A unified platform to connect operations, teams, systems, and AI — so your organization can act faster, with less chaos and more confidence.
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OpenFoundry helps organizations bring together data that usually lives in separate systems — operations, logistics, maintenance, finance, planning, analytics, documents, alerts, and more — into one secure, understandable, and usable platform.
Instead of asking teams to chase spreadsheets, dashboards, emails, tickets, and disconnected software, OpenFoundry gives them one place to:
- see what is happening
- understand why it is happening
- decide what to do next
- coordinate action across teams
- track outcomes in real time
Most organizations don’t have a data problem.
They have a coordination problem.
Their information is spread across too many tools, too many teams, and too many processes:
- operations data in one system
- planning in another
- quality issues in another
- documents in shared drives
- analytics in dashboards
- actions in email, chat, and spreadsheets
The result:
- slow decisions
- duplicated work
- poor visibility
- reactive firefighting
- hard-to-measure outcomes
OpenFoundry changes that.
It creates a shared operational layer for your organization so people can work from the same reality — with the right context, the right workflows, and the right permissions.
OpenFoundry is designed for teams that deal with complex operations, high coordination costs, and critical decisions.
Connect engineering, maintenance, fleet, supply chain, and operational data in one platform.
With OpenFoundry, teams can:
- detect recurring defects faster
- understand downstream impact on delays and availability
- connect maintenance history with live operational context
- prioritize repairs based on risk and operational urgency
- coordinate across plants, suppliers, and field teams
- reduce asset downtime with predictive alerting
- improve throughput without sacrificing quality
Example:
A manufacturer or airline can unify maintenance records, parts deliveries, work orders, quality findings, flight operations data, and engineering updates into one shared operating picture.
Help clinicians, planners, and operational leaders work from timely, trusted information while protecting sensitive data.
With OpenFoundry, organizations can:
- connect waiting lists, referrals, bed capacity, theatre availability, staffing, and discharge workflows
- identify blockers in care pathways
- improve scheduling and resource utilization
- reduce administrative burden
- support patient flow and discharge coordination
- create secure role-based access to sensitive operational and clinical information
Example:
A healthcare system can combine scheduling, capacity, care pathway, and task-tracking data to help teams move patients through care more efficiently and safely.
Turn fragmented internal and external data into a living view of risk.
With OpenFoundry, teams can:
- unify underwriting, claims, exposure, climate, cyber, and portfolio data
- create a single view of risk across business units
- operationalize risk models into real workflows
- shorten analysis cycles from days to minutes
- help experts investigate, compare, and act on complex scenarios
- support governance, traceability, and compliance
Example:
A risk organization can combine portfolio, geospatial, climate, and claims information to build tools that identify exposure patterns, support pricing decisions, and improve resilience planning.
Support better decisions across agencies, operators, and programs.
With OpenFoundry, organizations can:
- connect siloed systems securely
- coordinate resources across teams and regions
- monitor bottlenecks and mission-critical workflows
- build operational applications without starting from scratch
- improve transparency and accountability
- respond faster to disruptions and changing conditions
OpenFoundry brings together data from across your organization into a shared operating view.
Not just dashboards.
Not just storage.
Not just reports.
A place where data becomes context for action.
Many tools help you look at data.
Far fewer help people work with it, coordinate around it, and make decisions from it.
OpenFoundry supports operational use cases like:
- triaging issues
- assigning tasks
- resolving bottlenecks
- managing workflows
- tracking exceptions
- monitoring live operations
- following outcomes over time
For organizations in regulated or sensitive environments, governance is not optional.
OpenFoundry is designed to support:
- role-based and attribute-based access controls
- auditability and traceability
- environment separation
- secure collaboration
- data ownership boundaries
- policy-aware workflows
Every organization has a different reality: different systems, different processes, different terminology, different constraints.
OpenFoundry is built to adapt to that complexity, instead of forcing you into a one-size-fits-all workflow.
Unlike closed, high-cost enterprise platforms, OpenFoundry is built in the open.
That means you can:
- self-host it
- extend it
- integrate it with your systems
- inspect how it works
- shape it with your team and community
Bring together data from systems like ERPs, CRMs, data warehouses, operational tools, files, APIs, event streams, and internal applications.
Define your organization’s core concepts — assets, customers, patients, policies, suppliers, work orders, incidents, cases, facilities, flights, shipments, or anything else that matters.
See how people, processes, assets, events, and outcomes connect.
Track anomalies, delays, risks, performance gaps, quality issues, and operational dependencies.
Turn insights into tasks, workflows, reviews, interventions, and decisions.
Track whether changes are actually improving reliability, efficiency, throughput, safety, cost, or service quality.
OpenFoundry is designed to feel less like “using a data stack” and more like operating your organization with clarity.
