The Standards Foundry helps professional services firms and growing businesses stop running on institutional knowledge and start running on documented systems. Audit your operations, document what matters, and be ready for whatever comes next.
Most growing firms run on memory, habit, and a few indispensable people. It works until the day someone leaves, an audit lands, a client asks how something is done, or the founder realizes they cannot take a holiday. These are the signs.
The same questions, every weekYour team chat answers the same three questions on repeat because the answers live in nobody's documentation.
One person is the bottleneckCertain things only move when one specific person moves them. That person is usually you.
New hires take months to landOnboarding means shadowing whoever is least busy. Weeks of productivity lost to undocumented knowledge.
Every month ends in a scrambleThe same end-of-month chaos repeats because the process was never designed, only survived.
Ten people, ten different waysThe same job done ten different ways with no single source of truth. Quality depends on who picked up the file.
You are firefighting, not leadingYou know you should be working on strategy. Instead you are pulled into operational fires that should not need you.
For firms of roughly 30 to 200 people preparing for an audit, due diligence, a leadership transition, or the next phase of growth. Fixed scope. Fixed fee. A documented operational foundation at the end.
The Standards Foundry was founded by Nicola Henry, an operations specialist who spent more than twelve years inside financial institutions across Canada and the Caribbean, including roles spanning major bank acquisitions, enterprise transformation portfolios, and board-level operational reporting.
That career started in Jamaica, building process documentation from zero inside institutions where nothing had been formalized. It continued into some of Canada's largest banks, where the same foundation-building skills were applied to M&A integrations and enterprise transformations at scale. Process audits, future-state design, SOP documentation, and the financial governance that holds it together.
The methodology has not changed. The clients have. The same institutional-grade rigor now goes to work for professional services firms and growing businesses that need to professionalize their operations without a Big Four budget.
Not ready for a full engagement? Every tool below is built with the same methodology used in the consulting work. Buy what you need, use it the same day.
A 4-minute read that tells you whether you have an operations problem and how serious it is. The honest starting point.
A 50-point self-scoring diagnostic across five operational areas. Know exactly where your business stands and what to fix first.
Map your core processes using the same methodology used inside financial institutions across Canada and the Caribbean. Workbook, Excel template, and professional flowchart included.
Every task gets one clear owner, a weekly review built in, and status you can read at a glance. Excel, converts to Google Sheets.
Five complete, ready-to-use SOPs covering the processes every growing business needs documented first. Editable Word and PDF formats.
Annual budget planner, 12-month cash flow forecast, and a one-page health dashboard that updates itself. 235 working formulas.
A structured week-by-week program to fix your operational gaps, starting with the ones costing the most. Twelve weeks of guided action.
Every tool in the suite, together. The full self-serve operational foundation for a growing business.
Email with a few lines about your firm and what is on the horizon. You will get a reply within two business days.
A 30-minute conversation. What is happening in your operations, what event is coming, and whether this is the right fit. No pitch deck.
Every engagement starts with the two-week diagnostic. You see exactly where the gaps are before anything gets built.
Processes mapped, SOPs documented and tested, ownership assigned, team trained. You end with a foundation, not a binder on a shelf.
Email a few lines about your firm: what you do, roughly how many people, and what is coming up that makes operations urgent. That is all a first conversation needs.
Replies within two business days. No newsletters, no sequences, just a reply.