Concept illustration of a graphite network appliance, a business desk phone and connected application interfaces

AI receptionist · first month free

The call you can’t take,
answered.

An AI receptionist for property managers, funeral homes and the trades. Plans from $149 a month.

It answers in your business’s name, sends emergencies straight to whoever is on call, and emails you a summary of every call. Hear it on your own business before you pay: call the demo.

Card on file, $0 today · Cancel online any time · Also: the $295 remote assessment, below

Fig. 01 — Illustrative concept · equipment selected for your project

After the project. We stay on it.

Site Care

$199/ site / month

  • Firewall and internet monitoring with alerts
  • Monthly update window, configuration backups
  • Firewall, DNS filtering and staff VPN changes · 1 hour a month
  • Quarterly written review
Subscribe · $199/mo

Site Care + Voice

$299/ site / month

  • Everything in Site Care
  • Phone-system support · up to 10 extensions
  • Extensions, call routing, voicemail, greetings
Subscribe · $299/mo

Your website. Built, hosted, kept current.

Setup

$499one time

  • Responsive brochure site · up to 5 pages
  • One design direction
  • Up to three rounds of revisions before launch

Website Care

$149/ month

  • Managed hosting · HTTPS
  • Backups · uptime checks
  • Simple inquiry form
  • Minor text and photo changes · 30 min a month, no rollover

Website Care Plus

$249/ month

  • Everything in Website Care
  • Minor text and photo changes · 60 min a month, no rollover
  • Monthly form and conversion check · short written report
  • One existing-page improvement within the same 60 min monthly allowance

Founding 10: the first 10 businesses skip the $499 setup fee and get 6 months of Website Care free

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A day with UrbanBytez · 32 sec

One business day. Every system working.

The network, the phones and the work behind them, from the first install to your phone at day’s end.

Good technology makes room for better work.

Three ways we help — keep your people connected, give your process a proper tool, and build your next chapter on the right foundation.

One team. One site. Or your next chapter.
Starting fresh? Bring the idea. We can bring the hardware, too.

A / Sourced

Hardware

Servers, network hardware, phones and other equipment — sourced for your project, or your existing kit assessed.

B / Configured

Software

Business voice, custom networks and purpose-built apps, configured around how your team works.

C / Tested

Engineering

Designed, built and tested together, then handed over with documentation.

Result

One complete idea.

Made to work together — from one desk to multiple locations.

What are we building together?

Start with what needs to work better. Each of these is something we build — and run for ourselves every day.

Meet Forge Voice

Your next opportunity starts with hello.

A business phone system built around how your team works.

From one desk to multiple locations. We plan your call routing, source the equipment, configure the system and test it with you.

Built around your business

Customer callsFront deskRight department

Give callers a welcoming front desk, then connect them to the right department.

Equipment, setup and recurring services clearly itemized. Hosted or on-premises

Forge Voice signal space: each business line, its ring group and the desk phones a live call is reaching (sample screen, fictional data)
A desk phone showing a branded incoming-call screen with one-press routing (sample screen, fictional data)

01A desk phone that greets your callers your way. Your menu, your names, your display.

02Every line, the route it takes and the phone it reaches — in one calm view.

Illustrative · sample data

Security / ForgeSentinel

Know you’re protected. See it for yourself.

ForgeSentinel is a working in-house security demonstration, not a generally available managed-security service. The current Linux and firewall workflow shows detected cases, their evidence and their disposition; customer onboarding, response scope and reporting remain founding-pilot acceptance items.

  • Works on Linux computers and servers today; Windows and Microsoft 365 are in development
  • Your own visibility dashboard: are we safe right now, and why
  • Alerts on your phone: who, what and when
  • Acknowledge, work and resolve each case from your phone or desk, with every step recorded

Demonstration and founding-interest conversations only; no paid ForgeSentinel enrollment is currently offered. Current demo · Linux + firewall evidence

The ForgeSentinel console: a critical case, a sign-in after 14 password guesses on the office phone system, with what happened and what to do next (sample screen, fictional data)
ForgeSentinel on a phone: the four cases that need a person, each one tap from acknowledged (sample screen, fictional data)

01Every case, from detected to resolved.

