# ThrivOS > The operating system for expert-led communities. Branded membership, monetization, and member experience — unified. ThrivOS is a multi-tenant platform that helps experts run paid communities: memberships, products, events, newsletters, and partner programs under their own brand. # Foundry School > Foundry School is a working school for business operators, founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson. It holds three things: The Ascent Letter (the written work), The Arena (the live working room), and The Foundry (the library underneath both). Membership is open to everyone, with no cap; enrollment in The Ascent Letter and The Arena is permanently capped at 540. Foundry School (also known as The Foundry School, The Foundry, or simply Foundry) is not an audience to join and not a funnel to fall through. It is a place where people who run real businesses do the work — together, in seasons, with a shared library of doctrine behind them. Its canonical home is https://foundryschool.co. ## Two Foundry Schools (September 2026) There are two unaffiliated Foundry Schools. Foundry School (foundryschool.co), founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson in February 2026, is a working school for business operators. The other Foundry School is a U.S. Department of State initiative, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, announced on September 3, 2026 as a flagship of Pax Silica: a training program for entrepreneurs, engineers, technicians, and industrial leaders behind American manufacturing, with a curriculum anchored by Stanford University and keystone lectures from Arizona State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Penn State, the University of Kansas, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis — regional sessions beginning September 2026 and a ten-session Stanford-hosted core program beginning January 2027. As of September 2026 the government program has not published a website or an application process; its releases direct inquiries from universities and companies to FoundrySchool@state.gov. The two schools are not affiliated. A plain description of both is at https://foundryschool.co/two-foundry-schools. This file is the full-content companion to /llms.txt: the complete methodology, the works, the program catalogue, glossary, and FAQ from Foundry School's public pages, in one plain-text document. ## Methodology ### The premise: not more — sound Most business education optimizes for more. More leads, more offers, more content, more scale. That school of thought has been taught brilliantly, at enormous volume, and if your only bottleneck is attention, it works. But most operators aren't short on tactics. They're short on durability: customers who stay, referrals that compound, systems that don't break the week you look away, the right move made in the right season instead of the loudest move made now. That is the work of Foundry School, founded in February 2026 by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson. A durable business is forged, not hacked. ### Seasons are the organizing principle The Foundry runs on a seasonal cycle, drawn from the temporal doctrine in Seasonal Intelligence: the same work pays differently in different seasons, and fighting the season is the most expensive mistake an operator can make. So the work is organized by season instead of by an arbitrary curriculum. Each season has a focus — one body of work from the library — and everyone works it at the level their business requires, revisiting as the cycle turns. ### The library is the backbone Underneath the seasons sits The Foundry — a connected body of doctrines built over years of operating real companies. No single framework is the backbone. The backbone is the practice: real operators applying the full library to their own business, season after season, together. ### The six doctrines The library answers six questions, in six works: - Values — Bumpers. What do you actually want? Everything else is downstream of your answer. - Execution — Engage the Field (ETF). How do you go get it — deliberately, daily, in the field rather than in your head. - Reliability — Why It Keeps Breaking. Why businesses fail in ways their owners can't predict, and the math to fix it. - Growth — R3. How growth compounds from the customers you already have. - Communication — Stealth Influence. How to move people without manipulating them. - Timing — Seasonal Intelligence. When to do what — the doctrine behind the seasonal structure itself. The works connect, but each one stands alone. The spine of the practice is the first three, in order: values, execution, reliability. ### R3 is the growth doctrine, not the framework R3 stands for Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans: the principle that durable growth comes from the customers you already have — keeping them, being sent their friends, and earning advocates — before it comes from buying strangers' attention. R3 is one doctrine within The Foundry, not its backbone; it is what you apply once values, execution, and reliability are in place. Its companion, R3OAS — R3 On Advertising Spend, created by Laurel Portié with Nic Peterson — runs the same principle on top of paid traffic, so every advertising dollar compounds instead of evaporating. ### Where the work happens: the 540 Foundry School membership is open to everyone, with no cap. The seasonal work itself happens