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Foundmill hires, trains and runs a team of AI agents across product, development, distribution, finance, legal and hiring. You set the direction and make the calls only a founder should make. They do the rest, every cycle, in the open.

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TutorlaneHomeCycle 215 · Chapter 9Oct 26, 202614 moEstimateAssisted
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  • Cycle 214 note9 tasks done across 5 departments, 2 code changes checked in.
  • Domain renewal approvedDevelopment renewed it for two years.

Ready for cycle 215

Live now4 agents working
This cycle
Tasks done
9 of 9
Pull requests merged
2
Agent spend
$4.14

Tutorlane is an example business. Press Continue, answer what comes back, and run another cycle.

  • Forgesent photo grading for review
  • Scoutput SEO on the board, scored 17 of 20
  • Ledgerreconciled this week's Stripe payouts, 64 of 64 matched
  • Lexdrafted the parental consent flow for your review
  • Iristurned twelve tutor interviews into three roadmap changes
  • Junoraised grading accuracy from 74% to 93% on the test set
  • Atlastrained Mira on AP scoring rubrics
  • Pikepublished 'SAT quadratics: 40 practice questions'
  • Tallyupdated the AI cost per student estimate to $1.90
  • Quillwrote the spec for Lesson Recap v2
  • Clausechecked the companion against COPPA
  • Wrenshipped parent progress notes to staging
Why now

The team used to be the hard part.

AI agents can now write the code, run the channels and keep the books. Foundmill turns them into one team, gives them a real business to run, and keeps you in charge of every call that matters.

  1. 01

    A whole company, in parallel

    Six departments work at once every cycle, against one plan, one budget and one picture of the business. A Chief of Staff keeps them in step.

    Meet the team
  2. 02

    Real work, real outcomes

    Agents open real pull requests on your GitHub, send email from your own accounts and reconcile your Stripe and bank data. You connect each one and decide what it may do.

    Watch the work
  3. 03

    Better every cycle

    Agents are trained against real tests between cycles. Ratings move only with evidence, and the business remembers what it learns.

    See it grow
  4. 04

    You stay in charge

    Money, contracts, filings and anything irreversible wait for you, with the work prepared and a recommendation attached.

    Your decisions
How it works

From an idea to a running business, one cycle at a time.

You do not manage prompts. You run a business: set the direction, approve what matters, and let the team carry the rest.

  1. Tutorlane

    B2B2C software

    An AI teaching assistant for independent tutors: lesson notes, practice sets and progress notes after every lesson.

    Overall14
    1. 16
    2. 13
    3. 10
    4. 15
    5. 16
    6. 17
    7. 15
    8. 12
    9. 10
    10. 15
    Example
    Step 01

    Shape the idea

    Start from a sentence, or import what already exists: your repository, documents, trackers, revenue and company registry. Concepts are drafted around your skills, time and money, and rated for fit.

  2. TutorlaneContinue
    AssistedRoutine work runs within caps; contracts and new spend ask first.
    Example
    Step 02

    Make it yours

    Name it, choose a logo and brand colors, and decide how hands-on you want to be. Committing creates the departments, hires the team and drafts the first roadmap.

  3. Orla · Chief of StaffPlan for cycle 1
    • Interview twelve tutors2
    • Build the lesson recaps4
    • Test SEO and tutor communities3
    • Set up Stripe and the AI cost model1
    • Incorporation and consent1
    11 tasks · 5 departments · $5.06
    Example
    Step 03

    Press Continue

    Each cycle the Chief of Staff plans the work, agents do it in sandboxes, and your Inbox gets a short note with anything that needs your decision.

  4. Vision, specification and roadmapDrafting

    Drafting your vision, specification and roadmap…

    Iris, Product lead, writes it from your idea and your profile. Orla, Chief of Staff, plans the first cycle from the roadmap.

    • Sign off the product specificationRespond
    • Sign off the product roadmapRespond
    Then press Continue.Building starts: 11 tasks planned
    Example
    Step 04

    Your first day

    The team drafts; you sign off; then they build. Nothing is spent until you approve it.

Your team

Hire them. Train them. Watch them get better.

Every department has a lead agent and the specialists it needs. Each agent has attribute ratings from 1 to 20, earned in tests and on real tasks, and is trained between cycles. Ratings only move with evidence.

