FounderFold: the layer on top
- Find opportunities for each client
- Generate strategies for what already works
AI models: they do the analysis, and they’re built in
Innovation consulting software. “We did this for another client. Where is it?”
FounderFold is the layer on top of AI models: innovation consulting software that finds opportunities for each client and generates strategies for the business they already have, with your method.
Early access is by invitation.
Your method, on top of AI models
FounderFold for consultancies is a layer on top of AI models for client work: one portfolio per client running your method, where agents find and generate opportunities and strategies to optimize what the client already has, with sources, and your team reviews and signs off. The AI is already built in: there’s nothing to connect.
FounderFold: the layer on top
Find opportunities for each client
Each client has a portfolio with its thesis and reasons to discard. The Explorer brings candidates with their sources, and what it rules out by those reasons is visible too, so you can show the client.
Generate strategies for what already works
The client’s business comes in as a running project. A diagnosis in conversation, an improvement plan with experiments, and figures that measure it, after delivery as well.
AI models: they do the analysis, and they’re built in
What is innovation consulting software?
Innovation consulting software is where a consultancy keeps its method for client work on new businesses: the research, the evaluations, the recommendations and the follow-up of each client’s initiatives, so the method scales beyond the people who invented it.
Heard on a Friday at any consultancy
“We did this for another client, where is it?”
It’s in someone’s folder, under another name, in final-final-3.
“It takes the partner longer to find it than to do it.”
So it gets done again. The client pays for hours your firm already paid for.
“The client wants to see the reasoning, not a deck.”
They ask why this option and not the other six, and the answer was in a meeting.
“What if the client does it themselves with an AI model?”
They can. What they don’t have is your method, or the memory of what’s been tried.
AI models prepare the deliverable. FounderFold keeps the reasoning behind it.
| AI models | AI models + FounderFold | |
|---|---|---|
| Preparing the deliverable | Documents, spreadsheets and presentations, with multi-step tasks on your files. | The Board view produces each portfolio’s PDF as a report or board deck, with your logo. Figures come from the records, not from AI. |
| Reusing the method | Custom assistants and plugins that someone builds and distributes across the organization. | Each new client starts by “Copying another portfolio’s settings”: criteria, rubric, sources and limits. Never the records. |
| Keeping clients apart | One project per client, with its context and files. | One portfolio per client, and “All portfolios” to compare them in a single view. |
| Defending the recommendation | Research cites its sources. | Citations from FounderFold’s CEO, its AI agent, are marked “checked” or “not found”, and History says who decided and why. |
| A second opinion | Subagents or a second assistant, if someone configures them. | “Add a critic”: it reviews each agent’s answer against the same sources and says what to check before deciding. |
| After delivery | One scheduled task per client, maintained by whoever created it. | Every Monday, the CEO’s review in each portfolio, and a scheduled report that arrives by email. |
Indicative comparison with features offered by some AI models and general assistants as of October 30, 2026; they vary by provider and plan, and change quickly. The column with FounderFold only lists what already works in the panel.
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An uncomfortable question
Think of the last recommendation you delivered. Could another consultant defend it without calling whoever wrote it?
- Which options were left out?
- For what reason?
- Did anything from the last client get reused?
How FounderFold runs a consulting practice
One portfolio per client
Each client gets its own portfolio, with its own rubric, reasons to discard and sources, inside your organization. “All portfolios” shows every engagement side by side.
Access by portfolio
Give each client access to its own portfolio only, as a reader or an editor, without seeing your other clients.
Research with sources, first pass by agents
The Explorer and the CEO do the first pass of opportunity research and record every claim with its link and date. Your consultants review it instead of compiling it.
Comparable evaluations
The same rubric, from 0 to 2 per dimension and with a version, so every option for a client is scored the same way and the evidence sits in the record.
Recommendations a person signs
The CEO proposes decisions and observations, marked as AI-generated. A consultant confirms, edits or rejects them, and the reason stays in the history.
Reports and follow-up
Board reports with your organization’s logo, custom reports asked for in plain words, and projects that keep their milestones and figures after the engagement ends.
Three clients, one method
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
Quillmere Advisory, a fictional strategy consultancy with three innovation clients: a logistics group, a food manufacturer and a regional bank.
Open a portfolio per client
Each one gets its own thesis and rubric. The bank’s rubric adds a regulatory dimension the other two do not need.
First pass by the agents
The Explorer runs for the logistics group and returns 18 opportunities with their sources. The consultants keep 7 for study.
Compare and recommend
The 7 are scored with the same rubric. The CEO proposes discarding four with their reason; the partner in charge confirms three and puts one on hold.
Give the client access
The client’s innovation director gets reader access to that portfolio only, and sees the evidence behind each recommendation.
Follow the initiatives
The two chosen opportunities become projects with milestones, and each quarter the board report goes to the client with the figures recorded.
The method is the same for all three clients, and the second and third engagements start from a configured portfolio instead of a blank page.
Scale your innovation practice with one method for every client.
Early access is by invitation.
How a firm starts, in four steps
Configure your method once
Set the rubric, reasons to discard and stages your firm uses. Each client portfolio starts from them and adapts.
