For shops & employers
Track your crew. Sign off real work. Find welders by skill.
ArcForge gives shops and employers a workspace on top of the same accounts your welders already use: track apprentices, hand out practical tasks and sign them off, verify competencies on the strength of work you saw, and discover welders who chose to be found — privacy-first, the whole way down.
The shop workspace
Built for how a shop actually runs
A separate workspace for owners and supervisors — the study tools and student surfaces your welders see never clutter it.
Your crew, in one place
Add the welders and apprentices on your shop’s roster and see them at a glance — who’s an apprentice, who’s a journeyman, who supervises. The same account a welder already uses re-frames into your shop view; nobody re-registers, and nobody’s personal record gets forked.
Practical tasks, signed off at the bench
Write up the hands-on tasks your shop runs — “lay a 2F fillet to this spec” — optionally tied to a process, position, or competency. Hand a task to a welder, they submit it with their own weld as evidence, and an owner or supervisor signs it off or sends it back. A real practical record, not a checkbox.
Verify the skills you actually saw
When a welder asks you to confirm a competency or qualification, you review it and decide. An employer-verified record says an owner or supervisor at your shop stood behind it — recorded with your name and the date. Every level stays labeled for what it is: self-reported, instructor-verified, or employer-verified.
Find welders by real skills
Search welders who have opted in to being discovered, filtered by process and skill. You see only what they chose to publish — a summary, their verified-competency and qualification counts, and a public Skills Passport link when they’ve shared one. Save the ones you like to a private shortlist with your own notes.
Post what you’re hiring for
Put up the openings your shop is filling. The employer side is live today; the welder-facing job board is rolling out gradually behind a flag, so postings stay yours until the board goes wide. Kept deliberately simple — a foundation, not a full applicant-tracking system.
Honest verification
ArcForge verifies nothing — you do
The platform records who verified what, and when, and labels every claim plainly. It never stamps a welder “certified” on its own.
Verification is a person’s call
An employer-verified competency means an owner or supervisor at a shop the welder belongs to confirmed it; an instructor-verified one means an instructor did. A welder can only ever mark their own work self-reported — nothing they write reads as verified. ArcForge is independent and is not a certification body.
A document on file is exactly that
Uploaded test reports and credentials are labeled “document on file,” never presented as a certification. The welder’s passport shows every item’s level honestly, so you can read the record for what it is.
Privacy first
Discovery is opt-in, and welders own their data
A welder is invisible to employer search until they switch discovery on — and even then you see only what they published.
No welder is found by accident
Employer discovery is off by default. A welder appears in your search only after they opt in, and discovery returns a published summary — display name, processes, verified-competency and qualification counts, and a public passport link if they shared one. Weld photos, raw AI analyses, private notes, and contact details are never exposed to employers.
One account, one record — never forked
A welder’s welds, competencies, qualifications, and passport stay theirs. Your shop view re-frames the same record into employer-facing surfaces — it doesn’t copy or fork their data, and they keep it when they move on. The details are in our privacy policy.
Get set up
Bring your shop onto ArcForge
Already have a shop or company organization? Owners and supervisors get the workspace automatically. Setting one up or have a bigger crew? Tell us what you need — team pricing starts at $12 per seat / month.
ArcForge verifies nothing on its own — instructors and employers verify, and every claim is labeled. AI feedback is educational guidance only and does not replace a qualified inspector.