Founders Documentation

SD1 · FOUNDERS DOCS

How Founders works

User guide, technical design, business model and presentation flow.

Documentation v1.48.04 Sep 2026
CURRENT PRODUCT · v1.48.0

Founder OS v1.48 makes mission exit logic operational: after the Skill gate, checklist and evidence gate, the founder must explicitly choose Close, Continue, or Pivot before completing the mission. That outcome is stored with local mission history so later Company Memory can distinguish a completed objective from a promising test that needs more evidence or a contradicted assumption that should change direction. v1.48 preserves the 9 mission paths, v1.42 Memory Intelligence, v1.43 SD1 Session Health, existing browser storage keys, and the v1.39 verified return contract.

Founder OS v1.41 preserves the mission gate, mobile/accessibility redesign, Mission Brief, SD1 Mission Session and verified browser return contract. Company Memory now stores the company/project profile, current focus and a device-local Decision Log of up to 20 entries. A full portable backup includes recognized Founder OS state, profile, recent mission history and decisions. Import accepts the v1.41 workspace schema and older v1.40 Company Memory exports; before recognized fields are replaced, Founder OS stores a pre-import safety snapshot that can be restored from the interface. Import never executes JSON content and rejects files larger than 1 MB. Account/server persistence, RelayDesk signals and BrightWatcher resources remain future integrations.

SD1 PLATFORM LAYER · v1.37

Skill Desk One is the platform. Founders is the entrepreneur track.

Skill Desk One · SD1FoundersFounder OS

SD1 owns the reusable skill/workflow platform. Founders applies it to entrepreneurs. Founder OS keeps each founder’s mission, evidence and decision context. Existing URLs remain unchanged.

TREK LEVELS

Color now reflects completed missions on this device.

Origin · L1

Cyan · discovery
Signal · L2

Violet · validation
Market · L3

Gold · market proof
Orbit · L4

Teal · progression model
Horizon · L5

Rose · scale ahead
USER

What do I do?

Choose a mission, review the Skill, finish the checklist, record evidence, log important decisions, keep Company Memory portable, then use AI Guide or the right human mentor.

BUSINESS

How do we earn?

Free usage, Founder OS Pro, AI guidance, paid mentors and specialist services.

TECHNICAL

How is it built?

WordPress identity and Founder OS are live, with WPWriter as the primary deployment path. v1.41 adds browser-local decisions plus validated JSON backup/import with a pre-import restore point; v1.42 adds local Memory Intelligence; v1.43 adds browser-local SD1 session health and exact-session resume while preserving the existing nonce-matched verification contract. Persistent account missions/resources still require a future backend release and are intentionally deferred for the current WordPress-first phase.

PRESENTATION

How do we explain it?

The system helps the founder arrive prepared, so paid expert time is useful immediately.

USER FLOW

Signal → decision → mission → learn fast → evidence → AI Guide / mentor

SignalMissionEvidenceAI GuideMentor BriefPaid Help
TECHNICAL FLOW

The brief is structured, not a random chat note.

Mission

Objective and fieldwork.

Evidence

Facts and signals.

AI Guide

Interpretation and risk.

Mentor Brief

Session-ready context.

BUSINESS FLOW

Free → Pro → AI value → paid mentor → services

The free layer creates useful habits. Pro sells private context and guidance. Paid mentors sell judgment. A $250 mentor session can pay $200 to the mentor and $50 to Founders.

SD1 FOUNDER TRACK · PORTABLE COMPANY MEMORY · v1.41

Smallest useful resource first.

For each mission, Founder OS still prefers the minimum help required: one short Skill, one focused action and evidence. v1.41 extends that loop into Company Memory so important decisions live beside completed mission evidence instead of disappearing into chat history. The founder can download a complete device-local workspace backup, import it on another browser/device, and recover the state saved immediately before the last import. The interface keeps the larger touch targets, strong contrast, reduced-motion support and mobile-safe stacking.

CONNECTED SYSTEM DIRECTION

Founders should assemble the right help around the mission.

SD1 Skills remains active at /skills/ as the reusable browse library, while /skills-session/ continues to provide the verified browser-level mission Skill loop documented at /skills-docs/integration/. Founder OS v1.43 adds a visible browser-local session-health layer on top of that loop: active mission, Skill proof state, last SD1 session status and exact-session resume are visible without exposing evidence in the URL. The portable workspace layer still keeps profile, decisions, active mission and recent evidence device-local without claiming account sync. The full /skills/ plugin library remains a separate browse engine; CarrySkills v3.9.3 is the verified active engine. Staged v3.12/v3.13 transport artifacts are not installed. Account/server verification, RelayDesk signals and BrightWatcher resources remain unwired, and backend v0.11 is deferred for a future account-level persistence/resource-ranking phase rather than the current WordPress-first deployment.

Release standard

Every meaningful release keeps user, technical, business and presentation documentation synchronized with the website and software package.