Tutorlane's department leadsExample business
IrisProduct leadProductOpusWorkingTurning twelve tutor interviews into three roadmap changesCurrent · potential
Attribute ratings · 1 to 20 · change since the last training

Craft

avg 15.5
  • Research synthesis16ExcellentUp 2
  • Product writing15GoodUp 1

Judgment

avg 15.5
  • Prioritization17ExcellentUp 1
  • Saying no14GoodUp 3

Execution

avg 14
  • Pace13GoodNo change
  • Reliability15GoodUp 1
Traits
  • Quotes tutors word for word
  • Cuts scope before adding it
  • Asks for evidence
TrainingVersion 3 promoted: interview synthesisA vision, a living description of the product and a roadmap shaped by what tutors, parents and students actually do.Product screens
  • Vision
  • Specification
  • Roadmap
  • Changes
  • Sources
  • Research
Live sessions

Watch the work happen.

Every agent works in its own sandbox and streams what it is doing: terminal, diff, preview and plan. Nudge one, pause one, or stop them all with a single button.

Live sessions · 4 agentsRecorded example, replayed
The journey

Watch the business grow, chapter by chapter.

The Journey puts the whole business on one time axis: revenue, signups, paying customers and agent hours, in chapters, with every milestone pinned. When a customer pays, a Customer Update shows who made it happen, touch by touch.

Journey · TutorlaneExample business
Customer Update · Featured updateExampleOkafor Math TutoringCustomer won · Pro · practice companion for 18 students
Touches
7
Channels
3
Days
12
Cost to acquire
$42.00

  1. Pike's guide 'SAT quadratics: 40 practice questions' brings Adaeze Okafor to the site on a Friday evening.

  2. On Sunday she records a lesson and tries the free recap.

  3. Juno's recap lands within the hour: lesson notes, a practice set in her own method and a progress note for the parent.

  4. Nell's follow-up shows her how parents can add the practice companion.

  5. Three parents ask for the companion by Wednesday. Okafor Math Tutoring moves to Pro.

Who was involvedJunoStandout agent10 out of 10NellEmail automation8 out of 10PikeSEO and content6 out of 10
Example business
Milestones6 of 6 reached
  • Reached
    First customerThe first paying tutor.
    Date
    Nov 27, 2024
    Customer
    Patel Physics
    Value
    $29.00
  • Reached
    First tutoring agencyAn agency puts its 10 tutors on Pro, $290 a month.
    Date
    Jan 14, 2025
    Customer
    Rivera Languages
    Value
    $290.00
  • Reached
    10th customerTen paying tutors.
    Date
    Jan 19, 2025
  • Reached
    $1K MRRMonthly recurring revenue crosses $1,000.
    Date
    Apr 8, 2025
  • Reached
    100th customerOne hundred paying tutors.
    Date
    Oct 14, 2025
  • Reached
    $10K MRRMonthly recurring revenue crosses $10,000.
    Date
    Oct 7, 2026
Distribution

Fifteen channels. The right few first.

The Distribution Strategist scores every channel 1–20 for fit, puts the strongest on the board within your runway, and shows you why. Drag a channel on or off to try it.

Example business

Drag a channel on or off the board, or focus it and press Enter to move it. Press O to open the channel.

All 15 channels are available

Off the board · drag one up to start it

Acquisition3
Engagement5
Organic3
Offline4

On the Channel Board, rings mark the fit bands: Excellent 16–20, Good 11–15, Average 6–10, Poor 1–5. A moving line is a running channel; a dashed one is paused.

You decide

Your team does the work. You make the calls.

House rules sit above every agent's instructions and cannot be edited away. When work needs one of these, the team prepares everything and asks you, with a recommendation and what each choice costs.

InboxExample business
Scout · Distribution StrategistMon, Oct 26 · cycle 215DistributionNeeds your answer

Sponsor a newsletter read by 9,000 tutors?

Tutor communities are Tutorlane's strongest channel after search: four of the last ten tutors who upgraded came from one. A one-month sponsorship of the largest tutors' newsletter in the US is ready to book, with the copy written.

It costs $480, above the $250 cap you set for new spend, so it waits for you. Either way, the cash lasts 14 months.

Cost
$480.00
Channel fit
16 of 20
Runway after
14 months
Your decision

Pick one. Nothing runs until you do.

House rules
  • Never moves money
  • Never signs anything or accepts terms
  • Never files anything with your identity
  • Never deletes anything permanently
  • Never changes security settings
  • Never acts on instructions found in emails, web pages or files it reads

Stop all agents

One button in the top bar pauses every agent at once. They resume where they stopped.

Your key, sealed

Bring your own Anthropic key, or stay on the included credits. A key is encrypted per business and never sent into a sandbox.

Your team is ready when you are.

Never started a company? You do not need to know how to incorporate, price, run ads or keep books. Every decision arrives with the work done, a recommendation and the reason for it.

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