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Start your company with the founder paperwork in order

A legal team on day one. Legal AI Counsel (FinePrint Counsel) prepares the formation filing, founder stock agreements, IP assignments and 83(b) elections, and keeps them in your Legal Room. Lawyers supervise the work.

A solo founder reading papers at a table by a window.

Formation steps depend on each other

Forming a company is a chain of steps. You choose the entity and the state. You file the formation documents, adopt bylaws or an operating agreement, and appoint the first directors and officers. Then the founders buy their stock, assign what they have built to the company, and file their 83(b) elections before the deadline.

A missing IP assignment or a late 83(b) election usually surfaces when an investor asks for the documents. By then it is harder to fix.

A founder's hands signing a document at a desk.

How FinePrint Counsel forms the company

  1. You tell FinePrint Counsel what you are building, who the founders are, how you plan to split ownership and where you will operate, in plain English.

  2. It shows the plan and what it will cost before it starts. Government filing fees are billed separately, and you approve them first.

  3. It recommends the entity and the state, explains why, and prepares the formation filing, the bylaws or operating agreement and the first board consents.

  4. It prepares the founder stock purchase agreements, the IP assignments and the 83(b) elections, and tracks the filing deadline.

  5. When you are ready, it prepares your first contractor, advisor and customer agreements from the same record.

A founder asks FinePrint whether to create Class F shares. The answer explains what they are, reads the company's stock, board and investor consents from the record, sets out how it would work, and offers cheaper ways to keep control.

What a lawyer reviews at formation

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.

At formation, that can include an unusual ownership split, a founder bringing IP from a previous employer, a founder living outside the United States, or a professional or nonprofit entity. You see the lawyer's decision and the reason in the task. Who owns what, who sits on the board and what the company does stay your decisions.

A lawyer with reading glasses reviewing a document with a young founder.

Start the company in the LaunchPad

The LaunchPad gives qualified applicants 60 days of FinePrint free. No card. No automatic subscription. After that, plans start at $100 per company per month with five hours of work included, then $20 an hour. No retainer. No partner. No surprise invoice.