Studio

One team, every stage.

We build and operate high-value software for businesses that depend on it, with privacy, user experience and performance as the foundation.

Our story

The same people, since 2023.

We have been working together since 2023. For almost three years, we were an informal team: the same people taking each project from prototype to operation, with no company behind it. In May 2026, we formalized that process as Forge Labs, based in Gaspar, Santa Catarina, Brazil, to give structure to what was already working and make room to grow.

Formalizing also consolidated a choice we had already been making: to focus on high-value projects, where privacy, user experience and performance are the foundation of the product.

We bring design, development and infrastructure together in one team because a system goes through many stages, from an idea on paper to years of operation, and clients need support at every one of them. Someone who arrives with an idea and no technical background gets the same support as a CTO with the architecture already defined.

Today we have eight products in production: four SaaS platforms, one mobile app and three websites, for clients in finance, healthcare, construction, accounting, energy and services. We work in English and Portuguese, with contracts in US dollars, and we use modern tools the traditional way: security and privacy from the first line, and quality over volume.

Products shipped
10
since 2023, eight of them still running with us
Platforms still run by us after launch
5 of 6
the sixth moved to its own infrastructure, and we handled the handover
As one team
3 years
the same people from prototype to operation
The team

The people you will actually talk to.

Antonio Augusto Maguelniski

Antonio Augusto Maguelniski

Founder & Principal DevOps

He started in the field, deploying fiber networks and running operations for an internet service provider. He then moved into DevSecOps and spent two and a half years leading the cloud for an industrial software group, where he also wrote much of the frontend for its main product. At Forge Labs, he designs, provisions and operates the infrastructure behind every product, and owns operations after launch.

Eliel Alves da Silva

Eliel Alves da Silva

Co-founder, Full-Stack Engineer & Tech Lead

A full-stack software engineer with six years of experience building web and mobile products in TypeScript, from front end to back end and from concept to production. With a Computer Science background from IFSul, a federal institute in southern Brazil, he leads engineering at Forge Labs: he defines the architecture and standards, runs code reviews and builds the APIs that serve the web platform and the app at the same time. He leads development on platforms in production in lending and healthcare.

Davi Maguelniski

Davi Maguelniski

UI/UX Designer & Low-code Dev

A web designer and no-code developer working with WordPress and Elementor since 2023. He designs and publishes the studio's websites, with a focus on performance and on-page SEO, and prototypes interfaces in Figma to validate flows with clients before development starts.

Working with us

What a normal week looks like.

Few meetings, written updates, and one channel where you reach the people doing the work.

working hours

One shared channel

You talk directly to the people building your product, in a channel we set up at kickoff. No tickets, no account managers.

weekly

Written update

What shipped, what is next and what we need from you, in one short message you can forward.

weekly

A build to try

A working version on staging every week, so feedback comes from using it, not from slides.

every two weeks

Review call

Thirty minutes to look at the product together and adjust priorities for the next two weeks.

Talk to the people who would build it.

Tell us what you have today. One of us replies within one business day.

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