Build the company on a legal foundation you understand and control.

The situation

Two founders have agreed to split the company evenly but have not decided vesting, roles, decision rights, departure consequences, or what happens at deadlock.

With Briefcase

Briefcase surfaces the decisions that belong in the founder agreement, explains why each matters, records the founders' choices, and prepares the agreement to review and sign.

The situation

A founder focuses on valuation while voting thresholds, protective provisions, board composition, drag-along rights, and information rights quietly reshape who controls the company.

With Briefcase

Briefcase connects each term to the decisions it controls, from voting thresholds to drag-along rights, and compares the proposed structure with what the founder said matters most.

The situation

Code, a domain, customer relationships, cash, and prior work enter the company informally.

With Briefcase

Briefcase inventories each contribution, names the ownership question it raises, and keeps the record.

The situation

Equity promises live in email, a spreadsheet, and unsigned grant paperwork.

With Briefcase

Briefcase reconciles promises with approvals and signed documents, and exposes the gaps.

The situation

A founder leaves while holding unvested equity, company access, confidential information, and disputed IP.

With Briefcase

Briefcase surfaces the agreements that govern the departure, coordinates what has to happen, and keeps the decision record.

The situation

A founder receives a short deadline and a term sheet where the economic terms and the control terms move together.

With Briefcase

Briefcase explains each term in context, shows how they interact, and prepares the questions or revisions.

The situation

The company maintains a diligence-ready record before outreach begins.

With Briefcase

Briefcase keeps the record organized, flags gaps, and opens investors only what is chosen.

The situation

An investor asks about revenue concentration, IP ownership, a material contract, or the forecast.

With Briefcase

Briefcase answers from the materials that investor may see, cites the source, and routes the rest to an owner.

The situation

Several investors review the company at once with different access, expiration, and follow-up needs.

With Briefcase

Briefcase keeps one company record, opens a scoped room per investor, tracks requests, and records what each party saw.

The situation

Financing documents, signatures, consents, conditions, and post-closing obligations cross founders, counsel, the board, and investors.

With Briefcase

Briefcase sequences the work, executes the final documents, preserves the exact versions, and moves every continuing obligation into the standing record.

The situation

The company needs an offer, confidentiality and invention assignment, equity documents, and policy acknowledgments that reflect the choices the founder makes.

With Briefcase

Briefcase explains the decisions, prepares the offer, assignment, equity documents, and acknowledgments, routes them for review, executes them, and keeps the completed record.

The situation

Contractors built critical parts of the product before anyone signed an assignment.

With Briefcase

Briefcase ties each contributor's work to its agreement, surfaces the gaps, and coordinates the fix.

The situation

Vesting, exercise, election, approval, and expiration dates sit scattered across plans and grants.

With Briefcase

Briefcase makes the full document set answerable and keeps every consequential date visible to the person who owns it.

The situation

A handbook rule, security policy, approval process, or leave procedure affects several functions.

With Briefcase

Briefcase makes the materials answerable, routes each question to the right policy and owner, and keeps the exceptions.

The situation

The company needs an NDA, contractor agreement, statement of work, referral agreement, or other routine contract.

With Briefcase

Briefcase gathers the business terms, explains the choices that matter, prepares the structure chosen, and supports review and signature.

The situation

A customer substitutes its own MSA with broader indemnity, security commitments, service levels, or ownership terms.

With Briefcase

Briefcase compares it against the company's own position and policies, explains every difference, and coordinates the negotiation.

The situation

Procurement signs terms that create work for security, finance, privacy, legal, and operations.

With Briefcase

Briefcase pulls each obligation into the record, assigns an owner, watches the dates, and keeps the clause attached.

The situation

An auto-renewal, termination window, price increase, or minimum commitment approaches.

With Briefcase

Briefcase surfaces the clause and the deadline, shows the paths, and prepares the notice or negotiation.

The situation

Sales materials, the order form, MSA, security exhibit, privacy terms, and implementation plan describe the same commitment differently.

With Briefcase

Briefcase reads them together, surfaces every inconsistency, names the owner of each, and preserves the approved position.

The situation

Directors need the packet, prior decisions, approvals, conflicts, and open work without access to the entire company workspace.

With Briefcase

Briefcase prepares the meeting, provisions access, answers questions from the authorized record, records the decisions, and carries the tasks forward.

The situation

Leadership, people, finance, legal, security, sales, and operations each hold part of the answer.

With Briefcase

Briefcase connects the governing materials in one permission-aware room, so leaders can ask what applies and assign it.

The situation

A security event, workplace complaint, customer escalation, regulatory inquiry, or business interruption activates several playbooks and agreements at once.

With Briefcase

Briefcase opens a controlled response room from the standing foundation, identifies the obligations that apply, preserves the evidence, assigns owners, and keeps the decision log.

The situation

Outside counsel, an accountant, a security advisor, or another specialist needs a defined slice of the issue.

With Briefcase

Briefcase invites the professional into a scoped room with the relevant record, and keeps the work in the company's foundation.

The situation

With a clean, answerable record, the company answers an acquisition, financing, audit, or strategic partnership without weeks of reconstruction.

With Briefcase

Briefcase maintains the standing record, surfaces the gaps as they appear, and opens the scoped external room the moment the opportunity arrives.

The situation

Customer, vendor, financing, lease, licensing, and equity documents each set their own consent and termination consequences.

With Briefcase

Briefcase reads them together, identifies every required consent and counterparty, and coordinates the closing plan.

The situation

Waterfalls, preferences, acceleration, option treatment, retention, and board approval interact.

With Briefcase

Briefcase makes the controlling documents understandable together and preserves each authorized decision.

The situation

The company must address employees, taxes, creditors, customers, vendors, data, assets, filings, and retained obligations in the correct sequence.

With Briefcase

Briefcase coordinates the work in sequence, prepares the communications and documents, preserves the approvals, and keeps the founders' personal exposure visible.