How does your growth engine compare?
Take the assessment and help First City Foundry benchmark how Portland founders use systems, automation, AI, and community support to build companies with better visibility, stronger margins, and more independence.
Visibility
Dashboards, reporting speed, and decision quality.
Margins
Where automation is creating leverage or where manual work is still winning.
Independence
Founder dependency, documented knowledge, and enterprise value.
AI readiness
AI-native operations, tooling investment, and practical use cases.
Join the Index
Your answers contribute to a local benchmark of visibility, margins, independence, and AI readiness. This research survey is separate from the quarterly problem-matching room.
Built for operators, not vanity metrics.
The Index gives founders a clearer picture of where operational architecture and AI-native workflows are changing the cost of growth.