FOUNDRY
FOUNDRY · RECOVERY PROGRAM ARCHITECTURE

The design laws before the software.

Foundry hands recovery high schools the operational architecture that took years to derive the hard way — consent, documentation, outcomes, disclosure — written down, on paper, before the first day of school.

Prepared for Crosspoint Academy · School District of Waukesha · Opening Fall 2026

THE MOMENT

Twenty students. Two grants. Six weeks.

Crosspoint Academy opens this fall in the former STEM/Saratoga building — the second recovery high school in Wisconsin. Daily group therapy. Licensed substance use counselors. An abstinence-focused culture. A staff about to do this for the first time.

A program in that position does not need software. It needs the things nobody hands a new school: an information policy that survives a records request. A documentation spine that survives an accreditation review. An outcomes design that survives a grant renewal. A disclosure protocol that survives a hallway.

That is what Foundry builds. On paper. Before September.

CROSSPOINT ACADEMY · SPEC PLATE
OPENSFall 2026
ENROLLMENT20 students
GRADES9–12
GRANTS2 state planning grants
BUILDINGFormer STEM/Saratoga, 130 Walton Ave
THE SECTOR PROBLEM

The evidence gap and the money gap are the same gap.

40+
recovery high schools operating nationally
Association of Recovery Schools
1
controlled outcomes study the sector's evidence base substantially rests on
Campbell Systematic Review, 2018 (Hennessy et al.); Finch et al. quasi-experimental study, n<300
$35,000 vs $12,000
estimated true cost per student vs. tuition at Wisconsin's first recovery school
Horizon High School of Madison, public statements

The one study the field has is favorable — recovery high school students were significantly more likely to report abstinence at six months and missed less school. But one study cannot carry a sector. Districts are asked to fund thirty-thousand-dollar-per-student programs on anecdote, and recovery schools have never had the instrumentation to prove what they already know.

Nobody built the measurement layer. That is not a criticism of the field. That is a vacuum.
THE DESIGN LAWS

Derived building clinical software. Portable to any school.

Foundry's founder built FORGED Recovery OS — a HIPAA-governed clinical aftercare platform for adults leaving treatment. These are the laws that system refuses to violate. Each one translates directly to a recovery high school, and none of them requires technology.

THE HARD PROBLEM

Four parties. One student's information. No policy yet.

The hardest problem in a school-based recovery program is not clinical. It is informational. A minor cannot consent the way an adult can. A parent has statutory rights to education records. A sixteen-year-old who believes everything they say goes home tonight will say nothing. And federal substance-use confidentiality rules are stricter than both the education and the health privacy regimes they sit between.

ONE STUDENT'S INFORMATION
THE STUDENT
CLAIM

A confidential space, without which they will not engage honestly.

LIMIT

Not a legal adult. Safety overrides exist.

Foundry's deliverable is the written policy that assigns every category of information to a party, names the consent instrument that moves it, and states what happens when someone asks for something they are not entitled to. The school needs this document in September regardless of who writes it.

THE ENGAGEMENT

Five service lines. All paper. All before a single line of code.

SERVICE LINE WHAT THE DISTRICT RECEIVES
Information Architecture & Consent PolicyThe records-regime map, the four-party information policy, the consent instruments, the disclosure protocol.
Outcomes Instrumentation & Evidence DesignMeasurement design and instrument set, a clear statement of what twenty students of data can and cannot claim, and the reporting artifact for grant renewal and accreditation.
State-Aware Support ProtocolA paper protocol for recognizing and responding to student dysregulation — defined tiers, defined responses, defined content gating. No technology required.
Documentation Burden ReductionA workflow audit of the coordinator and counselor load, redesigned forms, and a write-once reporting spine mapped to the district's systems.
Sustainability & Funding ArchitectureThe years-two-through-five funding stack, the outcomes evidence each stream requires, and joint grant-application support.
SEQUENCE

The first paid dollar comes in week six. That is on purpose.

01
WEEK 1–2
First conversation. Listening only.
One question: what do you have to have ready by the first day of school that you do not have yet.
02
WEEK 3
UNBILLED
The free deliverable.
The Disclosure Test, written for a twenty-student recovery school. Two pages. Handed over with no strings. This is the credibility artifact.
03
WEEK 4–6
Scope the engagement around the district's own gap list.
Board-ready one-pager, priced, procurement-pathway aware.
04
WEEK 6–10
Deliver the first artifact before the school year starts.
The information policy or the state-aware protocol — whichever the gap list prioritized.
05
WEEK 10–13
Outcomes instrumentation begins.
Instrument selection, cadence, consent implications. The measurement layer the sector never had.
THE LINE

What we will not do in year one.

We will not pitch software. A student-facing product for adolescents is a twelve-to-eighteen-month build with its own clinical authority, and we will not shortcut it.

We will not touch student-identifiable data. Architecture consulting does not require access to a single student record.

We will not advise on clinical treatment. Adolescent clinical authority belongs to adolescent-credentialed clinicians. We route. We do not rule.

We will not get in the way of what already works. The evidence points to the sober peer cohort as the active ingredient in a recovery school. Where technology risks displacing that, technology loses.

Recovery isn't a feeling. It's a trade. Crosspoint is a job site where nobody has finished their apprenticeship yet — and the most useful thing anyone can hand them is the shop drawings.

Twenty minutes. One conversation. Bring the list of what keeps you up at night about opening day, and we will tell you which items Foundry can take off it — and which we can't.

FOUNDRY · Recovery Program Architecture · Waukesha, Wisconsin · A practice of Erin Brady, founder of FORGED Recovery OS