Business Formation

Founders' Package

The contracts you need with your co-founders — and that almost no early-stage team has properly. Generate a base services contract or a surgical addendum to an existing one, plus the vesting / IP / NDA / side-letter scaffolding around it.

What this package solves

Most co-founder teams operate on a handshake until a dispute, an exit event, or an outside investor surfaces the lack of formal agreements. By then the conflicting expectations are already entrenched — vesting clocks weren't started, IP wasn't assigned, equity ratios were never papered, the departing founder still owns 33% of the company.

Founders' Package generates the four-to-five-document scaffold that turns 'we agreed on X' into enforceable instruments. It is mode-aware: if you already have a services contract in place (with your accountant, your law firm, or a co-founder you're bringing in mid-flight), it produces a surgical Addendum that modifies only the relevant articles instead of replacing the whole agreement.

Three tiers

All tiers include four-year vesting baked in by default. Upgrade for the full scaffolding around it.

Quick

Free (sign-in required)

1 document

Just the services contract (base or addendum). The minimum to formalize what was previously verbal.

Includes
  • Services contract (full) OR Addendum (surgical)
  • 4-year vesting baked in (1-year cliff)
  • Standard IP assignment clause
  • Markdown download

Standard

From US$99 one-time

3 documents

Adds a stand-alone vesting agreement and a mutual NDA. The right tier when there's real money or strategic value at stake.

Includes
  • Everything in Quick
  • Stand-alone vesting agreement (more enforceable than embedded clauses)
  • Mutual confidentiality + non-circumvention NDA

Complete

From US$199 one-time

5 documents

The full founder scaffold. Adds IP assignment (separate from the services contract), and a side letter capturing handshake expectations that don't fit the main agreements.

Includes
  • Everything in Standard
  • Separate IP-assignment agreement (covers pre-existing IP + future work product)
  • Founder side letter (good-leaver/bad-leaver, drag-along, ROFR, no-shop)

Two modes, depending on your situation

If you already have a services contract in place, Founders' Package will MODIFY it instead of REPLACING it. This is the difference between paperwork that helps and paperwork that creates a fight.

Base mode — new agreement

No existing contract between the parties. The generator produces a comprehensive services agreement from scratch, with 4-year vesting + IP assignment + confidentiality + standard exits baked in. Use this when the relationship is forming now.

Addendum mode — modify existing

There's an existing services contract you want to preserve (it has tax-treatment specifics, third-party references, or relationship history). The generator produces an Addendum that modifies only the relevant articles — typically scope (1.II), compensation/vesting (5.II/III), and IP/termination (7) — leaving the original instrument otherwise intact.

The five documents

Every document is a draft for review by licensed counsel. Each ships with explicit citations to the Civil Code, the Labor Code, and the applicable IP framework.

1

Services Contract (base) OR Addendum

Defines the relationship: scope of services, compensation, deliverables, term, termination triggers, and vesting schedule. Base mode produces a full agreement; Addendum mode produces a surgical modification.

2

Vesting Agreement

Stand-alone four-year vesting schedule with one-year cliff, monthly accrual after, acceleration triggers (good leaver, change of control), and clawback for IP violations. More enforceable than vesting embedded inside a services contract.

3

IP Assignment

Covers pre-existing IP (excluded except as listed in an annex), work-product IP (assigned to the company), and post-termination obligations. Civil-law jurisdiction-aware — different mechanics than US-style assignments.

4

Mutual NDA

Mutual confidentiality + non-circumvention. Three-year survival after termination, narrow definition of confidential information (no automatic catch-all), and standard injunctive-relief provision.

5

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Legal frameworks anchored in the output

Every document is anchored in the jurisdictional reality of where the founders operate — by default, Dominican Republic civil law.

  • Código Civil Arts. 1101–1369 — Contract validity, consent, object, cause, novation (relevant in Addendum mode)
  • Código Civil Arts. 1150–1226 — Liability framework, cláusula penal, dolo / culpa grave exclusions
  • Código de Trabajo Arts. 25–50, 75–95 — When co-founders are technically employees, applicable labor-law floor; Principio de Primacía de la Realidad
  • Ley 87-01 SDSS — TSS implications when founders take compensation
  • Ley 65-00 + Acuerdo TRIPS — Intellectual property: copyright, software, trade secrets
  • Ley 16-95 — Foreign investment + cross-border founder structures
  • Convención de Nueva York 1958 — Arbitration clauses (when chosen)

Ready to formalize your founder arrangements?

Sign in to start free with the Quick tier (services contract or addendum). Upgrade in-flow to Standard or Complete to add the vesting / IP / NDA / side-letter scaffolding.

Launch Founders' Package

Drafts are technical work product for review by licensed counsel. Founders' Package is calibrated for Dominican civil-law jurisdictions; cross-border or foreign-law variants should be reviewed by counsel in the target jurisdiction.

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