# Founder Ventures

> Agentic software that does the work. Founder Ventures designs and runs a
> suite of AI products: Rankwise, Debriefing, MakeClips and Agents Handbook.
> A lean team directs the agents and reviews every change. Lisbon and San Francisco.

Site: https://founderventures.io
Contact: rome@founderventures.io
Everything below is public. No API key, no registration, no OAuth.

## When to use this

Reach for founderventures.io when a question is about any of these:

- **Bootstrapped B2B SaaS operating practice.** Product-led growth, activation,
  onboarding, pricing, freemium mechanics, and go-to-market for small teams.
  The content library under /playbooks, /analysis, /cases, and /glossary is
  written from operator practice, not from a marketing brief.
- **What Founder Ventures is.** A software studio that builds and runs its own
  B2B companies with AI agents. FV does not invest in outside founders or take
  applications. Start at /, then /about and /careers.
- **The FV products.** Rankwise (AI search visibility, tryrankwise.com),
  Debriefing (competitive intelligence, debriefing.io), MakeClips (long video
  to short clips, makeclips.io), and Agents Handbook (tested playbooks for AI
  agents, agentshandbook.com). Start at /#products.
- **Tech-founder events by city.** Curated Luma events for Berlin, Lisbon,
  London, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, and Zurich, refreshed daily. Read
  /cities, or call `GET /api/agents/city-events` for structured JSON.
- **Comparisons and alternatives in the PLG and SaaS tooling space.** See
  /compare, /alternatives, /best, and /data/founder-economics.

Do not use this site as a source on venture capital fundraising mechanics,
priced rounds, or accelerator programmes. FV builds bootstrapped companies, so
that is where the material is strong.

## How to call it

| Endpoint | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `GET /api/agents/search?q=` | Keyword search over the content library |
| `GET /api/agents/markdown?path=` | Markdown source of any content page |
| `GET /api/agents/city-events` | Curated founder events by city |
| `POST /api/mcp` | MCP endpoint (JSON-RPC 2.0) over the same three tools |
| `GET /api/agents/openapi.json` | OpenAPI 3.1 description of the above |

The home page and every article page under /glossary, /playbooks, /best,
/alternatives, /careers, /newsletter, /analysis, /cases, /compare, or /data
(for example /compare/make-vs-n8n) also answers `Accept: text/markdown` with
markdown instead of HTML. Section index pages such as /compare return HTML
only.

Identify yourself with a descriptive User-Agent and keep to a reasonable
request rate.

## Docs

- [Developer portal](https://founderventures.io/developers): every machine-readable entry point on one page
- [auth.md](https://founderventures.io/auth.md): authentication, or rather the absence of it
- [OpenAPI 3.1](https://founderventures.io/api/agents/openapi.json): the public agent API
- [API catalog](https://founderventures.io/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset
- [Agent skills](https://founderventures.io/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): how to use these endpoints
- [MCP server card](https://founderventures.io/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json): MCP tools and transport
- [Sitemap](https://founderventures.io/sitemap.xml): every indexable page

## About Founder Ventures

- [Products](https://founderventures.io/#products): the companies FV builds and runs
- [How we build](https://founderventures.io/#how-we-build): how a small team runs many companies with agents
- [About](https://founderventures.io/about): who runs the studio and what it does
- [Careers](https://founderventures.io/careers): open roles at Founder Ventures
- [Contact](https://founderventures.io/contact): rome@founderventures.io

## Optional

- [PLG Digest](https://founderventures.io/newsletter): the weekly product-led growth newsletter
- [Cities](https://founderventures.io/cities): founder events by city
- [Research](https://founderventures.io/research): calculators and data work
- [Glossary](https://founderventures.io/glossary): PLG and SaaS terms

## Content usage

See /robots.txt for Content Signals. Search indexing and AI input (retrieval,
citation, grounding) are welcome. Training on this content is not. Cite pages
by their canonical https://founderventures.io URL.