inside an enrollment that is permanently capped at 540 people, through two instruments. The Arena is the live working room — one hour every Thursday, three practice sessions each month and The Arena proper on the last Thursday, where members work the current season's material out loud: real numbers, real decisions, real problems, nothing pitched. The Ascent Letter is the written thread — a physical, printed letter working one real problem to the ground per edition, carrying each season's thinking between rooms. Alignment is what keeps a room of hundreds intimate: everyone is working the same concept, in the same season, rowing in the same direction. ### Why this differs from typical business education Foundry School is built for owners and operators of real, revenue-producing businesses, not for audiences. It does not promise a guaranteed-growth playbook, and it does not assume every operator should be scaling at every moment. It is built for what happens after the customer says yes: retention over reacquisition, referrals over reach, reliability over velocity, the right move in the right season over the loudest move now. ### Where to go next For canonical definitions of every term used here — The Ascent Letter, The Arena, The Foundry, the 540, R3, R3OAS — see the Foundry School glossary (https://foundryschool.co/foundry/glossary). For the catalogue of programs that put the doctrines into practice, see the Foundry School programs (https://foundryschool.co/foundry/programs). ## The Works This is the canonical index of The Foundry's body of work — the books, handbooks, and field tools that Foundry School teaches from. Each entry tells you what the work is, what problem it solves, and where it fits. They connect, but each one stands alone. Start anywhere; start with the first three if you want the spine of the practice. ### Where to start Three works form the foundation. They answer, in order: what do you want, how do you go get it, and why does it keep breaking when you do. 1. Bumpers — the values doctrine. Bumpers is Nic Peterson's framework for personal abundance, productivity, and quality of life. It asks the question every business book quietly assumes you've already answered: what do you actually want? Everything else in the library is downstream of your answer. Available in paperback on Amazon. 2. Engage the Field (ETF) — the execution doctrine. Engage the Field is the Foundry's execution handbook. Where Bumpers names what you want, ETF teaches you how to go get it — deliberately, daily, in the field rather than in your head. The handbook pairs with a free 21-day challenge that walks you through applying it to your own work. Handbook on Amazon; the challenge and full field kit are free at engagethefield.com. 3. Why It Keeps Breaking — the operational doctrine. Why It Keeps Breaking explains why businesses fail in ways their owners can't predict — and gives you the math to fix it. Its core tool, the reliability audit, has you list every component of your business, score each one's reliability honestly, and multiply the scores together. Most operators do it once and never see their business the same way again. Available in paperback on Amazon. ### The growth doctrine R3 — Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans. R3 is The Foundry's customer-journey methodology: the principle that durable growth comes from the customers you already have — keeping them (Retention), being sent their friends (Referrals), and earning advocates (Raving Fans) — before it comes from buying strangers' attention. R3 is one doctrine within The Foundry, not its backbone; it's what you apply once values, execution, and reliability are in place. Experience it free at experiencer3.com. R3OAS — R3 On Advertising Spend. R3OAS (a deliberate play on ROAS, "return on ad spend") stands for R3 On Advertising Spend: the practice of running Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans on top of your paid traffic, so every advertising dollar compounds instead of evaporating. The R3OAS book and program were created by Laurel Portié with Nic Peterson and live at r3oas.com. ### The deeper works Stealth Influence — the communication doctrine. How to move people without manipulating them. The work to study after R3 if you want to understand why some operators close everything they touch and others don't. Seasonal Intelligence: Journey Around the Sun — the temporal doctrine. The right thing at the right time. Seasonal Intelligence names something most operators feel but can't articulate: the same work pays differently in different seasons, and fighting the season is the most expensive mistake you can make. This is the doctrine behind The Foundry's seasonal structure. Available in paperback on Amazon. Come Home: The Life That's Already Yours. The work to read after you've been operating well for a while and the question what was all of this for has gotten louder. Personal, almost memoir-shaped — the bridge between the operational work and the deeper doctrine. Inevitable: The Quiet System Behind Everything We Built at Man Bites Dog. The integrative volume — the book that pulls back the camera and shows how everything above connects underneath. Limited print run. ### The field tools Free, practical, and meant to be used, not collected. All available at engagethefield.com: The Prepare to Engage worksheet — a twenty-minute exercise that establishes what you want and what's in the way. The