Start from friction
The company begins with problems found in real creative and technical work, not with a category checklist or a platform thesis.
ISRForge
Utility apps forged from real operational needs.
A small independent development company building focused tools for the work that has to get done: clean workflows, practical automation, and software that earns its place on the machine.
Information
Surveillance
Reconnaissance
Creative operations
Founder
Built between art, engineering, and operations.
ISRForge is led by Philip Grossman, a media technology strategist, cinematographer, photographer, pilot, and returning app builder. After more than two decades away from writing code, Philip came back to software through the same force that shaped the rest of his work: a practical need that would not let go.
His background spans Big Five consulting, Fortune 100 media and technology strategy, advanced content services, broadcast engineering, and field production. He has led media technology teams, advised global broadcasters, spoken at major industry events, hosted and produced for Discovery Science Channel, and exhibited photography at the United Nations.
A Naval ROTC scholarship once pointed toward Naval Intelligence before unexpected life events. The discipline stayed. So did the pull between technical systems and visual craft: the middle child of an artist mother and surgeon father, now building software at that same intersection.
Media technology strategy
Photography and cinematography
Advanced content workflows
Instrument-rated pilot
Approach
Necessity is the spec.
Build the missing utility
Apps stay focused: the smallest durable tool that makes the workflow clearer, faster, or less error-prone.
Respect the operator
ISRForge favors quiet interfaces, local usefulness, and software that supports the person doing the work.
Latest app
Purpose-built software, starting small on purpose.
ISRForge begins with narrow tools for creative and technical work. The first release path is Apple App Store distribution, with the site serving as the place to understand what each app is for, who built it, and why it exists.
Available ยท Version 1.0.1
TelemetryISR
A macOS metadata workflow app for Lightroom-first photo catalogs, standalone image folders, review-driven AI metadata, and optional on-device People identification.
Format
macOS app with Lightroom Classic workflow
Release path
Apple App Store
Current version
1.0.1
Status
Available on the Mac App Store
Signal
The work should feel like field gear.
Durable. Specific. A little austere. ISRForge apps are meant to be tools you reach for because they solve one problem cleanly and then get out of the way.