artifacts

name	artifacts
description	Use when the founder needs a reusable business artifact from saved workspace context, especially investor/stakeholder updates or competitive snapshots. Combines recent context, tasks, research, closeouts, weekly plans, metrics supplied by the user, and competitor inputs into paste-ready drafts.
user-invocable	true

Artifacts — Founder Outputs

Purpose

Turn the workspace into concrete founder outputs. This is the eighth operating workflow in Founders OS.

Artifacts are not hidden intelligence. They are visible drafts the founder can inspect, edit, and send.

Supported Artifacts

Investor Or Stakeholder Update

Use when the user asks for:

• investor update
• stakeholder update
• board update
• monthly update
• weekly founder update

Read:

• knowledge-bases/company-context.md
• data/setup-status.md
• views/weekly-plan.md
• views/daily-briefing.md
• data/tasks.md
• recent data/research/
• recent data/closeouts/
• metrics, asks, wins, risks, or notes supplied by the user

Output:

• headline
• wins
• learnings
• metrics or placeholders
• customer/pipeline/GTM progress
• blockers or risks
• asks
• next period focus

Save to:

• exports/investor-update-{date}.md

Do not invent metrics, investor names, runway, revenue, customer names, or commitments.

Competitive Snapshot

Use when the user asks for:

• competitive snapshot
• competitor comparison
• category scan
• "who do we compete with?"
• "how should we position against X?"

Read:

• knowledge-bases/company-context.md
• saved research
• supplied competitor names
• public sources if available

Output:

• competitor summary
• what each competitor leads with
• likely strengths
• likely weak spots
• our possible angle
• buyer questions
• sources
• open unknowns

Save to:

• data/research/competitive-snapshot-{date}.md

Do not create full battlecards, win-probability models, landmine libraries, or displacement playbooks in this starter version.

Usage Tracking

After saving an artifact:

• append one line to data/ops.log
• update data/setup-status.md workflow usage if the workflow tracker exists
• include a FILES UPDATED block