AI CEO agent for new businesses. It tells you what to do today, and shows where it got that from.

What is FounderFold’s AI CEO?

FounderFold’s AI CEO is the agent that coordinates a portfolio of new businesses. It proposes today’s steps, calculated by rules from your records; answers with quotes marked “checked” or “not found”; adds observations you did not ask for; and hands the question to a specialist when another agent fits better. It reads and proposes; a person confirms every change.

Today: one step at a time

Press “Today”, or the full-stop key, and the CEO shows what needs doing, from most to least urgent: an overdue experiment, a task that is yours, a kill criterion to review, a gate with a deadline, an idea waiting for a decision. The steps are calculated by rules from your records, not by AI, so building the list costs nothing. Alongside them, “Today” keeps the alerts an agent saved for you from a conversation and the actions of the CEO’s weekly review.

• Each step comes with its label, its reason and a folded “Step details”.
• On a project, experiment or idea record, “Today” docks a panel on the right, focused on that record.
• “Not now” sets a step aside until tomorrow, Monday, a week from now or a date you pick, with an optional reason; only for you and in that browser.

Closes it prepares and you sign

When a step is due, the CEO asks whether it was done. You can fill it in yourself, move it to a new date or have the CEO prepare it: it says what the records show was done and proposes the next step with a date. If nothing shows, it asks you what happened.

• For an experiment, it measures each criterion against what is recorded and proposes a verdict: Good, Fair, Bad or Invalid. If the measurement window is still open, it refuses to give one.
• Before anything is written you see “This is what will be written to the record”, with “Edit” and “Confirm and save”.

Answers with checked citations

Ask the CEO about the step, the project, the experiment, the idea or the whole portfolio. The answer streams in within seconds. In the default style, “One step at a time”, it opens with a short answer and the next step; the quotes are folded under “More from this reply”, where “Where it comes from” marks each one “checked” or “not found in the document”. Click a quote from an open document and the text jumps to that point.

• Ask from the record you are looking at: the CEO answers about what is on screen.
• The same first question on the same day returns the saved answer at once, at no cost.
• Each answer carries the label “AI-generated”.

“What I see”: what you did not ask

“What I see” lists observations you did not ask for, by type: inconsistency, past date, unverified assumption, risk, opportunity or pending decision. Each one ends with “What I’d do”. With the default reply style, “One step at a time”, it is folded under “More from this reply”; with “Step and comments”, it shows under each answer.

• Ask “What do you see?” on a project before a committee.
• If a quote says “not found”, do not rely on that part of the answer.

It proposes the decision on an idea; you take it

On an idea record, “Decide on the idea” offers four options — study it in depth, put it on hold, discard it or choose it — and each asks for what it needs. “Ask the CEO for a proposal” opens the conversation; if the CEO proposes a decision, “Use as decision” fills in the form, labeled “AI-generated”, for you to review and confirm.

• An agent cannot decide: only owners and editors confirm.
• A discarded idea comes back only through “Study it again”, with new evidence written in the reason.

It hands over to the right specialist

Every conversation starts with the CEO. With the selector on “Automatic”, FounderFold routes each question by its words — a question about margin goes to Finance, one about GDPR to Compliance and legal, one with “price” to your Pricing agent — and the CEO answers when no one else fits.

• Pick an agent by hand with the “Agent” selector, and it answers even off its topic.
• Agents you create join the routing through their keywords.

• Create a specialist of your own

Closing an overdue experiment at Halden Mutual

A fictional insurer, fictional figures: how a Monday step goes from “overdue” to signed.

1. 1The step. Today shows “Overdue experiment: E-0131 closed three days ago, the result is missing.” It is the landing-page test for Working-dog insurance.
2. 2The proposal. Ines picks “Let the CEO prepare it”. The CEO reads the recorded metrics — sign-up rate 4.1% (37 of 902) against a 5% threshold, cost per lead €18 against €20 — and proposes “Fair: partly met”.
3. 3The question. She asks “What should I prioritise this week?”. The answer proposes closing E-0131 first. Under “More from this reply”, the quotes from the experiment and from P-0112’s next step are both “checked”, and “What I see” flags that P-0112’s next step cites 30 September, a date already past.
4. 4The signature. She corrects one sentence in “What we learned”, checks the preview and presses “Confirm and save”. The history keeps her name and the CEO’s proposal, labeled “AI-generated”.

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