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◆ Foundry Labs

Things we're building in the open.

Labs is where the Foundry tries things before they're finished — tools for founders, faculty, and the people who run the room. Each one says how far along it is. Try the ones that are open, or tell us what you need.

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Beta

Course Tools

Turn a syllabus into a venture.

For faculty running entrepreneurship courses: drop in a syllabus and get briefs, rubrics, and student feedback loops wired straight into the Foundry.

coursetools.uvafoundry.comOpen Course Tools ↗
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Pilot

The Competition Platform

Run a pitch competition end to end.

Submissions, judging rubrics, live scoring, and a public leaderboard — the plumbing behind a pitch competition, opened up so any club or school can run its own.

competitions.uvafoundry.comOpen the platform ↗
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Playtest

Founder Mode

A week as a founder, in twenty minutes.

A short, replayable simulation of the first hard calls — what to build, who to talk to, what to ignore. Built to train the muscle the Exploration track teaches, before you spend a semester on it.

Prototype · playtestPlay the prototype ↗
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Coming soon

The Foundry Guide

An AI guide that starts the conversation.

A chat that turns "I have an idea" into a profile, a next step, and the right person to talk to. We took it offline to rework it — until it is back, a person reads every advising request.

Paused while we rebuild itSee what’s coming →
How Labs works
Beta

Working, in real use, and still rough at the edges. Open it and try it — and tell us what breaks.

Pilot

Running with a partner or a single event. Want to run one with us? Get in touch and a person will reply.

Playtest

A prototype we want eyes on. No promises it survives — but the ideas that work here graduate into programs.

Build with us

Got something we should build in the open?

Labs runs on what founders and faculty actually need. Send us a note about what would help — a person reads it, and the best ideas become the next experiment.

Pitch a Lab →