Open the client’s portfolio
With the client’s thesis and criteria, and the people on the client side who need access.
Research, score and recommend
Agents do the first pass with sources; your team scores, discards and recommends, with the reason written down.
Report and follow up
Deliver the board report and keep the initiatives running in the portfolio after the engagement.
Halden MutualNew lines 2027Board report · Q3 2026Weighted value per year rose to €3.1M; two decisions need the board.
- Weighted value per year
- €3.1Mbetween €1.4M and €5.6M
- Recurring revenue
- €7,000a month; 1 of 4 projects with data
- Ideas discarded this quarter
- 57Top reason: competition
Decisions requested
- Pass the gate for Event cancellation for small venues (Exploration → Pilot).
- Decide on the kill criterion on “Watch” for Landlord rent guarantee.
Cutoff Sep 30, 2026 · Portfolio New lines 2027 · Page 3 of 24
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
“All portfolios” view of a fictional consultancy: three client portfolios side by side, each with its ideas, projects, decisions pending and the date of its last board report.
Why consulting methods are hard to scale
A good method lives in the heads of a few senior people. Each new client means rebuilding it by hand.
The same research, every time
Market scans, competitor tables and lists of trends are rebuilt for each engagement, mostly by hand.
Evaluations nobody can compare
Each team scores opportunities its own way, so a recommendation for one client cannot be set next to another.
Follow-up that stops at the final deck
Once the report is delivered, nobody tracks whether the initiatives moved, and the next engagement starts from zero.
A client engagement as a lifecycle, for example
Stages of your own for client work, with a gate the client signs at the end of each one.
Projects by stage
Lifecycle: new business line in an existing company · Halden Mutual
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.- Milestone done
- In progress
- Pending
- Gate
- No risk
- Watch
- Triggered
- Gate to Pilot
- Business sponsor named and pilot budget approved by the client before week 8 Example milestone. Illustrative data.
What consultancies use it for
Opportunity research for clients
A first pass of research by the Explorer, with sources and dates, that your team reviews and completes.
Strategic analysis
Study each option in depth against the client’s rubric, market and competition included, with the evidence in the record.
Comparable evaluations
The same rubric and the same version across options, so a recommendation can be defended in front of the client’s committee.
Recommendations
Proposals from the CEO, marked as AI-generated, that a consultant confirms with the reason written down.
Follow-up of initiatives
Projects with milestones, kill criteria and figures, and a report each period, long after the final deck.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
People and permissions for the portfolio of a fictional logistics client: two consultants as editors and the client’s innovation director as a reader of that portfolio only.
What your firm gets
More engagements with the same team
Agents do the repetitive first pass, so senior time goes to judgment and to the client.
A method that does not depend on who runs it
The rubric, the reasons to discard and the stages are written down and versioned for each client.
Recommendations you can defend
Every score and every discard keeps its source and its reason in the record.
Continuity after delivery
Clients keep a portfolio that shows how each initiative is doing, instead of a deck that ages.
Questions consultancies ask about FounderFold
Can each client see only its own work?
Yes. Access by portfolio gives each client, as a reader or an editor, access to its own portfolio only, and to nothing else in your organization.
Can each client have its own criteria?
Yes. Every portfolio has its own rubric, reasons to discard, sources and stages, and every change raises its version.
Do the reports carry our brand?
Board reports carry your organization’s logo when report branding is set up. Custom reports are asked for in plain words, in English or Spanish. In practice, that is white-label reporting for consultants: white-label board reports for each client, with your logo.
Does the AI write our recommendations?
The CEO proposes decisions and observations with sources, marked as AI-generated. A consultant confirms or rejects each one, and the history keeps who decided and why.
What if the client does it themselves with an AI model?
It’s already within their reach, and it’s better to plan for that. What the client pays you for is judgment and the memory of the engagement: what was looked at, what was discarded and why, in a portfolio that stays alive after you finish.
Do I have to connect or pay separately for an AI model?
No. The AI comes with your FounderFold membership, with a monthly AI limit in plain sight, and there’s nothing to connect. If you already use a model, keep using it for your own work.
Can two clients’ data get mixed?
Each client has their own portfolio and configuration, and access is granted per portfolio: each person at the client sees only theirs. Creating a portfolio by copying another copies the method, never the records.
Can several consultants work on one client?
Yes. Owners and editors work on the portfolio and readers only consult. Every decision keeps the person, the date and the reason.
How does a consultancy get access, and what does it cost?
For consultancies, FounderFold is in early access by invitation, and pricing is not published. Request access with a few lines about your firm and your clients.
Who keeps it up to date?
Nobody has to build it: it’s set up in conversation, and each decision asks for its reason when it’s made. “Today” tells each owner what’s missing.
What FounderFold keeps, and who decides
FounderFold holds the method: the research, the evaluations, the decisions and the follow-up of each client’s initiatives, next to the tools that run your firm. The agents prepare the evidence; your consultants and your clients decide.
Consultancy, or corporate innovation team?
A consultancy runs the same method for several clients. A corporate innovation team runs it for one company, with the board as its client.
Scale your innovation practice with one method for every client.
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