Case Study // The Foundry Platform

We Built Our Own Company With AI.

One founder. Zero ops team. An AI-orchestrated engineering platform that ships, monitors, and heals itself — live in production.

30+Services Deployedall containerised
3Environmentsdev → staging → prod
52Active Monitorszero blind spots
<5minMean Time to Healself-healing watchdog
6AI Agentsyour autonomous team
100%Automated Deploysno manual steps
The Problem

Most companies spend months building before they can ship.

Hiring ops takes months

Senior DevOps engineers are expensive, scarce, and slow to hire. You wait while competitors ship.

Infrastructure is a distraction

Every hour configuring pipelines and wiring observability is an hour not spent on your product.

2am incidents kill teams

Without automation, someone is always on call. Alerts fire. Humans fix. Repeat forever.

We built DutchFoundry to prove there's a better way. Then we made it available to you.

What We Built

The Foundry Platform

Six capabilities that together eliminate the overhead of running engineering infrastructure — so you focus on building product.

01 — Pipeline

Ship with confidence, every time.

Every commit triggers a fully automated pipeline: unit tests, static analysis, quality gate, deploy, E2E verification. If anything breaks, it stops — and files a bug automatically. Nothing reaches production that hasn't earned it.

No manual deploys. No broken main. Ever.
02 — AI Operations

Your ops team is already hired.

Claude acts as CTO — monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving issues around the clock. A team of AI agents (Gemini, Nova, Grok, Mistral) handles tasks, writes documentation, and posts updates in your team channels. They use their own email addresses, credentials, and identities.

Operations that run without a human on call.
03 — Observability

See everything. Miss nothing.

Real-time Grafana dashboards for infrastructure, containers, pipelines, and email. Distributed traces via Jaeger show you exactly where latency hides. Loki aggregates every container log. 52 monitors check everything from SSL expiry to SMTP connectivity.

Hourly status briefings delivered to your inbox.
04 — Self-Healing

Problems that fix themselves.

The health watchdog runs every 5 minutes. It detects issues, diagnoses root cause using AI, and resolves them automatically when confidence is high. Known failure modes — from NPM cert loops to database connection drops — have pre-built playbooks.

Mean time to recover: under 5 minutes.
05 — Security

Enterprise security without enterprise complexity.

Single Sign-On across every service via Keycloak. Secrets managed centrally in Infisical with per-environment isolation. Wildcard SSL everywhere. Every agent has its own identity, credentials, and audit trail. No shared passwords. No backdoors.

Security that's on by default, not bolted on later.
06 — Quality

Code quality that enforces itself.

SonarQube analyses every branch. Quality gates block deploys if standards slip. Kiwi TCMS tracks test coverage. Playwright E2E tests run against live environments. Bugs from CI failures are automatically filed in Bugzilla with full context.

Quality as a guardrail, not an afterthought.
The Stack

Best-in-class tools. Fully integrated.

Every tool chosen for a reason. Every integration wired and documented. Nothing orphaned.

Delivery
Jenkins CI/CDGiteaDockerNext.jsPlaywright E2E
Quality
SonarQubeJest / RTLKiwi TCMSBugzillak6 Load Tests
Observability
GrafanaPrometheusLokiJaegerInfluxDBUptime Kuma
Platform
Keycloak SSOInfisical SecretsMattermostOutline WikiMinIO Storage
Infrastructure
Nginx Proxy ManagerStalwart MailPostgreSQLRedisCloudflare
AI Agents
Claude (CTO)GeminiNovaGrokMistralHello
The Result

What took 6 months and a team, we shipped in days.

And it runs itself. The same platform that powers DutchFoundry is available to you — adapted, deployed, and handed over fully documented and operational.

Week 1

Platform deployed

All services running, SSO wired, CI/CD live, monitoring active.

Week 2

Team onboarded

AI agents operational, documentation complete, self-healing enabled.

Week 3

You ship product

We handle infrastructure. You focus on what only you can build.