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Startup Counsel: Free Corporate Governance Tools

21 interactive tools for founders, startup lawyers, and VPs of Legal. Run board diagnostics, check Delaware compliance, scan investor agreements, generate contracts, and audit your privacy posture — all from one hub.

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📋 Board & Governance

Good governance starts with the basics: a properly constituted board, documented quorum, clear approval thresholds, and a paper trail. These tools help you diagnose gaps in your board practices and generate the resolutions, notices, and approval matrices your company needs.

Board Health Check

15-question diagnostic scoring your governance posture across structure, documentation, and process.

Quorum Calculator

Determine quorum for board and stockholder votes under your bylaws and DGCL defaults.

Approval Matrix Builder

Map who must approve each corporate action: board, stockholders, preferred, or officer-level.

Board Resolution Drafter

Generate properly formatted board resolutions for common corporate actions.

Meeting Notice Generator

Create compliant board and stockholder meeting notices with proper timing and delivery.

🏦 Delaware & State Compliance

Most VC-backed startups incorporate in Delaware and qualify in California. That means two sets of filings, franchise taxes, statements of information, and registered agent requirements. These tools help you stay current and avoid late penalties.

Annual Report Checklist

State-by-state filing checklist with deadlines, fees, and penalty information for your entity.

Good Standing Checker

Verify your entity's good standing status and get direct links to state filing portals.

Registered Agent Evaluator

Compare 7 registered agent providers on cost, features, and fit for your stage and setup.

📈 Investor Rights & Cap Table

After a priced round, your obligations to investors multiply. Information rights, pro rata participation, protective provisions, and drag-along mechanics all need tracking. These tools decode your IRA and charter so you know exactly what you owe and when.

IRA Obligation Scanner

Scan 22 investor rights provisions and compare against NVCA standards. Know what you agreed to.

Protective Provisions Checker

Searchable database of corporate actions that require investor consent, with DGCL citations.

Information Rights Calendar

Generate a 12-month delivery schedule for financials, budgets, and cap table updates.

Pro Rata Calculator

Calculate each investor's pro rata allocation in a new round and model ownership dilution.

Drag-Along Analyzer

Map the drag-along process, threshold requirements, and minority shareholder protections.

👥 Employment & Contractors

Worker misclassification is one of the costliest mistakes a startup can make. California's ABC test and the IRS multi-factor analysis create real liability. This tool scores your contractor relationships and flags the factors most likely to trigger reclassification.

Contractor Risk Scorer

Score 13 IRS and state factors to assess misclassification risk with your contractors.

📝 Contracts & NDA

Every startup signs NDAs, vendor agreements, and SLAs. These tools help you generate clean NDAs, flag risky clauses in contracts you receive, and build SLA schedules with proper credit tables — without paying a lawyer for the first pass.

NDA Generator

Generate mutual or one-way NDAs with customizable scope, term, and jurisdiction.

Contract Clause Checker

Flag 13 categories of risky clauses across vendor, SaaS, employment, and service contracts.

SLA Builder

Build uptime commitments, service credit tables, support response times, and escalation policies.

🔒 Privacy & Compliance

CCPA, GDPR, and evolving state laws mean every startup handling user data needs a compliance baseline. These tools generate compliance calendars, audit your privacy policy, map your data flows, and estimate what outside counsel will cost by stage.

Compliance Calendar

All legal, tax, and regulatory deadlines for DE + CA entities in one filterable timeline.

Audit 26 privacy requirements across CCPA, GDPR, cookies, and children's data rules.

Data Mapping Tool

Inventory 18 data types, map collection points, and generate a risk-scored data map.

Legal Budget Estimator

Estimate outside counsel costs by funding stage, with category-level breakdowns and visuals.

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