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.
Start free. No credit card required.
A Foundworks department, mid-run
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Budgets per business, with alerts before they bite.
Recoverable by default
Deletions sit in trash for 30 days. Undo is a first-class feature.
Hard tenant walls
Each business gets separate memory, sandboxes, and meters. Nothing bleeds.
Read · Correct · Pause
Read the manifestoWhat 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 budget. Nothing bleeds between tenants.
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.
Free while we're in early access
Your AI usage is on us right now. Paid plans are on the way — here's where they'll land.
Free
Everything, free right now
- 1 active business
- $15/mo AI usage — on us
- All core features, no gating
- Isolated sandbox per department
Pro
For serious builders
- 5 active businesses
- €15/mo compute included
- Top up with prepaid credits
- 3 team seats · Priority support
Business
For teams and agencies
- 20 active businesses
- €60/mo compute included
- 10 team seats · top up with credits
- Dedicated support
Enterprise
For larger organizations
- Unlimited businesses & seats
- Custom compute & SLAs
- SSO & advanced controls
- Onboarding & priority support
Compute is your departments' model usage, metered per call at transparent rates. You see every cent, and you can cap any business's budget. All paid prices include 21% Dutch VAT.
Honest, like the product
We'd rather tell you exactly what works today than let a landing page overpromise.
Live today
- Seven department templates, plus fully custom departments
- Readable markdown memory with 30-day trash recovery
- Approval queue with scoped auto-approval rules
- Scheduled workflows that QA-review and improve themselves
- Cross-department queries with saved transcripts
- Per-call cost metering and per-business budgets
On the roadmap
- More external actions (social posting, payments) behind the same approval gate
- Brand logo generation in the onboarding wizard
- Richer integrations and an MCP surface
- Team roles beyond owner and department admin
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 a beta: 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 compute cost?
Compute is your departments' model usage, metered per call at transparent rates. Every tier includes a monthly compute allowance ($15 on Free, €15 on Pro, €60 on Business). Need more? Buy prepaid credit packs that roll over month to month. You can see every cent in the cost tab.
Where does my data live?
Each business is a hard tenant boundary: its own memory files, its own sandboxes, its own cost 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. Every tier includes seats (1 on Free, 3 on Pro, 10 on Business). 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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