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The sample company runs Foundry end to end on Acme Corp, a made-up company that sells scheduling software to field-service businesses: Foundry connects its database and documents, builds an ontology, loads it and answers a question, all on one page. Owners and admins can start it.

Start the sample

On Get started, select See it on a sample company (1 min) under Start with a sample company. Acme Corp, a sample company opens and runs each step by itself; each step opens as its work finishes and stays open.
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Acme Corp's data

Foundry connects Acme Corp’s PostgreSQL database with a read-only login and syncs accounts, contacts, subscriptions, invoices, support_tickets and product_usage. It uploads nine documents into a document set named Acme Corp sample: three customer contracts as PDFs, call notes, a support escalation, an incident report and a price list.
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The goal

Understand each customer account with its people, plan, contract terms, invoices, tickets, usage and calls, to see which renewals are at risk.
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The ontology

Foundry creates Acme Corp customers on a new Helix database from a ready-made draft, so there’s no AI draft to wait for, makes it current and shows its types and links.
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Loading

The load writes the rows as records, each linked to its account, subscription or contact, then reads the documents with AI models for the names and facts they hold. See the load opens its page.
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Ask the Analyst

Once the load is written, the page asks the first suggested question and shows the answer with the records and documents it came from. Then:
  • under Ask another, a suggestion opens its thread in the Analyst;
  • Ask your own question opens a new thread;
  • See the records opens the Explorer.
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Now connect your own data

Connect your own data opens the first-ontology steps for your own sources. Set up with your agent copies a prompt for your agent to do them with you.
If a step fails, the page says why, with Try again. Reopening or reloading the page carries on where it was and makes nothing twice.

While you explore the sample

While the sample is the workspace’s only ontology, every page shows the banner Sample data: you’re exploring Acme Corp, a made-up company. For owners and admins it links Back to getting started, or, once the sample’s question is answered, Get started with your own data. The sample’s connection and document set show in Connectors, but your own ontologies never offer them as sources. Its ontology, database and load are ordinary: the Analyst, the Explorer and Records read them like yours.

What it uses

  • A Helix database on Helix’s shared cluster, in the workspace’s first Helix project or a new project named after the workspace, on the workspace’s Helix Cloud plan.
  • AI models: reading the documents and answering questions use the workspace’s AI models and count toward its monthly caps like any other load or question.
Foundry emails you once a day later if the workspace still has no data of its own.

Remove the sample

Delete the Acme Corp customers ontology from its overview, then its connection and documents in Connectors.

Next steps

Quickstart

Build your first ontology from your own data.

Ask the Analyst

Ask questions and read where each answer came from.