02Acknowledge and resolve, from your phone.

Illustrative · sample data

Firewall / ForgeWall

See who knocks, and what stopped them.

Blocked sources by country, and the protection layer that stopped each one — segmentation, geo-blocking, DNS policy and threat feeds — in plain view.

Firewall rules and segmented networks, so guests stay separate and office devices share approved business resources.

Built on OPNsense®, the open-source firewall, then hardened, managed and monitored by us, with our own Forge Shield app and dashboards on top.

Reverse proxies, outbound access controls and hosting — read more

ForgeWall Activity Map: blocked sources by country over the last 24 hours, with China open in the country inspection panel (sample screen, fictional data)
ForgeWall Defense Prism: recorded blocks for each protection layer of the firewall, with Threat feed selected (sample screen, fictional data)

Activity mapWhere unwanted traffic comes from, country by country.

Defense PrismWhich layer did the work — rules, feeds and filters.

Illustrative · sample data

Custom DNS / your network’s address book

Names you remember. Lookups you can understand.

We run your DNS and curate your blocklist. Want something else kept off your network? Block whatever your business wants — we’ll help you set it up.

Fewer unwanted requests, quicker repeat lookups and useful visibility — with approved exceptions when a business tool needs one.

Records we set up, caching and logging choices — read more

Sample names use the reserved .example domain. DNS filtering targets domains; some in-app and first-party ads will remain, and it does not replace device security.

ForgeDNS live answers: each lookup's device, domain, record type and result (local, cached, forwarded or blocked), its answer time and what answered it (sample screen, fictional data)
ForgeDNS filters: six active blocklist subscriptions covering 271,044 domains, with two approved exceptions on the Allowed domains tab (sample screen, fictional data)
Illustrative · sample data

Custom applications / the possibility studio

You could have an app for that.

The task you repeat. The update you chase. The idea you keep putting off. Explore what a tool built around your business could look like.

Start with a possibility

These are possibilities, not a fixed catalog. Your idea can be different.

JobspaceSample workspace
Project 024 / Kitchen refresh

One job. The whole picture. In progress

01Estimate
02Approval
03Scheduled
04Invoice
Next on the job
Customer approvalApproval recorded
Cabinet finish · awaiting reviewCabinet finish · approved by customer
PendingDone
Installation scheduled
Tuesday · 9:00 AM · team assigned
NextNow
Site photosMeasurementsEstimate
Everything together
  • Customer details
  • Estimate & files
  • Project history
  • Approval pending
  • Approval recorded

For contractors, repair shops & field teams · illustrative interface, fictional data

Try the next step. See an approval become a scheduled job.

Illustrative interfaces with fictional data. Demo actions stay on this page; no calls, bookings or messages are sent. We agree on features, integrations, permissions and costs before building your application.

Custom apps / desk to doorstep

Your workflow.
In your team’s hands.

We build Android-compatible custom applications for phones and tablets, plus browser-based tools for your team and customers. Think site checklists, job photos, inventory lookups, appointment tools and customer sign-offs.

Android phones & tabletsBrowser-based applicationsiPhone / iPad options by proposal

You own the agreed publishing and service accounts. Device compatibility, distribution, source-code handover, hosting and platform fees are set out in the proposal. Ongoing maintenance is available under a separately priced plan.

Apple publishing & ongoing costs

For native iPhone and iPad distribution through the standard Apple Developer Program, Apple currently charges US$99 per membership year, or local currency where available. We recommend a customer-owned publishing account: you pay Apple directly and control renewal; UrbanBytez’s development fee is separate.

If that standard membership expires, Apple says apps already installed continue to function, but new downloads and app updates become unavailable. That is not a promise of indefinite compatibility: hosting, connected services and future operating-system updates still need an agreed plan. Other distribution methods have different requirements.

We quote the app build, distribution setup, platform fees, hosting and any ongoing maintenance separately. Your proposal defines source-code handover, account ownership and support responsibilities.

