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Crisis Intervention & Operational Systems

We put out the fire.
Then we build the system
so it never happens again.

Most of our work starts with a phone call from an owner in trouble. We handle the crisis. Then we build the operating system that prevents the next one.

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Crisis Intervention 24-hour response. Direct to the founder. → Foundry OS Bespoke software for your people, customers, and numbers. Yours forever. → Compliance Services HR compliance, work health & safety, regulatory frameworks. Multi-jurisdiction. →
120%

Revenue target hit in 8 months

7×

Net profit multiplied

24h

Crisis response time

Crisis Management

When it's on fire, you don't read a book.

You call someone who's put out fires. Most of our work starts with a phone call from an owner who just discovered something went sideways. We assess. We build the response. We stay until it's handled.

Crisis Hotline → 24-hour response. Direct, no runaround.
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    Key employee about to leave or just left. Your operational knowledge walks out the door.

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    Company restructuring. You need to reorganise without breaking what's working.

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    Cash flow crisis. Not broken yet. But you're losing sleep.

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    Fair Work complaint. Sexual harassment grievance. General protection claim. Unfair dismissal.

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    Regulatory audit. WorkSafe. NMI. Immigration. WHS. HSE. You need someone who knows the framework.

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    Demand letters. Legal threats. Supplier dispute. Client claim. These escalate until someone takes control.

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    Mediation. We reframe legal disputes into commercial negotiations. We bring them onto commercial ground, where business outcomes matter more than legal posturing.

Compliance isn't paperwork. It's the thing that keeps you out of court.

Regulation is dense and unforgiving — wherever you operate. Employment law, work health and safety, insurance gaps, process failures. Most companies don't know they're non-compliant until someone audits them. We find the gaps before someone else does. Deep expertise in Australian, UK, and EU frameworks.

HR Compliance

Employment agreements that hold up. Position descriptions. Performance management frameworks. Disciplinary procedures. Termination protocols. Everything a regulator will ask for, already in place before they ask.

Employment contracts Employment law Termination

Work Health & Safety

WHS systems that pass inspection. Risk assessments. Safe work method statements. Incident reporting frameworks. Not a binder that sits on a shelf. A system your team actually uses.

WHS framework SWMS Incident reporting

Regulatory Compliance

ASIC obligations. Consumer law. Industry-specific licensing. Immigration compliance. We map every regulation that applies to your business — across every jurisdiction you operate in — and build a compliance calendar so nothing slips through.

ASIC Consumer law Licensing

Process Mapping

Your operations documented end to end. Every workflow, every approval, every handover. When someone leaves, the knowledge stays. When an auditor asks, you show them a map, not a blank stare.

Workflow documentation SOPs Handover protocols

Insurance Audit

Most SMEs are underinsured in the wrong places and overinsured in the wrong places. We audit your policies against your actual risk profile. Public liability, professional indemnity, cyber, management liability. Gaps found before a claim finds them.

Policy review Gap analysis Risk profiling

Compliance Calendar

Every obligation. Every deadline. Every renewal. Tracked and flagged before they become emergencies. This is what compliance looks like when it's a system, not a panic.

Deadline tracking Renewal alerts

Every compliance engagement starts with a gap assessment. We find what's missing before someone else does. Then we build it into a system that runs without you thinking about it.

The Problem

Most companies don't die from competition. They die from the inside.

Smart owners. Multi-million-dollar companies. The back office held together with email, memory, and hope.

✕ What most owners are flying with

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HR: someone does it. But no architecture above them. No governance layer.

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CRM: your sales staff won't update it. Pipeline is fiction.

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Numbers: last quarter's rear-view mirror. Not live. Not actionable.

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One dispute or audit, and you're digging through months of fragments.

You're the bottleneck. The business runs you.

✓ What Foundry builds

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HR: one controlled system. Evidence by default, not by luck.

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CRM: action-first, near-zero data entry. Your team uses it.

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Numbers: live cockpit. Know where you stand today.

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Audit-ready by design. Your records are your defence.

You see everything. You decide everything. The business stops running you.

Foundry OS

An operating system forged for SMEs. Three modules. One system.

Each module is bespoke. Built for how you work, not how software thinks you should work.

Anvil

Anvil

HR without the HR degree.

Zero learning curve. Your staff adapts in a day. Owner runs employee records and performance reviews from one screen.

  • Employee lifecycle: one place, no friction
  • Performance tracking: simple, boss-driven
  • Native e-sign built in
  • AI assistant that knows your context
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Pulse

Pulse

A CRM your team actually uses.

Near-zero data entry. AI researches your customer before you call. Syncs with your accounting system. Built for adoption.

  • Today view: what to do, nothing more
  • Near-zero data entry: AI does the work
  • MYOB, Xero & QuickBooks sync
  • Quote engine and Spencer AI
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Vantage

Vantage

The captain's cockpit.

One honest read on margin, momentum, and cash. AI CFO. Custom dashboard. Built once. Yours forever.

