A foundry is where raw material becomes something valuable — ore into metal, silicon into chips, ideas into companies. Small-cap investor relations needed the same treatment: taken back to first principles and rebuilt.
Small- and micro-cap issuers pay C$75,000–200,000 a year for investor relations, usually split across two or three vendors, and much of that money buys manual work a machine now does better: monitoring, drafting, formatting, list-building, follow-up. Meanwhile the part that actually needs a seasoned human — strategy, judgment, relationships, compliance — gets diluted across a junior account manager's twelve other clients.
Foundry IR inverts that. Purpose-built AI agents do the production work at scale and around the clock. Senior capital-markets professionals do only the human part: direction, review, relationships, sign-off. The economics change, the quality floor rises, and the fee drops to a level a C$20-million-market-cap company can justify.
Foundry IR was founded by [FOUNDER NAME], an engineer and financial adviser — the combination the name promises. The engineering side builds and operates the agent systems in-house (they are not white-labeled or resold). The advisory side has spent years around the capital-markets problems small issuers actually have: telling a technical story credibly, reaching investors without burning cash, and staying inside securities rules while doing it. Senior IR account direction for flagship engagements is provided by experienced sub-contracted IR professionals, disclosed to each client in the engagement letter.
Explorers, developers and producers on the TSXV, CSE and TSX. We translate drill results, resource estimates and studies into materials generalist investors can act on — with the technical literacy to get the details right.
Small-cap listed tech on either side of the border. We're engineers: product claims get communicated precisely, roadmaps get made credible, and the story survives contact with a skeptical analyst.
A concrete, issuer-specific report: how visible your company actually is to the investors you want, where liquidity and disclosure hygiene are costing you, and the three fastest fixes. Built for your ticker, delivered in days.
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