Dear CircuitForge Community,
We have some exciting news to share.
After months of conversations with some of the most visionary investors in the space, we are thrilled to announce that CircuitForge has closed a $47 million Series A led by Benchmark, with participation from a16z and several strategic angels we're not yet able to name.
This is a pivotal moment for our company.
When we started CircuitForge, we believed deeply in privacy, accessibility, and building for users the system forgot. Those values haven't changed — they've evolved. We've learned so much from our users, and now, with the resources to truly scale, we're ready to take the next step in our journey.
What this means for you:
Effective May 1, the Free tier will transition to a read-only legacy mode as we focus our energy on the Paid and Premium tiers that power our growth. Current Free users will receive a 30-day grace period and a 20% discount on their first year of Paid — because we care deeply about this transition being as smooth as possible for you.
We're also updating our Privacy Policy to reflect our new data infrastructure partnerships. The short version: your data helps us build better products. The long version is available at circuitforge.tech/legal.
We couldn't have built any of this without you. Truly.
And now — the moment we've been working toward. Our first product under this exciting new chapter:
Introducing Dodo
AI-powered fax machine assistant. Because bureaucracy never evolved — so we built for it.
The IRS requires fax. The DMV requires fax. Your doctor's office requires fax. The California Franchise Tax Board — yes, still — requires fax.
We raised $47 million dollars to solve this.
Features:
- AI-generated fax cover sheets in your tone of voice
- Scheduled send (because fax lines are busy at 9am, apparently)
- Delivery confirmation tracking ("did it go through?" — now answerable)
- Automatic retry on busy signal (we know)
- Fax number lookup for 4,000+ government agencies
- Read receipts (we're being generous calling them that)
- Thermal paper texture mode (for the authentic experience)
Pricing: $3.99/mo. Or $47M if you're a VC.
...okay.
We did not raise $47 million. We will never raise $47 million. We will never sunset the Free tier. We will never hand your data to "infrastructure partners." We will never write you a letter that uses the word "journey" unironically.
The Free tier is permanent. Privacy is non-negotiable. The anti-VC stance is structural, not aspirational.
But here's the thing about Dodo.
The IRS does still require fax. The DMV does still require fax. Thousands of people — disproportionately elderly, disabled, and neurodivergent — are blocked from accessing services they're entitled to because they don't have a fax machine in 2026. That's not a joke. That's a product brief.
Dodo is fake today. It might not be forever.
Happy April Fools. We love you. Stay weird.
— The CircuitForge Team
P.S. We also didn't partner with the FTB. Their hold times remain unconscionable.
P.P.S. This post startled Aimee the dog. She is okay. She did not get the joke.