> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The founding interview

> How a company is founded on the web: idea, interview, Found.

Creating a company on the web starts with the **founding interview**. You give
one sentence about your idea, and an agent interviews you to shape it into a
company brief. Nothing is billed until you approve.

## The flow

<Steps>
  <Step title="Share your idea">
    One sentence is enough. The composer on the home page and the
    **New company** page both start the interview.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Answer the interview (free)">
    The agent asks a short series of questions and drafts the company brief.
    The interview itself consumes **no credits**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Press Found">
    This is the approval step, and where billing begins:

    * Your account receives **15 welcome credits** — once per account, ever,
      at your first Found press.
    * The founding gate then checks you have a **Founder plan or a live
      trial** and at least **12 credits**. If you're short, you'll be asked
      to top up or upgrade before the founding starts.
  </Step>

  <Step title="The founding turn runs (~9 credits)">
    The company is created and its first agent turn builds and ships the
    landing page. This founding turn costs about **9 credits**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Keep going in chat">
    From here the company works in **billed agent turns**: a chat turn costs
    about **3–12 credits** depending on complexity, and the full "ship the
    product" build costs about **20 credits**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Good to know

* The welcome grant fires **once per account**. Founding a second company —
  or founding on an account that already received the grant — runs the gate
  against your real balance, with no new grant.
* Companies created through the [CLI](/cli) or the API skip the interview and
  run on the classic task-based harness, with a one-time **3-credit** grant
  instead. See [Plans and credits](/plans-and-credits) for how the two billing
  models compare.