A tour of HQ
HQ has four destinations (Ask, Work, Team, Plan) and two live helpers: Now, for everything waiting on you, and Watch, for seeing the work happen.
Updated 2026-10-13
HQ lives at /cofounder and is the first thing in the Build group of the sidebar after Home and Plan.
The four destinations
| Destination | What it is |
|---|---|
| Ask | Chats: with Pytheus, with one employee, group chats, and task channels. This is where you talk. |
| Work | What needs you, what is in progress, what the team made, and the next tasks on your plan. |
| Team | The roster: hire, rename, pause, autopilot, computers, alerts, and group chats. |
| Plan | The plan page itself. One tap from the rail or the bottom bar. |
Work
- Needs you: approvals, questions, connections, takeovers, reviews and failures. See Needs you.
- In progress: runs that are working or queued, and tasks being checked or revised. Each has a Watch button.
- From your plan: up to three open plan tasks not yet handed off, each with a hand-off button.
- Results: the files the team made, with previews you can open.
Team
One row per employee with a one-line status: what they are doing right now, or “Paused, not taking new work”. The row’s settings menu holds Autopilot (Premium), Pause or Resume, and let go. Below are the plan meters (employees and computer time this month) and the Alerts toggles for browser notifications and email. See Hiring.
Now and Watch
- Now is the tray that lists everything waiting on you, with the same count in the rail, the bell and the Work screen.
- Watch shows what whoever is working is doing: Activity, Screen and Files. See Watching the work.
Links into HQ
Every link into HQ that has ever been shared still works. The route table turns an old one into where it goes now.
| Parameter | Effect |
|---|---|
?thread=<id> | Open a chat. The default is Pytheus. |
?view=work or ?view=team | Open another screen. |
?new=1 | A new chat with Pytheus. |
?draft=<text> | Put words in the composer. |
?filter=needs | Work, showing only what needs you. |
?watch=auto | Open Watch on whoever is working. |
?focus=delivery:<run> | Scroll to that delivery. |
?focus=needs:<id> | Open the Now tray on that item. |
HQ keeps up to three chats open behind the one you are in, so a half-written draft and your scroll position survive a look at something else.