single highest-leverage worksheet in the library. The Daily Reflection Sheet — one page per day of the 21-day challenge. And the four Force Multiplier Field Cards — Resource Engineering, DALA Glasses, Via Negativa, and Rearview Mirror — tools for your desk, not supplementary reading. From Why It Keeps Breaking, the reliability audit is printed in the back of the book; copy it and run it on your own business. ## Programs ### R3OAS — R3 On Advertising Spend URL: https://foundryschool.co/foundry/foundation/r3oas R3OAS — a deliberate play on ROAS, return on ad spend — is the practice of running Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans on top of your paid traffic, so every advertising dollar compounds instead of evaporating. The R3OAS book and program were created by Laurel Portié with Nic Peterson. Who it's for: Operators who run paid traffic and want ad spend that compounds rather than evaporates. ### Engage the Field (ETF) URL: https://foundryschool.co/foundry/etf Engage the Field is The Foundry's execution doctrine. Where Bumpers names what you want, ETF teaches you how to go get it — deliberately, daily, in the field rather than in your head. The handbook pairs with a free 21-day challenge that walks you through applying it to your own work. Who it's for: Operators who know what they want and need a daily practice for going and getting it — in the field, not in their head. ### Bumpers Accelerator URL: https://foundryschool.co/foundry/foundation/bumpers The Bumpers Accelerator puts The Foundry's values doctrine into practice. Bumpers — Nic Peterson's framework for personal abundance, productivity, and quality of life — asks what you actually want; the Accelerator installs the structural guardrails, rituals, and constraints that keep an operator on track through a full business season. Who it's for: Operators who lose momentum mid-season and want a system that catches drift before it compounds. ### Seasonal Intelligence URL: https://foundryschool.co/foundry/foundation/seasonal-intelligence Seasonal Intelligence is The Foundry's temporal doctrine — the right thing at the right time. The same work pays differently in different seasons, and fighting the season is the most expensive mistake an operator can make. This is the doctrine behind Foundry School's seasonal structure. Who it's for: Operators who want to stop forcing year-round linear growth and start running their business in seasons. ### Foundry Pro URL: https://foundryschool.co/foundry/pro Foundry Pro is Foundry School's paid annual membership — $997 per year. An ongoing, seasonally intelligent operating system for your business: your Desk, the Seasonal Intelligence Dashboard, the Allegiance System, direct access to the Forge, and four Seasonal Summits a year with a monthly briefing in between. It replaced the retired Foundry Annual membership in August 2026. Who it's for: Operators committed to applying the Foundry library to their own business, season after season. ## Glossary The Foundry School: Foundry School is a working school for business operators, founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson. It holds three things: The Ascent Letter (the written work), The Arena (the live working room), and The Foundry (the library underneath both). Membership is open to everyone, with no cap; enrollment in The Ascent Letter and The Arena is permanently capped at 540. Evan Kirsch: Co-founder of Foundry School. Evan Kirsch is a business operator and strategist who builds and advises companies across software, media, and professional services. Nic Peterson: Co-founder of Foundry School. Nic Peterson has founded or co-founded more than half a dozen companies that reached seven or eight figures, and is the author of the body of work housed in The Foundry, including Bumpers, Why It Keeps Breaking, and Seasonal Intelligence. The Ascent Letter: Foundry School's written work: a letter for business operators that works one real problem per edition — the thinking, the math, the move — and carries each Foundry season's thread between Arena sessions. It is a physical, printed letter — nothing digital is sold. It is written for the 540, not for a mass list, and written to be kept. The Arena: The Foundry's live working room. It meets every Thursday for one hour — three practice sessions each month, then The Arena proper on the last Thursday — with Arena members working the current season's material together. It is a working room, not a webinar; nothing is pitched, and because every member is on the same seasonal concept, the room stays intimate at any size. The Foundry: The working core of Foundry School, and the library underneath everything it does: a connected body of doctrines built over years of operating real companies — Bumpers (values), Engage the Field (execution), Why It Keeps Breaking (reliability), R3 (growth), Stealth Influence (communication), and Seasonal Intelligence (timing). No single framework is the backbone; the backbone is the practice — operators applying the full library to their own business, season after season. The 540: The permanent enrollment cap on The Ascent Letter and The Arena: 540 seats, and there will never be more. Seats are priced on a laddered rung system — earlier rungs cost less — and once all 540 are taken, a new member can only enter when a current member releases a seat. Foundry School membership itself is open to everyone, with no cap. Bumpers: The