A mentor for every student. A head start for every counselor.
Foundry helps students 16+ discover skilled and technical careers, the programs that train for them, and a real next step. Counselors and families see the parts each student chooses to share, so every conversation starts further along.
Used by students, counselors, and parents of Peak to Peak Charter School.
Guidance that keeps going between meetings.
Your counselors can't be with every student every day. Foundry can, and it brings the adults who help each student into the loop, with the student's OK.
Reach every student
Each student gets a patient, honest mentor that's there between meetings and remembers what they've tried.
Start every meeting further along
Counselors see each student's Portrait, the paths they're exploring and what they've actually done.
Bring families in
Parents and guardians see the plan too, in English or Spanish, with the student's OK.
Know the student before they sit down.
A clear, read-only recap of every student who shares with you. No new system to learn and nothing to manage.
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Your whole caseload, one sign-in
Switch between every student who shares with you. Sign in with a code sent to your school email.
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The whole picture, fast
Who they are, the paths they're exploring and what they've actually tried, on one page.
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Programs worth talking about
Staff get the full Foundry Index: technical schools and training programs ranked on public outcome data.
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Encouragement that lands
Send a note back. It shows up right in the student's app.
Be part of the plan, without hovering.
When your student invites you, you see the parts of their journey they choose to share: who they're becoming, what they're exploring and what they've tried.
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Read it in English or Spanish
A student can talk with Foundry in English while a parent reads their Portrait in Spanish.
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Honest numbers
Real ranges for what programs cost and what careers pay. Never a sales pitch.
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Always free to share
Adding a parent or guardian never costs anything.
A parent's view in Foundry Connect.
The student holds the keys.
Foundry is built for minors from the ground up. Sharing is a choice the student makes, one person and one part of their story at a time.
The student
Uses the Foundry app and decides who sees what.
Counselors and family
See a recap in Foundry Connect. A window into the journey, never a dashboard that watches.
Private by default
Nothing reaches an adult until the student turns it on, and they can stop sharing in one tap.
Safety built in
If a student signals a crisis, Foundry responds with care and points to real help like 988. Notes from adults are screened, and students can report or block.
Honest by design
Real ranges for pay and cost, never promises. When the data is too thin to rank a program, Foundry says so.
Widens options
Foundry never steers a student away from college. A student who chooses a degree is a success too.
For districts: student data privacy
How we handle student data under FERPA and Colorado law, and what we sign before any student gets a code.
What your students see.
So you know exactly what you're putting in front of them. Students 16+ start with a conversation, not a quiz, and Foundry works outward from who they are.
A conversation, not a quiz
One honest question at a time, in their own words. They can type or just talk.
A Portrait of who they are
What Foundry sees in them, plus a few careers worth exploring, including at least one they likely haven't heard of.
Real next steps
They pick a path and get one small step: shadow a day, tour a program, make a call. Foundry remembers how it went.
Programs that fit
The Foundry Index shows technical schools and training programs ranked on earnings, completion and cost.
Every couple of weeks the mentor checks in on new interests, and every version of the Portrait is kept, so growth stays visible over the years.
What counselors and students are saying.
“[Faculty quote. What it does for a counselor with hundreds of students.]”
“[Faculty quote. Why student-controlled sharing earns their trust.]”
“[Faculty quote. A student they watched light up, in their own words.]”
“[Student quote. One or two sentences: the moment Foundry got them right.]”
“[Student quote. A career or program they had never heard of before.]”
“[Student quote. Something real they went and did because of a next step.]”
Built by a teacher and a technologist.
Bob Connors
Bob Connors teaches chemistry and biology at Peak to Peak Charter School in Colorado. Teaching students in every high-school grade, Bob saw a real gap for those considering a technical career: no trusted list of schools to compare, and few good ways to get students talking openly about the careers and the lives they actually want.
Michael Stevens
Michael Stevens has been a tech founder, product designer and developer for more than 30 years, building products for hundreds of companies, including Boeing and Apple. Michael saw Foundry as the right place to put today's AI to work for students: a trusted mentor that gets to know each one personally, keeps growing with them over the years, and always has their best interest at heart.
Bring Foundry to your school.
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See it with your team
A short demo for your counselors and administrators.
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Send us your roster
Each student gets a personal access code by email. Staff sign in to Connect with their school email.
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Students start on any device
iPhone, Android or any web browser. Counselors see what students share from the start.
Affordable, flexible pricing to fit any school or district: per-student licenses for one or two school years.
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