About FoundryOS

We build the platforms
your business runs on.

FoundryOS is a Nova Scotia software studio, founded by Dan Merchant. We build custom operational platforms — engineered around how your business actually works, with AI wired into the daily workflow, and shipped in 2–4 weeks.

We're small and hands-on: the people who scope your platform are the people who build it. No account managers, no offshore hand-offs — real engineering, owned end to end.

Why we exist

Custom used to be a luxury.

It isn't anymore — and that changes how your business can run.

For two decades, software shaped to your exact operation was reserved for enterprise budgets and year-long timelines. Everyone else settled: bend the business to fit off-the-shelf tools, or stitch five apps together and absorb the gaps in spreadsheets.

Two things changed at once. AI matured from a novelty into infrastructure — something that can classify, route, schedule, and draft inside a live operation, under human control. And building custom software became something you can engineer rather than improvise. Put them together and the old math inverts: when the build is engineered, custom is no longer the slow option. It's the fast one.

So we don't build another tool for your stack — we build the system your stack connects into. Shaped to your workflow, with AI wired into the work, shipped in 2–4 weeks and fully owned by your business.

Curious what that could look like for your operation? Take our free 5-minute assessment and we'll send back a custom report, tailored to your business — laying out exactly how a custom platform could give you the operational clarity, embedded AI, and single source of truth that replaces the scattered tools you run on today. We'll respond within two business days.

What we believe

Five things we build around.

The principles behind every platform we ship.

Operational Clarity

Know exactly what's happening across the organization — one system, one source of truth.

Automation & AI

Remove repetitive manual work and embed AI into the workflow itself — not as a separate tool.

Speed to Ship

A working platform in 2–4 weeks — value while the problem is still urgent, not a year later.

Compliance & Governance

Keep processes controlled, documented, and audit-ready, with human-in-the-loop control over the AI.

All-Inclusive Ownership

Hosting, maintenance, support, and accountability — handled. One team, end to end. You own everything.

Proof

We ship real platforms.

Not concepts — operational software running in the businesses we built it for.

Our own product, CrewOS, runs crew and contractor operations end to end and is live under its own brand at crewos.ca. Alongside it: an operations hub for a commercial cleaning company, a community food network, and the practice-management platform we run FoundryOS on.

Got a workflow that
needs a platform?

Tell us what you're trying to build. We'll tell you how fast we can ship it.

Based in Nova Scotia · Shipping everywhere