AI agents for innovation portfolios. Know which agent is working, where, right now.
The agent room is the screen where FounderFold shows its agents at work: who is answering, about which project, and what they have done over the last days. It reads activity without spending AI and refreshes itself while you look.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
Agent room in Desk view: a shelf of four robots above an agent-by-project grid of solid and hollow cubes; the Analyst has a spotlight on project P-0112. Header figures: 1 agent active now, 9 conversations in 24 hours, 4 steps pending today.
What is the agent room?
The agent room is the FounderFold screen that shows your AI agents at work across the portfolio. For each agent in your portfolio it shows whether it is working now, active today or idle, where it last answered and how many answers it gave in seven days, in three views: Desk, Stage and Lanes. It only reads, so opening it uses no AI. It is the view for teams that run AI agents for an innovation portfolio and need to know what each one is doing.
Four figures and one sentence
At the top, four figures sum up the room: agents active now, conversations in the last 24 hours, jobs in progress and today’s steps still pending. Next to them, “Right now” says it in one sentence, such as “Analyst is working on P-0112”.
- The room rereads activity every few seconds while it is on screen, without spending AI.
- “Read at 10:42 · refreshes itself” tells you how fresh the data is.
- “View as table” shows the same data as a plain table.
- Three tabs: “Now” for live activity, “Runs” for what the scheduled agents did and “Tasks” for the work in progress on your projects.
Desk: the daily glance
Desk is the default view: an agent-by-project grid where each cell is a cube. The bigger the cube, the more answers in seven days; solid if the last one is from the past 24 hours, hollow if older. Whoever is working now has a spotlight and stands on their cube.
- On a phone, or with the Today panel docked, it turns into a list.
- Hover or tab over an agent or a project and everything unrelated dims.
- Click to isolate it; Esc or “Show all” brings everything back.
Stage: the room as a model
Stage draws the room as an axonometric model: a tower per project, the CEO on its dais and a robot per agent. A robot floating over a tower is working there now; a trace on the floor means it answered about that project in the last seven days.
- Rotate it with the buttons or the arrow keys; “Initial view” puts it back.
- Click a tower to list the conversations about that project.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
Agent room in Stage view: an axonometric model with one tower per project, the CEO on a dais and a robot floating over the tower of P-0112, with traces on the floor to the towers where agents answered this week.
Lanes: when each agent worked
Lanes gives each project a lane that runs up to the “now” line, on a logarithmic scale. Each diamond says how many times an agent answered there. Below, the bench lists the agents with no answers in seven days.
- Useful to spot a project nobody has looked at for a week.
- Click a diamond to open the conversations behind it.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
Agent room in Lanes view: one lane per project running to a “now” line on a logarithmic scale, diamonds sized by answers, and a bench below with one agent that has not answered in seven days.
A robot per agent, readable by shape
Each agent is a robot: the CEO wears a bow tie and a star, the analyst wears glasses, and the agents you create carry the colour you pick for them. Its state — working, active today, idle — shows in its shape, not only its colour, so it reads in black and white and for people with colour blindness.
- Click a robot for its card: what it does, where it last answered and its answers in seven days.
- From the card: “Talk to…”, “See conversations”, “Isolate in the room” and, for owners and editors, “Configure”.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
The agent robots in three states told apart by shape — working, active today and idle: the CEO with its bow tie and star, the Analyst with glasses, and two agents of your own in the colours chosen for them.
“Agents working”, from any screen
When there is activity, the top bar shows how many agents are working: answers being written right now and tasks in progress. Conversations answered a moment ago appear as recent conversations. Click it to see who, doing what and since when, then follow the conversation in the side panel or jump to the room.
- “Continue in the panel” opens that conversation on the right without leaving the page.
- With reduced motion turned on, the indicator stops pulsing.
Illustrative data — Fictional company, ideas and figures, shown for illustration only.
Top bar of the panel with the indicator “1 agent working” open: the Analyst answering about P-0112 since 10:39 and, under “Answered recently”, the CEO, who replied about P-0107 four minutes ago, with the buttons “Continue in the panel” and “See in the room”.
Pick up any conversation
Click a cube, a diamond or a tower and you get the conversations at that point, with title and date. The side panel shows the full exchange: write below and the same agent carries on with the same context, or switch to another agent.
- “+ New conversation with … about P-0107” starts a fresh one on that project.
- A conversation belongs to one project; to talk about another, start a new one.
A Monday morning at Halden Mutual
Halden Mutual is a fictional insurer with four new lines under way. Ines, its head of new business, starts the week in the agent room.
- 19:05, the glance. Desk view. “Right now: Analyst is working on P-0112.” The cubes on Event cancellation cover are hollow: nobody has looked at it since last week.
- 29:07, the bench. In Lanes, the B2B Expert agent sits on the bench with no answers in seven days. Its keywords overlap with the Pricing agent, so she makes a note to adjust it.
- 39:10, picking up. She clicks the CEO’s cube on P-0107 and reopens Friday’s conversation about the landing-page test. The CEO carries on where it stopped and suggests closing experiment E-0131.
FAQ
Does opening the agent room cost anything?
No. The room only reads activity that is already recorded. It refreshes every few seconds while it is on screen and uses no AI.
Which agents appear in the room?
Every agent in your team: the CEO, the analyst and the specialists that come with FounderFold, plus the agents you create.
What counts as “working”?
In the room, an agent is working when it is answering or has answered in the last ten minutes. “Active today” means it answered in the last 24 hours; “Idle”, that it has not answered in 24 hours.
Can I see the same data without the visuals?
Yes. “View as table” shows the same data in a table. The three views also work with the keyboard and respect reduced-motion settings.
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