FounderOS is an open-source command center for running a one-person company as a set of AI-assisted departments, all from one live dashboard. Built with Next.js and SQLite under the MIT license, it has about 1,200 stars on GitHub and is actively developed in 2026.
Solo founders juggle communications, sales, marketing, money and operations alone. FounderOS organizes that chaos into departments on a single board: unified comms, a client funnel, social growth, finances, a roster of named AI agents with their tasks and run history, and a searchable knowledge graph built from your markdown notes (its “Optimal Engine”). Everything reads from one local SQLite database, and integrations are honest connectors that report “not configured” until you add your own keys, keeping the system local-first and transparent. A fresh clone boots into demo mode with a fictional company, so the whole business is visible and explorable before you plug in real data.
Because connectors are explicit and local, the dashboard doubles as an honest single source of truth for the business: when a department lacks data, it says so instead of inventing numbers. That design makes FounderOS as much a discipline tool as a software tool, forcing the one-person company into the same weekly visibility a larger company gets from department heads.
FounderOS is free and open source under the MIT license. You clone the repository and run it yourself; any paid offerings on the project site relate to optional guided cohorts, not the software.
FounderOS is for solopreneurs, freelancers and tiny teams where one person runs point and wants AI agents to help operate the business from one honest, local dashboard.