AI law firm for startups
From incorporation through Series A, we find what's missing and complete the work with licensed startup attorneys — usually in about two hours.
Nothing signed yet? Incorporate for $19.
Attorney-reviewed work from $500. Software-only from $625/month.
FOUNDED BY EX-BIGLAW STARTUP ATTORNEYS FROM COOLEY · MOFO · FENWICK AND OPERATORS FROM VENTURE-BACKED STARTUPS
Early-stage startups usually handle legal one of four ways — a law firm at $700 an hour, a formation tool, a general-purpose LLM, or legal AI built for lawyers — and each fails a founder differently.
Good startup lawyers exist. They run $700 an hour, take days to turn around a basic document, and the best of them are already retained by the people across the table from you. So you choose: burn cash and wait while your new hire's offer sits unsigned, or handle it yourself tonight and hope.
Most equity mistakes aren't carelessness. They're what slow and expensive does to people in a hurry.
Between projects nobody is tracking what’s happening at your company. The hours accumulate quietly and the bill lands when you’re raising.
Clerky, Stripe Atlas, and Firstbase hand you a stack of documents and have nothing to say on day ninety. Paperwork with no system behind it.
An LLM can explain an 83(b) election. It doesn’t know whether yours was filed, and it will draft you a consent for a stock plan you never adopted.
Harvey, Legora, and Claude for Legal make lawyers faster. That may lower what your lawyer charges. It doesn’t give you a system that holds your company’s legal state.
Founders Form AI handles incorporation, equity administration, fundraising, commercial contracts, and the ongoing obligations each of those creates. Every outcome we run leaves a record the next one runs on, at the same flat price.
A legal health check reads every document you've signed and tells you what's missing, what's risky, and what's coming due, then generates the records that close each gap. Because the record stays complete as you go, it exports as a diligence pack in one click when the request list arrives.
Gaps surfacing mid-diligence, when fixing them is a cleanup project.
Free. Always.
How we work
Founders Form AI takes a legal outcome from a plain-English request to signed, filed paperwork in five steps, and keeps watching the obligations it creates afterwards.
Most Founders Form AI work is back in about two hours. There is no step where you go back to being on your own.
In your own words, not a form. You don’t have to know which workflow it is, what it depends on, or what it’s called.
Founders Form·OrbitI want to issue stock options
Workflow Steps
0/2 complete
Add 409A Valuation
You are here
Issue Equity
Original intent
Before anything is drafted, you learn what your request depends on and which of it you’re missing. Most founders find at least one thing here they didn’t know to look for.
Founders Form·Issue EquitySteps
Creating board consent for the 100K option grant to Alex Chen.
A licensed Founders Form AI attorney reviews and signs whatever should carry a signature. Most work is back in about two hours, next business day at the outside. Your call, per document, at a price you saw before you ordered.
Founders FormJ. Williams, Esq.
Reviewing Grant Agreement
Exercise window should be extended from 90 to 180 days post-termination per current market standards.
Signatures collected from whoever had to give them. Documents filed. Cap table updated from what was actually executed. Nothing left on your list.
Founders Form·Company Health83(b) election not filed
30-day window may have passed for founder stock
409A valuation expiring
Expires in 45 days — blocks new option grants
CIIAA missing — Alex Rivera
IP ownership not formally assigned to company
Cap table reconciled
All entries match executed agreements
Every deadline the new paperwork created is now ours to watch. The record it left behind is what the next thing runs on, which is why the next thing is faster and costs the same.
Founders Form·Cap Table4
Holders
10M
Total Shares
2.5%
Option Pool
Alice Founder
alice@acme.com
Bob Founder
bob@acme.com
Seed SAFE
sequoia@vc.com
Option Pool
reserved
The other half
Founders Form AI employs its own licensed startup attorneys rather than routing you to a panel. They work inside the platform, on the record it has already built, which is why most signed work is back in about two hours.
At a firm the first hour goes into reconstructing your company from a folder, and you're billed for it. Here the record is already complete, so the hour goes into judgment instead. That's why the price can be published before you order.
An NDA usually doesn't need one. Your Series A does. You decide per document, and the platform works either way.
A negotiation or a dispute isn't a document problem. You get told directly rather than sold a workflow, and whoever takes it arrives with a file so complete they'll wonder who prepped it.
Founders Form AI charges $19 once for incorporation, $625 a month for the software, and $500 per attorney-reviewed workflow — against $1,000 to $5,000 for incorporation and $2,500 to $15,000 for a SAFE round at a traditional startup firm.
Seeing where you stand is free. Incorporation is $19 one time. The software is $625 a month. Attorney review is $500 per workflow, $1,500 for a SAFE or convertible note round, and quoted for priced rounds. You decide per document, not per plan.
