What It Saves

What Foundry saves you

Not vague "AI transformation" promises. Real numbers from real workflows.

Money

1. Money

If you're currently paying for AI API access — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google — for workloads that could run locally, Foundry eliminates that bill. Not reduces it. Eliminates it for the workloads you move over.

Document processing (100 docs/day)

API: £1,800/month
Foundry: £99/month
£20,400/year saved

Support ticket AI (200/day)

API: £450/month
Foundry: £99/month
£4,200/year saved

Internal knowledge search

API: £600-900/month
Foundry: £99/month
£6,000-9,600/year saved

Code review

API: £800-1,200/month
Foundry: £99/month
£8,400-13,200/year saved

All four workloads

API: £3,650-4,350/month
Foundry: £99/month
£39,000-48,600/year saved

Foundry monthly cost is a support subscription. The AI runs on your existing Mac Studio — no per-workload fee.

Time

2. Time

Document processing (1 FTE)

Before: 8-13 min/doc
After: 20-30 sec/doc
1,800-2,500 hrs/year

Support triage (6 agents)

Before: 4-6 hr response
After: 12-15 min response
3,000+ hrs/year

Knowledge search (150 staff)

Before: 25-45 min/search
After: 30 sec-3 min
8,000+ hrs/year

Code review (35 devs)

Before: 3-5 hr PR wait
After: 15-25 min
600-700 hrs/year (senior)
Risk

3. Risk

Data sovereignty risk

Eliminated. Your data doesn't leave the building.

Client compliance risk

Reduced. No third-party AI processing to disclose.

Human error risk

Reduced. AI reads every document consistently. Humans confirm, not re-key.

Audit trail risk

Solved. Every action is logged. Every original preserved. Every approval recorded.

The ROI Question

"This sounds expensive."

A Mac Studio M3 Ultra with enough memory costs £5,500-6,500. Foundry setup is £999. Monthly support is £99.

Year 1 Cost

Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB)£5,500-6,500
Foundry setup£999
Foundry support (12 months)£1,188
£7,687-8,688

Annual Savings (per workload)

Document processing£56,000-71,600
Support desk£35,000-45,000 + £5,400 API
Knowledge search£120,000+
Code review£50,000+
£56,000-120,000+/year

Even on the smallest use case, you're getting 5-7x return in year one. On multiple workloads, it's 15-30x.

And the hardware lasts 5+ years. Year two onwards, the only cost is £99/month.

When it doesn't make sense

We're not going to pretend this is right for everyone.

Foundry doesn't make sense if:

If you're not sure, that's what the Fit Review is for. We'll tell you honestly whether it makes financial sense.

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