Startup & Compliance Documents
Founder and shareholder agreements, ESOP policy, privacy policy and terms & conditions drafting (including a data processing agreement), and compliance guidance research — the documents a growing company needs to govern itself and stay compliant.
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- One free revision included if something needs changing.
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- Optional Multilingual Companion add-on: a plain-language native-script explainer alongside the English document. Rs. 500 for Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu), Rs. 1,500 for foreign languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Arabic).
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Startup & Compliance Documents
8 servicesFounder Agreement
What it is: An agreement between co-founders setting out equity split, roles, and responsibilities. Helps prevent disputes as the business grows.
What you get
- Sets out equity split, roles, and responsibilities in the exact terms your founding team has actually agreed to.
- Covers vesting, exit, and dispute scenarios — the situations that break founder relationships when they were never written down.
- Written to prevent the single most common startup dispute: unclear equity and role expectations, discovered only after the business has value.
- Anchored in your specific founding team and the commercial reality of your business.
- Comes with a plain-language summary so every founder signs understanding exactly the same terms.
Shareholder Agreement (SHA)
What it is: An agreement between a company's shareholders governing rights, exit terms, and decision-making. Protects each shareholder's interests.
What you get
- Governs shareholder rights, exit terms, and decision-making specific to your company's actual cap table and investors.
- Covers drag-along, tag-along, and reserved matters — the protections that matter once real money and multiple shareholders are involved.
- Written to protect minority and majority shareholders according to your actual negotiated terms, not a generic template split.
- Anchored in your specific shareholding structure and investment terms.
- Comes with a Brief on how this SHA interacts with your Articles of Association and other constitutional documents.
ESOP Policy
What it is: A formal policy setting out how employee stock options are granted, vested, and exercised. Provides a clear framework for equity-based compensation.
What you get
- Sets out how stock options are granted, vested, and exercised, built around your company's actual compensation strategy.
- Covers vesting schedules, cliff periods, and exercise windows in the specific structure you intend to offer.
- Written to be a genuine framework employees can rely on, not just a document that exists for compliance.
- Anchored in your company's stage and the equity pool you've actually allocated.
- Comes with a Brief on the tax and compliance implications of ESOPs for both company and employees.
Privacy Policy (Customer Drafting Service)
What it is: A published policy explaining how your website or app collects, uses, and protects user data. Drafted to reflect your actual data practices.
What you get
- Explains how your specific website or app actually collects, uses, and protects user data — not a generic policy copied from elsewhere.
- Built around your real data practices, since a privacy policy that doesn't match your actual practice is a compliance risk, not a shield.
- Written to meet current data protection law requirements applicable to your business.
- Anchored in your specific product, data flows, and third-party integrations.
- Comes with a Brief on what compliance gaps, if any, your current data practices might have.
Terms & Conditions (Customer Drafting Service)
What it is: The published terms governing use of your website, product, or service. Sets out user obligations, limitations, and your rights.
What you get
- Sets out user obligations, limitations, and your rights specific to your actual product or service.
- Built to protect your business — liability limitations, dispute resolution, termination rights — not just a formality page.
- Written to reflect how your platform or service actually operates, not a generic downloaded template.
- Anchored in your specific business model and user relationship.
- Comes with a Brief on the enforceability of key clauses under Indian consumer and contract law.
Privacy Policy + T&C Bundle
What it is: Both your Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions, drafted together for consistency. Covers data practices and terms of use in one package.
What you get
- Both documents drafted together so your data practices and usage terms are consistent with each other — a common gap when they're done separately.
- Built around your actual product, data flows, and business model in one coordinated package.
- Written to meet current legal requirements for both documents while reading as one coherent policy set.
- Anchored in your specific business, saving you the cost and inconsistency risk of ordering them apart.
- Comes with a combined Brief covering both documents' compliance implications.
Compliance Guidance Research
What it is: A research summary explaining the compliance requirements applicable to your business activity. Summarizes the relevant statutory obligations.
What you get
- A research summary of the specific statutory obligations that actually apply to your business activity, not a generic compliance checklist.
- Built around your actual sector, business model, and scale, since compliance obligations vary sharply by exactly these factors.
- Written in plain language so you understand what's actually required, not just cited.
- Delivered as a clear PDF you can act on or hand to whoever manages your compliance.
- Flags where professional follow-up (a CA, company secretary, or lawyer) is genuinely needed versus what you can action yourself.
Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
What it is: An agreement governing how a third party processes personal data on your behalf. Sets out obligations required under data protection law.
What you get
- Governs how your specific third-party processor handles personal data on your behalf, with obligations matched to your actual data flows.
- Covers security, sub-processing, and breach notification terms required under current data protection law.
- Written to protect your business's compliance position if your processor has an incident.
- Anchored in your specific vendor relationship and the data actually being processed.
- Comes with a Brief on what this agreement does and doesn't cover for your overall compliance posture.