Autonomous AI departments — now in early access
One person.
A whole company.
Foundworks is a business OS that staffs your company with AI departments: Marketing, Sales, Support, and more. Each runs on agents that plan, do real work, and remember. Anything that touches the outside world waits for your sign-off.
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A Foundworks department, mid-run · sample data
- 7 department templates
- Approval-gated actions
- Isolated sandboxes
- Readable memory
- Full audit trail
How it works
From description to department
No prompt engineering, no org charts. Describe the business; the departments do the rest.
Describe your business
Four short steps: who you are, how you sound, who you sell to, and which department to spin up first. Plain language, no configuration files.
Identity · Brand voice · Target customer · First department
Departments come online
Seven templates, or define your own. Each arrives staffed with specialist agents, its own readable memory, and an isolated sandbox to work in.
Marketing · Sales · Support · Product & Eng · Ops · Finance · Client Services
Work runs. You hold the keys.
Agents plan, execute, and file everything in memory you can open and edit. Anything that leaves the building, like an email or a payment, waits in your approvals queue.
Approve once · Or set a standing rule
The platform
Not another chatbot
Departments hold real state, produce real artifacts, and answer for what they did.
Memory you can read
Every department writes plain markdown: decisions, drafts, learnings. Open any file, correct it, and the agents work from your correction. No opaque vector store.
Departments that talk
Sales can ask Marketing. Every department shares company-wide context: brand voice, customers, decisions. Nobody goes off-script.
Real work, not chat
Each department gets an isolated sandbox with a real shell and filesystem. Reports, audits, spreadsheets, code. Produced, not described.
Runs that improve themselves
A QA pass scores every scheduled workflow run, saves what it learned, and feeds it into the next one. Your departments get better every week.
Control
Autonomous, but answerable
“The more a system does on its own, the more legible and controllable it has to be. So we built the trust in, not on.”
Approval gates
Agents ask before acting on the world. Approve once, or write a standing rule.
Glass-box memory
State lives in markdown files you can open and edit, not embeddings you can't.
Every action on the record
A full audit trail of everything your agents do, and everything you do.
Cost you can see and cap
Every model call metered. A cap per business, with alerts before it bites.
Recoverable by default
Deletions sit in trash for 30 days. Undo is a first-class feature.
Hard walls between businesses
Each business gets separate memory, sandboxes, and meters. Nothing bleeds.
Read · Correct · Pause
Read the manifestoWho it's for
What will you run?
If you can describe the business, Foundworks can staff it.
Solo SaaS founder
Product & Engineering ships fixes while Marketing drafts the launch and Support triages the inbox, all from one dashboard.
Marketing agency
Run every client as its own business: separate memory, brand voice, and AI usage cap. Nothing bleeds between businesses.
E-commerce brand
Support answers from a living FAQ, Ops tracks fulfilment, Finance keeps the books current.
Research & content studio
Researchers distill sources into shared memory; writers turn it into cited, on-voice drafts.
Pricing
Free while we're in early access
Start free today. Paid plans are on the way — here's what they'll add: runs that keep going on their own, more businesses and a bigger AI budget.
Free
€ 0
Free during early access
- Runs stop every 100 steps; you press Continue
- 1 business
- AI budget: € 15 a month per business
- Per business: 1 seat, no websites, 1 app (from launch)
- Claude Sonnet and Haiku
Pro
Coming soon€ 49/mo
For serious builders
- Runs keep going on their own until the work is done
- Up to 5 businesses
- AI budget: € 50 a month per business
- Per business: 3 seats, 1 website, 3 apps (from launch)
- Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku
On sale after early access
Business
Coming soon€ 95/mo
For teams and agencies
- Runs keep going on their own until the work is done
- Up to 20 businesses
- AI budget: € 150 a month per business
- Per business: 10 seats, 5 websites, 10 apps (from launch)
- Claude Opus, Sonnet and Haiku
On sale after early access
Enterprise
Custom
For larger organizations
- Custom limits for businesses, seats and AI usage
- SLAs
- SSO & advanced controls
- Onboarding & priority support
Paid plans aren't on sale yet. During early access, AI usage is free up to each business's monthly budget, and team seats, websites and hosted apps aren't limited by plan (up to 20 apps per business). Those limits start when paid plans launch. AI usage is your departments' model calls, metered per call at transparent rates. You see every cent, and you can cap any business's AI usage. All paid prices include 21% Dutch VAT.
