What you need
The Mac, iPhones and accounts Foundry needs before setup.
Hardware
- A Mac that stays on. One Mac runs up to 12 iPhones.
- The iPhones you want to post from. Ours are iPhone SE, 12 and 13 models.
- A USB cable for each phone, and a powered hub once you pass three or four.
Accounts
- Your own Instagram, TikTok and YouTube accounts, signed in on the phone in the official apps.
- Foundry never sees a social password. You sign in on the phone yourself, once.
- Sign in once on each phone, including any code the app asks for at sign in. From then on Foundry clears the routine prompts itself: app updates, tracking, Photos access, promo sheets.
An agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor on the same Mac. It installs Foundry, runs it day to day and tells you when something needs you.