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Foundry Studio

Where live websites meet automated admin

You brief us, we build it, we run it. One person, and no account managers in between. We build the website that turns lookers into customers, then put small helpers to work behind it: Answering enquiries, chasing the ones that slipped away, asking happy customers for a review, keeping your Google listing alive. Built for owner-operators: the people who answer the phone, write the quotes and run the place.

What we do

Two services, aligned to one goal

Beautiful websites that stop the scroll, and automated helpers that save time and money

Website builds

A site built to turn lookers into customers

A fast, beautiful website designed to turn lookers into customers. Built for your business rather than pulled off a template, quick to load on a phone, and yours to keep.

What happens

  1. 1You tell us about your business
  2. 2We design and build it
  3. 3You review it and ask for changes
  4. 4It goes live and brings in enquiries

You choose

  • How it looks
  • What it says
  • How customers enquire, call or ask a question

See what a build costs

Managed agents

Small helpers that work while you get on with it

Small automations that answer enquiries, chase the ones that slipped away, ask for reviews and keep your Google listing alive. We set them up, we watch them, and we answer for them.

What happens

  1. 1We pick the first jobs with you
  2. 2We build them and test them on your real messages
  3. 3You approve everything they send
  4. 4They run, and we watch them daily

You choose

  • Which jobs to start with
  • The wording, the timing and the offers
  • What you are told, and when

Meet the eight agents

Already part of your day

We build on what you already use

Nothing here asks you to move. Your website and your agents sit on top of the tools you already pay for, whatever line of work you are in.

  • Gmail
  • Xero
  • Google Calendar
  • Stripe
  • HubSpot
  • Google Sheets
  • Trello
  • ServiceM8
  • Google Business Profile
  • Booking.com
  • Airbnb
The managed plan

What the monthly fee actually covers

No seats, no tiers, no upsell. One plan that keeps everything you have built running, watched and improving.

Hosting

It runs on our accounts, not yours. Nothing to renew, nothing to migrate, nothing to remember.

Monitoring and alerting on every agent

If something stops working we usually know before you do.

Same-business-day response to anything critical

A site that has gone down, or an agent that has stopped, is treated as urgent.

The next business day for everything else

Changes, questions and small fixes.

Two change hours a month

Spent on whatever is worth improving that month.

A weekly one-page report

What ran, what it caught, what came in, and what we are changing next. If a week is quiet, you will hear that too.

Why a person, not a platform

One person, who knows your business by name.

Software companies sell you a dashboard and a login. We build the thing, run the thing and answer for the thing.

See what the plan costs

The questions owners ask first

Straight answers, before you ring

  • Not necessarily, and we will say so if you do not. If your site loads quickly on a phone, tells a customer what they need to know and makes it easy to get in touch, there is nothing to fix. If it is slow, hard to read on a phone, or sends people off somewhere else to enquire, we will show you what a build would change before you spend anything. There is usually a smaller way to start, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a website you do not need.
  • That is the point of the way we work. We talk through how your business runs once, write up exactly what we will build and what it will do, and then it is our problem rather than yours. You read it back, approve it, or ask for changes. Setting up your first agents usually takes two to three weeks from the first conversation, and most owners start with one job rather than all of them. A website build runs to its own date, and you get that date before we start.
  • Then you leave, and everything we built for you goes with you. Your website, your domain, your customer list, your content — none of it is held hostage. The one thing to know is that hosting runs on our accounts rather than yours, and that hosting is part of what the monthly plan covers.
  • One person. You deal with the same person every time: no account managers, no ticket queue, no explaining your business to a stranger for the third time. You ring the person who built it. We build the thing, run the thing and answer for the thing, and you get one page a week on what it did.
Next step

Tell us what you need

Tell us about your business and what is eating your time. We reply within one business day, usually with a couple of questions and a price.

There is no account to create and nothing to sign up for. If it is easier, ring instead:

+64 9 000 0000hello@foundrystudio.ai

See our prices first

A website, an agent, or the job that eats your evenings. A sentence or two is plenty.

Your enquiry comes straight to us. Nothing you type is stored on this website.

Prices

What we charge

One build, one setup, one monthly plan. Nothing hidden in between, and nothing you have to ask us for.

Showing one-off prices.

One-off

Website build

A website built for your business, designed to turn lookers into customers.

NZ$2,500 – NZ$4,500

One-off. Excludes GST.

  • Bespoke, built for you — not a template with your logo dropped into it
  • Designed to turn lookers into customers, not just to look nice
  • Quick to load on a phone, because that is where your customers are
  • Two rounds of revisions included
  • Yours to keep, and yours to take with you

One-off

Automation setup

We set up your first agents, test them on your real messages, and hand them over running.

NZ$1,500 – NZ$2,500

One-off, depending on which agents you start with. Excludes GST.

  • Set up and tested on your real enquiries and jobs
  • Connected to what you already use: your inbox, your calendar, your customer list, your accounting, your Google listing
  • You approve every message before it goes out
  • Most owners start with two or three agents

All prices are in New Zealand dollars and exclude GST.

Start with the job that costs you the most time

Tell us how your business runs and where the time goes. We will tell you what we would do first, what it costs, and what we would leave alone for now.

One email, straight to us. Nothing you type is stored on this website.