About us
Research deserves a place to become real work
Foundry by BIRI™ is where teams turn research into finished, evidence-linked documents.
Why Foundry exists
Good decisions depend on good documents, and good documents depend on knowing where the information came from. Too often that work is spread across files, emails and memory.
Foundry began in 2026 as a tool for turning a brief and a folder of sources into a real Word report. It is now becoming a shared web workspace, so that a whole team can do that work together, connected to BIRI.
Who it is for
Foundry is being built first for the teams at Planetary.Blue, for bank development work: documents that pass through many steps and many people. It will be opened to other organisations later.
What we believe
People decide
AI can help you find and understand. A named person makes the decision and gives the reason.
Evidence stays visible
Answers name their sources. A rating is only ever what BIRI itself returns.
Your work is private
Each project belongs to its people. Foundry keeps its own database, separate from BIRI.
Part of the BIRI family
BIRI, the biosphere information reliability index, gives an independent assessment of the long-term reliability of organisations publishing information about the biosphere. It does not tell you what to think. It helps you decide how much confidence to place in the organisation providing the information.
How Foundry differs from other BIRI tools
BIRI Research Assistant and BIRI Concierge help you explore BIRI's curated library. Foundry adds your own work: it can read your project's documents, and your team can write and finish them together.
Who we are
Foundry and BIRI are operated by Planetary.Blue, a company registered in Singapore.