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Departments
Understand the department workspaces in Cofounder and what each one is for.
Departments
Each department owns a part of the company and groups the agents, context, rules, tasks, and artifacts for that area.
After Onboarding
After onboarding, your workspace has department workspaces for the main lanes of company work.
The department workspaces are:
- Engineering for product, app, repository, infrastructure, security, database, and deployment work
- Sales for pipeline, leads, outreach, customer conversations, and revenue work
- Marketing for positioning, content, SEO, launch work, and marketing-site work
- Design for brand identity, visual systems, decks, email templates, UI kits, and product design support
- Support for customer support, issue resolution, and customer success operations
- Operations for recurring workflows, internal process, reporting, research, and cross-system cleanup
- Finance for billing operations, collections, accounting handoff, close support, and financial reporting
- Legal for contract support, policy review, compliance artifacts, and legal-ops workflows
Default Agents By Department
Seeded default agents are organized by department. The exact agents in your workspace can change as your setup changes, but onboarding starts with:
- Engineering:
Engineer - Sales:
Sales Agent - Marketing:
Marketing Agent - Design:
Design Agent - Support:
Support Agent - Operations:
Operations Agent,Ops Agent - Finance:
Finance Agent
Inside A Department
A department contains:
- Agents for the work that belongs in that lane
- Tasks for the active and completed work tied to those agents
- Department Context for durable background information that agents in that department should share
- Artifacts/Files for outputs and working files created by that department's work
The Engineering department can also show the managed Supabase Database artifact on Canvas. Use that artifact when you need to browse tables, inspect records, or upload CSV data.
Files in the Library still need a department association, even though every agent can access every Library file. The department acts as a routing hint, not an access boundary.
Department Context
Department context is for background information that should be shared across agents in that department.
Examples:
- product constraints for Engineering
- audience and positioning notes for Sales or Marketing
- brand and visual direction for Design
- support policies for Support
- reporting definitions for Operations
- billing and close process notes for Finance
- contract, policy, and compliance notes for Legal