Operational intelligence for the real economy
The enterprise got Palantir.
Main Street got QuickBooks.
Leverage builds custom AI systems that run the office for $1–100M businesses — the quotes, the invoices, the scheduling, the paperwork chase. Delivered in weeks. Fixed price. Kept running on retainer.
- 33M
- US small businesses
- 44%
- of GDP
- ~0
- with an operating layer
The five rivers
Every business pumps the same five rivers of information.
The anatomy differs by industry — a contractor calls it a pay app, a distributor calls it an order, a firm calls it a matter. The disease is universal: the rivers run through the owner's head, a shared inbox, and three spreadsheets named FINAL_v2.
Money in
quote → commitment → invoice → collection
Money out
purchase → receipt → approval → payment
Work
demand → stages → done → documented
People
capacity → assignment → schedule → proof
Promises
contract → change → deadline → compliance
What an operating layer does with them — illustrative
The people are smart. The margin dies in the movement of information — the nine-day quote, the three-week invoice, the twelve phone calls it takes to push one fact across a firm boundary.
The machine
You're buying a result, not our time.
Stage 1
The Audit
$7,500–15,000 · two weeks
An embedded diagnostic of your operation: where information moves by phone, paper, and rework — and what that costs you per year. Ends with a ranked roadmap and a fixed-price proposal, not a binder.
Stage 2
The Build
$25,000–75,000 · 4–8 weeks
One working system deployed into your operation, integrated with what you already run — accounting, industry tools, email, spreadsheets. Fixed price. Defined outcome. No hourly billing.
Stage 3
The Retainer
from $3,000/mo · ongoing
Your system, kept sharp: hosting, monitoring, and a monthly allocation of improvement work. Every month it knows your business better. This is how the office starts running itself.
Each stage is engineered to earn the next. How Foundry delivers →
What we install
Three systems, named in your industry's language.
Underneath, they're the same universal objects every business shares — which is why the fifth deployment is faster and sharper than the first, in any industry.
The money-in desk
Bid Room · Quote Desk · Intake Engine
Inbound demand becomes a priced, professional proposal in hours instead of days. Scope extracted from the emails, photos, and drawings you already have; priced against your own history.
Office autopilot
The same everywhere — money out
Payables captured, matched, and staged for one-tap approval. Invoices out on time, every time. Cash collected days sooner. The back office stops being a second job.
Field to office
Daily logs · service docs · time capture
The paperwork your office currently chases — captured where the work happens, attached to the job it belongs to, ready when the dispute or the invoice needs it.
The ladder
A services company becoming a platform company. On purpose.
Every audit, build, and retainer deposits into one library: universal schemas, integration adapters, agent behaviors, verification patterns. The fiftieth deployment will be dramatically better and cheaper than anyone's first — and the retainer matures into the platform: an office that runs itself, escalating judgment calls to humans with full context attached.
Enterprise software proved the model. We're building it for the other half of the economy.
Why us
Built by an operator, not a vendor.
Leverage was founded by the owner of a site-development contracting company — someone who has lived the nine-day quote, the pay-app grind, and the 11pm invoice chase. We build for businesses like the ones we run, starting in construction and expanding vertical by vertical.
And because trust is the product, verification is built into everything we deploy: a confidently wrong system is worse than no system. Nothing ships to your operation unchecked.
For owners
Run your business on it.
Two weeks, fixed price, and you'll know exactly where your margin is leaking and what it costs to stop it.
Book an operational audit →For investors & builders
Own a piece of the layer.
Half the economy runs on the owner's memory and three spreadsheets. Read where this goes — then write to us.