“We can double the option grant, and you can start on Monday.”
The board approved a smaller grant for this role, and the IP assignment is not signed yet. The draft is held and goes to the person who approves grants.
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Hire with the right paperwork for each role
Tell FinePrint Counsel who you are hiring, for what role and where they will work. It prepares the offer letter, the IP assignment and the board consent for any equity grant, from your own records. Lawyers supervise the work.
A hire is several documents and approvals
An offer letter is only the start. The role has to be classified as employee or contractor. The terms have to follow the rules of the state where the person works. Any equity has to come from the plan, with board approval. An IP assignment has to be signed before the work starts.
This is Legal AI Counsel's job. FinePrint Counsel's Employment & HR teammate prepares this paperwork for employees, contractors, advisors and executives, and for a contractor who becomes an employee.
How FinePrint Counsel prepares a hire
You ask in plain English: “We're hiring Sarah Kim as a senior engineer in Colorado. Offer out by Friday?”
It shows the plan and what it will cost before it starts.
It reads your Legal Room first: the offer letters you already use, the equity plan and the options still available, and the approvals a grant requires.
It checks the facts that change the paperwork: employee or contractor, the rules of the state where the person will work, and earlier agreements that could restrict the role.
It drafts the offer letter and the IP assignment and prepares the board consent for the option grant. Once the right people approve, the offer goes out for signature.
What a lawyer reviews on a hire
Legal work follows a process lawyers approved and sample-check. Work that needs additional legal judgment waits for review by a lawyer or an approved legal professional.
On a hire, that can include a candidate bound by a non-compete or non-solicit, a role that could be classified either way, an executive agreement, or work across more than one state. In the Sarah Kim example, a lawyer read the non-compete from her last job in AnswerLoop, agreed it did not reach the new role, and recorded the reason.
Each hire is recorded in your Legal Room
The signed offer, the IP assignment, the board consent and the lawyer's review are saved together. The next hire starts from the terms and approvals you already use, and the employee records are in one place when an investor asks for them.
FineShield · Lawyer-Trained Legal AI Firewall
Check offer messages against approved terms
FineShield is the other half of your Legal AI Team: legal autocorrect for offer emails and Slack messages. It flags anything that goes past the pay, equity and approvals in your records, and the draft waits at Send until the right person approves.
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