Expert Session
Understand what’s possible.
Spend time with a founder working at the frontier of a specific area of AI. Bring your questions. Get practical perspective from someone building with it.
Clarity on your next move.
Foundations Design and Engineering
AI solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
Foundations brings together exceptional technical founders working on the bleeding edge of AI. FDE puts that expertise to work helping companies understand, build and deploy what’s now possible.
Built on Foundations A network of people
building what comes next.
building what comes next.
Software is getting easier to build.
Buying software is getting
harder to justify.
AI is making software easier to build and harder to sell. Companies can build internally, use AI themselves or keep working with the tools they already have.
They want outcomes, not another subscription.
But knowing what to deploy is a different problem.
- Understand what AI can actually do
- Redesign the workflows that matter
- Choose the right tools and models
- Implement AI inside the company
- Build custom systems where they make sense
Three ways to
put AI to work.
Expert advice and focused deployments for small and medium-sized businesses, scoped around your team, budget and existing tools.
AI Deployment Audit
Find where AI fits.
Map your workflows, identify useful opportunities and assess the tools. Get a practical deployment plan grounded in how your company actually works.
A plan you can act on.
Deployment Sprint
Build something that works.
Turn a focused problem into a working solution. Experienced technical builders lead small, deliberate implementations, from design through deployment.
A real solution, deployed.
- AI coding
- Agents
- Voice
- Document intelligence
- Sales automation
- Support automation
- AI infrastructure
What could we
build for you?
A few examples of what a Foundations founder could help you build. Start with one workflow, shaped around your team and the tools you already use.
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Build a software factory.
Close the loop between your product and your customers. Turn feedback and product usage into improvements, use AI agents to build and test changes, then ship and learn from the response. Feed what you learn into the next improvement.
Customer feedback + product usage Build → ship → learn → improve again -
Turn calls into next steps.
Connect meeting transcripts, email and your CRM. Capture commitments, update deal records and prepare follow-up emails for your team to review.
A customer call CRM updates + a draft follow-up -
Put the paperwork to work.
Pull useful fields from invoices, forms or reports into the systems your team uses. Flag missing or uncertain information for a person to check.
A folder of PDFs Structured records ready for review -
Ask your data a question.
Give your team a Slack analyst connected to your data warehouse and business tools. Define your metrics so answers use the same numbers and terminology your team does.
“How did our campaigns do?” A performance breakdown in Slack -
Turn one idea into a campaign.
Turn product updates, useful advice and existing articles into blog posts, newsletters and social posts in your brand’s voice. Automate drafting and repurposing, then queue the content for your team to review and schedule.
A product update or existing article Blog, email + social drafts ready for review -
Run your website in plain language.
Build a company website you can fully control with natural language. Update pages, change the design and publish new content just by asking. No web designer or admin needed.
“Add our new service to the homepage.” An updated website, published -
Turn missed calls into bookings.
Use a voice agent to answer incoming calls, handle common questions and book appointments in your calendar. Hand off complex requests to your team with a clear summary of what the caller needs.
A call while your team is busy A booked appointment + a call summary
Not consultants
studying AI.
Builders using it
every day.
The Foundations community includes founders actively building companies with frontier models, agents, infrastructure and new development workflows.
They know what works because they’re using it. They know the limits because they’ve run into them.
FDE gives your company access to that accumulated knowledge — and the people who can put it into practice.
Foundations Technical founders building
ambitious companies.
ambitious companies.
ModelsAgentsInfrastructure
Firsthand knowledge
FDE Foundations Design and Engineering
ScopeMatchDeploy
Applied to your business
Working systems.
Useful outcomes.
Useful outcomes.
A direct path from question to deployment.
Start with the problem.
Tell us what you’re trying to build, automate or understand.
Meet the right builder.
We match you with the right expertise from the Foundations network.
Put it to work.
Together, we help you understand, design or deploy the solution.
Bootstrap your startup.
Get paid for
what you know.
Apply to join Foundations Your AI expertise can help fund the company you’re building. FDE connects technical founders with paid expert sessions and focused deployment work — a practical way to bootstrap a startup in 2026.
Foundations handles demand generation, scoping, contracting and billing. You bring the expertise.
Earn revenue to extend your runway. Learn from real customer problems. Keep building your own company, without having to start a consulting business on the side.
Fund your company with what you know.
Good work compounds.
- Great technical founders
- Frontier knowledge
- FDE customers
- Paid deployments
- Real business problems
- New company opportunities
More opportunities. More great founders. Back to building.
Put the frontier
to work.
Tell us what you’re trying to build, automate or understand. We’ll help you find the right expertise and a practical next step.
FDE is part of Foundations.