Founder CLI

Business frameworks that ship decisions.

530 frameworks. Any LLM. Web research, repo context, and memory — in your terminal.

founder — ~/my-startup
$ founder "We're at $5M ARR. Growth slowed from 3x to 1.5x. What's going on?" anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 ● Applying four-fits-framework... ● Applying growth-accounting... ● Searching: B2B SaaS $5M ARR growth benchmarks... ● Reading package.json... ## Four Fits Analysis Your growth stall at $5M suggests a Channel-Model fit problem. Early adopters were SMB via self-serve, but your pricing ($500/mo) and feature set now attract mid-market — they need sales touches you're not providing. ## What to do this week 1. Interview 10 recently churned customers (product vs price?) 2. Calculate actual CAC payback from last quarter 3. Only then decide: retention problem or acquisition problem 12.3k in → 2.1k out · 3 frameworks · 2 searches
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A new kind of business tool

530 expert frameworks in your terminal. Purpose-built for founders who think in first principles.

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Built-in web research

Searches for market benchmarks, competitors, pricing, and trends. No setup — no extra API keys.

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Reads your repo

Builds context by reading your project files. Sandboxed to the directory you run it in.

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Memory across sessions

Remembers business context and preferences so advice compounds, instead of resetting every chat.

Make business
analysis self-driving

Run founder with no arguments and enter interactive mode. Ask questions, explore frameworks, and get advice — all in one session.

The agent automatically selects frameworks, searches the web for real data, reads your project files, and builds on your conversation history.

interactive mode
$ founder Founder CLI v0.1.4 530 frameworks. Type your problem. Ctrl+C to exit. founder > how do I get my first 100 customers? anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 ● Reading package.json... ● Applying cold-start-problem... ● Searching: early customer acquisition strategies... ## Cold Start Analysis Based on your project, you're building a developer tool... founder > _

Define the
right frameworks

Target a specific category with -c strategy or a specific framework with -f blitzscaling.

Or let the agent decide. It reads your problem, selects 2-4 relevant frameworks, loads expert instructions for each, and applies them rigorously to your situation.

framework selection
$ founder -c strategy "entering EU from the US" ● Applying scenario-planning... ● Applying pestel-analysis... $ founder -f lean-canvas "AI marketing for SMBs" ● Applying lean-canvas... $ founder list strategy strategy frameworks: blitzscaling — 5-stage hypergrowth blue-ocean — uncontested markets porters-five-forces — competitive dynamics cold-start-problem — network effects ... 44 more

Move forward
with real data

The agent searches the web for competitive intelligence, market benchmarks, pricing data, and industry trends. It reads web pages to extract specific information.

Combined with reading your project files, founder builds a complete picture of your business before applying any framework.

web research
● Searching: notion pricing 2026... ● Reading notion.so/pricing... ● Searching: project management SaaS market size... ● Searching: asana vs monday pricing comparison... ● Reading g2.com/categories/project-management... ● Applying competitive-positioning... ● Applying value-migration... ## Competitive Positioning The PM market splits into three tiers: Enterprise Asana, Monday ($30+/seat) Mid-market Notion, ClickUp ($10-20/seat) SMB/Free Linear, Height (usage-based) Your opportunity sits in the gap between... 28.1k in → 4.3k out · 2 frameworks · 5 searches

Understand
what's happening

Full transparency on every request. See which model is running, watch each tool call in real-time with a live spinner, and get a complete usage summary when done.

Token counts, framework count, search count, files read — all displayed after every response so you know exactly what happened.

live feedback
google/gemini-2.5-flash ← model ● Browsing frameworks... ← live spinner ● Applying blitzscaling... ← tool calls ● Searching: marketplace GMV... ← web search ● Reading README.md... ← file access ## Blitzscaling Assessment Your marketplace is at the Tribe stage... ... 8.5k in → 1.8k out · 2 frameworks · 1 search · 2 files read
Frameworks

530 frameworks across 15 categories

Strategy

Blitzscaling

5-stage hypergrowth from family to nation stage. Speed over efficiency in winner-take-all markets.

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Finance

Sequoia Pitch Deck

The fundraising format behind Airbnb, Stripe, YouTube. Problem, solution, market, business model.

46
Innovation

Superhuman PMF Engine

Measure product-market fit with the "very disappointed" method. Segment, analyze, build roadmap.

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Marketing

Product-Led Growth

Product as growth engine. Free trials, freemium, self-serve onboarding, viral loops, expansion revenue.

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Sales

Cold Email Framework

Cold outbound that gets replies. Personalization, subject lines, CTAs, multi-touch sequences.

30
Strategy

AI Go-To-Market

Launch AI products right. Avoid the wrapper trap, build moats, price on value not tokens.

48
112 Real Examples

See what Founder actually does. Real prompts, real output.

Early Stage

Finding Product-Market Fit

"I have 200 beta users for my AI math tutoring app. 30% come back weekly but nobody's paying yet."

Fundraising

Pre-Seed Pitch Deck

"We're raising pre-seed for our AI code review tool. $10K MRR, growing 25% MoM."

Growth

PLG for Dev Tools

"2K free users, 40 paying. Free-to-paid conversion is 2%. How do I build a real PLG motion?"

Pricing

Usage-Based API Pricing

"Charging $99/mo flat fee but usage varies wildly — some process 100 docs, others 50K."

Competition

Differentiating AI Wrapper

"200 competitors doing the same thing with the same models. How do we differentiate?"

AI Scenarios

Building an AI Moat

"We built a sales email generator on GPT-4. What's our moat against OpenAI and clones?"

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Providers

Works with any LLM. Switch with one command.

configuration
# env vars auto-detected — just set and go export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-... # Claude export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # GPT export GOOGLE_API_KEY=AIza... # Gemini export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-... # Any model # or configure manually founder config set provider openai founder config set model gpt-5.2 founder config setup # interactive wizard founder models # fetch live model list # shell completion (bash, zsh, fish) eval "$(founder completion zsh)"

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