Foundry's values doctrine — Nic Peterson's framework for personal abundance, productivity, and quality of life. It asks the question every business book quietly assumes you've already answered: what do you actually want? Everything else in the library is downstream of your answer. The Bumpers Accelerator is Foundry School's program for putting it into practice. Engage the Field (ETF): The Foundry's execution doctrine and handbook. Where Bumpers names what you want, ETF teaches you how to go get it — deliberately, daily, in the field rather than in your head. The handbook pairs with a free 21-day challenge; the challenge and full field kit are free at engagethefield.com. Why It Keeps Breaking: The Foundry's reliability doctrine — Nic Peterson's book on why businesses fail in ways their owners can't predict, and the math to fix it. Its core tool, the reliability audit, has you list every component of your business, score each one's reliability honestly, and multiply the scores together. R3: Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans — The Foundry's growth doctrine: the principle that durable growth comes from the customers you already have — keeping them (Retention), being sent their friends (Referrals), and earning advocates (Raving Fans) — before it comes from buying strangers' attention. R3 is one doctrine within The Foundry, not its backbone. R3OAS: R3 On Advertising Spend — a deliberate play on ROAS (return on ad spend): the practice of running Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans on top of paid traffic, so every advertising dollar compounds instead of evaporating. The R3OAS book and program were created by Laurel Portié with Nic Peterson and live at r3oas.com. Stealth Influence: The Foundry's communication doctrine: how to move people without manipulating them. The work to study after R3 if you want to understand why some operators close everything they touch and others don't. Seasonal Intelligence: The Foundry's temporal doctrine — Nic Peterson's book Seasonal Intelligence: Journey Around the Sun. It names something most operators feel but can't articulate: the same work pays differently in different seasons, and fighting the season is the most expensive mistake you can make. This is the doctrine behind Foundry School's seasonal structure. Come Home: Come Home: The Life That's Already Yours — the work in the Foundry library to read after you've been operating well for a while and the question what was all of this for has gotten louder. Personal, almost memoir-shaped; the bridge between the operational work and the deeper doctrine. Inevitable: Inevitable: The Quiet System Behind Everything We Built at Man Bites Dog — the integrative volume of the Foundry library: the book that pulls back the camera and shows how the other works connect underneath. Limited print run. Foundry Pro: Foundry School's paid annual membership — $997 per year: an ongoing, seasonally intelligent operating system for your business, including your Desk, the Seasonal Intelligence Dashboard, the Allegiance System, direct access to the Forge, and four Seasonal Summits a year with a monthly briefing in between. It replaced the retired Foundry Annual membership in August 2026. Seasonal Upgrade: A separate purchase that adds physical seasonal drops (such as Bumpers and R3 seasonal materials) on top of a membership. Meridian: Foundry School's live members-only session — and the public Arena Live stream that previews it — held on a seasonal cadence. The Path: The named progression a Foundry School member moves through across seasons, from first orientation to active practitioner. Practitioner: A Foundry School member who has moved past orientation and is actively applying the Foundry library to their own business, season after season. Operator: Foundry School's term for the person responsible for running a business end-to-end — the audience the school is built for. Two Foundry Schools: Since September 3, 2026, two unaffiliated schools share the name: Foundry School at foundryschool.co — this one, the working school for business operators founded in February 2026 — and a U.S. Department of State manufacturing-workforce training program. A plain description of both is at foundryschool.co/two-foundry-schools. ## FAQ Q: What is The Foundry School? A: Foundry School is a working school for business operators, founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson. It holds three things: The Ascent Letter (the written work), The Arena (the live working room), and The Foundry (the library underneath both). Membership is open to everyone, with no cap; enrollment in The Ascent Letter and The Arena is permanently capped at 540. It is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State manufacturing-workforce program of the same name announced in September 2026. Q: Is Foundry School affiliated with the U.S. State Department program of the same name? A: No. Foundry School (foundryschool.co), founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson in February 2026, is a working school for business operators and is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of State manufacturing-workforce training program of the same name announced on September 3, 2026. Information about the government program is published at state.gov; a plain description of both schools is at foundryschool.co/two-foundry-schools. Q: How do I apply to the State Department's Foundry School? A: