Bart Labs · LrForge · For Photographers

An assistant that shows its eye.

LrForge reads your frames the way a second set of trained eyes would — light, composition, focus, expression — and tells you why, grounded in what it actually sees. It's an evidence-aware assistant, not an automatic critic. You keep aesthetic authority, always.

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The demos

One system, two screens.

Start with the two-minute overview — then go as deep as you like into either half.

The exec overview

A day of shooting costs you a night of culling.

The desk does the labour. You do the judging — from wherever you are.

2:00

LrForge in depth

The AI panel beside Adobe Lightroom Classic.

1:51 · Desktop

SnapForge in 40 seconds

Your catalog, in your pocket.

0:39 · Mobile

What you get

Evidence, not flattery.

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Runs on your machine

Your images never touch a cloud server. Works with any local model — Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX.

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Grounded reasoning

Every read cites what it saw. No black-box scores — you can check the assistant's work against the frame.

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You stay in charge

It surfaces evidence and suggestions. The aesthetic call — the one that makes it yours — stays with you.

The reels

Every part of the workflow.

People

Face-aware culling and grouping — find your keepers across a shoot, with the assistant's reasoning attached.

Cull Reel

Rate a thousand frames fast. LrForge flags focus, expression, and duplicates — you make the final pick.

Analytics

See patterns across your catalog — what you shoot, what you keep, where the light lands.

Read the field paper

We put local-model image analysis through 3,500+ requests to measure where it helps — and where the photographer must stay in charge.

The 3,500-request study →

Pricing

One price. No subscription.

LrForge for Lightroom Classic

Pricing announced at launch

One-time purchase · free updates · no seat licenses · no subscription

  • Full evidence-aware analysis inside Lightroom Classic
  • Runs entirely on your machine — bring your own local model
  • People, culling, analytics, edit intelligence, and mobile
  • Answered email from the person who builds and uses it
Get LrForge →

Pricing announced at launch — one-time purchase, no subscription. Photographers keep aesthetic authority — LrForge assists, it does not decide.