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About Foundry

The technology team and platform behind a business.

Growing businesses get technology by the piece: a registrar, an IT company, a web agency, a phone provider, a backup vendor, and now an AI consultancy, all under different logins, with nobody accountable for the whole and nobody able to build anything. When something breaks, everyone points at someone else. When something needs to exist, everyone recommends a product.

Foundry exists to be the one team that is accountable and can engineer. Operate. Secure. Build. Automate. The technology platform behind your business, run by an engineer who can build.

A customer may hand us their domains, Microsoft tenant, cloud accounts, backups, source code and the credentials to all of it. That deserves straight answers rather than a values wall, so this page is mostly the questions you should ask any technology partner, answered before you have to ask.

Foundry at a glance

What
Technology platform and engineering partner: we operate, secure, build and automate the technology behind a business
Not
A conventional IT support company, and not an AI consultancy
Where
UK business, delivered remotely across the UK
Who for
Businesses that depend on technology, with particular depth in financial services and other data-sensitive firms
Size
Deliberately small: one accountable engineer, no helpdesk tier
How
One platform, one accountable owner
Promise
Your technology. Your data. Your control.

Principles

How we work

Six things we don’t compromise on. Everything else bends around what your business needs.

We own the outcome

Not a single technology category. If it's technology your business depends on, it's ours to run, secure, build or automate, and ours to fix.

You own your technology

Domains, tenant, cloud, source code, AI environments, data and documentation are held in your name. You can leave, and take all of it with you.

We build when buying is wrong

Most problems are solved by software that exists, configured and integrated properly. For the gap that remains, we design and build, and then we operate what we built.

Evidence over claims

We publish statistics we've measured, certifications we've earned and testimonials real customers have agreed to. Nothing else. We never say a product makes you compliant.

Everything written down

Your environment is documented, the service boundary is published, and the Foundry Standard is a page you can point at.

Plain language

No acronym walls and no AI magic. You'll always know what we're doing, why, where your data goes and what it costs.

These principles are written down as eight commitments every managed customer receives. Read the Foundry Standard.

Who it’s for

Who we work with

Foundry works with UK businesses of every size that depend on their technology and would rather one accountable team operated, secured, built and automated it than juggle a dozen suppliers. Many of them handle sensitive customer or financial data, regulated or not, and need controls they can evidence; that is the work we design around.

  • Any size, from a sole trader to a multi-site firm
  • Any sector, with particular depth in financial services and other data-sensitive businesses
  • Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or nothing yet
  • Starting from scratch, switching provider, or adding engineering and AI to an internal team

The only thing we ask is that you want one team to be accountable for the technology, rather than a list of suppliers to referee. We deliver remotely by design; if something genuinely needs hands on site, we’ll say so and help you arrange it.

In writing

Don’t take our word for it. Take it in writing.

Everything we promise is published, specific and checkable.

Hold us to them.

FAQ

The questions you should ask any technology partner

And our answers, before you have to ask.

Is Foundry an MSP?

Managed technology is where most relationships with Foundry start, because operating an estate is how we learn it, and some of what we do overlaps with what a good managed service provider does. The difference is what happens next: we engineer software and infrastructure, and we automate work, on top of the estate we operate and secure. We own the technology outcome rather than a single technology category.

Where are you based?

Foundry is a UK business and delivers remotely across the UK. There's no office to fund and no engineer stuck in traffic. Managed environments are supported over secure remote tooling, and hardware that needs hands-on setup is shipped pre-configured.

Why was Foundry created?

Because growing businesses were being sold technology by the piece, a registrar here, an IT company there, a web agency, a phone provider, an AI consultancy, and nobody was accountable for the whole, and nobody could build anything. Foundry exists to be the one accountable team, with engineering in it.

How is our data protected?

Your data stays in your systems: your Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace tenant, your cloud accounts, your backup vault, your AI environment, not ours. Foundry accesses it through delegated, named, MFA-protected administrative accounts with least privilege, and that access is logged and can be revoked by you.

Where does our data go when we use AI through Foundry?

Wherever the deployment model we design with you says it goes, and nowhere else. That might be an enterprise API under commercial terms for minimised content, a model running inside your own Azure or AWS subscription and region, AI inside the Microsoft 365 tenant you already have, or a self-hosted model on infrastructure you control. Each has different retention, training and contractual positions, which we set out from the vendor's own documentation, verify for your engagement and write into your contracts and configuration. Retrieval, logging and approvals are always in your environment.

Where is our data hosted?

In your own tenant and accounts, in UK or European regions wherever the platform offers them. Backups are held in isolated storage separate from the systems they protect, so a compromise of one can't reach the other.

How are administrative accounts controlled?

Named accounts per engineer, never shared logins. Multi-factor authentication on everything. Privileged access granted for the task, not permanently. Credentials held in a vault with an audit trail. The same baseline we apply to customers applies to ourselves first.

What happens if Foundry becomes unavailable?

Because everything is registered in your name and documented, including the source of anything we built, you're never dependent on us to keep the lights on. Your documentation, credentials and administrative access are yours, and another competent provider could pick up the environment from the record we keep. That's the point of the Foundry Standard.

Who owns our technology, and what happens if we leave?

You own it. Domains, tenant, cloud accounts, website, source code, AI environments, data, documentation. If you leave, you leave with all of it and we hand over to your next provider properly. Read the full commitment at /ownership.
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