GC-as-a-Service
Startup legal support with attorneys available when it matters
Founders Form AI pairs AI-powered document review, legal Q&A, contract generation, and gap detection with attorney review for founders who need strategic advice, document-specific guidance, or a human legal perspective before making important company decisions.
Hybrid Legal Support
Use the platform for speed. Use attorneys for judgment.
Founders do not need expensive attorney review for every everyday question, but they also should not rely on automation when a decision requires legal judgment, negotiation strategy, or a human review of important documents.
Use the platform for
- Startup legal Q&A
- Document review
- Contract generation
- Legal gap detection
- Obligation tracking
- Diligence preparation
Use attorney review for
- Negotiation strategy
- Legal judgment
- Investor document review
- Complex equity questions
- Commercial contract risk
- Strategic company decisions
How GC-as-a-Service Works
A support path from document context to attorney review
The platform handles everyday startup legal work first, then helps founders escalate to attorney review when human judgment, negotiation strategy, or legal advice is needed.
01
Upload or ask
Ask a question or upload startup documents, contracts, financing records, equity materials, or diligence files.
02
Review the context
Founders Form AI reads documents, answers questions, surfaces issues, and identifies missing or risky items.
03
Generate the fix
Create contracts, approvals, consents, checklists, gap reports, or next steps based on the company's needs.
04
Escalate when needed
Bring in attorney review when a question requires legal judgment, strategy, negotiation, or a human legal perspective.
Human Touch Triggers
When should a founder bring in attorney review?
Some startup legal work is about speed, organization, and clear answers. Other work needs human judgment. GC-as-a-Service helps founders know the difference.
Negotiation
Unusual terms
Risk judgment
Cleanup plan
High-stakes moment
Use Cases By Stage
Legal support that changes as your startup grows
GC-as-a-Service gives founders a flexible support model from formation through fundraising, hiring, equity, diligence, and post-Series financing.
Pre-incorporation
Start with the right foundation
Ask what entity and documents are needed, understand Delaware C-corp formation, and generate formation documents.
Post-incorporation
Review what exists
Review founding records, ask what is missing, and generate missing approvals or agreements.
Pre-seed / Seed
Prepare for fundraising
Draft SAFEs and notes, review side letters, track MFN and pro rata rights, and prepare for investor diligence.
Hiring and equity
Support people and grants
Generate advisor, contractor, employee, and equity documents with attorney review when needed.
Post-Series Seed / Series A
Manage investor obligations
Ingest NVCA documents, review investor rights, track obligations, and support governance and diligence questions.
How This Compares
Not just a law firm. Not just an AI tool.
Founders Form AI gives startups a hybrid support model: software for speed, context, Q&A, and document generation; attorneys for judgment, strategy, and legal advice.
Traditional law firm
- Expensive for everyday questions
- Context often lives in emails
- Reactive review
- Documents scattered across systems
AI-only tools
- Fast but limited judgment
- No attorney review
- Limited negotiation support
- Can miss strategic context
Founders Form AI
- Platform context
- Q&A and document review
- Contract generation
- Attorney review when needed
Common Founder Questions
Get support for the questions that usually live between software and outside counsel
Founders often know they have a legal question, but do not know whether they need a template, a checklist, a contract, a document review, or an attorney. Founders Form AI helps route the work to the right level of support.
Fundraising
Equity
Contracts
Diligence
Connected Solutions
Attorney-backed support connects across the company record
GC-as-a-Service supports questions that arise across legal health, fundraising, equity, cap table review, diligence, contracts, and ongoing obligations.
Legal Health Check
Identify legal gaps, missing documents, risky items, and questions that may need attorney review.
Fundraising
Draft SAFEs and notes, review side letters, track investor obligations, and simulate priced rounds.
Solutions & Outcomes
Return to the parent hub for startup legal questions, document review, contracts, and founder outcomes.
FAQ
GC-as-a-Service questions
GC-as-a-Service combines platform support with attorney review when founders need strategic advice, document-specific guidance, or legal judgment.
What is GC-as-a-Service for startups?
GC-as-a-Service gives startups access to ongoing legal support without hiring a full-time general counsel. Founders Form AI combines platform-based Q&A, document review, contract generation, and gap detection with attorney review when human judgment is needed.
How does Founders Form AI combine AI and attorney review?
The platform helps founders ask questions, review documents, generate contracts, and identify issues. Attorney review can be added when the matter requires legal judgment, negotiation strategy, document-specific guidance, or strategic advice.
When should a founder use attorney review?
Attorney review is useful for investor negotiations, unusual contract terms, side letters, complex equity questions, commercial contract risk, governance decisions, diligence issues, or any situation where a founder needs legal judgment instead of only information.
Can I ask legal questions about my startup documents?
Yes. Founders can ask questions about uploaded startup documents, formation records, equity materials, SAFEs, notes, side letters, contracts, diligence files, and missing approvals.
Can Founders Form AI review contracts?
Yes. Founders Form AI can help review startup contracts, including commercial agreements, NDAs, advisor agreements, contractor agreements, employee documents, financing documents, and investor side letters.
Can Founders Form AI generate contracts?
Yes. Founders Form AI can help generate startup contracts, approvals, consents, fundraising documents, equity records, and other company documents based on the startup's needs.
Is this a replacement for a full-time general counsel?
For many early-stage startups, GC-as-a-Service can provide practical legal support before hiring a full-time general counsel. It is designed to combine platform efficiency with attorney review when needed.
Is this different from hiring a law firm?
Yes. A traditional law firm is often reactive and attorney-led from the start. Founders Form AI uses the platform for everyday questions, document review, contract generation, and issue spotting, then brings in attorney review when judgment or strategy is needed.
What does the Starter Tier include?
The Starter Tier is $149/month and includes a startup health check and Q&A, giving founders a practical way to ask questions, review documents, identify gaps, and understand when attorney review may be helpful.
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Founders Form AI · Starter
Start with legal Q&A, document review, and a health check.
Founders Form AI's Starter Tier is $149/month and includes a startup health check and Q&A. Use it to ask legal questions, review documents, identify gaps, and understand when attorney review or strategic legal advice may be helpful.
Starter is the AI assistant with document review and Q&A. Not legal advice.