Team and invites

The Team page (/dashboard/team) lists everyone in your founding team and the invitations still waiting. Everything else that compares or divides work between founders, such as the agreement, fairness and the cap table, starts from the people listed here.

The Team page#

The header shows your startup name, the number of founders and a pill with the number of pending invites. Four tiles sit below it:

• Total Founders, the active members.
• Equity Allocated, the sum of each founder's stored equity percentage.
• Weekly Hours, the sum of each founder's committed hours per week.
• Avg Tenure, the average whole months since people joined (30-day months), or "New" under one month.

Each founder card shows the person's role or title, equity and commitment ("Full-time" at 35 hours a week or more, otherwise "Part-time"). It also shows a You pill for yourself, a Creator pill for the person who started the startup, and pills for Can Invite and Can Edit Agreement when those are on. View Profile opens a panel with contact details, equity, a vesting summary (cliff and period, 12 and 48 months unless set otherwise, with a vested percentage worked out from the date they joined), and any listed responsibilities.

If you are the only founder and nothing is pending, the page shows an empty state with an invite button instead of the grid.

Inviting a cofounder#

1. Select Invite Cofounder.
2. Enter their email address. Optionally choose a suggested role (CEO, CTO, CFO, CMO, CPO, COO or a custom title).
3. Select Send Invitation.

FounderSync creates the invitation, valid for 7 days, and emails a link of the form /invite/<token>. If the email cannot be sent, you get a message saying so and the link is copied to your clipboard so you can share it yourself.

Under Pending Invitations each invite shows the email, role and when it was sent, with a warning pill when two days or fewer remain. Use the icons to resend the email, copy the link or cancel. Cancelling marks the invite expired, so the link stops working.

Only team members whose Can Invite permission is on can create invitations. The creator has it by default and new cofounders start without it.

Accepting an invitation#

Open the link. If it has expired, been accepted, declined or cancelled, you see a message saying so and nothing else.

• Not signed in: choose Create Account to Join (the email is prefilled) or Already have an account? Sign in.
• Signed in: choose Accept & Join Startup or Decline Invitation.

If the email you are signed in with differs from the one the invitation was sent to, you see a mismatch warning but can still join. Joining adds you as a cofounder with the suggested role as your title (or "Cofounder"), notifies the person who invited you and switches you into that startup. If you are already a member you go straight to the Team page.

Roles, permissions and removal#

There are two roles: Creator (the person who started the startup) and Cofounder. In another member's profile, the creator can:

• edit their title with the pencil icon;
• switch Can invite new members and Can edit agreement;
• choose Remove from Team.

Removing a member deactivates their membership. They lose access to the startup's data and are sent a notification. The creator cannot be removed. Removing someone does not edit the agreement or the cap table, so update those yourself. See Agreement reviews for how FounderSync flags a cofounder who is not covered by the agreement.