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Home is the first tab, and the place to start each time you open Foundable. It shows what Ted is doing and has made, what’s waiting for your OK, your next steps, and how your website is doing. Press Ted’s mark at the top left to come back here from anywhere.
Foundable Home with the chat on the left and Ted’s work, next steps and website on the right.

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What’s on Home

Most cards open full size from the arrow (↗) at their top right. Back to Home brings you back.

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Ted at work

The card at the top shows what Ted is doing, in his own words, like “Thinking through the next step…” or “Lining up my next step…”. When he has nothing to do, he says “I’m here when you need me.”
  • Press Show Ted’s activity to open his log, step by step. Hide Ted’s activity folds it again.
  • When a draft waits for you, he says so: “I have one draft waiting for your OK.” While Run waits on you in Ask first, Home says “Waiting for your approval: …” and names what’s waiting.
  • Other lines tell you he’s paused (“I’m paused.”), trying again after a problem (“Trying again after a hiccup…”), or out of credits (“You’re out of credits.”).
After your free first run, Ted says “Here’s what I’ve done so far!”, and the owner sees Keep Ted working. It opens the plans if your account can buy one, or Run otherwise. See Your free first run.

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From Ted

From Ted collects everything Ted makes for you: the documents, lists and plans he writes, the websites he builds, and the emails and posts he drafts. A blue dot marks what you haven’t opened.
The From Ted card showing drafts that wait for your OK, each with a Review button.
  • All shows everything. Needs your OK shows only the drafts waiting for your decision, with how many there are. Teammates who can’t decide drafts see Waiting for approval instead.
  • Press an item to open it. A draft has Review: open it to read it, change it, and approve or decline it. See Approve Ted’s work.
  • Each item also has Talk to Ted, to ask him about it in the chat.
  • After you decide, a short message says where the draft went, like “Approved · Publishing”, “Declined” or “Sent by Ted”.
  • Open From Ted full size and press Mark all read to clear the blue dots.
The bell at the top right shows the same list from any page.

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Your next steps

Your next steps is your checklist for launching your business. Press its heading to open it. A bar shows how many steps you’ve done, and the steps sit in three groups.
Your next steps checklist with three of seven steps complete.
Press Start on a step to begin it. A few steps do something worth knowing:
  • Publish your first site asks Ted in the chat to “Publish my website”. See Publish your website.
  • Start accepting payments opens Payments in Build’s Tools. It stays done while your payments are ready, and comes undone if Stripe pauses them or you disconnect them.
  • Add your own domain opens Build and writes “Find me a domain for …” in your message box, for you to send. See Buy a domain.
At the bottom of the open checklist, Stuck? Contact support opens a chat with the Foundable team.

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Build

The Build card follows your website. Before your first build, it says “Your first build will appear here”. While Ted builds, it reads “Building…”, then “Your website is saved”. Press it to open your website in Build. See Build your website.

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Visitors

Visitors shows the visits to your published website over the last 7 days, with its address and a globe of where visitors came from. Open it full size to pick another period, and to see how many are “Visiting now”, your top sources, pages and devices. Only your published website counts. Visitor analytics is on for every plan. To turn it off, open the Publish panel’s Published site actions menu and switch off Visitor analytics. If the card can’t load, it says “Visitor data is unavailable.” with Retry.

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Insights

Insights shows your Revenue, Customers and Posts.
  • Until payments are on, Revenue says “Payments aren’t on yet”. Press Start accepting payments to open Payments.
  • Until you connect a social account, Insights asks you to “Connect a channel”: the posts Ted publishes, and how they do, land here. See Connect your social accounts.
Open Insights full size for three tabs: Analytics for your sales, Customers for the people who bought (marked New, Returning, Regular or One-time), and Social for your posts.

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Home on your phone

On a phone, Home’s cards stack in one column. The Home tab shows how many items from Ted you haven’t opened, and the chat has its own Chat tab. See Find your way around.

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Who sees what

Everyone in your foundable sees Home. What they can do there depends on their role: See Invite your team for what each role can do.

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Home’s tour

The first time, a short tour shows you around Home, from “Meet Home” to “Your numbers”. To see it again, open your account menu, choose Tutorial hub, then pick “Your business at a glance”.

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FAQ

Your role can’t decide drafts. Only the owner or an admin can approve Ted’s emails and posts, so you see what’s waiting for them.
Visitors counts only your published website. Publish it first, and check that Visitor analytics is on in the Publish panel’s Published site actions menu.
Open the item, or open From Ted full size and press Mark all read.
Some steps follow what’s true now. Start accepting payments is done only while your payments are ready, so it comes undone if Stripe pauses them or you disconnect them.
After your free first run, it opens the plans if your account can buy one, so Ted can keep running your business. Otherwise, it opens Run.

Approve Ted’s work

Review, change, approve or decline what Ted drafts.

Run: Ted runs your business

Turn Run on and follow Ted as he works by himself.

Publish your website

Put your website online, and update it later.

Get paid with Payments

Sell on your website, and see your sales on Home.