Internal
Co-founder partnership agreement
Equity split, vesting schedule, decision authority, founder buyout terms. The document that prevents co-founder disputes from becoming company-ending events.
Pre-seed to early stage — the foundational contracts before your first hire, first investor, or first co-founder split. Free.
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The jobs to be done
The mistakes that kill early companies before they start. Each one has a clause that prevents it.
Equity split, vesting, decision rights, and what happens if one founder walks. Harder to have the conversation later — much harder after someone leaves.
Work done before incorporation legally belongs to the person who did it. IP assignment transfers it to the company before investors ask about it.
Mutual NDA before sharing deck, roadmap, or customer data with potential partners, vendors, or early investors.
Developers, designers, and agencies working on the product. Service agreement with IP assignment before a line of code is written.
IC agreement for the first hires who aren't employees yet. Proper classification reduces risk at the first payroll audit.
The founder stack
Before the first funding conversation. Before the first hire. Before the co-founder split.
Internal
Equity split, vesting schedule, decision authority, founder buyout terms. The document that prevents co-founder disputes from becoming company-ending events.
IP chain
Assigns all pre-formation work to the company. Required by most investors. Includes work done on nights and weekends before the entity was formed.
Confidentiality
For investor meetings, partner conversations, and any external parties who see the roadmap or customer data before a deal is signed.
Vendors & contractors
Contractor classification, IP assignment, and confidentiality for every external person building the product or supporting operations.
Employee onboarding
First employees need to sign confidentiality and IP assignment before day one. Forms the IP chain investors will audit at Series A.
Before / after
Build the product for six months on a handshake. Raise a pre-seed round. Investor's lawyer asks for the IP assignment. Discover the work was done before formation. Spend $3,000 cleaning up the chain. Almost lose the deal.
Before writing the first line of code, generate the co-founder agreement and IP assignment. Mutual NDA before the first investor pitch. IC agreement for the first contractor. Clean IP chain from day one.
Common deal types
Formation
Partnership agreement with vesting schedule and buyout terms. Set before anyone builds anything.
Pre-seed
IP assignment for all pre-formation work. Signed before the investor term sheet arrives.
Pitching
Mutual NDA before sharing unreleased product details, financials, or customer data with potential investors.
First team
IC agreement + IP assignment + NDA. The three-document package for every early contractor before they touch the codebase.
Vendors
Service agreements with vendors who access your data or systems. Data-handling and IP clauses matter more at this stage than founders expect.
The founder risk map
One founder leaves, taking equity and moral authority. Fix: vesting schedule + buyout clause in the co-founder agreement.
Pre-formation work belongs to the person, not the company. Fix: IP assignment signed before or immediately after incorporation.
Investor or partner uses your roadmap to build a competing product. Fix: mutual NDA before every material conversation.
Developer you hired keeps IP because you never got it in writing. Fix: IC agreement with IP assignment on every contractor.
Early "contractors" treated like employees. Fix: IC agreement with proper scope, rate, and independence language.
Your flow with BizDraft
Equity, vesting, authority. Before anyone builds anything.
IP assignment for all founders and early contractors. Closes the chain investors will audit.
Mutual NDA for each external conversation involving unreleased product or financials.
Three-document package before any external person touches the product.
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