Quickstart

This page walks you from a new account to a working startup. It takes a few minutes.

Create your account#

Go to foundersync.io and choose sign up. You can continue with Google or GitHub, or use email.

With email you enter your full name, email address and a password, confirm the password and accept the terms. The password must be at least 8 characters and mix at least two kinds of character (uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols). The form will not submit while the password is rated weak.

After you submit, FounderSync sends a verification link. Click it to finish signing up. If it does not arrive, the verification page has a resend button (available once every 60 seconds), and your spam folder is worth checking. Google and GitHub sign-ins skip this email step.

Complete onboarding#

First-time users go through seven steps. A progress bar at the top shows where you are.

1. What brings you here. Choose one of three paths: a solo founder with an idea, a founder building with a cofounder, or someone looking for a cofounder.
2. About you. Your name, your primary role (technical, business, product, design or other) and your timezone, which is detected from your browser.
3. Work style. Five short questions about how you work, decide, handle risk, set ambition and handle conflict.
4. Your path. What you see depends on step 1: - Solo: a short description of the problem, your ideal customer and your stage. You can skip it. - Team: the email and role of up to four cofounders to invite, and whether you have discussed equity. You can skip with "I'll invite later". - Looking for a cofounder: your skills, the skills you want, weekly hours and a location preference.
5. Connect your tools. The GitHub, Slack and Figma buttons on this step only mark the tool as connected inside onboarding. They do not start a sign-in. Real connections live under Settings, then Integrations.
6. First goal. Pick a goal for the next 30 days from the templates or write your own. You can skip it.
7. Done. FounderSync saves your answers and sends you to your first page: the Idea page for solo founders, the Agreement page for teams.

What gets created#

For the solo and team paths, FounderSync creates your startup for you. It is named after you (for example "Alex's Startup") and uses whatever you wrote in step 4. You can rename it later on the Idea page. Team invitations you entered are sent at this point.

Create or switch startups#

The startup switcher at the top of the sidebar lists every startup you belong to. Use it to switch, or choose Create New Startup and enter a name and an optional problem statement.

Invite a cofounder#

Open the Team page and choose the invite button. Enter an email address and, optionally, a suggested role. FounderSync emails a link that is valid for 7 days. If the email cannot be sent, the link is copied to your clipboard so you can share it yourself.

Pending invitations on the Team page can be resent, copied or cancelled. When your cofounder opens the link they sign in or create an account with the invited email, accept, and join your startup as a cofounder.

First things to do#

The Overview page tracks four setup steps: define the idea, invite a cofounder, create a first task and complete a task. A good order:

1. Fill in the Idea page and generate a PRD.
2. Add your first tasks, see Roadmap and tasks.
3. Invite a cofounder and start the cofounder agreement.

A guided product tour starts the first time you open the dashboard. You can replay it from the help menu in the top bar.

Connect an AI agent#

If you use Claude, Cursor, Codex or another MCP-compatible tool, you can let it work in your startup. Open Settings, then AI Agents, and follow AI agents.