Foundryworks
Agentic commerce platform — autonomous AI agents that run your catalog, content, ads, and customer lifecycle. Built on Foundryworks.io.
About Foundryworks — Public Company Info
What is Foundryworks?
Foundryworks is an agentic commerce platform — a new category of tool that runs autonomous AI agents against your store, your ad accounts, your email platform, and your analytics to grow revenue without human-in-the-loop micromanagement. Where traditional marketing automation requires a human to build a flow, set a trigger, write the email, and QA the send, Foundryworks agents observe, decide, and act on their own within guardrails you define. The agents live on a shared MCP (Model Context Protocol) bus so they can hand off tasks to each other (an SEO agent flags a keyword drop → a content agent drafts an update → a merchandising agent adjusts the PDP → a lifecycle agent sends the win-back email), and every action is logged, reversible, and audited. Foundryworks is our recommended platform for brands that want to scale marketing output without scaling headcount, and we are an official Foundryworks partner with early access to agent recipes.
Why choose Foundryworks
Foundryworks is the right call when your team is the bottleneck (you have a 2-person marketing team trying to manage a 5,000-SKU catalog, 12 ad campaigns, and 8 lifecycle flows), when you want 24/7 optimization without hiring (the agents run continuously), when you have clean data infrastructure (Shopify, BigCommerce, Klaviyo, GA4 — all native integrations), and when you can tolerate experimentation (agents will try things a human would not, and you need the appetite to learn from the wins and the losses). Foundryworks is NOT the right call if you have brand-safety guardrails that require human review on every send (use it for low-risk surfaces first), if your stack is heavily customized outside the supported integrations, or if you are pre-launch and have not yet proven product-market fit (the agents amplify what is working — they cannot invent a market).
Our Foundryworks services
Foundryworks Onboarding & Agent Setup
Provision your Foundryworks workspace, connect Shopify/BigCommerce/WooCommerce, Klaviyo, GA4, ad accounts, and customer data platform. Configure the agent roster (SEO, content, ads, lifecycle, merchandising) with role-specific prompts, guardrails, and KPIs.
Custom Agent Recipes
Author multi-agent workflows specific to your business — e.g. "Low-stock Hero Recovery" agent that drops price on hero SKUs approaching stockout, writes a PDP update, and launches a Meta retargeting campaign, all with human approval gates.
Always-On Ad Optimization
Agents monitor Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads in real time, shifting budget toward top-performers, pausing underperformers, and writing new creative briefs for the human creative team.
Agentic SEO & Content
SEO agents audit indexation, internal linking, and content gaps daily. Content agents draft new pages, refresh underperforming ones, and ship to staging for human review.
Lifecycle Email & SMS Automation
Lifecycle agents write and send win-back, browse-abandon, post-purchase, and replenishment flows in Klaviyo/Postscript — with full brand-voice training on your existing best performers.
Cross-Agent Audit & Guardrails
Weekly review of every agent action with rollback capability, KPI tracking, and human-in-the-loop escalation for high-stakes decisions (price changes > 15%, refund approvals, etc.).
Common Foundryworks challenges we solve
- Defining effective guardrails so agents do not over-optimize for short-term metrics at the expense of brand
- Prompt engineering for agent roles — quality of outputs depends on quality of system prompts
- Integrating with legacy / non-standard platforms (Shopify Plus custom apps, headless backends, B2B portals)
- Cost forecasting — agentic compute is metered and can spike during heavy experimentation
- Change management — internal teams need new skills to direct agents instead of executing tasks
- Auditing agent decisions for compliance (FTC, GDPR, CAN-SPAM, TCPA)
Or clone the GitHub repo: git clone https://github.com/foundryworks/foundry
Frequently asked questions about Foundryworks
What is Foundryworks exactly?
Foundryworks is an agentic commerce platform — a runtime for autonomous AI agents that act on your store, ad accounts, and lifecycle tools. You define the agents (role, goal, guardrails, KPIs) and the MCP (Model Context Protocol) bus lets them hand off tasks to each other.
How is this different from a marketing automation tool like Klaviyo?
Klaviyo requires a human to design every flow, write every email, and set every trigger. Foundryworks agents do that themselves based on observed performance and your guardrails. Think of Klaviyo as a power tool and Foundryworks as an autonomous worker.
Do agents replace our marketing team?
No — they replace the execution layer. Your team still sets strategy, approves high-stakes decisions, and audits outcomes. Most 5 Kings clients using Foundryworks redeploy 1-2 FTEs from manual execution to higher-leverage strategy work.
Which platforms does Foundryworks integrate with?
Native: Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Klaviyo, Postscript, GA4, Google Ads, Meta Ads, TikTok Ads, Stripe, Recharge. Via MCP: any system with an API (Magento, Salesforce Commerce, custom backends).
How are agents priced?
Self-serve: $499/mo base + metered compute. 5 Kings managed: $4,500/mo includes agent setup, custom recipes, weekly audits, and a dedicated agent engineer. Enterprise: custom pricing for 10+ agents and 100+ brands.
Can I see what the agents are doing?
Yes — every agent action is logged with timestamp, context, decision rationale, and a one-click rollback. The audit dashboard lets you replay any sequence of agent decisions in chronological order.
Is Foundryworks safe for my brand?
You define guardrails per agent: maximum discount, content review requirements, customer segment exclusions, send-time windows, budget caps, etc. High-stakes actions (price changes > 15%, refunds > $500, anything to a VIP segment) require human approval before execution.
Who is Foundryworks a fit for?
DTC and B2B brands doing $2M-$200M GMV with a lean marketing team, clean data infrastructure (Shopify / Klaviyo / GA4 stack), and appetite for AI-driven experimentation. Not a fit for pre-launch brands, brand-safety-first categories (pharma, kids), or heavily customized legacy stacks.
What about data privacy and security?
Foundryworks is SOC 2 Type II in progress (Q4 2025 target), supports SSO + SCIM, encrypts data at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3, and signs DPAs with all enterprise customers. Agent actions are audit-logged for 7 years for compliance.
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