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base
The system of intelligence for lean founding teams
Base gives lean founding teams the operating layer of a much larger company. It is a command interface and system of intelligence, five layers: Setup, Orchestration, Company Brain, Memory, Intelligence. Instruct it in natural language to pull financial reports or draft investor updates, and it executes across your connected stack, getting sharper the longer you use it. Vibe coding got you to a product. Base gets you to a business.
I've spent the last decade scaling four venture-backed businesses, three reaching unicorn valuation, and investing at a private equity fund. Sat on both sides of the table as an operator and an investor, the same thing kept showing up. Founders can ship a product in a weekend now, Lovable, Cursor and Bolt took care of that. Building the business behind it is a different problem entirely, and there's no equivalent shortcut for contracts, CRM, hiring and finance all landing at once with no team to handle them.
So I built the thing I wish someone had handed me. Base gives lean founding teams the operating layer of a much larger company. Instruct it in natural language to pull a report, draft an update, chase an invoice, and it executes across your connected stack.
Underneath sits a company brain built on a knowledge graph. Every contract, invoice, deal and conversation gets resolved into entities and relationships rather than sitting as isolated records in separate tools. That's what makes the difference between a tool that executes one command and a system that knows your business is behind on a payment, which deal's gone quiet, and what actually needs you today, without being asked. It's the part of Base that compounds. The longer you use it, the sharper it gets.
Come connect a tool or two, run it for a day, and tell me where it breaks. I'm reading every comment today.
the knowledge graph piece is the ambitious part - entity resolution across contracts, deals and conversations is genuinely hard, and it's exactly the kind of thing that looks perfect in a demo and then merges two different companies with similar names into one entity. when it's wrong about something like that and 'chases an invoice' based on the bad merge, does a founder find out before it sends anything, or after?
This is exactly the gap I hit last year. No CRM, no idea who to chase for payment, just vibes and a spreadsheet. Wish this existed then.
@caroline_hazlehurst How does this handle a founder who’s already got messy data across five tools before connecting Base? Or is day one meant to be a clean slate?
@caroline_hazlehurst This is so needed. I’ve watched three friends ship a product then completely stall on the business side. Bookmarking to send them this.
@caroline_hazlehurst Congrats on the launch! Curious how far back it can look once you connect a tool, does it work with historical data or only from the day you connect it?
"System of intelligence for lean founding teams" is a broad promise — curious what that looks like concretely day-to-day. Is it more about surfacing insights from existing tools, or does it actively suggest next actions?
qq what underlying graph architecture keeps query latency sub-second when re-indexing complex entity relationships across multiple SaaS tools? Congrats for shipping @caroline_hazlehurst 👏
This looks awesome!! Exactly what I've been wanting to open up every morning.
About base on Product Hunt
“The system of intelligence for lean founding teams”
base was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 22 upvotes and 24 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. Base gives lean founding teams the operating layer of a much larger company. It is a command interface and system of intelligence, five layers: Setup, Orchestration, Company Brain, Memory, Intelligence. Instruct it in natural language to pull financial reports or draft investor updates, and it executes across your connected stack, getting sharper the longer you use it. Vibe coding got you to a product. Base gets you to a business.
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Caroline Hazlehurst
Hi Product Hunt,
I'm Caroline, founder of Base.
I've spent the last decade scaling four venture-backed businesses, three reaching unicorn valuation, and investing at a private equity fund. Sat on both sides of the table as an operator and an investor, the same thing kept showing up. Founders can ship a product in a weekend now, Lovable, Cursor and Bolt took care of that. Building the business behind it is a different problem entirely, and there's no equivalent shortcut for contracts, CRM, hiring and finance all landing at once with no team to handle them.
So I built the thing I wish someone had handed me. Base gives lean founding teams the operating layer of a much larger company. Instruct it in natural language to pull a report, draft an update, chase an invoice, and it executes across your connected stack.
Underneath sits a company brain built on a knowledge graph. Every contract, invoice, deal and conversation gets resolved into entities and relationships rather than sitting as isolated records in separate tools. That's what makes the difference between a tool that executes one command and a system that knows your business is behind on a payment, which deal's gone quiet, and what actually needs you today, without being asked. It's the part of Base that compounds. The longer you use it, the sharper it gets.
Come connect a tool or two, run it for a day, and tell me where it breaks. I'm reading every comment today.
Caroline