What Fortig Inc. does

Fortig Inc. is a privately held, Vancouver-based firm founded in 2012 that sells the FORTIG Enterprise Digital Twin platform together with a tiered consulting practice aimed at asset-intensive organizations. The company describes FORTIG as a visual graphical approach to managing mission-critical physical assets across their entire lifecycle, combining a proprietary six-phase methodology (Initiate & Plan, Document Strategy & Set Scope, Analyze & Drive Out Defects, Design the Solution, Implement, Monitor and Analyze Results) with a pre-built content library and explicit alignment to the ISO 55000 asset management standard at the top tier.

The business model is professional-services led. Fortig runs a six-level engagement ladder starting at a complimentary FORTIG Tin assessment and progressing through Iron, Bronze, Silver, and Gold into FORTIG Platinum, which functions as the ISO 55000-aligned digital twin and management system. Pricing is quote-based, contracts are multi-year beyond the entry tier, and distribution is direct enterprise sales with no disclosed partner or reseller channel. Customer segments span heavy industry (hydro power generation, global marine shipping, upstream oil and gas, port terminal handling), university facilities management (UCSD), healthcare, manufacturing (a US liner-board mill), and municipal government, with documented outcomes including $35M of avoided terminal CapEx and $400M of equivalent fleet CapEx from a 1% reliability gain.

The firm is led by founder Gail Petersen, who is also the principal external voice through the firm's Library, blog, white papers, and the December 2023 book 'Embrace Industry 4.0!' launched at ReliabilityWeb's International Maintenance Conference. Headcount is reported as 1-10, no external funding rounds are disclosed, and revenue is not publicly reported, indicating a small, founder-anchored boutique whose scale and growth trajectory cannot be reliably inferred from available evidence.

Name

Fortig Inc.

Legal name

Fortig Inc.

Website

https://fortig.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fortig Inc. is a Vancouver-based firm that provides the FORTIG Enterprise Digital Twin platform and tiered consulting services to help asset-intensive organizations maximize utilization of mission-critical physical assets, serving clients across heavy industry, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Asset Performance Assessments: Tiered consulting services from complimentary assessments (FORTIG Tin) to comprehensive transformation engagements (FORTIG Platinum). Services include asset management assessment, process redesign, implementation support, and ongoing advisory.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Fortig provides the FORTIG Asset Performance Accelerator, an Enterprise Digital Twin platform that combines proprietary software with a structured consulting methodology to help asset-intensive organizations improve how they manage mission-critical physical assets across their lifecycle. The offering is delivered through a tiered engagement model—from complimentary asset performance assessments through comprehensive transformation and full ISO 55000-aligned management system implementation. Services are sold as professional consulting engagements with multi-year contracts.

Product overview

FORTIG is a single, unified Asset Performance Accelerator platform that combines an Enterprise Digital Twin solution with a tiered consulting service structure (FORTIG Tin through FORTIG Platinum). The core FORTIG platform provides rich pre-built content and methodology for asset management, which is then applied through progressive service levels—from complimentary assessment (Tin) through full ISO 55000-aligned implementation (Platinum). Organizations start with FORTIG's proven content rather than a blank approach, customizing the platform to match their operational requirements while following FORTIG's methodology to drive out defects and achieve consistent results.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FORTIG Asset Performance Accelerator: An Asset Performance Accelerator and Enterprise Digital Twin solution that helps organizations maximize asset utilization and achieve Industry 4.0 readiness.
• FORTIG Tin
• FORTIG Iron
• FORTIG Bronze
• FORTIG Silver
• FORTIG Gold
• FORTIG Platinum

Products and services

• FORTIG Asset Performance Accelerator (Enterprise Digital Twin) FORTIG is an Asset Performance Accelerator and Enterprise Digital Twin solution that helps asset-intensive organizations systematically improve how they manage mission-critical physical assets across their lifecycle. It combines a rich pre-built content library with the proprietary FORTIG methodology (Initiate and Plan, Document Strategy and Set Scope, Analyze and Drive Out Defects, Design the Solution, Implement, Monitor and Analyze Results) and a visual graphical interface to expose root causes, align asset management with business strategy, and operationalize ISO 55000 standards. It is delivered to enterprises via a tiered consulting engagement model that progresses from complimentary assessment through full ISO 55000-aligned management system implementation.

Quantifiable outcome

• $35M CapEx expansion project eliminated at largest terminal handler on west coast of the Americas
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Honeywell Forge: Honeywell Forge bundles connected-operations, asset reliability, and digital-twin capabilities for industrial operators, competing for the same reliability-improvement and CapEx-avoidance budget Fortig's case studies monetize.
• SAP Enterprise Asset Management / S/4HANA PM: SAP's Plant Maintenance / EAM module is embedded inside large ERP estates at industrial customers; Fortig often replaces or augments CMMS/PM systems, putting it in direct competitive overlap with SAP.
• Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE: Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE platform delivers engineering-to-operations digital twins for asset-intensive industries; it competes for the same lifecycle digital-thread narrative Fortig uses, but at much greater scale and breadth.
• Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence: Hexagon (HxGN SDx, j5, HxGN EAM) provides digital-twin and EAM solutions for industrial and infrastructure operators, overlapping with Fortig's reliability-centered and asset-management methodology.
• GE Digital APM: GE Digital's Asset Performance Management (APM) and Predix portfolio target reliability and condition-based maintenance at industrial operators — the same outcome Fortig sells — but as part of a much broader GE software suite.
• IBM Maximo Application Suite: Maximo is the dominant enterprise asset management (EAM) suite used by asset-intensive operators; it competes for the same asset-management budget Fortig targets, but as a broad incumbent platform rather than a niche methodology-led offering.

Direct peers

• Aveva: Aveva (including the legacy OSIsoft PI portfolio) sells industrial digital-twin and asset-information software to plant operators, directly overlapping Fortig's target buyers and use cases around lifecycle asset visibility.
• Bentley Systems: Bentley's AssetWise and iTwin platform deliver enterprise digital-twin and asset-performance capabilities for infrastructure and industrial operators — the closest direct analogue to Fortig's Enterprise Digital Twin for asset-intensive organizations.

Emerging players

• Uptake: Uptake is an industrial-AI platform for asset performance and reliability, partially overlapping with Fortig's value proposition for asset-intensive operators pursuing Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance programs.
• Augury: Augury applies AI and vibration/temperature sensing to predict asset failures and uptime, addressing the same reliability-driven CapEx-avoidance outcomes Fortig claims, but via continuous AI monitoring rather than consulting-led methodology.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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