Cofounder

Run a Company End to End

Start with a new Cofounder account and end with a set-up company and your agent working through its roadmap.

Start with only an account. End with a company that knows your business, has its tools set up, and has your agent working through its roadmap.

Steps

Sign In

If you use MCP, connect your agent and skip the CLI. With the CLI, run cofounder auth signup --email you@acme.com for a new account (pass the password with --password or COFOUNDER_PASSWORD), or cofounder auth login if you already have one.

Create the Company

Tell your agent: "Create a Cofounder company called Acme Analytics." It uses company_create / cofounder company create "Acme Analytics". The new company becomes your active one. See Create a Company.

Add what you know

Save the pitch, market, and constraints to the Library with cofounder library write or library_text_write, and web pages with library_urls_ingest. See Company Knowledge. Drop other files in with cofounder library upload.

Set Up the Company

Ask your agent to run setup. It uses company_setup_start / cofounder company setup, then checks progress with company_setup_get. To watch live, run cofounder watch company. See Managed Setup. Afterward, cofounder company resources list shows each resource as live or as a gap, with the reason.

Hand Work to Your Agent

Your agent reads the roadmap with roadmap_get, calls roadmap_nodes_prompt_get on the first item to get a brief, and does the work itself. Follow along with events_list or cofounder events tail. See Watch It Run.

If Something Goes Wrong

  • If setup gets stuck on one service, fix the problem, then find the failed run's run_id with cofounder company setup status and pass it to cofounder company setup retry <run-id>. The company_setup_retry MCP tool takes the same id.
  • If a resource shows a gap, resources_get tells you why. For billing failures, run cofounder company billing resources retry.
  • If your agent can't see a file, it was probably uploaded to a different company's Library. Check which company is active with cofounder company show.