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Run is the tab where Ted runs your business for you. Turn it on, and he works in the background, pass after pass, without being asked. In each pass he picks a useful next step and does it: he looks things up, writes documents and lists, drafts emails and posts, and works on your website. You can always see what Ted is doing and thinking. What goes public stays your call: you choose whether he asks first or acts on his own, and some things always wait for you.
Run with Ted working toward a goal: his activity on the left with Pause and Stop, and his workshop with the channels he works in on the canvas.

Your free first run

Foundable pays for your first run. See what Ted does in it.

Ask first or Runs on its own

Choose how much Ted does without asking you.

Decisions and website changes

Answer Ted’s questions and approve changes to your live website.

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How a run works

A run starts when you press Start Run. In each pass, Ted reads where things stand, works toward one of the goals he set for your business, and saves what he made. Then the next pass begins. Run’s card shows the goal he’s on, like “Goal 1 of 3”. A run keeps going until one of these happens:
  • you press Stop
  • Ted has used the budget you set
  • your credits run out
  • billing needs attention
  • several passes in a row run into problems
So pick a budget you’re comfortable with. Pause holds a run at any time, and Resume carries on where it stopped. With Ask first, a run also waits while something needs your decision. See Decisions and website changes.

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Start Run

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Open Run

Press Run at the top of the screen.
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Check the channels

The boxes on the canvas hold the channels Ted works on. A new Run starts with Website, Email, Instagram, SEO and Blog. To add another, press + on a box, then + beside the channel. To let Ted post, connect your social accounts.
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Choose how Ted works

Press the gear on Run’s card to open Run settings. Pick how Ted runs: it saves as soon as you pick it. Then choose a tier and a budget, and press Save preferences. See Run settings.
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Press Start Run

The card says “Ted is working”, and each step he takes appears under Ted’s activity.
Only the owner can start, pause, resume or stop Run.

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The Run screen

When something waits for you, the Run tab at the top shows a dot, so you can see it from anywhere. When Ted finishes something, a note pops up: “I made something for you.” Press Open to see it.

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Run settings

Open Run settings with the gear on Run’s card, or with Settings under Tools Ted uses. While a run is on, the button shows its mode, like Ask first. Press Save preferences when you’re done. The Image tool under Tools Ted uses has a setting of its own, Picture quality, for the pictures Ted makes for posts. Pick Low (the default), Medium or High.

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Pause, resume or stop

  • Pause holds the run. Press Resume to carry on from where Ted stopped.
  • Stop ends the run. The next time you press Start Run, Ted carries on from the goals he set.
Your free first run is different: it can’t be paused or stopped. See Your free first run.

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When a run ends

Ted’s Run summary opens by itself once, on whatever page you’re on. To open it again, find its row under From Ted on Home. The summary starts with how the run ended, the days it covered and the credits it used. Then it counts what Ted did, what he sent or published, what’s scheduled and what’s waiting on you. Under Needs you are the drafts still waiting for you (press Review), and under What I made is everything he made. Press Talk to Ted to ask him about the run, or Done to close it. If you stop a run before Ted spent or made anything, there’s no summary. A run that made nothing shows what Ted was working toward, where he got to and what’s up next, with Keep going.

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If Run won’t start

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Who can do what

To add people, see Invite your team.

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Plans and credits

Run works on every plan. Foundable pays for your first run. After that, Ted’s work in a run uses your credits, up to the budget you set. A paid plan adds Runs on its own, Ted’s posts, and connecting the social accounts he posts to. Without an active plan, Ted asks before he posts or sends anything. See Plans and credits.

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FAQ

No. Run works in the background, whether or not you’re looking. Come back any time and Ted’s activity shows what he did.
With Ask first, a run waits whenever Ted has something for you to decide. The card says “Waiting for you” and names what waits, like “Paused until you decide a website change.” Decide it, and the next pass starts. See Decisions and website changes.
No. Ted can work on your website in a run, but he never publishes it himself. Each change to your live website waits for you to approve or deny it. See Approve a change to your website.
Set a budget under Credits in Run settings before you start. The run ends when Ted has used it. Standard makes your credits go furthest, and you can press Pause or Stop at any time.
Yes. Everyone in your foundable can see Run, and their role decides what they can change. See Who can do what.
Press Need help? at the top right of the Run canvas. Ted shows you around again.

Connect your social accounts

Let Ted post to Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X and Threads.

Posts and the Library

Everything Ted made, and how your posts are doing.

Approve Ted’s work

Review the emails and posts Ted drafts for you.

Plans and credits

What a paid plan adds, and how credits work.