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Account menu
The round button with your initial at the top right of Foundable. It shows your available credits and holds Settings, Language, Appearance, the Tutorial hub, Docs, Text Ted, Contact support, Report a bug and Log out. On a phone, they’re under More. See Find your way around.Admin
A role in your foundable. An admin “Approves Ted’s posts and emails, connects tools and invites people”. Admins can invite members and view-only teammates; only the owner can add admins. See Invite your team.Approve
The button that lets something Ted prepared go ahead: an email goes out, a post goes out, or a change goes live on your website. Only the owner or an admin can approve. See Approve Ted’s work.Ask first
A Run mode: “Ted waits for your approval before anything goes public”. Run pauses on each email, post or website change until you decide. Compare Runs on its own. See Ask first or Runs on its own.Auto-renew
The switch that renews a domain you bought through Foundable every year, paid from your credits. It’s on until you turn it off in Your domains. See Manage your domains.B
Build
The tab between Home and Run where your websites live. Ted makes and changes them there, you preview them, and you publish when you’re ready. Its Tools hold Payments and more. See Build your website.C
Chat
Your conversation with Ted. Type in the “Message Ted…” box. Your chats are saved under Chat history, and New chat starts another. See Chat with Ted.Checkout
Stripe’s payment page. You pay for a Foundable plan there, and your customers pay there for what you sell. Foundable’s plans are sold through Link, Stripe’s merchant of record. See Plans and credits.Credit
What pays for Ted’s work. Building your website, Run, drafting replies, buying and renewing domains, and your website’s AI all use credits. Each of Ted’s replies shows its “Credits used”, and a free fix reads “Free”. Credits come from your plan, free credits each day, welcome credits and friends you invite. Everyone in a foundable spends the owner’s credits. See Plans and credits.D
Daily Updates
A switch in Settings, under Notifications: “A morning email … from Ted with what happened and the one thing to do next.” Turn it on or off there. See Notifications and emails.Database
Your website’s own place to keep its data, like who signed up. Build sets it up for you. Open it in Tools, under Database. See Database.Decline
The button that says no to something Ted prepared. A declined email isn’t sent. A declined post is set aside, and Bring back to drafts returns it. For a change to your website, the button is Deny. See Approve Ted’s work.Direction
In your free run, a card with a place Ted could go next, like a spreadsheet, a deck or a new page for your website. Press Explore this or Not now. See Your free first run.Domain
A web address for your website, like yourbusiness.com. You can buy one through Foundable, which holds it in trust for your foundable, or connect one you already own. Using your own domain needs a paid plan. See Use your own domain.Draft
Something Ted prepared that waits for an OK from the owner or an admin: an email, a post, a reply, a newsletter or a change in a connected app. See Approve Ted’s work.E
Earn credits
The Settings section where you invite friends with your own link. When a friend joins with it, you earn credits, and “earned credits never expire”. See Earn credits.Edit text
A preview tool for typing new words right on your website. Press Send, and Foundable saves the change as a new version. See Preview and change your website.Email address
Every named foundable gets its own email address, ending in foundable.app. Mail sent to it lands in your Inbox. With a paid plan, you can use your own domain for it instead. See Your email address.F
Foundable
Your business in Foundable, with its own websites, email address, team and everything Ted makes for it. In these docs it’s written in lowercase: a foundable. A new one reads “New foundable” until it has a name. Foundable, with a capital F, is the name of the product. See Your foundables.Foundable AI
The AI your website uses when it needs one, with no key of its own. It’s paid from your credits and shows as “Website AI” in your usage. In Tools, AI shows what it answered and spent, with a daily limit. See Your website’s AI.Foundable badge
The small “Made with Foundable” pill at the bottom right of every page of your live website. To hide it, turn on Hide Foundable badge in Published site actions. Hiding it needs a paid plan. See Publish your website.Free fix
A fix you start with Try to fix, Fix error or one of Security’s fixes can be free. Its receipt reads “Free” instead of the credits used. See Plans and credits.Free run
Your first run, which Foundable pays for. It starts when your first website’s build starts. Ted looks at your competitors, drafts a first outreach email for your OK, and asks you where to go next. It can’t be paused or stopped. See Your free first run.From Ted
Where everything Ted makes for you lands: the bell at the top of every page, and the From Ted card on Home. Drafts that wait for you are under Needs your OK. See Home.G
Git connection
A GitHub account or organization connected to your foundable in Settings, under Git. Through it, a website’s code syncs to a private repository you own. A Git connection isn’t an integration. See GitHub.GitHub
Where developers keep code. In Tools, GitHub keeps your website’s code in a private repository you own, and changes sync both ways. See GitHub.H
Home
The first tab at the top. It shows what Ted is doing and has made, your next steps, and your website’s visitors and insights. See Home.I
Inbox
Your foundable’s email and social messages in one place, with the drafts that wait for approval. See Your Inbox.Integration
