Trusted research. Real impact.
A private workspace where your team writes research-based documents together, agrees what done means at every step, and asks questions of its own documents, with references from BIRI™.
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What is Foundry?
From scattered files to a finished, trusted document
Serious documents pass through many hands. Drafts multiply, nobody is sure which step is finished, and it is hard to tell which sources can be trusted. Foundry keeps the documents, the people, the progress and the evidence of a project in one place.
What you can do
Everything a piece of research needs
Find
Ask a question and get an answer drawn from your project's own documents, with each one named and linked.
Assess
See BIRI references with their ratings, shown exactly as BIRI publishes them.
Learn
Use the AI provider you choose to explore what your documents say, in plain language.
Organise
Keep each project private, with its own documents, people and steps.
Create
Write together in real time, comment on any passage, and export to Word or PDF.
How it works
Clear steps, decided by people
The project owner writes the steps and says what done means for each one. The team works through the requirements and ticks them off. The owner records each decision, with a reason, and that record stays.
AI can help you find and understand. It never decides that a step is done.
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Human curated. AI enabled. A more sustainable planet.
BIRI, the biosphere information reliability index, independently assesses the organisations that publish information about the biosphere. Rankings cannot be bought, sponsored or negotiated.
Foundry consults BIRI on every chat question, so the sources behind your answer come with BIRI's own rating.
- BIRI consulted on every question
- Curator and community ratings, unchanged
- No rating from BIRI means no rating shown
- If BIRI cannot be reached, Foundry says so
Private by design
Your work stays yours
Private projects
Only the people on a project can see it. Even an admin has no access to a project they are not on.
Your own AI key
You connect your own AI provider. Your key is stored encrypted and is never shown again.
People decide
Only the project owner records that a step is done. Foundry and its AI cannot.