Agents do the work. Your people run the company.
Foundry Grove builds the AI operating system that runs your business — agents doing the work, your people directing them. So a small team does 10x more, and spends its time deciding instead of doing. From vision to autonomous growth in six months or less.
For the first time, people aren't your limiting factor.
For most of business history, growth meant one thing: hire more people. Tech and software companies raised money largely to do it — more headcount to reach the goal, each person inventing a process around themselves. People were always the limiting factor, and the org chart became the process: expensive, rigid, and trapped in people's heads.
That's no longer true. Growth is now possible independent of scaling people. You can decide how the business should run, build the process, and build the agents that do the work — then add people only where judgment, relationships, and strategy genuinely require them, as the decision-makers and strategists rather than the process-fillers. The whole sequence runs in reverse.
You already sense it should work this way. The hard part is knowing where to start when you begin with a team of people and a business that can't stop running. That's exactly what we do — we take you from vision to autonomous growth in six months or less.
One operating system. Four modules. Built into your stack.
We build the Foundry Grove Operating System into your business — delivered as your own Foundry Architecture: the agents, cadences, and data flows that run your company. It has four modules. They interlock and share one data spine, which is the whole point — but most companies start with one and expand from there.
Revenue OS
The acquisition machine: lead generation, the sales process, and coordinated outreach across email, calls, and web — drafted by agents, sent in one consistent voice, with the next best action surfaced for every prospect, every week.
Growth OS
Onboarding, activation, retention, and expansion — everything after "closed." It's what some companies call customer success, built as a system instead of a headcount, and pointed at one thing: climbing your Company Score.
Operations OS
How the business reliably delivers behind the scenes, and how customer signal becomes product evolution. A feedback loop tight enough that what you hear on a call today can ship this week.
Management OS
Your leadership cadence — priorities, accountability, the weekly meeting — rebuilt native to your company and woven into where your team already works, with agents handling the busywork. Not another rigid app to log into. The way you actually run the business.
We work on top of your existing tools.
The Foundry Grove Operating System sits on top of the tools you already use and ties them together. Your team keeps working where they work — we build around your stack, not against it.
A few principles, built into everything we make.
Everything points at one number.
Before we build anything, we define your Company Score — the single metric that captures the value your business is trying to create. Profitability, growth, or a customer-result number that matters more than either. Then we build the whole system to move it.
People decide. Agents do.
Your team becomes the decision-makers and strategists; the agents become the doers. We don't replace your people — we change what they spend their days on, and put them in charge of the work instead of buried in it.
Data drives the decisions.
Every decision is backed by evidence, and every outcome feeds back in. We put the data in your people's hands and keep a constant feedback loop running, so the business learns from what actually happens — not from what someone assumed.
Build, measure, evolve.
We never expect to get it right the first time. Build it, measure it, change it, measure again — listen to customers and keep moving. The system is made to evolve, not to be finished.
Blueprint, Forge, Run.
We map how your business actually runs, define your Company Score, and pinpoint where agents replace manual work. You walk away with a documented operating blueprint and roadmap — a real asset, even if you stop here.
A foundry is where you shape something, test it, and reshape it until it's right. We build into your real stack, put it into action, learn from contact with reality, and refine. This is where the system meets the truth and gets better. Throughout: you work on the business; we build the system that runs it. You react to concrete drafts and decisions — never a blank page.
The system operates; you supervise. Your effort steps down as the machine matures and your Company Score climbs — and the people on your team stay focused on the decisions only they can make.
You're never locked in.
Once the system is live, we can train your team and hand the whole thing over at any time. Many companies keep us on so they can stay focused on growing the business; others bring it fully in-house. Either way, the choice is always yours — that's the difference between a partner and a dependency.
Built for companies with room to build.
Foundry Grove is for startups and growth-stage tech, fintech, and insurtech companies where the founder is still the bottleneck — carrying sales, onboarding, and customer success — and the assumed next move is "hire someone."
It works best where there's room to build: a modern stack and little legacy baggage. It's honestly not a fit for large enterprises tangled in systems that all have to be integrated with — the integration tax there eats the value. We only take on companies where we can deliver a step-change. That's exactly why we can.
5–10x fewer people. We run the company with a fraction of the team it would otherwise take.
A few thousand a month in software — doing the work of multiple salaries. The economics aren't close.
The revenue funnel, at scale. Cost per meeting under $50. More than 70% of qualified calls convert to meetings. More than half of meetings become signed customers. The system surfaces the next best action for every customer, every week — so one person can run a motion that used to need a team.
Built in six months. Run-the-company software rebuilt in a weekend — tailored to us, living in the tools we already use.
Built by operators, not vendors.
Foundry Grove was formed out of years of experience investing in, building, and growing companies. Its founders built Avondale into a leader in insurtech and fintech investing — and built the Foundry Grove Operating System inside real operating companies they backed and helped run, with skin in the game.
Behind it is a team of entrepreneurs, technical builders, and operators — engineers who have shipped real systems, with go-to-market and product expertise drawn from the companies we've built. This wasn't designed on a whiteboard. It was built in the field, by people who have run the playbook themselves.
Today we're building it for other companies — helping them scale the same way we did.
Build the system first. Then hire into it.
Most companies hit a wall and reach for the same fix — hire someone better to solve it. But what that person really does is figure out the process. So reverse it: define the right process, build it with agents, then add people to manage the agents and scale. You already know it should work this way. The hard part is knowing where to start. That's what we do — vision to a working operating model in six months or less.
One or two conversations tells us whether there's a fit. The first step is a Blueprint — and you keep it no matter what.