{
  "name": "Repair Forge IT",
  "description": "Repair Forge IT is a founder-led IT infrastructure, automation, and practical AI consultancy: a small, highly skilled team led by Ricky, a Systems Architect with 13+ years of hands-on experience, backed by a vetted contractor bench and amplified by automation, that only takes on as much as it can respond to fast - skill and automation over headcount. On-site across the Houston, TX metro; remote statewide including Austin. Honest scoping over upselling.",
  "url": "https://repairforge.info/",
  "contact": {
    "phone": "+1-281-786-4011",
    "email": "support@repairforge.info",
    "consultationUrl": "https://repairforge.info/consultation"
  },
  "areaServed": {
    "onSite": [
      "Houston",
      "Katy",
      "Sugar Land",
      "The Woodlands",
      "Pearland",
      "Cypress"
    ],
    "remote": [
      "Texas (statewide)",
      "Austin",
      "Round Rock",
      "Cedar Park"
    ]
  },
  "services": [
    {
      "name": "IT Infrastructure Design & Management in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "it-infrastructure",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/it-infrastructure",
      "summary": "Physical and virtual servers, properly designed networks with real redundancy, virtualization, monitoring, and disaster recovery - right-sized for your actual needs and budget."
    },
    {
      "name": "Business Process Automation in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "automation",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/automation",
      "summary": "Making your existing tools actually talk to each other - custom scripting and integrations that kill the repetitive tasks wasting your team’s time."
    },
    {
      "name": "Cloud Infrastructure & Migration in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "cloud-migration",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/cloud-migration",
      "summary": "Scalable cloud and hybrid architecture that doesn’t waste money, and migrations that move your systems to the cloud without breaking everything."
    },
    {
      "name": "Web Application Development & Hosting in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "web-development",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/web-development",
      "summary": "Custom applications built for your specific processes, properly structured databases, clean APIs, and managed hosting backed by the team that built your system, so support gets picked up fast."
    },
    {
      "name": "Technical Consulting & Planning in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "consulting",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/consulting",
      "summary": "Honest infrastructure audits and strategic roadmaps based on business goals, not trends - cutting through vendor sales pitches to find real solutions."
    },
    {
      "name": "AI Integration & Practical Automation in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "ai-integration",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/ai-integration",
      "summary": "LLMs embedded into what you already run - document processing, code-generation tooling, and privacy-focused local AI. I’ll also tell you what AI can’t do for you."
    },
    {
      "name": "AI Agents & Agent Harnesses in Houston & Austin, TX",
      "slug": "ai-agents",
      "url": "https://repairforge.info/services/ai-agents",
      "summary": "Production agent harnesses sized to the actual task - a support agent that assists a human, a bare-bones agent scoped to one job, or a full co-worker agent trusted to run end-to-end, built with the guardrails to match."
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Supamask",
      "repository": "https://codeberg.org/reprick/supamask",
      "summary": "A drop-in proxy that keeps your Supabase URL and anon key out of the browser. Express middleware plus a client wrapper, so your project reference and API keys never show up in network requests, page source, or CSP headers."
    },
    {
      "name": "Pi-Canary",
      "repository": "https://codeberg.org/reprick/pi-canary",
      "summary": "A multi-crate Rust network canary for Raspberry Pi and Linux hosts. SSH and HTTP honeypots, live libpcap capture, ARP and scan detection, webhook and SMTP alerts, and an Axum-served terminal dashboard - with an optional AI risk sidecar."
    },
    {
      "name": "React2Shell Safeguard",
      "repository": "https://codeberg.org/reprick/react2shell-safeguard",
      "summary": "A security proxy that shields React and Next.js apps from the React Server Components RCE and DoS CVEs (CVE-2025-55182 and related). Static analysis flags vulnerable dependency versions; dynamic analysis detects and blocks malicious payloads in real time. Ships as a CLI, a library API, and a Docker image."
    }
  ],
  "faq": [
    {
      "question": "Do you work on-site in Houston, or only remote?",
      "answer": "Both - on-site support across the Houston metro (Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pearland, Cypress) and remote work for clients statewide, including Austin and Round Rock."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is Repair Forge IT an agency, or am I working with one person?",
      "answer": "Neither, exactly - Repair Forge IT is a founder-led small team. I'm Ricky, Systems Architect and founder: every project is reviewed and discussed with me before any work starts, and I stay accountable for the whole system, with a small team and a vetted contractor bench alongside me for sales, support, and field work. Work gets matched to the right person for the job, and you never lose your point of contact."
