Frequently asked questions

Engineering11 is the company behind Foundry, the AI engineering platform for your whole team. We build the tools, then we build with them: use Foundry with your own team, or have our team build your software with it.

Foundry is a desktop app for running AI agents on real software, for your whole team. You describe the work, and Foundry breaks it into stories. Agents build each story in parallel, your tests run again, and a second model reviews the work. You approve the change before it ships.

Foundry is for software teams running more work than anyone can keep in their head. Foundry keeps track of all of it, and makes sure everything you ship is built the same way. It works on the code you already have.

With the same steps, every run. Foundry plans the work, builds each story, reruns the checks, and records the evidence. A controller hands each story to agents running in parallel, each in its own workspace. An agent saying it’s done never counts.

No. Foundry keeps the science consistent, so your team can focus on the art. Your team decides what to build, approves every change before it ships, and puts its craft into the product.

Foundry checks the work itself. It reruns your tests, types, lint, and security checks and records the results, and an agent can’t mark its own work as done. A different model reviews each change against your docs, and its findings are fixed before a person looks. Then you approve it.

Your own. You run Foundry on your own code, with your own models.

Foundry is a desktop app. Agents run many stories in parallel, each in its own workspace, and they can be sandboxed if you want.

Yes. Foundry works on the code you already have. Agent sessions, Git, and a terminal are all in one window, where your team works.

The Knowledge Center is built from your code by Foundry: your architecture, patterns, and decisions, each with an owner. Every agent reads it before it writes.

So agents read your patterns before they write. Every answer traces back to the code, and every doc is checked like code before agents can use it.

Foundry keeps the Knowledge Center matched to the code as it changes. When the code changes, Foundry flags the docs that are out of date and drafts the updates for your team to review.

The Full-Stack Foundation is an optional add-on to Foundry for new products and replatforms. Agents build a complete, working platform into your repo, documented end to end.

No. The Foundation is an optional add-on. Foundry also works on the code you already have.

The workflows almost every platform needs, done before sprint one: authentication, registration and invitations, multi-tenancy, roles and permissions (RBAC), payments and billing, notifications (email, SMS, and push), file storage and uploads, reporting and analytics, and an audit log. Telemetry, linting, and security checks are built in from the first service.

No. The same Foundation runs real platforms today. It’s distributed as versioned packages, kept current by us and upgraded by you on your own schedule: a version bump, not a rewrite. Every version passes the full test suite before it ships.

AWS, GCP, Azure, or your own Kubernetes. It comes with construction and deployment recipes for each stage of growth and budget, so you can start lean and move up when you need to, without a rewrite.

Yes. It’s opinionated where it counts, in architecture, patterns, and conventions, and unopinionated everywhere else, so your product decisions stay yours. Every external provider, from payments and email to storage and queues, sits behind a strong interface, so you swap one adapter, not your business logic.

Yes. Our engineers build software with the same tools we sell: Foundry and the Full-Stack Foundation. We can build it with your team and hand it over, or build, maintain, and operate the whole thing for you. See how we work.

Teams usually bring us in to launch a new product on the Foundation, to move an older system onto a platform built to scale, or to adopt Foundry by shipping a real project with people who already work this way. We take on a small number of client projects at a time.

Yes. Every engagement runs in Foundry, so you see the same plans, runs, and checks our engineers do, from the first day.

The code in your repo, the Knowledge Center, and the way it was built: every plan, decision, and run from the build. Any engineer or agent can pick up where we left off.

You do. When our team builds for you, you own the code we write for your product, the whole time. The Full-Stack Foundation it runs on is licensed, with support and maintenance included.

Security checks are part of every run: Foundry reruns your tests, types, lint, and security checks itself and records the results. The Full-Stack Foundation adds secret, dependency, and infrastructure scans on every change.

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