Every growing business has a layer of work that is repetitive, multi-system and important: a new starter needs six accounts; a client needs to be chased for a document; a report needs assembling from four places by Friday. It is usually done by a capable person who should be doing something else. Foundry Automation turns that layer into workflows: owned, monitored, logged, and run without the chasing.
What we automate
| Workflow | What it means for your business |
|---|---|
| Starters, leavers and changes | One request creates the identity, the mailbox, the licences, the groups, the device assignment and the entries in your line-of-business systems. One request removes all of it, the same day, with a record. |
| Document workflows | Requests sent, reminders chased, files landed in the right place (Foundry Portal, not an inbox), and the case updated when they arrive. |
| Approvals | The right people asked, in the right order, with the decision and the reason recorded. |
| Integrations | Your CRM, back office, finance system and Microsoft 365 kept in step, so nobody re-keys anything. |
| Notifications | People told what they need to know when it happens, not when someone remembers. |
| Reporting | Numbers pulled from the systems of record and assembled on a schedule, so the report is the same every month and nobody builds it by hand. |
Designed for a compliance function to approve
Every automation Foundry builds has:
- An owner. A named person accountable for the workflow.
- A trigger and an idempotent action. It runs when it should, and running twice does no harm.
- A record of every run. What started it, what it did, what it changed.
- A failure path to a human. With the context they need to finish the job.
- A kill switch. Because sometimes the process itself changes.
These rules are what make automation sellable to a business that has to answer for its processes, and they are the same rules Foundry AI inherits when a model joins the workflow.
Automation with judgement in it
Some steps need to understand a request, read a document or decide which of three things a message is asking for. That is where Foundry AI joins the workflow: the same runtime, the same approvals, the same audit trail, with a model doing the step that needs judgement and a person approving anything consequential.
Why we're good at this
Because we do it to ourselves first. Operating technology estates is full of repetitive, multi-system work, and Foundry's own delivery is automated the same way: baselines applied as code, starters and leavers run as workflows, evidence collected rather than assembled. The point of that is a quieter estate for you and a business that scales on automation rather than headcount for us.