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Co-Founder Relationship Health

Clear roles and decision rights, a written co-founder charter, weekly and monthly honest check-ins, and agreed ways to settle disagreements before they turn into the thing that sinks the company.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Co-Founder Relationship Health, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Pillar

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Area

50

Projects

200

Starter tasks

🚀 Founding & Startups

Co-Founder Relationship Health

Keeping the co-founder relationship strong with clear roles, regular honest check-ins and agreed ways to settle disagreements.

  1. First honest co-founder state-of-us conversation
  2. Roles and decision rights map
  3. Written co-founder charter
  4. Disagreement escalation ladder
  5. Five-year goals and exit horizon alignment
  6. Working style and stress profile swap
  7. Commitment and hours expectations agreement
  8. Personal financial runway disclosure
  9. Deadlock tie-breaker rule
  10. Weekly co-founder one-to-one
  11. Monthly scored relationship health check
  12. Quarterly co-founder offsite
  13. Annual charter and roles review
  14. Shared decision log
  15. Monthly co-founder feedback exchange
  16. Founder communication norms
  17. Pre-board founder alignment meeting
  18. Running list of unspoken issues
  19. Practising difficult co-founder conversations
  20. Specific feedback skills for co-founders
  21. Understanding your conflict styles
  22. Disagree and commit in practice
  23. Co-founder relationship reading list
  24. Managing your own reactivity
  25. Rebalancing roles as the company grows
  26. Choosing the CEO among co-founders
  27. Standing mediator for founder disputes
  28. Rebuilding trust after a breach
  29. Settling a recurring argument for good
  30. Workload fairness check
  31. United front protocol for the team
  32. Founder salary parity decision
  33. Fundraise alignment pact
  34. Preparing for an investor joining the board
  35. Annual co-founder anniversary retrospective
  36. Hiring an executive above a co-founder's area
  37. Post-crisis partnership debrief
  38. Cover plan for a co-founder's leave
  39. Three or more co-founder dynamics
  40. Remote co-founders across time zones
  41. Co-founding with a friend, partner or relative
  42. Integrating a co-founder who joined later
  43. Technical and commercial co-founder pairing
  44. Supporting a co-founder through a personal crisis
  45. Early warning signs of a breakdown
  46. Founder alignment during acquisition talks
  47. Deadlock clauses review with a lawyer
  48. Designing a co-CEO arrangement
  49. Co-founder relationship beyond fifty people
  50. Keeping the partnership enjoyable

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

First honest co-founder state-of-us conversation

Most co-founders talk about the product every day and about the partnership almost never, until something breaks. A single protected two-hour conversation about what is working between you, what is not and what each of you is quietly worried about gives you a shared starting point for everything else in this area.

First tasks

  • Propose a two-hour slot this fortnight for a conversation about the partnership
  • Write your private answers to what is working and what worries you
  • Hold the conversation somewhere neutral with laptops closed
  • Write and share a half-page note of what you agreed

Roles and decision rights map

Co-founders fall out far more often over who decides than over what is decided. Mapping every recurring decision area, from hiring and pricing to the roadmap and spending, to a single owner with a clear consult or veto list removes the daily friction of two people both thinking they are in charge.

First tasks

  • List every type of decision either of you made in the last month
  • Assign a single owner and a consult list to each decision area
  • Agree the short list of decisions that need both founders
  • Review the map together for drift and quietly reclaimed areas @recurring(quarterly)

Written co-founder charter

Agreements made in a coffee shop in month one are remembered differently by month eighteen. A two or three page charter covering commitment, roles, how you disagree, how you treat each other under stress and what happens if one of you wants out turns those early promises into a document you can both point at.

First tasks

  • Ask the agent to draft a charter outline from your state-of-us note
  • Fill in the commitment, roles and communication sections separately
  • Meet to reconcile the two versions line by line
  • Sign the final charter and save it in the shared founder folder

Make it yours.

Install Co-Founder Relationship Health, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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