Clerky is a legal paperwork platform for startups. It incorporates companies in Delaware and handles later documents such as equity issuances, fundraising and hiring paperwork.
Clerky’s post-incorporation setup covers electing directors, appointing officers, adopting bylaws, issuing stock with vesting you can customize and protecting the company’s intellectual property. Its stock plan adoption product makes it simple to grant restricted stock or stock options to employees, consultants and advisors. For fundraising, a financing checklist shows which investors have yet to sign or send their money, and Clerky supports safes and convertible notes. Hiring paperwork includes offer letters, consulting agreements and advisor agreements.
Clerky says a Delaware C corporation is the standard for high-growth startups, and its software is built to make it easy to work with co-founders and attorneys. If you need to register in your home state, a step Clerky says you’ll often need before opening a bank account or running payroll, it handles California and New York directly and other states through partners. Maintenance products handle charter amendments such as name changes, and board consents to add or remove directors and officers.
Clerky isn’t a law firm and isn’t an attorney for its customers, though it says it is run by experienced startup attorneys. Founders who don’t yet have a startup attorney can ask Clerky, which says it will try to introduce them to one. You can reach Clerky’s support team by email, and Clerky also runs a Help Center.
Its products are aimed at startups and their founders. Current prices are in the pricing box above.