Lakewood’s biggest employers are institutions: the Denver Federal Center, St. Anthony Hospital, and Terumo BCT, which is headquartered there. Around them is the part of Lakewood this guide is for: the independent shops and restaurants at Belmar, the businesses along West Colfax, and the galleries and studios of the 40 West Arts creative district. The city runs programs for exactly those businesses, from small business workshops to a commercial reinvestment program.
Those businesses have something in common. They run on inquiries. Somebody wants to know about the class, the commission, the table for six, the estimate, and the answer depends on someone being free to give it.
Inquiries that arrive everywhere. A studio gets questions by phone, by Instagram, through the website form, and in person, and each one is answered by whoever happens to see it. An AI agent can answer the common ones from a set of approved answers, in the website chat, the inbox, or on the phone, and hand the unusual ones to a person with the question already written down.
Bookings and classes. Signups for a workshop, a private event, or a recurring class tend to live in three places: the booking tool, a spreadsheet, and someone’s memory. A single automation can keep them in one place, send the reminder, and update the waitlist when someone cancels.
A website that falls behind. Lakewood’s creative and retail businesses change constantly: a new show, new hours for the season, a menu update. When the website depends on someone finding an hour to log in, it falls behind, and people show up for an event that ended last month. A website somebody keeps up to date costs less than the hour a week it takes to do it yourself, and it includes email at your own domain and a Google listing with the right hours.
Lakewood’s contractors, cleaners, and repair companies have the problem every trade has: the phone rings while their hands are full. A phone agent picks up, answers what it’s allowed to, and books the visit. A quote follow-up agent checks back on estimates that went quiet. The calculator on the homepage shows what those hours cost each month.
Every price is on the plans page, with no contract and nothing up front.
A 30-minute call about where the time goes. Then a one-page spec with the price on it, and a few weeks of building, tested with you before it reaches a customer. The Denver page has everything else Foundry24 builds.
Yes. Foundry24 is based in Denver, a few minutes east, and works with businesses across the metro over email and video calls.
Usually more than it does elsewhere. Studios and galleries tend to run on inquiries, bookings, and a website that needs changing every time a show or class changes, and all of that can be handled for a monthly fee.
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.
You email, and it gets changed. Changes are part of the monthly fee, not a new project.
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.