  • Live financial health score
  • Cash runway and customer profit ranking
  • AI CFO: strategic reports on demand
  • Fully customisable to your business
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Standard SaaS was built for someone else. Foundry OS is built for you.

When you buy SaaS, you commit to reshaping your company around someone else's software. We take the opposite approach.

Standard SaaS

Your company does the adapting.

CostPer user, per month. Starts small. Escalates fast.
CustomizationYou adapt to it. Your workflow, industry, team style: irrelevant.
SupportTicket queue. Template replies. Nobody knows your business.
Staff~30% adoption. You paid for seats nobody sits in.
ProcessYour unique process gets crushed into a generic mould.
Lock-inMulti-year contracts. Data held hostage.
You paid. You adapted. Your team stopped logging in. You're locked in.
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Foundry OS

The software adapts to you.

CostOne investment. No per-user pricing. No lock-in.
CustomizationBuilt around your workflow, your industry, your team.
SupportFounder-level. Knows your business by name.
StaffZero learning curve. Used because it helps them work.
ProcessYour process, your way. The system moulds to you.
Lock-inNone. Your system. Walk away. Data stays yours.
Software built for your business. One partner. No compromises.

No slide decks. No subscriptions.

A partner who builds and stays.

Case Study

Not magic. Compound effect.

A property development company. Years on the ground. Not a quick fix. A system that changed how the business runs.

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Revenue target lagging for years

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Owner flying blind. No live numbers.

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HR was risk exposure. No system.

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Owner was bottleneck on every decision.

✓ After

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Revenue: hit and exceeded targets

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Costs cut. Sales surged. Net profit multiplied.

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Staff turnover: healthy

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Owner: has a life again

In the turnaround year, net profit increased by 700%.

Before we started, the company was barely breaking even. Net profit was negligible. The compound effect of plugging operational leaks while sales surged: revenue hit targets it had missed for years, costs dropped, and net profit multiplied sevenfold. Staff turnover stabilized at a healthy level. The owner went on holiday without checking emails. The math follows the fix.

We find your money. Then we build the system that keeps it.

No upfront build fee. No per-seat pricing. No lock-in.

1

Diagnose

Give us read-only access to your accounting system. Two weeks later, a three-page memo: where your cash is stuck, which quotes are dying, what it costs you.

Free
If we can't find $20K+, you owe nothing
2

Build

We design and deploy your operating system around how you actually work. Built from scratch, not a template.

$0 upfront
$2,500-5,000/mo, 6-12 months
3

Operate

Every Monday, an Owner Brief: what needs attention, what's stuck, what's at risk. Not a subscription. An operating partnership.

$2,500/mo
Cancel anytime. System stays yours.
4

Stay

Quarterly reviews. System evolves with your business. Leave anytime, take the system with you.

No lock-in
We keep you because the work is good

One recovered invoice pays for a year. One saved quote pays for three. The math is not subtle.

Testimonials

What owners say.

Names shared with consent. Some identifying details altered under confidentiality. Foundry OS is a recent product. Many of these experiences come from crisis intervention and direct operational work. The results are real.

Everything was in one person's habits. No system. Evan built what we should have had from day one.

Eric

Wholesale & distribution

They brought three lawyers. Evan reframed it from a legal fight to a commercial deal. We walked with what we needed.

David

Equipment & supply

My accountant's reports were two months old. Vantage gave me a dashboard I check at 10pm. Now I sleep.

Roy

Private business owner

Every other system felt like a straitjacket. Foundry built something the team actually wanted to use.

Aston

Creative & distribution

Evan said fix it while it's cheap. Two new locations, zero sleepless nights. Best money I've spent.

James

Solar & energy

Key manager left. Everything was in his head. We called Friday. Evan was in the office Monday.

Marcus

Construction services

Evan warned me. I said no. A year later they came for half a million. He rebuilt the case from WhatsApp. Zero liability.

Tom

Manufacturing & logistics

Limited Release

The playbook extracted from seven-figure engagements.

Blind Spots

Blind Spots

A field manual for owner-operators

Every chapter started as a real crisis. What to do in the first 72 hours when compliance, culture, or cash flow blows up.

Not for sale. Released only to operators who apply.

"I bought my own freedom. Let me build yours."

Evan sits at the intersection of four battlefields: business and law, sales and product, technology and management, crisis and strategy. For nearly a decade, he has answered the same calls from the same kind of owner — brilliant people running on instinct, not infrastructure. Foundry OS is the system he built to change that.

Evan

Founder, Foundry Business Services

A decade across business law, sales systems, and crisis intervention. Owner-led companies.

Find out where your money is stuck.

Give us read-only access to your accounting system. Two weeks later, you get a three-page memo showing exactly where your cash is trapped, which quotes are dying, and what it's costing you. If we can't find at least $20K of recoverable money, you owe nothing.

Get your free operating audit

No cost. No commitment. No sales call. Just the memo.