Try it / made for your kind of business

Choose a focus and a team size.

Sample demo · no live systems
How big is your team?
Your starting point Custom quotation

Sized to your users, sites, call capacity and equipment. A focused setup with a clear path to grow. We confirm the scope before you commit.

VOICE / PBX

A better way
to answer the call.

A complete business phone system, supplied and configured around the way your team communicates. A standalone PBX or part of your wider technology setup.

  • Extensions, call routing and ring groups
  • Voice menus, queues and voicemail
  • Phones, headsets and system hardware sourced
  • Hosted or on-premises options
Plan my phone system ↗
UrbanBytez / Demo PBXTry a call route
InboundA customer calls
Your welcome menuWhere should the conversation go?

Choose a route to see a sample call reach the right team. No real call is placed.

A network with boundariesSample demo
Internet
Routing + policyCustom firewall
Traffic shape · illustrative
PolicyGuest → office access blocked

Select a segment. Office devices share approved business resources; guests stay separate. All activity shown is illustrative.

Give every request a next stepSample demo
New request 01
Project / 001

A better booking flow

Bring the request and its context together.

UBReady for review
In review 02
Ready to build 03
Try the workflow

A sample request has arrived. Advance it to see how a custom workflow creates a clear next step. No data is submitted.

Your system. Your setting.Sample demo
Your businessOn your premises.
Agreed hosting providerHosted for your team.

On-premises example: equipment is sourced, configured and installed for your site. Hardware, resilience and support are scoped together.

PEOPLE, CONNECTED · Illustrative interaction · no live systems

The details are our thing, too

DNS & DHCPVPNs & segmentationTraffic shaping & QoSMail systemsWorkflow automation

The Forge family

Built here. Run here first.

Every tool on this page is our own. We build it, run it on our own systems first, then shape it around your business.

Security · demo

A working security-operations demonstration for founding-interest conversations.

Phones

Every line, the route it takes and the phone it reaches — in one calm view.

Firewall

See who knocks, and what stopped them.

DNS

Names you remember. Lookups you can understand.

Our own working security demonstration: the current Linux and firewall workflow shows cases, evidence and recorded disposition in our environment.

  • Demonstration and founding-interest conversations only
  • Sample visibility dashboard with fictional customer data
  • Current in-house phone-alert workflow
  • No paid enrollment or managed-response promise yet
See ForgeSentinel

A business phone system built around how your team works.

  • Extensions, call routing and ring groups
  • Voice menus, queues and voicemail
  • A desk phone that greets your callers your way
See ForgeVoice

Firewall rules and segmented networks, so guests stay separate and office devices share approved business resources.

  • Blocked sources by country
  • The protection layer that stopped each one
  • Segmentation, geo-blocking, DNS policy and threat feeds
ForgeWall block activity: the rolling 24-hour block log by hour and the ForgeIPS engine with its recent decisions (sample screen, fictional data)
See ForgeWall

We run your DNS and curate your blocklist.

  • Fewer unwanted requests
  • Quicker repeat lookups
  • Approved exceptions when a business tool needs one
ForgeDNS live query log: each device, transport, domain, result and latency (sample screen, fictional data)
See ForgeDNS
Automation

Quietly maintained, while you sleep.

Front desk

After hours and overflow calls answered, in English and Spanish.

Your business

Sales, traffic and what needs you, at a glance.

In your pocket

Your network, in your pocket.

Backups verified, certificates renewed, blocklists refreshed — on schedule, with every run recorded. It’s how we run our own systems.

  • Every scheduled run on one day map
  • The result of each run, kept as evidence
  • Ongoing maintenance agreed in a separate support plan
ForgeControl recovery: what was repaired automatically in the last day and what needs a person (sample screen, fictional data)
See how we run it

An AI receptionist for after hours and overflow: your answers, lead capture, emergencies sent straight to your on-call person, and a summary of every call.

  • English and Spanish, switching with the caller
  • Email summary of every call
  • First month free
Meet the receptionist

One screen for the whole business: each site and storefront, its sales and traffic, and the short list of what needs you today.

