AI-native studio · Coffs Harbour, Australia
An AI-native studio that ships.
Agentic workflows, automation, payment systems, websites and games. Designed, built and shipped from Coffs Harbour, Australia.
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- Live now
- ForgeFrontier, a multiplayer strategy game
- Engineering
- Architecture, decisions and honest limits
- Explore
- Products, games and internal tools
- Replies
- Within 2 business days
01 · Selected work
Built to show the work.

ForgeFrontier
LiveMultiplayer island-building strategy: play bots, pass-and-play, or online games that run over days.
Game · Realtime · 3D

The Last Slot
Product prototypeBooking platform for appointment businesses: multi-staff calendar, online booking, deposits and split payments.
Payments · Automation · Web app

An Epic Tail
Pre-alphaCreature-lineage survival in Unreal Engine 5: survive, then pass your traits down the line.
Game · Unreal Engine 5 · Working title

FitnessForgeOS
In betaMulti-tenant coaching platform: programming, check-ins, messaging and billing in one place.
Platform · Billing · Web app
More from the studio
- 05
TheForge
Model-independent agent orchestration: an objective in, a tested pull request with evidence out.Internal · Agentic workflows - 06
ForgeFun
A shelf of daily puzzles with a fair friends leaderboard.Playable · Game · Web app - 07
ForgePulse
An AI growth radar that scans a local business's website and writes a shareable report.Prototype · AI · Automation - 08
This site
Questionnaires, spam guard, Slack alerts and a private admin, with dated verification notes.Live · Website · Automation
02 · Capabilities
One studio, the whole stack.
AI does the heavy lifting, so one studio can design, build and ship across all of this. Every line below points to something that already exists.
- 01
Agentic workflows
Agents that plan, act and check their own work, with tests and human approvals in the loop.
Shipped: TheForge
- 02
Automation
Enquiry, booking, reminder and reporting workflows, with their integration limits made explicit.
Shipped: The Last Slot, This site
- 03
Payment systems
Deposits, split payments, vouchers, packages and point of sale.
Shipped: The Last Slot
- 04
Websites and web apps
Responsive websites with explicit validation, accessibility checks and dated performance evidence.
Shipped: This site
- 05
Games
Original games, from browser strategy to Unreal Engine 5.
Shipped: ForgeFrontier
- 06
Custom builds
Bespoke software for a client's specific problem, and Bywater's own products.
Shipped: FitnessForgeOS
03 · Engineering
The decisions behind the work.
Explore the architecture, testing decisions and honest limits. The published lab measurements are a dated snapshot, not scores for the current release.
- Build approach
- AI-assisted
- Review
- Human-led
- Verification
- Tests + browser checks
- Limits
- Made explicit
Project-specific evidence and dated lab measurements on the engineering page
04 · Games
The studio also makes games.
05 · How it works
Three steps, no surprises.
Step 01
Brief
Three fields, or a five-minute questionnaire for a faster quote. Bywater replies within 2 business days.
Step 02
Plan
A clear scope and quote to agree on before any work starts.
Step 03
Build and ship
Built in small, tested steps you can see, then shipped and measured.