An app you connect to your foundable, like Gmail, Google Calendar or Slack, in Settings, under Integrations. Ted can read it and, with your OK, make changes there. Only the owner or an admin can connect one. See Connect your apps.Invite link
A link that lets anyone who opens it join your foundable with the role you pick. It works for 7 days, and each role has one link. An invitation by email works only for the address it was sent to. See Invite your team.L
Library
Everything Ted made for your business, like posts and files, ready to review and post. It opens inside Run. See Posts and the Library.M
Member
A role in your foundable. A member “Talks to Ted and works on the website with him”. See Invite your team.Messenger
The chat where the Foundable team answers you. Support opens it, and your bug reports are under Tickets there. See Get help.N
Needs your OK
The list of drafts waiting for you to approve or decline, in From Ted and the Inbox. Teammates who can’t decide drafts see “Waiting for approval” instead. See Approve Ted’s work.Next steps
Home’s checklist of what to do next for your business, under “Your next steps”. See Home.O
Owner
The person a foundable belongs to. The owner can do “Everything, plus starting or stopping Run, the plan and billing”. Every credit spent in the foundable is the owner’s. See Invite your team.P
Payments
Selling on your website with Stripe. It lives in Build’s Tools: set it up once, then Ted adds what you sell, and you see your sales there. See Get paid with Payments.Plan
Your Foundable plan: Free, or a paid plan, Standard, Pro or Max, billed monthly or yearly. Every paid plan includes every paid feature, like Ted running on his own, your own domain and a team. See Plans and credits.Preview
Your website as it will look, before visitors see it. Open a website in Build to see it on a computer, tablet or phone. See Preview and change your website.Publish
Putting your website online at its own address. After that, Update sends newer changes live. Publishing needs no paid plan. See Publish your website.R
Report a bug
The form in the account menu for telling the Foundable team something is broken. On one of Ted’s replies, the same form is called Report a problem. See Get help.Revert
Going back to an earlier version of your website. Foundable saves a copy of that version as the newest one, and every version stays. See Version history.Run
The tab where Ted runs your business on his own, in the background, pass after pass. You can always see what he’s doing and thinking, and the decisions that need you wait there. See Run: Ted runs your business.Run pass
One round of Ted’s work while Run is on. Ted works pass after pass until the run ends. See Run: Ted runs your business.Runs on its own
A Run mode where Ted sends emails and publishes posts by himself, where you allow it. The rest waits for your review, and a change to your live website still waits for your Approve. It needs a paid plan. Compare Ask first. See Ask first or Runs on its own.S
Scheduled task
A task Ted does at set times, like every weekday morning, or when something happens, like a paid sale or an email arriving. Find them in Schedule. See Scheduled tasks.Secret
A private value, like a key from another service, that your website’s server code reads by name. Add secrets in Tools, under Security. “Saved values are never shown again.” See Security and secrets.Select
A preview tool: click a part of your website, like a heading or a button, to ask Ted about that part. See Preview and change your website.Settings
Where you change your foundable, your plan and your account. Open the account menu, then Settings. See Settings.Stripe
The payment company behind Payments and behind Foundable’s own checkout. Your sales go to your own Stripe account. See Get paid with Payments.Support
The Foundable team’s chat, called Messenger. Press Support at the top right, or Contact support in the account menu. See Get help.Swap photo
A preview tool: click a photo on your website, then upload a new one, or describe it and let Ted make it. See Preview and change your website.T
Ted
Your AI employee. He runs your business for you and does the work himself: he builds your website, drafts your emails, and works on his own in Run. Talk to him in the chat or by text. In Team, he’s listed as “Employee”. See Meet Ted.Test mode
A way to try a purchase on your website with Stripe’s test card before you sell for real. No money moves. See Test a purchase.Text Ted
Texting Ted from your phone, by SMS or iMessage. Link your phone once from Text Ted in the account menu, then text him whenever you like. See Text Ted from your phone.Tools
The panel in Build with what runs behind your website: Payments, Database, Security, GitHub, AI and Emails. A website’s logs open from an error’s Show logs. See Tools.Tutorial hub
Short tours of each part of Foundable that you can replay. Open the account menu, then Tutorial hub. See Get help.V
Version history
Every saved version of your website, newest first. Open it with the clock at the top of the preview to look at any version or go back to it. See Version history.View only
A role that “Sees what Ted is doing and what he made, and changes nothing”. A view-only teammate can read chats with Ted but can’t ask him for work. See Invite your team.W
Waitlist
The line new accounts may wait in before Foundable lets them in. “We’ll let you know the moment it’s your turn.” See Create your account.Website
What Build makes for your business. A foundable can have several websites, and one of them is live at a time. See Build your website.Website change
A change to your live website that Ted suggests while Run is on. It waits on a card for you to Approve or Deny. Once it’s live, you can still press Undo. See Decisions and website changes.Related
FAQ
Quick answers about Foundable, Ted, plans and your account.
Find your way around
The top bar, the account menu and your phone’s tabs.
Meet Ted
Who Ted is and what he does for you.
Get help
Chat with the team, report a bug or email us.