It's built from what you've already signed. It's tested against your existing obligations before it's drafted. If your record doesn't support it yet, we tell you what has to happen first instead of drafting it anyway.
Attorney review is a different thing. It's one of our attorneys weighing the document against your situation and putting their name on it. Some documents want that. A routine advisor agreement usually doesn't. Your seed round documents do.
The firm: attorney-reviewed outcomes. One of our attorneys reviews and signs it before it ships. Priced on the outcome, published before you order, no subscription required.
The product: Founders Form AI on its own. The record, the watching, and the health check cost nothing and always will. License it and you run the full catalog yourself, with no attorney in the loop and the price to match.
One workflowPopular
We prep it from your record. One of our attorneys reviews and signs it. It lands back in your file.
A whole round
Every instrument, every investor, every side letter. One price.
A priced round
Quoted, because it's the one place scope genuinely varies. The quote comes before the work and doesn't move.
Incorporate
A Delaware C-Corp with the founding records done right.
The record
We read everything you've signed, answer from it, and watch every date in it.
Run it yourself
Startup legal on autopilot. The full catalog, run by you, no attorney in the loop.
No retainer and no hourly billing. The price is the price, published before you order. Priced rounds are quoted before you start.
One reviewed outcome a month is $500. For $125 more, that one is covered and everything else you run is free.
Send us a founder, take $250 off a workflow. Half of one, for anyone you refer who signs up. There's no cap on how many. How referrals work →
Incorporate a Delaware C-Corp for a one-time $19 → State filing fees and registered agent fees not included.
Founders Form AI reads every document your company has signed, answers questions from them, generates what you ask for, and refuses what your record can't support yet. It keeps your cap table and your obligations current from the executed documents, so nothing is maintained by hand. Seeing all of it is free.
charter.pdf
Certificate of Incorporation · 2.4 MB
Answers come from your charter, your grants, your SAFEs, and your contracts, checked against the law rather than a model's training data. Ask what you agreed to and the answer arrives instantly, with the paragraph to prove it.
Founders FormBoard Consent — Option Grant
Requires all 3 signatures
M. Lee
CEO
Mar 3, 2025
K. Reeves
Board Director
Mar 3, 2025
D. Park
Board Director
Founders Form AI won't draft an option grant until the plan is board-approved and the 409A valuation is current. If either is missing we do that first, then finish the job. The best thing we do is the mistake you never made.
Founders Form AI drafts it from your company's record, routes it for approval and e-signature, files the executed copy, and tracks every deadline the new paperwork creates.
Generating Grant Agreement for K. Reeves — 50,000 options at $2.80/share.
Who it's for
Founders Form AI is built for Delaware C-Corporations from the idea stage through a Series A, and is not built for companies outside the US or for litigation, immigration, or employment disputes.
Stage 01
Not incorporated yet. You need a Delaware C-Corp done properly the first time: charter, bylaws, founder equity, IP assignments, vesting.
Incorporate for $19.
Stage 02
Bootstrapping. Every essential you need and nothing you don't: your first hires, advisor grants, customer contracts, and the 83(b) nobody warned you about.
Start with a free health check.
Stage 03
Raising. SAFEs, notes, and priced rounds with every consent behind them run in order, and a data room that was ready before anyone asked.
$1,500 a round, priced rounds quoted.
Not for you if legal is a line item you don't have to think about. Or if you're outside the US, incorporated somewhere other than Delaware, or you need litigation, immigration, or an employment dispute. We'll say so rather than take the work.
The part nobody sees
Legal is the one part of building a company that gets no credit for going right. It stays invisible until the day it doesn't: a term sheet, or an investor's counsel asking for everything at once.
That's when other founders start reconstructing their company from a folder. Yours never came apart, and the preparation on your side of the table matches theirs.
The lawyers across the table notice. They always do.
Founders Form AI keeps running between matters, leaves the record in the founder's hands rather than the firm's, and can be licensed as software with no attorney engagement at all.
Routine work runs at software rates. Judgment calls get judgment.
Legal help usually starts when you send work and ends when it comes back. We don't stop. A closing 83(b) window is our problem whether or not you've ordered anything this month.
Where your company's history sits at a firm, leaving means asking for a folder. Here it's yours from the first upload. We work from it, and so can anyone you hire after us.
Generating Grant Agreement for K. Reeves — 50,000 options at $2.80/share.
No engagement, no matter opened, no attorney involved. Founders Form AI is a product you license and run yourself, and you order our attorneys only for the things that should carry a lawyer's name.
Answers to the questions founders actually search. If you have other questions, reach out to us anytime.
