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Canvas

Use Canvas as the live workspace for tasks, agents, reviews, and related work.

What Canvas Is

Canvas is the main operating surface for Cofounder. It is the default landing page for an organization and the fastest way to understand what is active, what is blocked, and what should happen next.

Which Canvas Opens

The canonical workspace route is /org/<org-slug>/canvas, which opens Canvas v2, also called Solaris. There is no separate Canvas v2 route.

Canvas V2: Navigate The Company World

Canvas v2 presents the company as a spatial world. Cofounder sits at the center, departments form the surrounding map, and placed workspaces appear as pits. A pit is a location that can contain an agent workspace, task, Library file, department home, Web Preview, CRM, Inbox, or another focused surface.

Select a department to frame its part of the world. Select a pit to zoom into the real interactive workspace inside it. Use the world controls to return to the overview, zoom in, or zoom out. You can also:

  • hold Command/Ctrl while scrolling to zoom
  • hold Space and drag to pan
  • use the command palette to create a task, return to the overview, open the Roadmap, view archived tasks, or open settings

Only the focused workspace owns interaction. Other pits remain visible as lightweight previews until you select them.

Canvas V2: Use The Side Panel

The collapsible side panel is the conversation and coordination surface. On desktop it opens on the right and can be resized. On mobile it becomes the full-screen navigation surface.

Its root tabs are:

  • Cofounder for company-wide conversation and routing
  • Tasks for active, waiting, completed, and archived work
  • Company for organization context and department navigation
  • Library for files and durable outputs

Selecting a department, agent, task, or Library file opens its contextual view in the same panel. When an agent or task is active, the composer sends to that selected conversation while the associated workspace remains visible in the world.

Canvas V2: Work In Pits

Agent workspace pits combine live progress with durable review items. Depending on the task, a workspace can show plans, approvals, artifacts, generated media, tables, code or pull-request diffs, and other published outputs. Select an item in the workspace to inspect it at full size while continuing the conversation in the side panel.

Empty New Content pits let you describe what Cofounder should create, choose an artifact type, or continue editing an existing artifact. Supported creation choices include documents, code, tables, images, videos, and PDFs.

Department areas can also contain permanent surfaces such as Library, Web Preview, CRM, and Inbox. These remain placed in the world while their underlying data updates.

Canvas V2: Review Work

The attention inbox appears over the lower-left area of the world when work needs you. Open an item to focus the associated pit and its task or agent conversation. Review mode lets you move through approvals, clarification questions, completed outputs, failures, and other follow-ups without searching every department.

You can snooze an item for later or dismiss it when no action is needed. On mobile, the side panel collapses during review so the relevant workspace stays visible.

Start And Publish Work

Use New task or the command palette to describe the work, attach useful files, and choose an agent or let Cofounder route it. Use the side-panel Cofounder tab when you are unsure which agent or department should own the request.

Agent work reaches shared staging when the agent requests a deploy and you select Approve. Production still uses the workspace Publish flow after staging looks good. See Requesting a deploy and Publishing.

Get Help

Use the support option in the workspace menu, email support@generalintelligencecompany.com, or join the Cofounder Discord.

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