How Forge works

Prototype first.
Manufacture when you’re ready.

Forge is a structured kit system that gives supplement founders a way to build and validate their formula before committing to a manufacturing run.

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The problem with the standard path

Most founders commit before they’re ready.

The standard path to a supplement brand goes like this. You have a formula idea. You research contract manufacturers. You book a call. You get a quote for 500 to 1,000 units — minimum. You pay a deposit. You wait six to ten weeks. You receive a product that tastes different from what you expected, at a potency you can’t fully verify, in packaging that doesn’t quite match what you had in mind. And now you have stock. Significant stock. With no validated market for it.

The prototype stage has always existed in professional supplement development. Manufacturers use it before locking a formula — checking flavour, texture, solubility, and dose before committing to a full production run. That process has never been available to founders directly. Until now.

What you’re buying

Real ingredients. Precisely measured. Ready to build with.

A Forge kit is a branded retail box containing all the raw ingredients for one supplement prototype category — individually labelled pouches, sized by net weight, ready to weigh and mix.

Each kit holds 13 to 21 pouches — between 370 g and 4.4 kg of material. Forge gives you no recipe and no starting dose: you decide what goes in and how much. Weigh it, mix with water, taste, adjust, try a different flavour direction, evaluate how it feels. Do that enough times and you’ll know whether your formula works — before you’ve spent a dollar on a manufacturing run. The only numbers Forge publishes are the statutory maximums you must stay under.

Not a supplement you buy. A product you build.

How it works

Three steps to a real prototype.

Step four is MHS.
See the pathway below.
01

Choose your kit

Eleven kits across five supplement categories. Choose the one that matches the product you want to build. Each contains the base ingredients for that category — formulated by MHS using specification-grade raw materials. The kit is fixed. The formula is yours to refine.

F-CHOOSE · ON SITE
02

Add a flavour system

Raw materials are functional, not palatable. Add a flavour system — three 20 g pouches from a curated range — and a sweetener system to make your prototype something you can actually evaluate. This step isn’t optional. It’s what makes the kit usable.

F-FLAVOUR · SYSTEM
03

Prototype until the material runs out

Weigh. Mix. Taste. Adjust. There is no recipe to follow — you choose the ingredients and the doses, staying under the limits on the kit’s limits card. Over enough attempts you’ll understand your formula — the dose, the flavour direction, the texture, the positioning.

F-TEST · YOUR BENCH

What Forge doesn’t do

Incomplete by design.

What a kit gives you

  • Specification-grade raw ingredients
  • 13–21 pre-weighed pouches per kit
  • A limits card and instructions
  • A validated concept to take to MHS

What it leaves to MHS

  • Custom ingredient swaps or bespoke formulas
  • Compliance advice or TGA guidance
  • Professional flavour optimisation
  • Finished, market-ready product output

Forge kits produce prototypes — approximately 60% of a commercial product. What’s missing is intentional: professional flavour optimisation, TGA compliance review, final batch documentation, and commercial-scale production tolerances. That work belongs at MHS.

The next stage

Your prototype is step one.
MHS is step two.

Forge and MHS are part of the same system. Forge is the prototype stage. MHS is the manufacturing stage. When you’re ready to move from a validated prototype to a product you can actually sell, MHS is where it goes.

  1. 03

    Batch manufacturing

    Small-to-medium production runs with batch records and traceability, from a licensed Brisbane facility.

  2. 02

    Compliance review

    FSANZ-aligned formula and label review before production — the work Forge deliberately does not do.

  3. 01

    Professional flavour development

    Your prototype flavour direction, refined by the MHS development team to a commercial standard.

  4. 04

    Labelling and 3PL fulfilment

    Graphics, labelling, and third-party logistics for your first production run and the repeatable runs after it.

Learn about MHS manufacturingmanufacturinghealthsolutions.com.au

Common questions

Common questions.

01 · Is a Forge kit a product I can sell? +
No. Forge kits produce rough prototypes — approximately 60% of a finished commercial product. They are designed for formula validation, not retail sale. If you want to take your formula to market, the next step is MHS manufacturing.
02 · Do you tell me what formula to make? +
No — that judgement is yours. Forge publishes what is in the box and the statutory daily maximums you must stay under, and nothing in between: no starting formula, no suggested dose. What is fixed is the kit itself. The ingredient lists and pack sizes are standardised and there are no substitutions, which is what keeps the system operationally consistent and the quality reliable across every kit. Custom formulation work happens at the MHS manufacturing stage.
03 · How much material do I get? +
Between 13 and 21 pre-weighed pouches, and between 370 g and 4.4 kg of raw material, depending on the kit. How many prototypes that yields is up to you — Forge publishes no serve size, because it publishes no formula. There is enough to adjust mix ratios repeatedly, trial multiple flavour directions, and make a genuine assessment of whether your formula is worth taking to production.
04 · Do I need the flavour and sweetener systems? +
Strongly recommended. Most of these raw materials are bitter amino acids, electrolytes, herbal extracts, or dense fibres that are unpleasant to drink without flavour or sweetening. The flavour system is what makes your prototype evaluable as an actual product. Without it, you’re assessing chemistry — not a formula you can present or taste-test meaningfully.
05 · What do I do when my prototype is ready? +
Contact MHS. They’ll take your validated prototype through professional flavour development, compliance review, and commercial-scale production. See the Manufacture with MHS page to start.
06 · Are the kits safe to taste-test? +
Each kit ships with a limits card and an instruction sheet that names its specific cautions — stimulants, botanicals, electrolytes, or fibre titration. Stay under the stated daily maximums, and don’t use kits during pregnancy or breastfeeding, for children, or alongside relevant medicines without clinician review.
07 · How is my kit shipped? +
Kits are packed and dispatched by MHS in Australia. Shipping times and costs are shown at checkout; returns follow the refund policy — unopened kits only, given the nature of raw-ingredient products. See the shipping policy for detail.
08 · Who actually makes the kits? +
Manufacturing Health Solutions — a Brisbane-based, family-owned contract supplement manufacturer (licence FL-653816, HACCP 500-25350-H). Forge is MHS’s consumer prototyping brand: the same team that packs your kit manufactures commercial supplement runs every week.

Ready?

Choose your kit.
Build your prototype.

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13–21 POUCHES PER KITMANUFACTURED BY MHS BRISBANE