this programme for.

GPU heavy

AI inference platforms

Serving foundation models, LLMs and computer-vision endpoints at scale.

Bare metal

Model training & fine-tuning

Pre-training, fine-tuning and RLHF on owned or reserved accelerators.

Scale-up

Vertical SaaS platforms

B2B SaaS products that outgrew shared cloud and need predictable cost.

Throughput

Data & agent pipelines

Vector DBs, RAG stacks, agent orchestration and data engineering workloads.

Startup programme benefits

Everything an early-stage team needs to ship serious infrastructure

Forge bundles commercial, technical, strategic and growth-stage support into one programme. Designed around the realities of running an AI or SaaS business in its first decade.

Commercial benefits

Long-term savings and premium infrastructure terms designed to keep your burn rate low while you scale.

  • Up to 25% long-term monthly savings
  • Unmetered bandwidth, DDoS protection & Premium SLA
Up to
25%
Long-term savings

Technical expertise

Direct line to our bare metal engineers and the freedom to deploy infrastructure exactly the way your stack needs it.

  • Exclusive access to bare metal technical consultancy
  • Customised bare metal deployment - bespoke OS, agents & templates
Bare metal
Consultancy included

Strategic support

Executive-level sponsorship and a single point of contact who knows your roadmap and infrastructure inside out.

  • Exclusive bare metal executive sponsorship
  • Dedicated account management
Dedicated
Account management

Growth & priority service

Front-of-the-queue technical support and joint go-to-market initiatives to help your business get noticed.

  • Prioritised CoreOps technical support
  • Joint marketing initiatives
Priority
CoreOps support
Forge in numbers

A programme grounded in 25 years of UK infrastructure

25%
Up to long-term savings
On monthly infrastructure spend
2
Days to first response
From application to decision
25+
Years of bare metal
UK infrastructure pedigree
10
UK data centres
Owned and operated by iomart
Startup programme criteria

Is your team a fit for Forge?

We've kept the bar simple. If your company is incorporated, building something real, and fundamentally relies on AI, bare metal or connectivity, you're in the right place.

Company age

  • Officially incorporated
  • Less than 10 years old
  • Working tech-focused product or service
  • Actively in development or already on the market
AI

Domain

  • Must fundamentally utilise AI, bare metal or connectivity
  • Deep learning or data science
  • Accelerated computing

Web presence

  • Working website
  • Active online presence

Technical team

  • Must have a dedicated sys-admin or developer
How Forge works

From application to deployment in four steps

STEP 01

Apply

Share a few details about your company, product and the infrastructure you need.

STEP 02

Eligibility review

We check fit against the Forge criteria. Most applicants hear back within two working days.

STEP 03

Onboarding call

Meet your dedicated account manager and bare metal sponsor. Map out the deployment plan.

STEP 04

Build & scale

Get deployed on Forge terms with priority CoreOps support as you grow.

Apply. Build. Scale.

Up to 25% savingsBare metal consultancyPriority CoreOps support

Ready to forge your infrastructure?

If you're building in AI, SaaS or anything compute-hungry, the Forge team would love to hear from you. Apply now and we'll get back within two working days.