  • Every business side by side
  • What needs you, in one list
  • Alerts on your phone
Command Center: every business side by side with its sales, traffic and what needs you (sample screen, fictional data)
Your business, in view

We carry ours everywhere. Control and monitor your network from your phone the same way.

  • Firewall, phones and security in one app
  • Push alerts you route yourself
  • Built for Android; iPhone and iPad by proposal
See the apps

Your network, in your pocket.

Forge Shield, the companion Android app: Pulse screen: firewall capacity, uptime and reachability of key office systems (sample screen, fictional data) Forge Shield, the companion Android app: Threats screen: blocked sources over 24 hours with a one-tap option to block a source for good (sample screen, fictional data) Forge Shield, the companion Android app: Map screen: every blocked attempt in the last 24 hours on a world map, with the United States selected (sample screen, fictional data)

We carry ours everywhere. It's how we watch over our own systems, at the office, at home and on the road. Control and monitor your network from your phone the same way. Add our optional always-on VPN and your phone stays securely connected wherever you are, just as if you were at your desk.

Watch the film and try the live map

Built for AndroidNo yearly platform fee · iPhone and iPad by proposalDetailsHide

Built for Android. The companion app shown here runs on Android phones and tablets. Android apps carry no yearly platform fee: we can deliver them privately to your team's devices, or publish to Google Play for a one-time US$25 registration. iPhone and iPad versions are available by proposal; Apple's developer program costs US$99 a year, paid to Apple from an account you own.

Illustrative · sample data

Seven networks.
One firewall we run ourselves.

The network UrbanBytez runs on: OPNsense, configured and maintained by us. No client names and no client data. This one is ours.

  1. 01 · Segmented VLANs

    Every kind of device in its own lane.

    Infrastructure, DNS, work, home, streaming, smart devices and Wi-Fi each sit on their own VLAN. Firewall rules decide what may cross between them.

  2. 02 · WireGuard VPN

    The office, from anywhere.

    Laptops and phones connect back through WireGuard on the firewall. Our phones switch it on by themselves when they leave our Wi-Fi.

  3. 03 · QoS on OPNsense

    Bandwidth limits that hold.

    When the built-in shaper did not enforce our upload limits, we wrote our own on FreeBSD netgraph. A watchdog keeps it running.

Our own network · not a client engagementSee the firewall app we run on it

How we work and look after you

A clear path. A complete picture.

You don’t need to arrive with a specification or a room full of equipment. We’ll work through the right next step together.

  1. Step 01

    Talk it through.

    Tell us what you’re building, what’s getting in the way and what a better day would look like.

    Goals · existing systems · priorities
  2. Step 02

    Make a good plan.

    We scope the solution and itemize equipment, implementation and recurring services before work starts.

    Design · equipment quote · agreed scope
  3. Step 03

    Bring it to life.

    We source, configure and build, then test your everyday workflows and hand over the documentation.

    Build · acceptance testing · handover
How we run our own systems

Backups verified, certificates renewed, blocklists refreshed — on schedule, with every run recorded. It’s how we run our own systems.

The right help. On your terms.

Choose the handover and help that suit your team. Start with a preference; we’ll agree on the scope, access and price in your proposal.

ForgeControl overview: the last daily health checks, the self-healing unit and the automation journal (sample screen, fictional data)
This is how we run it Illustrative · sample data

Ongoing maintenance for your systems is agreed in a separate support plan.

EQUIPMENT / UNITED STATES

Built around your project. Quoted for your destination. For U.S. projects, equipment is quoted only after the exact model, stock, shipping, taxes, carrier services and location-specific requirements are confirmed. Canadian equipment delivery is planned for a later expansion and is not currently offered.

01 / Take the controlsChoose self-managed

Self-managed

A configured solution, clear documentation and an agreed handover. Your team takes care of everyday administration.

  • Equipment and configuration scoped together
  • Account ownership and recovery documented
  • Additional help quoted when you need it
02 / Set it up togetherChoose remote setup

Remote setup

Guided setup after your equipment arrives: a scheduled session with a defined task and temporary access you approve.

