Custom AI agents for innovation teams. A small team of specialists, each with one trade.

What is a custom agent in FounderFold?

A custom agent in FounderFold is a specialist you create for your portfolio, with a name, a one-line description, its role, keywords, the areas where it answers by default, a scope of projects and the colour of its robot. It always works under the base rules shared by every agent — sources, citations and caps — and every change is saved as a version you can go back to.

Create one by hand in a minute

In the agent room, “+ New agent” opens the editor. Fill in the name, “What it does, in one line” and “Its role: what it does and how it answers”, add keywords and choose where it answers by default: documents, projects, experiments, ideas or the portfolio.

• Keywords decide when FounderFold picks it: with “price*, plans, discount”, a question about prices goes to it. A trailing asterisk covers every word that starts that way.
• “Which projects it covers”: the whole portfolio or only the projects you tick, so it never slips into questions about the others.
• Pick the colour of its robot, and it appears in the agent room.

An agent is a trade, not a task

FounderFold keeps the team bounded: seven base agents and up to five of your own. An agent covers a trade — pricing, claims, regulation — and lasts as long as the portfolio; a goal such as “first B2B customers” belongs on the board, in steps or experiments, and the editor says so.

• The overlap check warns you, strongly or partially, when a new agent shares keywords or areas with another: “B2B Expert” gets an amber warning because it shares “price” with Finance.
• Adjust instead of duplicating: if an agent almost fits, add your own instructions to it.

Every change is a version

Each change is saved with “Save version” and a note in “What you changed”. The “Versions” tab lists them with their origin — from the system, proposed by the CEO or created by a person — and “Use this version” brings an earlier one back.

• Agents are not deleted: they are archived and can be recovered from “Archived”.
• “Back to the base configuration” resets a system agent to how it came.

Tune the agents that come with FounderFold

Each system agent can be adjusted for your organization: your own instructions — sector, tone, rules it must always follow — extra keywords, the areas where it answers by default, and whether it is active. The CEO and the analyst are always active.

• Your instructions add to the agent’s role; they do not replace it.
• A deactivated agent appears faded in the room, and FounderFold does not pick it.
• From an agent’s card in the room, “Add a critic” gives it a reviewer that checks every answer with a second AI call; critics count towards your five agents.

A pricing agent for Halden Mutual

A fictional organization with fictional agents.

1. 1The need. Two projects keep asking about premiums and broker discounts, and Finance answers in general terms. Ines creates “Pricing” with the keywords “price*, plans, discount”.
2. 2The scope. She limits it to Working-dog insurance and Landlord rent guarantee, the two lines with a price on the table, and gives its robot an orange colour.
3. 3The warning. A colleague tries to add “First B2B customers”. The editor flags it as a task, not a trade, and suggests putting it on the board as steps or an experiment.
4. 4The version. A month later she adds rules on broker commissions and saves version 2 with the note “Added discount rules for brokers”. Version 1 is still one click away.

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