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You have probably already found a template. The problem is that it does not describe your split, your vesting, or what happens if one of you walks. We draft the version that does.
Signable in about two weeks. No hourly meter, no invoice surprises.
Milestone based trial vesting. Revenue gated tranches. Dual class shares. Credit for the work you did before the company existed. That is the part founders actually argue about, and it is the part no free document contains.
Send us your termsA founders agreement is rarely one document. This is the set that makes the arrangement real and holds up when an investor reads it.
Four year schedules, one year cliffs, acceleration on a change of control, and commencement dates that credit pre incorporation work.
The document that actually issues your shares, with the repurchase rights that make vesting mean something.
Prepared inside the package and tracked against the 30 day clock. Miss that window and it cannot be reopened.
Drafted to reach through a foreign entity or employer of record where a founder sits outside the US.
Good leaver and bad leaver definitions, written while everyone still gets along rather than when they do not.
Board composition, consent rights, and dual class structures where you want control to stay put.
You get the number before the work starts, not after.
You can, and for two founders splitting evenly with nothing unusual, a good template gets you most of the way. The moment your deal has anything specific in it, a trial period, unequal contribution, a founder abroad, existing IP, the template stops describing your arrangement and starts describing someone else's.
From $750 for two founders on standard terms, and from $2,900 for the full founder equity package bundled with formation. Non standard terms are quoted as a fixed fee before we start. There is no hourly meter.
Standard packages are signable within two weeks. If you are also incorporating, budget three weeks so the 83(b) filing lands inside its 30 day window.
Yes, in two places. The IP assignment has to reach through whatever local entity or employer of record that founder sits behind, and the vesting terms should say what happens if immigration or residency stops them contributing. Both are drafting choices, not blockers.
Often partly, which is the awkward answer. Send it over and we will tell you what it actually commits you to before you decide what to do about it.
Tell us what you have agreed and who is involved. You get a fixed fee and a delivery date before anything starts.