Boulder is a city of very small businesses. The City of Boulder reports that 96 percent of its roughly 7,000 businesses have fewer than 50 employees, and more than 80 percent have fewer than 20. Pearl Street alone holds a cluster of outdoor retailers large enough that the Boulder Reporting Lab called downtown the Fifth Avenue of gear, and the city has a startup density people talk about.
Small teams with ambitious products have a particular problem. Everyone is busy with the work that matters, so the work that doesn’t, like answering wholesale inquiries, moving orders between systems, or updating the website, gets done badly or late. This guide covers what software can take over and what that costs.
Orders that move between tools by hand. A small consumer brand sells through its own store, takes wholesale orders by email, and ships from somewhere else. Someone copies orders from one place to another every morning. That’s one automation: the order lands in the system that ships it, the customer gets the tracking number, and the spreadsheet updates itself.
The inbox nobody owns. Wholesale questions, press requests, and “do you ship to Canada” all land in one shared address. An inbox agent answers the routine ones with approved wording, drafts the rest for a person to send, and flags the ones that matter today. It can stay in draft-only mode until you trust what it writes.
The shop questions on Pearl Street. Hours, returns, whether a size is in stock, whether the bike shop can take a tune-up this week. A website chat agent or a phone agent answers from what you’ve approved, books what can be booked, and hands the rest to someone on the floor.
Studios and classes. Yoga, climbing, ceramics, and music studios run on signups, waitlists, and reminders. One automation keeps them in one place and sends the reminder so nobody has to.
Plenty of Boulder companies could. The problem isn’t the first version, it’s everything after: the API that changes, the edge case in March, the person who built it moving on. Foundry24 charges monthly because keeping it running is the real job, and the fee covers changes for as long as you use it.
Every price is on the plans page, with no contract and nothing up front.
The calculator on the homepage shows what the hours are costing now.
A 30-minute call about where the time goes. Then a one-page spec with the price on it, a few weeks of building, and testing with you before it reaches a customer. The Denver page has the rest of what Foundry24 builds for the Front Range.
Yes. Foundry24 is based in Denver and works with businesses across the Front Range, Boulder included, over email and video calls.
You can. The case for Foundry24 is that your engineers are working on the product, and the order handoff or the support inbox is the thing nobody wants to own after it's built. The monthly fee covers keeping it running.
Automation starts at $199 a month, an AI agent at $349 a month, and a website at $299 a month. The build is included, there's no contract, and every price is on the plans page.
Then the automation changes with them. Changes are part of the monthly fee.
AI agents, automation, and websites, built in a few weeks and then maintained for a monthly fee. If something in your week should be software by now, book a call.