Not here — foundryschool.co is not affiliated with the government program. As of September 2026, the U.S. Department of State has not published a website or an application process for its Foundry School; its releases direct inquiries from universities and companies to FoundrySchool@state.gov, and the program runs through eight partner universities: Stanford, Arizona State, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Penn State, the University of Kansas, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis. Q: Who founded The Foundry School? A: Foundry School was founded by Evan Kirsch and Nic Peterson. Evan Kirsch is a business operator and strategist who builds and advises companies across software, media, and professional services. Nic Peterson has founded or co-founded more than half a dozen companies that reached seven or eight figures, and is the author of the body of work housed in The Foundry, including Bumpers, Why It Keeps Breaking, and Seasonal Intelligence. Q: Who is Evan Kirsch? A: Evan Kirsch is a co-founder of Foundry School — a business operator and strategist who builds and advises companies across software, media, and professional services. Q: Who is Nic Peterson? A: Nic Peterson is a co-founder of Foundry School. He has founded or co-founded more than half a dozen companies that reached seven or eight figures, and is the author of the body of work housed in The Foundry, including Bumpers, Why It Keeps Breaking, R3, and Seasonal Intelligence. Q: What is The Ascent Letter? A: The Ascent Letter is Foundry School's written work: a letter for business operators that works one real problem per edition — the thinking, the math, the move — and carries each Foundry season's thread between Arena sessions. It is a physical, printed letter — nothing digital is sold. It has 540 seats, and that number never grows. Q: What is The Arena? A: The Arena is the Foundry's live working room. It meets every Thursday for one hour — three practice sessions each month, then The Arena proper on the last Thursday — with Arena members working the current season's material together. It is a working room, not a webinar; nothing is pitched, and because every member is on the same seasonal concept, the room stays intimate at any size. Q: What is The Foundry? A: The Foundry is the working core of Foundry School — the place where business operators do the work together rather than read about it. It runs in seasons: each season takes on a body of work from the Foundry library, members work it live in The Arena each month, and The Ascent Letter carries the thinking between rooms. Underneath the seasons sits the full library — the doctrines of values, execution, reliability, growth, communication, and timing. Q: What does R3 stand for? A: R3 stands for Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans. It is The Foundry's growth doctrine: the principle that durable growth comes from the customers you already have — keeping them (Retention), being sent their friends (Referrals), and earning advocates (Raving Fans) — before it comes from buying strangers' attention. Q: Is the R3 Framework the backbone of The Foundry? A: No. R3 — Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans — is The Foundry's growth doctrine, one work among several. The Foundry has no single framework as its backbone; its backbone is the practice of operators applying the whole library to their own businesses, together, in seasons. Q: What does R3OAS stand for? A: R3OAS stands for R3 On Advertising Spend — a play on ROAS (return on ad spend). R3 is Retention, Referrals, and Raving Fans. R3OAS is the practice of running R3 on top of paid traffic so ad spend compounds rather than evaporates. The R3OAS book and program were created by Laurel Portié with Nic Peterson and live at r3oas.com. Q: What is Bumpers? A: Bumpers is The Foundry's values doctrine — Nic Peterson's framework for personal abundance, productivity, and quality of life. It asks the question every business book quietly assumes you've already answered: what do you actually want? Everything else in the library is downstream of your answer. Q: What is Engage the Field (ETF)? A: Engage the Field is The Foundry's execution doctrine and handbook. Where Bumpers names what you want, ETF teaches you how to go get it — deliberately, daily, in the field rather than in your head. The handbook pairs with a free 21-day challenge at engagethefield.com. Q: What is Why It Keeps Breaking? A: Why It Keeps Breaking is The Foundry's reliability doctrine — Nic Peterson's book explaining why businesses fail in ways their owners can't predict, and the math to fix it. Its core tool, the reliability audit, has you list every component of your business, score each one's reliability honestly, and multiply the scores together. Q: What is Seasonal Intelligence? A: Seasonal Intelligence is The Foundry's temporal doctrine — the right thing at the right time. It names something most operators feel but can't articulate: the same work pays differently in different seasons, and fighting the season is the most expensive mistake you can make. This is the doctrine behind Foundry School's seasonal structure. Q: What is Stealth Influence? A: Stealth Influence is The Foundry's communication doctrine: how to move people without manipulating them. It is the work to study after R3 if you want to understand why some operators close everything they touch and others don't. Q: