# Foundation

> Foundation is a small software studio that builds automation and custom software for mortgage brokerages across Canada, and works only with mortgage brokerages.

Website: https://foundationai.ca/
Serves: mortgage brokerages across Canada
Works with: Encompass, Arive, LendingPad, Salesforce, spreadsheets and email
Get started: a free 30-minute walk-through, booked at https://foundationai.ca/#signup

## What Foundation does

- **Tasks that run themselves**: Automated borrower follow-ups, reminders, document requests and status updates, so brokers stop chasing paperwork by hand.
- **Custom software**: Software built around how a brokerage already works, which the brokerage owns.
- **Tools that work together**: Integrations between loan origination software (Encompass, Arive, LendingPad), CRMs such as Salesforce, and spreadsheets, so data is entered once and stays in sync.
- **Easier for borrowers**: Borrower portals where clients upload documents, sign and check the status of their mortgage online.

## How it works

1. **Walk-through**: We map how your loans move today.
2. **Blueprint**: A clear plan of what to fix first.
3. **Build**: Real improvements within weeks.
4. **Settle in**: Training and support as you grow.

## Questions

### What is Foundation?

Foundation is a small software studio that builds automation and custom software for mortgage brokerages across Canada, and works only with mortgage brokerages. We take the repetitive work off your team: borrower follow-ups, chasing documents and typing the same information into more than one system.

### What can you automate for a mortgage brokerage?

Borrower follow-ups and reminders, document requests, status updates for clients, and moving application data between your loan software, CRM and spreadsheets so nobody types it twice.

### Which loan software and CRMs do you work with?

We connect the tools brokerages already use, including Encompass, Arive and LendingPad for loan origination and Salesforce for client relationships, along with spreadsheets and email. If your brokerage uses something else, bring it up in the walk-through.

### Do you build custom software too?

Yes. Beyond automation, we build tools around the way your team works, such as a portal where borrowers upload documents, sign and check their loan online. You own what we build.

### How does working with Foundation work?

It starts with a free 30-minute walk-through where we map how loans move through your brokerage today. You then get a written plan of what to fix first, which you keep. We build from that plan, with real improvements within weeks, and stay on for training and support as you grow.

### How long does it take to see results?

The first improvements land within weeks. The written plan from your walk-through sets out what we fix first.

### How much does it cost?

Pricing depends on what your brokerage needs. The first step, a 30-minute walk-through, is free, and you keep the written plan that comes out of it.

### Who is Foundation for?

Mortgage brokerages across Canada, from a single broker to teams of more than 200. We work only with mortgage brokerages.

### How do I get started?

Book the free 30-minute walk-through with the sign-up form on this page. We reply within one business day.