The technologyplatform behindyour business.
Foundry operates, secures, builds and automates the technology your business runs on: from everyday IT, Microsoft 365 and cloud infrastructure to custom software and AI that keeps your data under your control.
Thirty minutes with an engineer. No obligation, no script.
The platforms we run
- Microsoft 365
- Azure
- Entra ID
- Google Workspace
- AWS
- Microsoft Teams
- Intune
- Defender
- Cloudflare
- TypeScript
- .NET
- Azure OpenAI
- Claude
- Amazon Bedrock
- Open-weight models
- Infrastructure as code
The things that keep directors up at night.
01 Suppliers
Every problem starts with a debate about who to call
A registrar, a web agency, an IT company, a phone provider and an AI consultancy, under different logins. When something breaks, everyone points at someone else.
02 Recovery
The backup runs. Probably.
Nobody has restored from it. Nobody knows how long recovery would take. The insurer's questionnaire got answered with a best guess.
03 Systems
The systems don't talk to each other
The CRM, the back office and the finance system are joined by a spreadsheet and a capable person who should be doing something else.
04 AI
Someone is already using AI with client data
A free chat tool, a personal login, no idea where the data went. The board wants an AI plan and nobody can say what a safe one looks like.
There is a better way to run technology. We built it around you.
One platform. Ten capabilities.
Not ten products you buy separately. One technology platform, run by one engineering team, that operates, secures, builds and automates the technology a business depends on. Take one capability or all of them.
- Operate
Foundry Support
Your technology team, without building one in-house.
Managed IT support and technology operations: users, devices, Microsoft 365, applications and suppliers, run by one accountable engineering team.
- Secure
Foundry Secure
Security is built into how the technology operates.
Managed cybersecurity for UK businesses: MFA, Conditional Access, EDR, email and DNS security, patching, backups, incident response and compliance evidence.
- Operate
Foundry Connect
The systems your people work in, run as one.
Managed Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, business email, collaboration, cloud communications and identity, run as one integrated system by one team.
- Operate
Foundry Cloud
Infrastructure engineered to run the business.
Managed cloud infrastructure on Azure, AWS or UK/EU providers: networking, DNS, backups, tested recovery, monitoring and resilience, engineered and run.
- Secure
Foundry Portal
A controlled place for the information you share.
A secure, branded client workspace: document exchange with expiring links, access revocation, download auditing and retention rules matched to your obligations.
- Build
Foundry Web
Your digital infrastructure, engineered and operated.
Managed web infrastructure: domains in your name, DNS, website and web application engineering, hosting, TLS, CDN, WAF and monitoring, run by one team.
- Build
Foundry Engineering
Software built around the way your business actually works.
Custom software development: internal apps, customer portals, APIs, integrations, data platforms and AI-powered applications, built and operated by one team.
- Automate
Foundry AI
Put AI to work inside your business, securely.
AI assistants, workflows and controlled agents for business, designed around your data governance, with model choice, human approval and audit trails.
- Automate
Foundry Automation
Repetitive work removed, with a record of every run.
Business process and workflow automation across the systems you already run: integrations, approvals, onboarding and reporting, with a record of every run.
Add-on for businesses already on the platform: Foundry Growth.
If the right technology doesn't exist, Foundry can build it.
A traditional IT provider has one answer to a business problem: recommend a product. Foundry has a second. We start from the problem, integrate what you already have, build software only where it's the right answer, and then operate and secure what we built.
01
Internal applications
The tool for the process that is specific to how you work.
02
Customer portals
A place your customers log in to do the things they email you about.
03
APIs and integrations
The connective tissue between your CRM, back office and finance.
04
AI-powered applications
A model inside the application, with the controls to match.
AI without giving up control of your data.
Different AI products and deployment models have different retention, training, contractual, logging and residency positions. Foundry designs the architecture around your data governance, so you choose where the model runs by how sensitive the data is.
