Solo SaaS founder
Six tools, one company state
How a one-person SaaS keeps goals, tasks and decisions consistent across Obsidian, GitHub, Stripe and Calendar without a weekly manual clean-up.
- Obsidian
- GitHub
- Stripe
- Google Calendar
- Slack
Illustrative scenario. These walkthroughs describe how Founder OS is designed to be used. They are composites written by us — not real customer accounts, and they contain no measured results, testimonials or client names.
Before
The situation
A single founder ships a B2B SaaS alone. The roadmap lives in Obsidian, issues in GitHub, revenue in Stripe, commitments in Calendar, and customer promises in Slack DMs. Nothing is wrong in any one tool — but no tool knows the company, so every planning session starts with twenty minutes of re-reading five apps.
Where the week leaks
- The same project exists under three different names in three tools.
- Decisions made in Slack never reach the roadmap doc, so the roadmap quietly goes stale.
- Promises to customers live in DMs and are remembered only when someone follows up.
- Weekly planning is done from memory, so whatever was loudest last wins.
What Founder OS does
Step by step
This scenario leans mostly on company state engine + obsidian adapter.
- 01
Connect the tools as state sources, not as chat plugins
Obsidian is connected first as a state source. Founder OS reads the vault, extracts goals, projects, tasks, decisions and people, and writes them into the Company State Engine as `observed` entities — the vault is never treated as a pile of text to summarise on demand.
- 02
Reconcile the duplicates instead of stacking them
The reconciler matches the same project arriving from three sources into one canonical entity, and the write gate rejects low-confidence or contradictory updates rather than letting the model happily create a fourth copy.
- 03
Mirror the unified picture back into Obsidian
The renderer writes the reconciled state back into the vault as ordinary Markdown. The founder keeps working in Obsidian — the difference is that the notes now agree with GitHub, Stripe and Calendar.
- 04
Ask the Orchestrator, not five apps
“What slipped this week and what did it cost us?” goes to one Orchestrator, which decomposes the question, pulls from state and memory, delegates research or drafting to specialist agents, and returns one answer with its sources.
After
What changes
Described as behaviour, not as percentages — we do not publish numbers we have not measured.
- Planning starts from a written state of the company rather than from recall.
- A decision recorded once shows up wherever that project is described.
- Stale projects surface on their own, because state decay marks entities nothing has touched.
- The founder stays in Obsidian; the reconciliation happens underneath.
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Start with one source of truth
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