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Tech Tree
Use the Tech Tree as a guide for moving through Cofounder and building out your business.
Tech Tree
The Tech Tree is a guide for moving through Cofounder's different features and building out your business.
It gives the workspace a structured path instead of a blank starting point.
What It Has
The Tech Tree is organized into:
- Stages like idea, initial setup, identity, build, GTM, launch, scale, and mature company work
- Tracks across areas like product, engineering, brand, research, operations, revenue, and support
- Nodes for specific steps in the journey
Each stage shows completion progress, such as 1/4, so you can see how far along that part of the company-building path is.
Node Status
Nodes can show up as:
- Available when you can work on them now
- In Progress when work for that step is already underway
- Completed when Cofounder sees that the step has been finished
- Locked when another step still needs to happen first
Node Details
Open a node to see its detail panel.
Node details can explain:
- why the step matters
- how to move it forward
- subtasks involved in the step
- which prerequisite steps are required first
- what completing the node unlocks
If the node is agent-backed and available, the detail panel includes a launch action that starts the task with the right agent.
Kicking Off Work
You can open the Tech Tree from Canvas.
For steps that are agent-backed, you can launch the work directly from the Tech Tree and Cofounder will start the task with the right seeded agent.
Some steps are not agent runs. Those can be manual actions, approvals, or system-managed steps.
How Items Get Checked Off
Tech Tree items get checked off as Cofounder sees the workspace change.
That can include things like:
- completed tasks
- approved work
- created artifacts
- connected integrations
- managed infrastructure or configuration being set up
As that evidence appears, nodes move forward from locked or available to in progress and completed.
How To Use It
The Tech Tree is useful when you want a clearer sense of what to do next across both the product and the business.
It also feeds suggested next steps, so Cofounder can point you toward the next available node instead of making you figure it out from scratch.