The agent for communities

Turn every question into action.

Root lives where your community works. It answers with the right context, operates your tools, and brings in a human when judgment matters.

Built with ❤️ by Aviel for fndtns.org and used every day by our own community.
Root command center
Root
Working across your community
PS
Priya Shah
I'm visiting the SF office for the first time on Tuesday — how do I get access?
Root is checking knowledge and tools
Root
You're in — I've granted you access to the San Francisco space and sent the building's registration invite to your email. Set up your account before Tuesday and your phone will unlock the door.
Case study · Foundations

From agent platform to fully fledged community manager.

Root's built-in platform+Foundations community tools

Root was built by and is used every day inside the fndtns.org community. Foundations connected its member system, offices, and operating workflows, turning Root into the conversational front door for the entire community.

Explore Root at Foundations
“I'm in town next month — can I get access to the SF space?”

Space access

Root grants access in the building's system on the spot and triggers the registration invite to the member's email, so they can badge in before they arrive.

Foundations extension
“Can you set up a guest pass for Richard next Wednesday?”

Visitor passes

Root sees the member's session that afternoon, issues a full-day pass with a door PIN, and hands back the details ready to forward to the guest.

Foundations extension
“Can I book a conference room 1:30–3:30 on Thursday? We'll have 3 people.”

Room booking

Root checks availability, books the right room, and sends the calendar invite — members reschedule or cancel by simply replying.

Foundations extension
“Does Charles still have open office hours this week?”

Office hours

Root finds the open slot, books it on the member's behalf, and sends the invite; hosts manage their blocks the same way.

Foundations extension
“Add sparkling water to the Seattle Costco list.”

Shopping and fulfillment

Members shape each office basket, Root matches real products, and admins can approve and submit the actual order.

Foundations extension
“Who should I talk to about selling to SMBs?”

Community discovery

Search members, companies, investors, and trusted service providers using structured community data.

Foundations extension
“Alert me the moment a slot opens up.”

Proactive follow-through

Root's built-in action alerts watch Foundations tools and send the member a Slack DM when the event happens.

Core + extension
“Let my own AI agent handle this for me.”

Member API and MCP

Members mint personal keys so their agents can use the same approved capabilities with their identity and permissions.

Core + extension

One agent across the work your team does every day

Member support
Knowledge
Operations
Access
Follow-through
Built into every Root

A complete agent platform, out of the box.

These capabilities are native to Root—not custom integrations. Every workspace starts with the channels, knowledge, memory, access controls, follow-through, and human safety net an agent needs.

01Built in

Answer from your knowledge

Ground responses in managed knowledge pages, synced URLs, and attributed guidance shared by your community.

02Built in

Search community history

Semantically search indexed Slack discussions and inspect the people, replies, and reactions around a conversation.

03Built in

Research beyond your walls

Use live web research when freshness matters, while keeping your own knowledge as the primary source of truth.

04Built in

Remember and follow up

Retain user preferences, schedule reminders, and trigger alerts the moment a matching action happens.

05Built in

Work safely across channels

Operate in Slack, email, web chat, and APIs with resolved identity, access tiers, and one auditable history.

06Built in

Bring in a human

When judgment is needed, open a tracked intervention with the request, member, and conversation context assembled.

One operating layer

Meet people where they already are.

Root sits between your community and the systems behind it—translating everyday requests into safe, auditable work.

01

Listen everywhere

Members reach Root through the channel that is natural to them.

SlackEmailWebAPI
R

Reason with your rules

Root resolves identity, retrieves the right knowledge, selects approved tools, and explains the result.

KnowledgeIdentityAccess policyMemory
03

Act and follow through

Connected tools complete the job—or a human gets a clear request to finish it.

Your toolsHuman handoffAudit trail
Human when it matters

Autonomous, not unattended.

Set the boundary. Root resolves routine work on its own and creates a structured handoff when a request needs approval, empathy, or judgment.

Every escalation includes the member and conversation context
Assign, track, and reply from one intervention queue
The final response goes back through the original channel
!
Refund approval requested
From Slack · 2 minutes ago
Jordan is requesting an exception to the event cancellation policy after a family emergency. The standard refund window closed yesterday.
Root's context
Member since 2023 · no previous exceptions · event starts in 6 days · $85 refund
Approve and replyAssign to teammate
Designed to be extended

Turn your systems into agent capabilities.

Root owns the hard agent infrastructure. Your integration supplies the community-specific data and actions. Together, they become one permission-aware tool surface.

Root platform

Maintained once and available to every community.

Built in
Knowledge & retrieval
Slack, email & web
Identity & access
Memory & follow-ups
Human interventions
Conversation audit trail
+

Your integration

Declare tools from the systems that make your community unique.

Extensible
Member records
Bookings & schedules
Membership & billing
People directories
Events & applications
Any private workflow
Integration protocolExpose signed, tenant-scoped tools with descriptions, schemas, permissions, and channel rules.
REST APIRun agent turns, send messages, resolve identity, and manage integrations from your own product.
MCP serverLet members use Root and its approved tools from Claude, Cursor, or another MCP client.
Core + extension

Root decides which approved tool fits the request, enforces the user's access, executes it, and carries the result back to the original channel.

Give your team leverage

Your community's next teammate is ready.

Start with Root's built-in agent platform. Then connect the tools that make your community yours—and turn conversation into the work only your systems can do.

Get started with Root Root mascot waving