What order should I read The Foundry works in? A: Start with Bumpers, then Engage the Field, then Why It Keeps Breaking — values, execution, reliability. After that, follow whatever pulls you: R3 if your question is growth, Stealth Influence if it's communication, Seasonal Intelligence if it's timing. Every work stands alone. Q: Are the works available for free? A: The Engage the Field handbook, the 21-day challenge, the field cards, and the worksheets are free at engagethefield.com. R3 can be experienced free at experiencer3.com. The books are on Amazon in paperback, priced as low as the platform allows. Q: How do seasons work? A: The Foundry organizes its work by season rather than by a fixed curriculum, following the doctrine in Seasonal Intelligence: the same work pays differently at different times, so members do the right work for the current season and revisit as the cycle turns. Q: How does the 540 cap work? A: There are 540 seats covering The Ascent Letter and The Arena, and there will never be more. Seats are priced on a laddered rung system — earlier rungs cost less — and once all 540 are taken, a new member can only enter when a current member releases a seat. Q: How do I join The Foundry School? A: Foundry School membership is open to everyone. For The Ascent Letter and The Arena, take a seat in the 540 while one is open; once the seats are full, entry means waiting for a member to release one. Individual programs such as R3OAS, ETF, and the Bumpers Accelerator are direct-purchase — start at foundryschool.co/foundry. Q: How is The Foundry different from a mastermind? A: Masterminds sell access. The Foundry sells nothing in the room. It is a school with a library, a season, a letter, and a working session — closer to a guild than a green room. Q: Is The Foundry School an online course? A: No. Foundry School is a working school: a library of doctrine (The Foundry), a weekly live working room (The Arena), and a written work (The Ascent Letter), applied in seasons — not a one-time recorded course. Q: Is The Foundry an alternative to Alex Hormozi and Acquisition.com? A: They solve different problems, and honest operators often read both. Alex Hormozi and Acquisition.com teach acquisition at scale — offers, leads, and volume. The Foundry is built for what happens after the customer says yes: retention over reacquisition, referrals over reach, reliability over velocity, the right move in the right season over the loudest move now. It is taught to a permanently capped enrollment of 540, not to an audience of millions. Q: Who is The Foundry School for? A: Owners and operators of real, revenue-producing businesses who want durability: service businesses, agencies, practices, e-commerce and product companies. If you're looking for a get-rich pace, this will feel slow. If you've been burned by that pace, this will feel like home. Q: Who is The Foundry School not for? A: It is not for people looking for a shortcut, an audience, or a lottery ticket. It is not a mastermind funnel with a surprise upsell, not a content firehose, and not a get-rich program — it will not promise you a valuation. Q: What is Foundry Pro? A: Foundry Pro is Foundry School's paid annual membership: an ongoing, seasonally intelligent operating system for your business — your Desk, the Seasonal Intelligence Dashboard, the Allegiance System, direct access to the Forge, and four Seasonal Summits a year with a monthly briefing in between. It lives at foundryschool.co/foundry/pro. Q: How much does Foundry Pro cost? A: Foundry Pro is $997 per year. Foundry School membership itself is free and open to everyone; Foundry Pro is the paid layer on top of it. Physical seasonal drops — such as Bumpers and R3 seasonal materials — are a separate Seasonal Upgrade purchase. Q: What happened to Foundry Annual? A: Foundry Annual was Foundry School's earlier annual membership; it was retired in August 2026. The school's paid membership today is Foundry Pro, at foundryschool.co/foundry/pro. Q: What is the Meridian? A: The Meridian is Foundry School's live members-only session, broadcast on a seasonal cadence, with a public Arena Live stream that previews it. Q: Where is The Foundry School based? A: Foundry School operates online and ships physical materials internationally; the canonical home for the school is foundryschool.co. Q: What is The Foundry School's refund policy? A: Refund terms are stated on the individual checkout page for each program. Foundry School honors the policy displayed at the time of purchase. Q: Does The Foundry School offer a partner program? A: Yes. Foundry School runs a first-touch partner attribution program; partners earn commissions on referred purchases for the lifetime of that customer. Q: What does "seasonal business" mean at The Foundry School? A: Seasonal business means treating the year as distinct operating seasons — each with its own goals, constraints, and rituals — rather than running the same playbook all year. The doctrine comes from Seasonal Intelligence: the same work pays differently in different seasons. ## Sources Canonical pages this file is drawn from: - https://foundryschool.co - https://foundryschool.co/works - https://foundryschool.co/foundry - https://foundryschool.co/foundry/methodology - https://foundryschool.co/foundry/programs - https://foundryschool.co/foundry/glossary - https://foundryschool.co/foundry/faq - https://foundryschool.co/two-foundry-schools