The Methodology
Four phases. Governance-ready output.
FORGE follows the same discipline as the Tenet governance stack. Every phase produces a defined output. No phase begins until the previous one is complete. The final output feeds directly into ATLAS Phase 1.
Source Discovery
Before extracting a single data point, FORGE maps every system in the organization that holds operational data about physical assets. The output is a complete source inventory documenting where asset data lives, what format it is in, how frequently it updates, and who owns it.
Typical source systems
SCADA / EMS / DCS
Historians (OSIsoft PI, AspenTech)
CMDB (ServiceNow, BMC)
Maintenance (Maximo, SAP PM)
Financial (SAP, Oracle, Excel models)
OEM portals (manufacturer dashboards)
Regulatory filings (GADS, EIA, NERC)
Compliance spreadsheets
Phase 1 output
Complete source system inventory
Data format and schema documentation
Update frequency and latency mapping
Data ownership and stewardship assignment
Access requirements and connectivity notes
Gap identification — what is missing entirely
Data Extraction
Pull governance-relevant data from each source system. Not all data — the right data. FORGE extracts what the governance stack needs to register, score, and map each asset.
Governance-relevant attributes
Asset identity and classification
Operational performance metrics
Maintenance history and warranty status
Safety record and incident history
Financial position and revenue contribution
Regulatory status and filing obligations
Connectivity and network topology
Location and jurisdictional exposure
Model Assembly
The core phase. FORGE takes extracted data from every source and builds a unified digital model for each physical asset. One record per asset. This is where every other approach fails — and where FORGE succeeds.
What Model Assembly resolves
Naming conflicts across source systems
Duplicate entries with different identifiers
Orphaned references to retired assets
Version drift between departments
Classification disagreements between domains
Provenance gaps in inherited records
What Model Assembly produces
One record per asset, globally unique
Full provenance chain to every source
Cross-domain attribute mapping
Conflict resolution documentation
Audit trail of every merge decision
Governance-ready dataset
Handoff
The clean digital asset model is delivered to ATLAS. No manual data entry. No spreadsheet migration. No reconciliation of reconciliations. ATLAS Phase 1 Inventory ingests the FORGE output directly.
The handoff is the integration point between FORGE and the Tenet governance stack. Clean data in. Governance out.
FORGE output → ATLAS Phase 1 → CODEX scoring → TENET mapping → governed portfolio