Why we exist
Engineering is the most important asset most companies don't understand.
We built Forgemaster because we've seen brilliant engineering teams have their work undervalued, their contributions ignored, and their decisions second-guessed — not out of bad faith, but because nobody had the tools to measure any of it.
The origin
Two friends. One shared frustration.
We first crossed paths during a hiring process. Viljar was leading engineering. Raiko was interviewing. Both of us left that conversation thinking the same thing.
Why does it always come down to gut feeling? Why can't anyone tell us what's really going on inside this engineering team?
"Why can't anyone tell us what's really going on inside this engineering team?"
We kept seeing it everywhere after that. Acquisitions where the engineering team handed over git access and the buyer still had no idea what they were getting. Founder-CTO relationships breaking down because there was no shared language for delivery risk. Hiring managers making expensive bets with almost no signal.
That's Forgemaster.
The real problem
The data was always there. It just lived in too many places for anyone to trust it.
Our mission
We exist to make engineering legible.
To every Founder, CTO, and investor who ever stared at a git graph and felt nothing — this is for you.
How we think
Three beliefs that drive every decision.
Objectivity over opinion.
Opinions are why engineering stays a black box. We replace them with observable, repeatable measurement that anyone in the room can read.
Context is everything.
A 40% test-failure rate looks terrible — until you learn the team just shipped the hardest feature of their lives. We show the full picture, not just the numbers.
Privacy by design.
We'll never ask for more access than we need, store what we don't have to, or sell what isn't ours. Your IP is yours.
Who we are
The humans behind the machine.
A small, sharp team that has lived through the exact problems Forgemaster solves.
Viljar Võidula
Founder & CXO
Staff engineer, interim CTO, and CEO of Testreel. Seen what breaks when engineering can't be measured.
Raiko Mereküla
Founding Frontend Engineer
The person responsible for everything you see and interact with. Frontend stack, design support, and making things feel right.
Maris Lutsar
Founding Designer
Shapes how Forgemaster looks, feels, and speaks. Branding, visuals, and the details that make people trust a product.
Backed by people who've built, bought, and scaled engineering teams.
Come and look under the hood.
Whether you're a Founder, a CTO, a PE partner, or just curious — we'd love to show you what your codebase is really saying.