Inside the platform, teams can work with:
- unified operational views
- live dashboards
- searchable records and entities
- data exploration and analysis tools
- workflow and task management
- alerts and exception monitoring
- internal apps built for specific teams
- AI-assisted investigation and decision support
These are the kinds of outcomes organizations aim for when they connect data, decisions, and workflows in one place:
- fewer delays
- fewer avoidable escalations
- faster root-cause analysis
- better coordination across teams
- more predictable throughput
- improved asset availability
- faster issue resolution
- better prioritization of repair work
- less unplanned downtime
- better visibility into waiting lists and bottlenecks
- improved scheduling efficiency
- reduced admin burden
- smoother discharge and patient flow coordination
- faster access to complex analytics
- better risk visibility
- more consistent decision-making
- stronger governance and traceability
- fewer siloed tools
- less spreadsheet-driven work
- stronger cross-functional alignment
- greater trust in data-driven decisions
OpenFoundry is not only for engineers or data specialists.
It is for:
- operations leaders
- planners
- analysts
- clinicians
- maintenance teams
- supply chain teams
- transformation teams
- executives
- program managers
- compliance and governance teams
The goal is simple:
make complex organizations easier to understand and easier to run
| Traditional BI | Data Warehouse Alone | Closed Enterprise Platforms | OpenFoundry | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shows metrics | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Connects many systems | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Supports operational workflows | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Shared business model / ontology | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Secure collaboration across teams | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Actionable apps on top of data | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI-ready operational context | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Self-hostable | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Open source | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
OpenFoundry combines multiple capabilities into one platform experience:
Bring together structured and unstructured data from across your organization.
Define the objects, entities, processes, and relationships that matter to your business.
Search, query, investigate, compare, and understand what is happening.
Move from insight to execution with operational workflows.
Build focused applications for specific teams and use cases.
Use AI to explore data, summarize context, assist workflows, and support decisions.
Control access, trace actions, and manage sensitive environments responsibly.
OpenFoundry is in active development.
Today, the project is focused on building the foundation for a powerful open data operations platform, including:
- core platform architecture
- data services
- workflow orchestration
- ontology and semantic modeling
- analytics infrastructure
- application framework
- security and governance foundations
- strong platform core
- excellent developer and operator experience
- modular services
- production-minded architecture
- progressive delivery of end-user capabilities
Our goal is to make OpenFoundry the leading open-source platform for operational intelligence — giving organizations the ability to build powerful, secure, data-driven workflows without vendor lock-in.
OpenFoundry is especially relevant if your organization says things like:
- “We have the data, but not the visibility.”
- “Every team sees a different version of reality.”
- “We spend too much time reconciling spreadsheets and systems.”
- “We can analyze problems, but acting on them is too slow.”
- “Important workflows depend on people manually stitching tools together.”
- “We need security and governance, but we also need agility.”
- “We want enterprise-grade capabilities without being locked into a black box.”
If that sounds familiar, OpenFoundry is for you.
If you want to explore what OpenFoundry can become:
- read the roadmap
- follow the project
- join the community
- star the repository
If you want to help build OpenFoundry:
- Clone the repository
- Follow the development setup
- Explore open issues
- Contribute code, docs, design, or feedback
git clone https://github.com/open-foundry/open-foundry.git
cd open-foundry
cp .env.example .envThen follow the developer setup in:
OpenFoundry is being built in phases.
Core platform services, identity, ontology, data layer, workflows, and platform foundations.
Dashboards, search, quality, catalog, monitoring, and richer coordination experiences.
Apps, team workflows, low-code building blocks, and domain-specific use cases.
AI assistance, advanced analytics, predictive workflows, and more automation.
Plugins, extensions, partner integrations, templates, and broader community contributions.
For more detail, see ROADMAP.md.
We’re building OpenFoundry as an open platform for people who believe critical operational software should be:
- understandable
- extensible
- secure
- collaborative
- open
We welcome contributions across:
- product thinking
- UX and design
- documentation
- frontend
- backend
- infrastructure
- testing
- examples
- integrations
Start here: CONTRIBUTING.md
We take security seriously, especially for organizations operating in sensitive, regulated, or mission-critical environments.
Please review SECURITY.md for vulnerability reporting and security practices.
OpenFoundry is open source because we believe the future of operational intelligence should not belong only to closed, high-cost platforms.
The most important organizations in the world — in healthcare, industry, logistics, public infrastructure, energy, and finance — need trustworthy software to connect data to action.
We want OpenFoundry to help make that possible.
- Join the discussion
- Share use cases
- Suggest improvements
- Help shape the roadmap
If OpenFoundry resonates with you, give the project a ⭐
It helps more people discover it — and helps us keep building.
OpenFoundry is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.