    },
    {
      "question": "What's different about this vs. a typical MSP or ticket-queue IT provider?",
      "answer": "We solve scale with skill and automation instead of headcount, and only take on as much as we can respond to fast - so tickets get picked up quickly instead of sitting in a queue for days, and you deal directly with the small team that knows your systems. We'll also tell you what you don't need, even if that means less work for us."
    },
    {
      "question": "Am I locked into a contract?",
      "answer": "No. Engagements are at-will: you can cancel any time. Your data, your domains, and any work you've purchased outright leave with you, packaged so your next provider can host it. We keep clients by being good, not by making leaving painful."
    },
    {
      "question": "Can AI actually help my business, or is it mostly hype?",
      "answer": "Both, depending on the task. LLMs are genuinely useful for document processing, code-generation tooling, and specific automation - but they're not good at complex reasoning or replacing human judgment. I'll tell you honestly when AI is the right tool and when it's expensive hype."
    },
    {
      "question": "We need to move to the cloud without breaking anything - is that something you handle?",
      "answer": "Yes. Cloud and hybrid architecture sized to avoid wasted spend, plus migration planning that moves existing systems over without taking down what already works."
    },
    {
      "question": "How do I actually reach you?",
      "answer": "Call 281-786-4011 or email support@repairforge.info, or use the contact/consultation page to send details up front."
    },
    {
      "question": "Should I hire an MSP or an independent IT consultant like Repair Forge IT?",
      "answer": "A traditional MSP solves scale with headcount - many clients, tiered support, tickets that wait their turn. Repair Forge IT is built on the other model: a small, highly skilled team, amplified by automation, that only takes on as much as it can respond to fast - matching or beating the response of a much larger helpdesk at a fraction of the size, with direct access instead of tiered handoffs. We think that's what IT support looks like from here on: skill and automation over headcount. And there's no lock-in contract."
    },
    {
      "question": "Do I actually need to move to the cloud?",
      "answer": "Not always. Repair Forge IT scopes cloud migration by workload, not by trend: some systems get cheaper and more reliable in the cloud, others are better left on-premises or hybrid. For a small business the honest answer is often \"move these, keep those\" - and when staying put is cheaper and more reliable, that is what gets recommended."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is AI actually worth it for a small business, or just hype?",
      "answer": "For a small business, AI is worth it only for specific, well-scoped tasks - document processing, code-generation tooling, and narrow automation, including privacy-focused local models that keep data off third-party APIs. Repair Forge IT starts every AI engagement with the task, not the technology, and says up front when AI is the wrong tool - it is not a fit for complex reasoning or replacing human judgment."
    },
    {
      "question": "Do you come on-site in Austin?",
      "answer": "No - Austin, Round Rock, and Cedar Park are served remotely: automation, cloud migration, web application development, consulting, and AI integration all work fully remote. On-site visits are Houston metro only."
    },
    {
      "question": "How does remote IT consulting actually work for an Austin business?",
      "answer": "Screen-share and remote-access tooling for hands-on work, calls for planning and scoping, and the same direct-access, fast-response model as Houston clients get - just without a truck rolling to your office."
    },
    {
      "question": "Is remote support slower than having someone on-site?",
      "answer": "For most infrastructure, automation, and software work, no - it's the same work done over a remote session. The exception is anything requiring hands on hardware (cabling, physical server swaps), which isn't a fit for a remote-only engagement."
    },
    {
      "question": "Do you do on-site IT support in Sugar Land, Katy, and The Woodlands?",
      "answer": "Yes - Repair Forge IT covers the greater Houston metro on-site, including Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pearland, and Cypress, for infrastructure, networking, and hardware work that needs someone physically on-site."
    },
    {
      "question": "How quickly can you get on-site for a Houston business?",
      "answer": "Because we only take on as much as we can respond to fast, on-site scheduling across the Houston metro is usually within a day or two for planned work, and faster for urgent infrastructure issues - and you deal directly with the team doing the work."
    },
    {
      "question": "Do you work with small businesses in Houston, or only large clients?",
      "answer": "Small and mid-sized Houston businesses are the core focus. Repair Forge IT is a small team led by an accountable Systems Architect, so engagements are sized to what a smaller business actually needs - and we will tell you when something is not worth spending on."
    }
  ],
  "note": "Read-only public data. To engage, use the phone, email, or consultation URL above."
}