Platform / Business & Legal
Track 3 · Business & Legal Foundation

Form the Entity, Sign the Contracts

Two cards. The first walks you through forming the operating entity in any US state. The second hands you a starter library of contracts every device founder eventually needs — pre-populated with your entity facts, editable in-line, exportable to Word.

This track is not a substitute for counsel. State filings change, IRS rules change, and contract enforceability depends on jurisdiction and circumstance. What this track does is shorten the time between “I should form the entity” and “I have a signed NDA in hand,” with the right deadlines flagged before they bite (83(b) at 30 days, BOI at 90 days, agreement renewals at 30 days before lapse).

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Stages · Foundation First, Documents Second
Stage B1
Business Formation

Pick the state, pick the entity, run the registration checklist. State-specific guidance on entity types, filing requirements, EIN, BOI, registered agent, and the first-year compliance calendar. Output: a tracked record of your entity that auto-fills every legal document downstream.

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Business Formation Walkthrough
State-by-state guidance for forming the operating entity. Pick a state, see the entity types available there (LLC, C-Corp, S-Corp, LP, LLP, PLLC, Non-Profit, B-Corp) with a comparison matrix, then step through the registration checklist: name search, registered agent, Articles, filing fee, EIN, BOI report, 83(b), franchise tax, annual report. Surfaces critical 30-day and 90-day deadlines.
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Stage B2
Legal Document Library

Starter contracts every founder needs, pre-populated with your entity facts and counterparty fields. Three-year default term with 30-day lapse alerts surfaced in Milestone Dashboard. Output formats: Word (DOCX) in this build; PDF and Google Docs paste-mode in a follow-on session. These are starting points for counsel review, not legal advice.

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Legal Document Library
Starter contract library. Seeded templates: Mutual NDA, Design Services Agreement (work-for-hire to client with royalty-free license-back to contractor), Statement of Work (milestone-based, references the DSA), Employee Proprietary Information & Inventions Agreement (PIIA), Founders' Agreement with 4-year vesting + 1-year cliff, and 83(b) election letter. In-line rich-text editor with bold/italic/list/find-replace, counterparty fields, effective date, 3-year term with 30-day lapse alert, document repository filtered by type and status, and DOCX export.
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