Does it read environment variables?

No. Only the list of deployments is requested. Environment variables, logs and source files are not.

What counts as a production deployment?

A deployment whose target in Vercel is production. Preview deployments are read too and kept apart.

Vercel integration for Founder OS: what it reads and how to connect

Vercel integration

The Vercel connector reads your deployments from the last 30 days: which project, which environment, whether it succeeded and how long it took. Founder OS uses them to say how often you ship to production.

Connected tools are part of Founder OS, which is on Pro Plus. Idea validation is on every plan, including Free. See every tool Founder OS reads.

What Founder OS reads from Vercel

Deployments: project name, environment (production or preview) and status
When each was deployed and how long the build took
The commit each was built from

What it leaves alone:

Environment variables and secrets
Build logs and source files
Domains, team members and billing

How much each sync reads

The last 30 days of deployments, 100 a page, read again on each sync

A sync runs when you connect, once a day after that, and whenever you press Sync.

Where the records are used

Ask and the decision log: production deployments in the last 30 days

How to connect Vercel

Connect with a key you create:

In Vercel, open Account Settings, then Tokens.
Create a token limited to the team you want to connect.

Vercel documents this kind of key in its own guide, and you connect your account under Vercel’s terms.

Access and security

An access token from your Vercel account settings. Vercel cannot limit a token to read access, so the safeguard is ours: every request is checked on our server and anything that is not a read is refused before it leaves.

Every request to a connected tool is checked on our server, and anything that is not a read is refused before it leaves. It cannot move money, send a message or change a record. Keys and tokens are encrypted with AES 256 in GCM mode before they are stored, are never shown again, and are kept out of our logs. Disconnecting deletes the key and every record imported from the tool, in one step. For a tool you approved, we also ask the tool to end our access. The security page sets out the rest.

Questions

Does it read environment variables?: No. Only the list of deployments is requested. Environment variables, logs and source files are not.
What counts as a production deployment?: A deployment whose target in Vercel is production. Preview deployments are read too and kept apart.

An example of Founder OS reading four connected tools, Stripe, Razorpay, HubSpot and Slack, once a day, then working out monthly recurring revenue, churn and the customer count from the billing records by fixed formulas, each figure labelled Calculated.

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Connect Vercel to Founder OS

Founder OS reads the tools your company runs on and keeps your figures, notes and decisions in one place. It is part of Pro Plus.

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