An always-on founder intelligence system and AI executive team built for early-stage startup founders.
🚧 Status: Under Active Development
FounderOS is actively being built and refined. Core agent harnesses, C-suite executive tools, and automated workflows are rapidly evolving. Feedback, issues, and contributions are welcomed!
FounderOS is an open-source AI Executive Operating System that acts as an autonomous co-founder for early-stage startup leaders. Rather than isolated chatbots, FounderOS builds a living model of your company, grounds all reasoning in your real-time financial constraints and founder DNA, runs multi-agent C-suite board debates, and prepares verified, approval-gated execution drafts.
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│ 1. SIGNAL INGESTION │
│ Email • Linear • Stripe • Slack • Financials & Metrics │
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│ 2. COMPANY INTELLIGENCE LAYER │
│ Company Context • Financial Constraints • Institutional Memory │
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│ 3. 6-AGENT C-SUITE BOARD │
│ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │
│ │ CRO │ │Skeptic/CPO│ │ VP CS │ │ CFO │ │ CTO │ │ COO │ │
│ │ Reforge & │ │Pre-Mortem │ │Superhuman │ │Default │ │Boring Tech│ │Barrels & │ │
│ │ MEDDPICC │ │& Friction │ │PMF Engine │ │Alive/Burn │ │& Two-Way │ │Ammunition │ │
│ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ │
│ └─────────────┴─────────────┼─────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┘ │
│ ▼ │
│ CEO Orchestrator │
│ Prioritizes • Challenges • Recommends │
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│ 4. FOUNDER ACTION COCKPIT │
│ Daily Morning Brief ──► Approval-Gated Drafts ──► Decision Ledger (Learn) │
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- Deep Founder & Company Harness: Grounds every AI agent decision in your exact business model, cash runway, burn rate, GTM motion, competitive moat, tech stack, and founder superpower/gap profile.
- 👑 C-Suite Daily Executive Operating Suite:
- CEO Investor Update Synthesizer: Ingests real-time milestones, MRR growth, and constraints to generate gold-standard YC/Sequoia monthly investor updates ready to stage to the Action Queue.
- Task Prioritizer: Automatically segments founder task queues into 10x Leverage (deep work protection), 1x Neutral, and <0.1x Overhead (auto-delegated to AI workers).
- CFO Default Alive Runway Lab: Real-time Paul Graham capital efficiency simulator modeling headcount changes, salaries, revenue growth deltas, and tooling spend.
- CTO & ADR Lab: Simulates catastrophic failure modes 6 months into the future before committing code; enforces Dan McKinley Boring Tech innovation token discipline.
- CRO MEDDPICC Deal Health Radar: Audits enterprise pipeline deals across 8 dimensions (Metrics, Economic Buyer, Decision Criteria/Process, Paper Process, Pain, Champion, Competition) with objection talk tracks.
- VP CS Superhuman PMF Engine: Analyzes customer sentiment against Rahul Vohra's 40% "Very Disappointed" benchmark and segments High-Expectation Customers (HXC).
- 6-Agent C-Suite Board Debate Matrix: Concurrently queries CRO (Reforge Growth Loops & MEDDPICC), Skeptic / CPO (Pre-Mortem & Friction Logs), VP CS (Superhuman PMF & NRR), CFO (Paul Graham Default Alive & Burn Multiple), CTO (Boring Tech Rule & Two-Way Doors), and COO (Andy Grove High-Output Management), synthesized by a CEO Orchestrator.
- CEO Executive Morning Briefing: Daily synthesized briefing answering "What changed overnight and what is the single highest-leverage focus today?" based on incoming signals.
- Autonomous Approval-Gated Task Execution: Automatically processes delegated tasks into verified draft action receipts awaiting founder sign-off.
- Tri-Modal Security Postures & Policy Filter: Configurable security postures (
Strict,Auto,Dangerous) with automated AST/regex command safety rules to protect startup assets. - Scoped Notebook Memory & Decision Ledger: Line-oriented Markdown institutional memory with SHA-256 revision hashing and 300-fact sliding window cap.
- 100% Offline Peak Local Reasoning: Operates out-of-the-box with zero API keys required using structured local heuristics.
- AES-256-GCM Vault: Authenticated encryption at rest for third-party OAuth refresh tokens and provider API keys.
| Layer | Technologies |
|---|---|
| Frontend Cockpit | React 18, TypeScript, Vite, Vanilla CSS Design System with Glassmorphism UI |
| Backend Core | Python 3.10+, FastAPI, Pydantic v2, WebSockets for live push events |
| Data & Storage | SQLModel / SQLAlchemy (Async), SQLite (aiosqlite) / PostgreSQL compatible |
| Security & Vault | AES-256-GCM Authenticated Encryption (cryptography), Action Policy AST/Regex Engine |
| AI Reasoning Layer | Universal LLM Connector Registry (Hermes / OpenClaw architecture) supporting the full 2026 intelligence leaderboard: Anthropic (Claude Opus 5 max, Claude Fable 5 with fallback, Sonnet 5), OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol max, Luna max, o3-mini), xAI (Grok 4.6 high/xhigh), Moonshot AI (Kimi K3 max 2.8T), Google Gemini (Gemini 3.7 Flash high, 3.1 Pro), DeepSeek (DeepSeek V4 Pro max, R1), Zhipu AI (GLM-5.2 max), NVIDIA NIM (Nemotron 3 Ultra), Meta / Muse (Muse Spark 1.2 xhigh), Groq LPUs, OpenRouter (200+ models), and Local Ollama with live /v1/models auto-discovery |
- Node.js: v18 or higher
- Python: v3.10 or higher
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Start Vite development server
npm run devThe frontend will launch at
http://localhost:5173.
# Navigate to the backend directory
cd server
# Create and activate a virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# Start the FastAPI server with live reload
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8000The backend API and interactive documentation will be available at
http://localhost:8000/docs.
FounderOS/
├── public/ # Static assets & web manifest
├── media/ # Branding, illustrations & banner assets
├── src/
│ ├── App.tsx # Main application shell, router & modals
│ ├── api.ts # Typed API client with error handling
│ ├── domain.ts # TypeScript interfaces & domain models
│ └── styles.css # Glassmorphism design system & utility styles
├── server/
│ ├── app/
│ │ ├── main.py # FastAPI entrypoint & background workers lifecycle
│ │ ├── models.py # SQLModel database schemas
│ │ ├── db.py # Async session maker & database engine
│ │ ├── vault.py # AES-256-GCM token encryption & decryption
│ │ ├── policy/ # Security postures & command safety rules
│ │ ├── routers/ # API endpoints (workspace, briefing, debate, tasks, etc.)
│ │ ├── services/ # Unified LLMEngine, briefing synthesizer & voice profiler
│ │ └── workers/ # Background execution & signal ingestion loops
│ └── requirements.txt # Python dependencies
├── architecture.md # Authoritative system design & architecture specification
├── harness.md # AI Agent Harness specification & mental models reference
├── CONTRIBUTING.md # Open-source contribution guidelines
├── SECURITY.md # Security disclosure policy
└── LICENSE # MIT License
- License: Released under the MIT License.
- Contributing: Please read our Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct before submitting pull requests.