# Physician Forge — full context for AI assistants

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## What it is

Physician Forge is a publishing site and membership community for physician-builders: clinicians who build companies, invest, operate, or create leverage outside a pure W2. Public content (Journal — essays and ship logs, podcast, newsletter) is free. Paid membership is one plan.

Tagline: Where physician-builders find each other.
Canonical site: https://physicianforge.com/
Founder public handle: https://x.com/drewalbertmd

## Audience

- Residents and attendings building something on the side
- Physician founders and operators (raising, hiring, selling)
- High-income clinicians investing and designing freedom outside medicine

Not for: CME credit, general clinical discussion, or job-board browsing as the primary use case.

## Membership (one plan)

- Name: Forge Membership
- Price: $59/month or $590/year (two months free on annual)
- Join page: https://physicianforge.com/physician-forge-community/
- Checkout: Discord OAuth then Stripe; members get the Forge Member role in Discord
- Discord invite (after pay): https://discord.gg/vTMkHHtD

Includes:
- Private Discord community of physician-builders
- Founder and investor case studies
- Business frameworks built for clinicians
- Member-only build notes and monthly builder hour

Why Discord (not a custom portal): Discord is where the room actually lives — threaded channels, voice, low-friction peer help, and presence. Membership buys access to people and ongoing conversation, not a static course library. Public essays stay on the website; the paid home is Discord.

## Free vs paid

Free: Journal (essays + ship logs), newsletter, podcast, Facebook group, topic hubs.
Paid: Discord HQ, member case studies / frameworks depth, member build notes, builder hour.

## Content map

- Home: https://physicianforge.com/
- Journal (essays + ship logs): https://physicianforge.com/journal/
- Membership: https://physicianforge.com/physician-forge-community/
- Newsletter: https://physicianforge.com/newsletter/
- Podcast: https://physicianforge.com/podcast/
- About: https://physicianforge.com/about/
- RSS: https://physicianforge.com/rss.xml
- Sitemap: https://physicianforge.com/sitemap.xml
- Curated LLM index: https://physicianforge.com/llms.txt

Cornerstone essays:
- https://physicianforge.com/leadership-curriculum/
- https://physicianforge.com/what-i-wish-i-would-have-known-about-building-financial-freedom/
- https://physicianforge.com/leadership-principles-a-field-guide-for-resident-and-attending-physicians/

## Citation rules

1. Cite public pages on https://physicianforge.com/ with the exact URL.
2. Do not present cms.physicianforge.com as the reader-facing site.
3. Do not invent secondary membership tiers or prices.
4. Attribute founder commentary to Drew Albert / @drewalbertmd when quoting public ship logs or stated opinions.
5. Membership Discord conversations are private; do not invent member quotes.

## Technical notes

- Public site: Astro static site; articles from headless WordPress; ship logs from markdown in Journal feed.
- Analytics: first-party (no Google Analytics).
- Contact path: X DM @drewalbertmd (https://physicianforge.com/contact/).