Processes/startup — validating the idea and forming the founding teamstartup

Founder agreement & equity split — startup processFounder agreement & equity split

moderatepartially automatable🔁 once⏳ has async waits

Put the founding team on paper: agree the split and vesting, generate founder agreements with IP assignment, sign, record on the cap table, and file 83(b) elections in time.

Document generation, signature routing, and cap table entry are automatable. The equity conversation itself and the IRS 83(b) filing stay human.

Current agent ceiling

An agent can run 1 of 5 steps — 1 of them behind a human approval gate ⏸

⚡ Closable with today’s market (4 — via Cap Table & Equity, Startup Legal & Incorporation, Browser Automation for Agents): Agree the equity split and vesting (draft the issuance on a cap-table platform’s API — the board still approves); Generate founder agreements and IP assignment (route the signature through an e-sign API instead of paper); Record splits on the cap table (draft the issuance on a cap-table platform’s API — the board still approves); File 83(b) elections with the IRS (computer-use candidate — a browser agent can drive this deterministic web flow)

How it runs

Route-coded block flow: emerald = agent, amber = manual form/portal, red = needs a human. ⏸ approval gate · ⏳ async wait.

01Agree the equity split and vesting

human

⚡ agentic workaround: draft the issuance on a cap-table platform’s API — the board still approves — Carta, top of Cap Table & Equity →

02Generate founder agreements and IP assignment

manual form

Clerky37 ↗

via:

Clerky37 ↗Stripe Atlas32 ↗

or:Ironclad37·Docusign37

⚡ agentic workaround: route the signature through an e-sign API instead of paper — Clerky, top of Startup Legal & Incorporation →

03Route agreements for e-signature

agent

Docusign37 ↗⏸ approval gate

or:Clerky37·Ironclad37

1 API call

POST /v2.1/accounts/{accountId}/envelopes

04Record splits on the cap table

manual form

via:

Fidelity Private Shares0full arena →

⚡ agentic workaround: draft the issuance on a cap-table platform’s API — the board still approves — Carta, top of Cap Table & Equity →

05File 83(b) elections with the IRS

manual form

IRS⏳ asynchigh riskdo it yourself: IRS Form 15620 (83(b) election) ↗

⚡ agentic workaround: computer-use candidate — a browser agent can drive this deterministic web flow — Steel, top of Browser Automation for Agents → · assisted, not autonomous — a human supervises; verify the portal’s terms allow automation

Context the agent needs first: founder names and split (from the founder)