FounderOS · the back office for owner-operators
You didn’t start a business to be its administrator. But the business runs because you’re in it — every quote, every change order, every follow-up waits on you. FounderOS takes the busy work and hands you back the part only you can do.
Delegate the busy work. Multiply yourself.
Change order drafted$4,280
Client approved upgraded trim in a text Tuesday. Never priced.
Call answered, site visit booked
New lead, 7:52 PM. Qualified and on your Friday.
Draw request flagged
Framing draw is 11 days out. Payroll to subs lands first.
$4,280recovered
One change order nobody would have billed
Nothing here is hard. That’s what makes it expensive. Every one of these is a task a competent person could do, and every one of them is waiting on the one person who can’t be replaced.
An admin hire fixes this for about $5,000 a month, plus the management. That’s the number worth holding onto — it’s the one this gets compared against.
Most AI projects die one of two deaths. They ask permission for everything, you start rubber-stamping, and the approvals stop meaning anything. Or they’re turned loose, do something you’d never have approved, and get switched off for good. FounderOS starts every job at the bottom and promotes it when it has earned it — on a test you write in advance.
It watches and tells you what it would have done.
No actions, no messages, nothing leaves the building. You read its calls alongside yours and find out where it’s right and where it’s wrong — before it can cost you anything.
Promotes when you agree with it, on the record, enough times in a row.
It does the work and waits for your thumb.
The change order is drafted and priced. The invoice is built. The follow-up is written. Nothing sends until you approve, and approving is one tap from your phone on a job site.
Promotes per task, never wholesale — and only the tasks you choose.
It just handles it, and logs everything.
Booking a site visit. Sending a reminder. Filing a receipt. The reversible, low-stakes work runs on its own with an audit trail you can read back, and a kill switch that puts any desk back to Observe instantly.
Money out, contracts, and anything a client sees stay at Propose unless you say otherwise.
Each desk is a seat in your back office. Start with the ones that hurt today — you can add another in an afternoon, and drop one just as fast. No desk is a contract.
The clerk who never forgets to bill
The money you earned and didn’t bill.
$249/mo
The receptionist who works at 7:52 PM
The lead that used to call the next guy.
$349/mo
The one who collects what blocks payment
Friday afternoon.
$199/mo
The coordinator who re-plans the week
The half-day you lose to rescheduling.
$149/mo
The bookkeeper who looks forward
Knowing what a job made before it’s over.
$299/mo
The one who follows up forever
Revenue you already paid to acquire.
$349/mo
Desks share one brain. The Front Desk knows what the Billing Desk is owed, because they’re the same system wearing different hats.
There is no app to learn. You already know how to tell someone what you need. FounderOS listens on every channel you already use, and answers on the one you’ve got a free hand for.
The sub you don’t use anymore and why. The client who needs a call, not a text. The allowance you always blow on tile. That knowledge is the business, and right now it lives in one head. The Download gets it out.
Ask what a job’s made. Tell it to bill the Hendersons. From the truck.
A real conversation with something that knows your jobs, your subs, and your numbers.
A tap. The whole queue cleared between the truck and the door.
When you want to see everything at once instead of asking.
Decisions don’t get made at a desk. They get made standing in a half-framed kitchen, talking. If the system only knows what you typed into it later, you’re still the data entry clerk.
Already the richest record of your business. Read for scope changes, commitments, and promises.
Plans, bids, invoices, and specs pulled in and filed against the right job.
Walk the site talking. The walkthrough becomes a punch list and a priced change order before you’re back in the truck.
The job’s numbers on the lens while your hands stay on the work. Early access as the hardware settles.
Recording involves other people. We set consent and retention rules with you during The Download, per state — and default to the cautious reading.
You told us what the alternative costs. An administrator who could do this is about $5,000 a month, needs managing, takes vacation, and leaves with everything in their head.
one time
$5,000
A day in the room getting how you actually run the business out of your head — then two weeks building the system around that, not around a template.
This is the part nobody else does, and the reason the system fits. Software is cheap. Knowing what to tell it isn’t.
per month
$499
The system running: memory, the approval inbox, the trust ladder, the audit trail, the dashboard, and someone on the other end of the phone who built it.
Every desk is month to month. Add one, drop one, see what it costs before you talk to anyone.
What an admin hire runs
$5,000/mo
Plus payroll tax, management, and turnover
Your monthly
$1,296/mo
26% of one admin hire
The Brain
Always on — it is the system itself
$499/mo
$249/mo
Add$349/mo
Add$199/mo
Add$149/mo
Add$299/mo
Add$349/mo
AddMonth to month. Cancel any desk whenever. The Download is one time and yours — if you leave, you keep the documented system and your data.
None of this is needed on day one, and we’d rather you added it when you feel the need than bought it because it was in a bundle.
+$99/mo
A wearable mic on site, and the glasses when they’re ready. What you said standing in the room becomes the change order.
Hardware billed at cost, not marked up.
+$499/mo
We sit in your approval queue every week, find what it keeps getting wrong, and fix it. The system gets sharper instead of staler.
+$149/mo
A GM, a spouse, a bookkeeper. Their own access, their own approval limits, their own audit trail.
quoted
Your business has a job that isn’t on the list. Describe it; if it’s a job a person could hold, it can be a desk.
Those are real and they’re good value — we use some of them underneath. What $97 buys you is a capable assistant that knows nothing about your business. The Download is the difference: your thresholds, your subs, your pricing habits, the client who needs a phone call. And the trust ladder is the part no bundle ships, because it takes a person to decide what each desk is allowed to do.
At Observe, nothing — that’s the point of starting there, and it’s where most mistakes surface. At Propose, you don’t approve it, and we find out why. Anything at Act is reversible by design and logged, so it gets undone and that task goes back down a rung. Mistakes are expected. Mistakes that cost you money are a design failure on our end.
The Download is a day. Three desks live inside two weeks after that. The first month is mostly Observe, which feels slow and is the reason it still works in month six.
Only where you promoted that exact task to Act, and the whole thread is in your log. Every client-facing desk ships at Propose. We think the first message a client gets from your business should be one you read.
QuickBooks, your phone number, your calendar, your email, your CRM. We connect to what you have rather than asking you to move. If something genuinely can’t connect, we tell you during The Download, before you’ve paid for the build.
Cancel any desk month to month. Export everything — clients, jobs, invoices, history, in formats that open somewhere else. The Download is yours too: the documented model of how you run the business, which is the part that took a day of your life to produce. The software itself stays ours and keeps running, the same as every other tool you rent. We’d rather you leave with what’s yours than stay because leaving is hard.
The desks are named after jobs, not trades. A clerk who bills, a receptionist who answers, someone who chases paper. If you own a business where those jobs land on you, it fits — the builder version just happens to be the one we built first.
Revenue Engine. One phone number, answered by the person who built your system. That’s the whole org chart, and it’s deliberate.
Start
A call first, always — twenty minutes to find out whether this fits, and to tell you plainly if it doesn’t. Nobody buys a $5,000 install off a web page, and we wouldn’t want you to.
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