Your first call with Foundry
Half an hour with an engineer, not a salesperson. We look at your current technology environment, identify the biggest risks, inefficiencies and unnecessary costs, and tell you what we’d do about them — whether or not you ever hire us.
What you walk away with
- A written summary of what we find, in plain English, prioritised by risk
- The three things we'd fix first, and why
- An honest view on whether Foundry is the right fit — including when it isn't
- No proposal unless you ask for one
What we look at
Foundry’s standard audit scope covers ten areas. The first call is a condensed first pass over the same ten. You don’t need to prepare anything; if you can share a screen, we can see what we need.
| Area | What we check |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace | Admin accounts, MFA coverage, sharing defaults, mail security, licensing waste. |
| Identity | Who can log into what, leavers still active, shared logins, privileged access. |
| Endpoints | Device inventory, encryption, endpoint protection, supported operating systems. |
| Patching | How updates actually happen, and what has been missed. |
| Backup and recovery | What is backed up, whether it has ever been restored, and how long recovery would take. |
| Cybersecurity | The handful of controls that stop most real-world attacks — and which are missing. |
| Domains, DNS and web | Who owns your domains, when they renew, whether your email is authenticated, and where your website and applications live. |
| Systems and integrations | The systems that don't talk to each other, the spreadsheets in between, and the work that is repeated by hand. |
| AI and data | Where AI tools are already being used with business data, what governance exists, and what a controlled first use case would be. |
| Suppliers and cost | How many providers you depend on, who is accountable when something breaks, and the gap between what you pay for and what you use. |
Who it’s for
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.
Whether you have two laptops or two hundred, the call is the same: what you have, what’s at risk, and what we’d do about it.
Why we start this way
Because discover, then audit, are the first two steps of the Foundry Journey, the onboarding process we have defined, and because a business that has seen its own risks written down clearly is a much better customer than one that’s been sold to. There’s no charge and no obligation. If we find nothing wrong, we’ll say so.
See the full Foundry Journey