Local business owner reviewing his shop's systems on a tablet
Digital infrastructure for local businesses

Your business, built to work better.

Tell us about your business. We'll help identify your biggest opportunity, recommend where to start, and show you what it costs.

Every business has a bottleneck. LocalFoundry builds the system that removes it.

The growth ladder

Start where your business needs help.

Each rung solves the bottleneck the one before it exposes. Most businesses don't need everything — they need the next thing.

01Look professional

Business Card

Build your foundation.

Establish a professional digital presence and give customers a clear path to trust, contact, and engage with the business.

From $399/mo

Setup: $1,500 one-time

  • Modern, mobile-first website
  • Domain setup and management
  • Hosting, SSL and security
  • Services, contact and location pages
  • Lead capture forms
  • Ongoing management and updates

Best for: Businesses that need to establish or upgrade their online presence.

02Get found

Google Presence

Help customers find you.

Strengthen visibility across Google and local search so more of the right customers discover the business.

From $599/mo

Setup: $2,000 one-time

  • Everything in Business Card
  • Google Business Profile setup and cleanup
  • Local search and map-pack foundations
  • Review generation and monitoring
  • Location and service-area pages
  • Groundwork for paid local acquisition

Best for: Businesses that have a presence but aren't getting enough visibility.

03Capture customers

Appointment + CRM

AI helps you see & recommend.

Bring appointments, customer relationships, tasks, and business activity into one connected system, and receive useful statistics, insights, and recommended actions that help identify opportunities to increase revenue and improve performance.

Included is system-generated insights and standard recommendations. Deeper custom analysis and proactive optimization are part of Tier 5 and Tier 6.

From $799/mo

Setup: $2,500 one-time

  • Everything in Google Presence
  • Online booking and calendar workflows
  • Lead capture into a real CRM
  • Quotes and estimates
  • Payments and deposits
  • Automated reminders and follow-up

Best for: Businesses that are generating opportunities but managing them manually.

04Answer every opportunity

AI Receptionist

AI helps you respond.

AI helps handle incoming communication, collect information, qualify opportunities, assist with follow-up, and move customers toward the next step.

From $999/mo

Setup: $3,500 one-time

  • Everything in Appointment + CRM
  • AI phone answering, 24/7
  • Website chat with lead qualification
  • Appointment setting and routing
  • SMS follow-up and missed-call text back
  • Conversation logs and CRM integration

Best for: Businesses where missed calls and response time cost real money.

05Optimize the business

Business Development & Workflow

AI helps you improve.

AI actively organizes and analyzes business data, produces useful information and reports, identifies workflow opportunities, and helps make work faster and clearer based on the business's needs.

From $1,500/mo

Setup: From $5,000 one-time

  • Everything in AI Receptionist
  • Workflow and process automation
  • Business-development systems
  • Customer reactivation and follow-up campaigns
  • Internal process documentation
  • Outcome reporting and operational optimization

Best for: Growing businesses where inefficiency is becoming expensive.

06Rebuild around AI

Enterprise — AI Business Overhaul

AI proactively helps.

Connected business systems continuously provide context to an AI-enabled workforce that identifies opportunities, organizes work, surfaces problems, and proactively helps move the business forward — the owner steps in primarily when their judgment is needed for the most pressing issues.

Custom

Setup: From $10,000 one-time

  • Everything in Business Development & Workflow
  • Custom process redesign
  • Purpose-built AI systems and agents
  • Multi-location and multi-team rollout
  • Deep integrations with existing software
  • Ongoing optimization and executive reporting

Best for: Businesses ready for a fundamental operational transformation.

Every tier includes

  • Hosting, SSL and security
  • Domain management
  • Ongoing website updates
  • Analytics and outcome reporting
  • One number to call when something breaks
  • No long-term contract
Who we are

Built by operators.

James Smaugh and Trey Mines started LocalFoundry around a simple idea: strong local businesses shouldn't need an expensive agency or a stack of disconnected software just to compete.

Meet the founders
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James Smaugh

Co-founder · Operations & Growth

Automotive services, sales, operations and business development. He has worked inside the problems he now builds systems for.

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Trey Mines

Co-founder · Technology

16+ years across federal and commercial technology, building secure, scalable platforms and AI-powered systems.

Let's talk

Tell us where it hurts.

We'll tell you which system we'd start with — and which ones you don't need yet.

Studio
9990 Fairfax Blvd, Ste 560
Fairfax, VA 22030

Prefer to talk? Call (202) 930-2138 — we're quick to respond.