Money

Eliminate AI API bills for workloads you move local

Document processing
£1,800/mo £99/mo
£20,400/year
100 docs/day
Support ticket AI
£450/mo £99/mo
£4,200/year
200 tickets/day
Internal knowledge search
£600-900/mo £99/mo
£6,000-9,600/year
Firm-wide search
Code review
£800-1,200/mo £99/mo
£8,400-13,200/year
35 developers
All four workloads
£39k-48.6k/year
combined annual saving

Foundry monthly cost = £99 support subscription. The AI runs on your existing Mac Studio.

Time

Hours saved per year

Document processing
8-13 min 20-30 sec
1,800-2,500
hours saved/year (1 FTE)
Support triage
4-6 hr 12-15 min
3,000+
hours saved/year (6 agents)
Knowledge search
25-45 min 30 sec-3 min
8,000+
hours recovered/year (150 staff)
Code review
3-5 hr 15-25 min
600-700
senior hours saved/year (35 devs)
Risk

Four risks eliminated or reduced

Before: Data sovereignty risk

Eliminated

Your data doesn't leave the building. No third-party API processing to disclose or manage.

Before: Client compliance risk

Reduced

No third-party AI processing to disclose. GDPR, professional confidentiality, client contracts all satisfied.

Before: Human error risk

Reduced

AI reads every document consistently. Humans confirm, not re-key. Error rate drops from 3-8% to under 0.5%.

Before: Audit trail risk

Solved

Every action is logged. Every original preserved with file hash. Every approval recorded. Complete provenance.

ROI

The ROI question

"This sounds expensive." A Mac Studio M3 Ultra with enough memory costs £5,500-6,500. Foundry setup is £999. Monthly support is £99. Total first year: £7,687-8,688.

Year 1 Cost

Mac Studio M3 Ultra (512GB)£5,500-6,500
Foundry setup£999
Foundry support (12 months)£1,188
Total£7,687-8,688
£7,687-8,688

Annual Savings (per workload)

Document processing£56,000-71,600
Support desk£35,000-45,000 + £5,400 API
Knowledge search£120,000+
Code review£50,000+
Smallest use case£56,000+
£56,000-120,000+/year
5-7x return (smallest use case)
15-30x (multiple workloads)

Year two onwards: £99/month. That's it.

The hardware lasts 5+ years.

Honesty

When it doesn't make sense

We're not going to pretend this is right for everyone.

If you're not sure, that's what the Fit Review is for. We'll tell you honestly whether it makes financial sense.

Book a Fit Review

We'll look at your current AI spend, your workflows, and tell you honestly whether local AI makes financial sense.

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