  • Compatibility and prerequisites checked first
  • Session scope and duration agreed in advance
  • Setup, checks and handover itemized
03 / Keep help closeChoose managed support

Managed support

Ongoing help for your firewall and phones. Care plans from $199 per site per month.

  • Covered systems and responsibilities defined
  • Ongoing access and permissions agreed separately
  • Recurring costs and change work made clear

Choosing an option adds a preference to your inquiry. It does not purchase a plan or grant remote access.

Proposed remote setup: you decide when access starts — and when it ends
Proposed remote setup

You decide when access starts. And when it ends.

01Approve a visible session

You approve the task and time window, with a visible indication while access is active.

02Approve any extra time

Access expires at the agreed deadline unless you approve an extension.

03Keep an End access control

End the session and revoke its access when you choose.

Your business services should continue when remote management is off. Design and acceptance requirements for a scoped remote setup service; session controls are not yet an activated service. Ongoing support access is agreed separately.

Account ownership, documentation, warranty responsibilities and any ongoing support are agreed in your proposal.

Free tools. Useful answers.

Check two things that quietly matter to every small business — before you talk to anyone.

Tool 01 / Email security checkFree

Can someone send email as your business?

Test your SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, DNSSEC and CAA records and get a plain-English grade with clear fixes.

Illustrative result · sample domainCheck my domain
Tool 02 / Landline retirement checkerFree

Losing your landlines? Get a checklist.

Answer a few questions about your lines in Georgia, Texas or elsewhere, then print a prioritized migration checklist with who to call.

  • Alarm & fire panelsCheck first
  • Elevator phoneCheck first
  • Card terminalsReview
  • Fax linesReview
Illustrative checklist · sample answersBuild my checklist
Browse eight plain-English guidesPhones · network setup · DNS · apps · mail · landlines · firewalls · TeamsShow guidesHide guides

An honest starting point.
A plan to move forward.

Defined projects. Understandable pricing. Your written proposal sets the final scope, equipment and investment.

01

Business phone systems

A standalone PBX with phones, call routing, voicemail and an agreed handover. Hosted or on-site options.

Scoped to fitTailored quoteItemized quotation
02

Network foundation

Firewall and network design, configuration and implementation for an agreed, bounded scope.

Implementation from$1,495Labor · equipment quoted separately
03

Workflow build

A custom application or automation that solves one clearly defined operational problem.

Implementation from$1,495Labor · hosting & licenses separate

Hardware, implementation and recurring services are itemized separately. Phased projects and milestone billing can be proposed where suitable. Third-party equipment financing is being evaluated and is not currently offered. Inquiring is free.

Big idea? Small headache? Let’s talk.

You don’t need a finished brief. Tell us what you want to improve, what’s getting in the way or what you’re ready to build.

A few good questions

Before we say hello.

Straight answers to the things people ask first. Something else on your mind? Just ask.

Ask us anything
Do I need to have the equipment already?

No. We can source the servers, network hardware, phones and other equipment your project needs. You can also bring existing equipment for us to assess. Purchases and recurring services are itemized in your proposal.

Can you just build our phone system?

Yes. A standalone business PBX can be a complete project of its own. Handsets, extensions, routing, voicemail, carrier setup and hosted or on-premises options are scoped together around how your team handles calls.

Do you work with larger teams or multiple sites?

We welcome the conversation. Larger environments begin with discovery and a scoped architecture. Site count, capacity, resilience and performance acceptance are agreed before implementation.

What does the $295 assessment include?

A focused discovery session, a review of your technology priorities and a written recommendation for your next step. We confirm the assessment scope before booking. Implementation, equipment and ongoing support are separate.

What happens after the project is delivered?

We test the agreed workflows and provide a useful handover. Your proposal defines documentation, defect correction and any ongoing support. Equipment warranties depend on the manufacturer and product. Ongoing care is available as a monthly care plan from $199 per site.

For an existing project or scheduling, email support@urbanbytezllc.com.

Tell us about your project

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