Stop stitching together business software.
The open-source operating system for service businesses - from the first proposal to the final payment in one place, running on your own infrastructure.
Built for people in the service industry
Your business deserves better than duct tape.
Most studios rent seven disconnected subscriptions and glue them together by hand. Foundry replaces the sprawl with one workspace you own - one identity, one workflow, one bill of zero.
Seven logins. Copy-paste between apps. Your data scattered across other people's clouds.
One identity. One workflow. Everything connected by design - on your own server.
The full lifecycle, connected.
Not a pile of features - a single flow from the first quote to the final payment, with nothing retyped along the way.
Everything after the handshake.
Opinionated, fast and connected. Each part of Foundry makes the others more useful - because they share one database, not seven APIs.
The center of your business.
Everything hangs off the project - scope, timeline, documents, invoices and the client it belongs to.
- Status, dates and progress at a glance
- Documents and invoices attached
- Always connected to its client
Every client, one timeline.
Quotes, projects, invoices, payments and documents - the whole relationship in one record instead of five apps.
- Unified client history
- Every quote and invoice in context
- Documents and contracts attached
Quotes that become projects.
Send professional, numbered quotes with real line items. When the client says yes, the project starts - nothing retyped.
- Line items with automatic totals
- Auto-numbered (Q-1007)
- Accepted quote → live project
Send it once. Foundry does the rest.
One click generates the PDF, emails it to your client and starts tracking the status - no export, no attach, no forward.
- PDF generated and emailed on send
- Auto-numbered (INV-1042)
- Status tracked from draft to paid
Know where the money is.
Record payments against invoices and expenses against projects - outstanding balances and real margins, always current.
- Payments matched to invoices
- Expenses tracked per project
- Outstanding at a glance
One searchable home for every file.
Contracts, briefs and deliverables attached to the client and project they belong to - stored on disk you control.
- Attached to clients and projects
- Local disk or any S3-compatible storage
- Uploads stay on your infrastructure
Real numbers, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
Revenue, outstanding invoices and activity on a live dashboard - updated in real time as events happen.
- Live revenue and outstanding totals
- Realtime notifications built in
- No manual exports
Your business should work while you do.
Every action in Foundry emits an event, and the right things happen next - automatically. The same event bus powers Enterprise audit logs and webhooks, so extending the workflow never means rewiring it.
Your business. Your infrastructure.
Run Foundry the way you want - from a single Docker Compose command to a locked-down, air-gapped private cloud. Your data never has to leave your network.
Deploy the full product with Docker Compose and run it yourself. Free forever.
- Docker Compose install
- Complete workflow included
- Free forever
Foundry, run for you - backups, updates and monitoring included. Coming later.
- Fully managed hosting
- Backups & monitoring
- Same open-source core
Open core, done honestly.
The Community Edition is never crippled. You pay for administration, compliance and scale - never to unlock the product you already run.
Community
Everything you need to run your studio. Open source, self-hosted, complete - not a demo.
- Full workflow: clients → quotes → projects → invoices → payments
- No row limits or artificial caps
- No feature gates on core workflow
- Runs offline - no telemetry, no phone-home
- Your data exports freely, always
Cloud
For teams that want the same product without running the servers - administration, compliance and scale, hosted by us.
- SSO - SAML & OIDC - with SCIM provisioning
- Roles and granular permissions (RBAC)
- Immutable audit log with export
- Outbound webhooks & API keys
- Multi-workspace management
- Managed hosting, backups & monitoring
Same core, either way
Cloud is a deployment choice, not a different product. Your data model, your API, your workflow - identical to what self-hosters run.
- One open-source codebase powers both
- Same schema, same migrations, same events
- Move between Community and Cloud without reshaping data
- No dark patterns - the community edition never gets worse to sell Cloud
- You are never locked out of your own database
Priced for how you actually grow.
The core is free because it's yours. You pay when you need administration, compliance and someone on the hook - not because your invoice count went up.
Self-host the full product on your own infrastructure.
- Open-source core
- Unlimited clients, projects & invoices
- Docker Compose install
- Community support
Foundry, hosted and operated for you. On the roadmap.
- Fully managed hosting
- Backups & monitoring
- Automatic updates
- Same open-source core
Where Foundry is headed.
Built in the open, shipped continuously. Here's what's live today and what's next.
Questions, answered.
Everything you need to know about running, licensing and extending Foundry.
Can I self-host Foundry?
Yes - that is the point. Community deploys with Docker Compose on any VPS, on-prem server or air-gapped network. It needs PostgreSQL, Redis and somewhere to store files: local disk or any S3-compatible object storage.
Is the Community Edition really free?
Free and complete. The full workflow - clients, quotes, projects, invoices, payments, expenses, documents and reporting - ships in Community with no row limits, no feature gates and no telemetry requirement. It is licensed under AGPLv3.
What does Cloud add?
Cloud is Foundry hosted and operated by us - same open-source core, without the servers. It adds the team-and-compliance layer that only matters once you are coordinating across people: SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning, roles and permissions (RBAC), an immutable audit log, outbound webhooks and API keys, multi-workspace management, plus managed backups and monitoring. Core workflow is never part of the paywall.
When is Cloud available?
In development. Join the waitlist and you will get early access, plus locked-in launch pricing when Cloud opens.
What about self-hosted Enterprise?
Considering it. If your organization needs Cloud features (SSO, audit log, RBAC) on your own infrastructure - for compliance, air-gap or contractual reasons - reach out. If enough real demand is there, we will build it. We would rather ship it because someone needs it than sell it speculatively.
Can I move between Community and Cloud without reshaping my data?
Yes. Same schema, same API, same data model - Cloud is a deployment choice, not a different product. Import and export are always available in both directions.
What is the tech stack?
A NestJS API and an Angular client, backed by PostgreSQL and Redis, shipped as Docker images. Boring, proven infrastructure your team can operate and inspect.
Can I use my own object storage?
Yes. Documents and uploads go to local disk or any S3-compatible object storage you control - your files never have to leave your infrastructure. On Cloud, we run Foundry against a hosted S3-compatible bucket by default.
Is my data locked in?
No. It lives in your PostgreSQL database and your object storage, and it exports freely. No dark patterns, no "call us to get your data out." AGPLv3 licensing means you can always run the code that owns your data.
Stop renting your business software.
Own it.
One open-source workspace for everything after the handshake - on your own infrastructure. Build. Deliver. Get paid.