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The pre-seed founder stack.
Clean IP from day one.

Co-founder partnership · IP assignment · mutual NDA · vendor agreements · employee NDA. The documents investors will look for — generated before they ask. Free.

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Five documents. The IP chain investors actually audit.

Each document in the stack closes a gap that surfaces during due diligence. Together they create the clean IP chain early-stage investors require.

Document 1

Co-founder partnership agreement

Equity split, vesting schedule, decision authority, founder buyout terms, and IP contribution. The internal document that prevents co-founder disputes from killing the company.

Document 2

IP assignment agreement

Assigns all pre-formation work to the company. Covers code, designs, research, and ideas created before incorporation. Required by investors and acquirers.

Document 3

Mutual NDA

For investor meetings, partner conversations, and vendor discussions. Protects unreleased product details, financials, and customer data shared during pitches.

Document 4

Vendor / contractor agreements

Service agreement with IP assignment and confidentiality for every developer, designer, or agency building the product. IP flows from contractor to company.

Document 5

Employee NDA + IP assignment

Signed by every employee on or before day one. Confidentiality and IP assignment form the chain investors check at Series A.

Three reasons this stack matters before the first investor meeting.

Due diligence will find the gaps

Pre-seed and seed investors audit IP ownership. If the chain is broken — pre-formation work not assigned, contractors without IP agreements — the deal slows or dies. The stack closes those gaps before anyone asks.

Co-founder problems are existential

Most early companies that fail cite co-founder conflict. A co-founder agreement with vesting and buyout terms doesn't prevent disagreement — it prevents disagreement from destroying the company.

Every contractor builds the product

Without an IP assignment, the developer who built your MVP may own it. The vendor agreement with IP assignment closes this before a line of code is written.

Four ordered steps. Formation to investor-ready.

1

At formation

Co-founder agreement and IP assignment. Before anyone writes a line of code or designs a logo.

2

Before pitching

Mutual NDA before every investor meeting, partner conversation, or advisor discussion involving unreleased product or financials.

3

Before every contractor

Vendor agreement with IP assignment before any external person touches the product. Non-negotiable.

4

Before every hire

Employee NDA and IP assignment on day one of every employment relationship.

Three steps. Stack to investor-ready IP chain.

Generate the co-founder agreement first

Equity split, vesting, and IP contribution. The internal document that defines the relationship before any external money enters.

IP assignment for everyone who builds

Generate the IP assignment for founders, then a version for each contractor. Five minutes per document. The chain is closed before investors look.

NDA before every external conversation

Mutual NDA generated in minutes and sent before each investor or partner meeting. Protects the pitch without slowing it down.

Build the IP chain before investors ask for it.
The documents that make diligence clean.

Free. Every document. From formation to fundraise.

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