There has never been a bigger gap between what is technologically possible and what the world understands to be possible. For AI-native builders, the world has fundamentally changed. Things that once required months of effort and millions of dollars can now be built by one or two talented people in hours or days. Business leaders outside the AI bubble know that AI can radically change their business, from how they run it to what they offer their customers, but they have no idea where to begin, or even who to trust to help them find out. I don’t blame them. AI is accelerating so fast right now that if you aren’t actively building and learning at the frontier, your entire strategy is almost certainly built on wrong assumptions. To use an analogy from history, right now some people are flying jets across the country while others are still dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. It doesn’t have to be that way. Today we’re launching Foundations Design & Engineering (FDE) to bridge that gap. Over the past two years, Foundations has grown into a community of 300+ committed AI builders across Seattle and SF. Increasingly, the scarce resource for many of them isn’t the ability to build. It’s finding great problems worth solving. FDE is our attempt to connect these two worlds. For existing companies eager to embrace AI, FDE should feel like magic. You express a business problem in plain English. We analyze your problem through an AI-native lens, assign the right team in our community to solve it, and help you get to the best outcome for your business as quickly and cheaply as possible. No armies of junior consultants. No incentive to maximize billable hours. Just founder-grade technologists applying hard-fought lessons from the edge of what’s possible today. Sometimes the answer is a few hours of expert help or a product that already exists. Sometimes it’s a full build. Sometimes it’s “the tech isn’t there yet, let’s find another way”. You have problems. We have builders looking for them. Let’s make the connection. fde.fndtns.org/