Founder
Coming soonGive Ethen a job. Get a verified outcome.
Founder is the autonomous-jobs product for company-building work: delegated jobs with approvals and evidence. Coming soon.
Product Role — Mission lifecycle
Delegate the job, keep the judgment.
Hand Founder a company job: research, outreach, operations. It works the job and returns evidence for review.
Proposed
The job arrives with its goal and bounds.
Compiled
The job becomes a validated contract before anything runs.
Awaiting approval
Gated work waits for a human decision.
Ready
Approved work is queued to run.
Running
The mission executes inside its authority and budget.
Completed
The outcome returns with its evidence for review.
Held states (waiting on dependency, paused, degraded, reconciling) and terminal states (failed, cancelled, partially completed, unresolved) are part of the same contract.
Evidence
Every mission ends with its evidence.
A mission returns a receipt, a timeline, and its artifacts — verified by read-back before anything is claimed complete.
- ReceiptWhat the mission decided
- TimelineWhat happened, in order
- ArtifactsWhat it produced
Evidence is reviewed before the outcome counts.
Approvals
Judgment stays with you.
- Five tiers, T0 to T4
- Every node carries a tier; irreversible work needs T2 or higher.
- Three decisions
- Approved, rejected, or escalated — decided by a human, never by timeout.
- Timeouts escalate
- A wait that runs out becomes escalated. Deny is the default.
FAQ
Where does it fit in Ethen?
Founder is a product in the Ethen family, not a services offering.
Put your company jobs in the queue.
Founder is coming soon. Tell us which jobs you would delegate first.