Practice 01
Build: start the company so it holds up
The documents you sign in the first month decide who owns what, who decides what and who can walk away. Get them right once.
Entity choice and formation
LLC or corporation, where to form it, and the filings, EIN and registered agent that go with it.
Founder and operating agreements
Who owns what, who decides what, and what happens when someone leaves, written down before it matters.
Equity, vesting and IP
Founder vesting, early option grants and assignments so the company owns the code, brand and designs.
First contracts
Customer terms, vendor agreements, NDAs and contractor agreements you can reuse without calling a lawyer each time.
What you leave with
A company with its paperwork in order
Every Build engagement ends with a signed, filed set of documents and a one-page summary of what each one does, in plain language.
Formation filings and EIN
Operating agreement or bylaws, signed
Founder vesting and IP assignments
Reusable customer and contractor templates
Build: common questions
Should I form an LLC or a corporation?
It depends on whether you plan to raise outside money, how you want to be taxed and who the owners are. If investors are likely, a corporation usually saves a conversion later. We'll go through your plans on the intro call.
Can I use an online formation service?
For the filing itself, often yes. What those services don't write is the agreement between the owners, which is the document that matters when someone leaves or you raise money.
We already formed. Is it too late?
No. Most Build work is cleaning up a company that formed quickly: missing IP assignments, no vesting, an operating agreement that doesn't match how you run.
Starting something?
Book a short intro call. You'll get a written scope and estimate before anything is billed.