Where early access stands
Honest, like the product
We'd rather tell you exactly what works today than let a landing page overpromise.
Live today
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Seven department templates, plus fully custom departments | Live |
| Readable markdown memory with 30-day trash recovery | Live |
| Approval queue with scoped auto-approval rules | Live |
| Scheduled workflows that QA-review and improve themselves | Live |
| Cross-department queries with saved transcripts | Live |
| Per-call cost metering and per-business caps | Live |
On the roadmap
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| More external actions (social posting, payments) behind the same approval gate | Planned |
| Brand logo generation in the onboarding wizard | Planned |
| Richer integrations and an MCP surface | Planned |
| Team roles beyond owner and department admin | Planned |
Questions
Asked and answered
What can Foundworks actually do today?
Stand up departments from seven templates (or your own), run multi-agent work inside isolated sandboxes, keep everything in readable markdown memory, gate outbound actions behind your approval, and run scheduled workflows that QA-score and improve themselves. It's early access: the core loop is live, the catalogue of external actions is still growing; see “Where early access stands” above.
Can agents email people or spend money without me?
No. Any action that touches the outside world is queued in your approvals inbox first. You can approve one-off, reject with a note, or save a scoped auto-approval rule. Every decision lands on the audit trail either way.
What does AI usage cost?
AI usage is your departments' model calls, metered per call at transparent rates. Each business has a monthly AI budget: € 15 on Free, € 50 on Pro, € 150 on Business. During early access, AI usage is free up to that budget. When a business reaches it, new runs pause until the 1st, and a run that's already going is asked to wrap up and save its work. Once paid plans launch, each plan includes a monthly AI allowance and you can add Wallet credits that roll over month to month. You can see every cent in Settings and next to each run.
Where does my data live?
Each business is walled off: its own memory files, its own sandboxes, its own AI usage meter. Memory is plain markdown you can read in the app; there's no opaque store you have to take on faith.
What if an agent goes wrong?
You can read, correct, and pause. Open the memory file and fix it; agents work from your correction. Pause the department. Anything deleted sits in trash for 30 days, and the audit trail shows exactly what happened, step by step.
Do I need to be technical?
No. You describe your business in plain language and review work the way you'd review a colleague's. If you are technical, you'll appreciate what's underneath: real sandboxes with shells and filesystems, not canned integrations.
How is Foundworks different from ChatGPT or other AI chatbots?
A chatbot answers and forgets. A Foundworks department holds persistent memory in markdown files, works in an isolated sandbox with a real shell and filesystem, produces actual deliverables, and runs scheduled workflows that improve themselves. Chat is just the steering wheel; the work happens whether or not you're in the room — and outbound actions still wait for your approval.
What integrations does Foundworks support?
Foundworks connects to your real accounts: email through Outlook or Gmail, Slack, Linear, HubSpot, GitHub, and website publishing — with every outbound action gated behind your approval queue. The provider catalogue is growing; anything not yet available shows a request button, so you vote on what ships next.
Can I bring an existing business instead of starting from scratch?
Yes. Point the onboarding wizard at your website and it pre-fills your company profile, or upload existing documents (Word, PDF) straight into a department's inbox. You can import a client list and invite teammates by email during setup.
Can my team work in Foundworks too?
Yes. Each plan includes team seats per business (1 on Free, 3 on Pro, 10 on Business); during early access seats aren't limited. Owners see everything; members get per-department access grants, so a bookkeeper can live in Finance without touching Product. Every user action lands on the same audit trail as the agents'.
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