01
Enterprise AI APIs
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
Both state that API inputs and outputs are not used to train their models by default, with short default retention and zero-retention options for eligible use. The provider is a processor under contract.
Fits: General reasoning and drafting over minimised or non-sensitive content.
02
Models inside your own cloud
- Azure
- Bedrock
Microsoft states prompts and completions are not available to OpenAI and not used to train foundation models; processing stays in the geography you choose for standard deployments. Bedrock offers regional endpoints for data-residency requirements.
Fits: Regulated firms that want frontier capability without a new data relationship.
03
AI inside the platforms you already run
- Microsoft 365
- Copilot
Microsoft states prompts, responses and Graph data are not used to train foundation models and stay within existing Microsoft 365 commitments. It respects the permissions and labels you already have, which is why those need to be right first.
Fits: Document and email assistance in a well-governed Microsoft tenant.
04
Self-hosted and open-weight models
- Open-weight
- Your infrastructure
No model provider receives anything. The security of the whole stack becomes your responsibility, or ours on your behalf.
Fits: Narrow, high-sensitivity tasks where nothing may leave the environment.
From first call to a documented, secured, managed estate.
The Foundry Journey is a defined process of seven steps, planned over two to four weeks and designed so your team keeps working throughout.
- [✓]Discover. First call
- [✓]Audit. Week 1
- [✓]Plan. Week 1 to 2
- [✓]Migrate. Weeks 2 to 4
- [✓]Secure. Weeks 2 to 4
An estate you own, with the evidence to show it.
Not a helpdesk with a logo. A documented environment, run to a published standard, that you can leave with.
- Your technology remains yours.Domains, Microsoft or Google tenant, cloud accounts, website, source code and data are registered and held in your name. Foundry administers them; it never owns them.
- MFA, endpoint protection and secure configuration.Every managed environment gets the same baseline: multi-factor authentication on every account that matters, managed endpoint protection on every device, and the default settings attackers rely on switched off.
- Backups are actually tested.A backup nobody has restored from is a hope, not a plan. Restores are test-performed on a schedule and the evidence is recorded, so you know whether your business can recover.
- Your environment is documented.Accounts, devices, licences, vendors, network, DNS, credentials, source code and runbooks live in one documented place — which you can see, and which comes with you if you ever leave.
No surprises. No silence. Just a documented environment.
You should always know what we run, what has changed and what is next. Here is exactly how an engagement goes.
| # | Phase | What happens | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Discover | Understand the business, the people, the pressures, the technology it already depends on and the work that shouldn't be manual. | First call |
| 02 | Audit | Assess identity, devices, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, backups, domains, DNS, cloud, licensing, security and the systems that don't talk to each other — and write down what we find. | Week 1 |
| 03 | Plan | Agree the migration and improvement roadmap: what changes, in what order, what gets built or automated, and what it will cost. | Week 1 to 2 |
| 04 | Migrate | Take administrative ownership of the environment — accounts, devices, domains, suppliers — with everything documented as we go. | Weeks 2 to 4 |
| 05 | Secure | Apply the Foundry security baseline: MFA, endpoint protection, secure configuration, backup and monitoring. | Weeks 2 to 4 |
| 06 | Manage | Operate the environment day to day: support, patching, monitoring, starters and leavers, vendors and renewals. | Ongoing |
| 07 | Review | Review security, cost, risk and roadmap on a regular cadence, decide what to build or automate next, and keep improving what you own. | Quarterly |
Commitments that mean something.
Eight things every managed customer gets, published so you can hold us to them.
- 01
Ownership
Your technology remains yours.
- 02
Security
MFA, endpoint protection and secure configuration.
- 03
Monitoring
Automated monitoring runs around the clock.
- 04
Backup
Critical data is protected.
- 05
Recovery
Backups are actually tested.
- 06
Documentation
Your environment is documented.
- 07
Support
A human engineer, within published support hours.
- 08
Review
Your environment continually improves.
Questions we get a lot.
Anything else? Book a call. We'd rather talk than write another FAQ entry.