Frequently asked questions

A private workspace where teams write research-based documents together, track each project's steps, and ask questions of their own documents, with references from BIRI.

Teams producing documents that pass through several people and steps. It is being built first for the teams at Planetary.Blue, for bank development work, and will be opened to other organisations later.

Those help you explore BIRI's curated library. Foundry can read your own project's documents, and your team can write them together there.

You write in Foundry's own editor and export to Word or PDF when you are ready to send something onward.

Yes. You sign in with your BIRI account, so there is no separate Foundry password. Create a BIRI account if you do not have one.

Sign in once, then ask the project owner to add you using your email address. The project then appears in your list.

Not yet. For now, only admins create projects. The admin who creates a project becomes its owner.

Pricing for other organisations has not been set yet. If you use the AI features, your AI provider bills you directly, because Foundry uses your own key.

Yes. Everyone sees each other's changes as they happen.

Yes. Anyone who can read a document can comment on a passage and reply. Editors and owners resolve comments. There is no suggestion mode in the first version.

Word (.docx) and PDF. PDF export stops with a clear message if a document uses characters its fonts cannot show, such as Chinese, and it does not yet handle right-to-left scripts. Word export may suit those documents better.

No. Foundry runs in your web browser and needs a connection.

Only the project owner, who records the decision with a reason. The name, the time and the reason are kept.

The owner states the reason, and the step shows as done with an exception, so it is never hidden.

No. The chat cannot tick requirements, record decisions or edit documents.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter, Cloudflare Workers AI, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible service. You add your own key in Settings.

It is stored encrypted and never shown again after you save it. Other people cannot see or use it.

When you ask a question, your question and the passages Foundry finds in your documents go to the provider you chose. Check that provider's own terms.

Only people on the project. Even an admin has no access to a project they are not on, and the chat only uses documents the person asking can read.

Yes. Each question uses one of your BIRI searches, and a free BIRI account includes 50 a month. Keywords from your question are sent to BIRI and recorded there. If your searches run out, the chat answers from your documents and tells you.

No. Foundry shows the rating exactly as BIRI returns it. If BIRI gives no rating, none is shown, and the AI's own text is never treated as a rating.

No. A conversation clears when you leave the page.