Fairness and contributions
How logged and synced work feeds the Fairness page and the agent fairness summary, what they compare, and why they start a conversation rather than settle one.
Equity splits are agreed once, but the work keeps changing. FounderSync keeps a record of contributions, meaning things each founder did, with hours and impact, so you can see whether the work still looks like the deal you made. What you see is only as complete as what has been logged or synced.
What a contribution is#
A contribution has a type, a short description, a date, optional hours, and an impact level (critical, high, medium or low). The types are code, design, sales, marketing, operations, strategy, leadership, fundraising, hiring, customer support, product and research. Optional extras include an impact score from 1 to 10, links as evidence, and flags for strategic, leadership or in-role work.
Contributions get into FounderSync in two ways:
- Integrations. In Settings, connect GitHub, Slack, Figma, Notion or Google Calendar and press Sync. Each provider maps to a type: GitHub to code, Figma to design, and Slack, Notion and Calendar to operations. The hours and impact on synced entries are estimates the sync assigns per event (for example, a GitHub commit is counted as 0.5 hours and a merged pull request as 2), not measured time. If the sync service cannot be reached, the app records a single placeholder entry with zero hours so you can see the connection is alive.
- An AI agent. An agent connected to the FounderSync MCP server (
https://mcp.foundersync.io/mcp) can log, edit and delete contributions for the person it is signed in as. It cannot log work for a cofounder, and it cannot change entries that came from an integration. The web app has no form for typing in a contribution by hand.
The Fairness page#
Fairness in the sidebar opens the Living Agreement Tracker (/dashboard/fairness). It needs at least two founders; with one it shows an empty state.
With two or more founders it shows two charts built from logged hours:
- Domain Contribution Balance groups hours into domains and shows each founder's share of the hours in that domain. Strategy, leadership and customer support count as operations; research counts as product.
- Contribution Balance Trend shows each founder's share of hours for up to the last six weeks that have any logged work.
Both charts compare only the first two founders on the team. Health score, weekly activity heatmap, connected integrations and recent alerts appear on the page as empty states because nothing computes them yet.
Comparing work with equity#
The page does not put equity next to hours. That comparison is in the agent tool get_fairness_summary. For a period (the last 90 days by default) it reports, per active founder, the number of contributions and hours, counts by type, impact and source, their share of the contributions and of the hours, and the gap between their share of hours and the equity percentage stored for them, in percentage points. It adds a note when fewer than 10 contributions were logged, when no hours were recorded, or when there is only one founder.
Read the gap as a conversation starter, not a verdict. A founder who negotiates deals, recruits or supports others may log little and still carry the company. If the numbers surprise you, check what is missing before you talk, then use the cofounder agreement to revisit roles, time commitment or vesting together.