Form your company as one clean open act.
Delaware C-corp or LLC, an EIN, a registered agent — one flat fee, every government fee at exactly what the state charges, and no signature to wait on.
Forming a company is document assembly plus a ministerial filing. The market prices it as neither.
The founder in the middle can fill in four facts. What they cannot see is the boundary — which parts of forming a company are open to anyone, and which parts the law reserves for a licensed human — so every seller gets to draw that line wherever their margin wants it.
On the legal-cell substrate this brand rides, every activity of every matter type carries an explicit ratified row: which credential, which jurisdiction, reserved or open. Formation’s core rows are open:
de_formation_filing — credential none, reserved false. A Delaware certificate of incorporation or formation is an open act — the LegalZoom position — so the platform files directly. No Gig posts, no attorney waits in the loop, and there is no reserved layer for anyone to fake.sign and file on a formation — open. Executing and submitting the certificate carry no reserved judgment; they are the same open act.advise_entity_choice and advise_83b — reserved. C-corp or LLC? An 83(b) election? Those are utterance-class reserved acts requiring a state-bar credential in the client’s own state. They are real, they are valuable — and they are not this brand’s to sell.The live surface publishes this exact catalog in the open — form-delaware-entity · gate: none · reserved: false on the green rows, advise_entity_choice · requiresSigner: state-bar on the one amber row — backed by the substrate’s single ratified row de_formation_filing, credentialType none, reserved false, stated in the open on the same page, with the reserved act described and expressly not offered for sale.
Candour about the boundary itself: each catalog row is a platform-counsel position, not settled law. The open-act treatment of formation filing rests on the LegalZoom precedent and is stated as a position in the substrate’s own rules table; it ships opinion-backed, not deck-asserted.
The posted price on the live surface: $349, flat, per formation — assemble the certificate, file it with the state, obtain the EIN, name the registered agent for year one. Government and third-party fees are Pass-Through at exactly cost, itemized, never marked up.
| line | charged by | what you pay | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Formation act | incorporations.legal | $349 flat — the one fee | certificate + filing + EIN + agent named + formation documents assembled |
| Delaware filing fee | State of Delaware | exactly what the state charges | collected as agent for you, remitted in full |
| Registered agent, year one | third-party provider | the provider’s own fee, at cost | renewals billed by the provider directly — never a surprise line here |
| EIN | Internal Revenue Service | nothing | the IRS charges nothing, so there is nothing to pass through |
| Annual franchise tax / report | State of Delaware, recurring | the state’s cost, paid by you directly | never a platform fee — we watch the clock, you pay the state |
incorporations.legal
$349 flat — the one fee
certificate + filing + EIN + agent named + formation documents assembled
State of Delaware
exactly what the state charges
collected as agent for you, remitted in full
third-party provider
the provider’s own fee, at cost
renewals billed by the provider directly — never a surprise line here
Internal Revenue Service
nothing
the IRS charges nothing, so there is nothing to pass through
State of Delaware, recurring
the state’s cost, paid by you directly
never a platform fee — we watch the clock, you pay the state
Two structural promises the ledger encodes: no markup hides in a pass-through — what the state charges is what you pay; and our error is our fee — if a government charge is ever caused by our own mistake, we bear it. There is no per-hour billing, no percentage of anything, and no “review” line — because the one thing a review line would actually contain is the reserved advice on the next slide.
Which entity is right for you — C-corp or LLC, an S-election, an 83(b) filing — is legal advice: a reserved utterance-class act only a licensed attorney may speak, under a state-bar credential in your own state. Most of this market monetizes exactly that act by renaming it “review.” We refuse the rename. The advice is described honestly, priced at nothing here because it is not for sale here, and routed to an independent attorney instead.
The cell’s supply door serves: gigs.lawyer is live, recruiting licensed attorneys into the same substrate this brand rides. Serving is a liveness fact, not a tenancy claim — the door’s own deck states its formation and ethics gates plainly.
The routing itself is designed, not live: today the live surface describes the reserved advice and declines to sell it. Hand-off to an independent attorney through the cell posts as fact when the cell’s entity exists and the first advice engagement has actually routed — with the evidence here, not before.
An honest note on the 83(b): the election is not just advice — it mints a 30-day statutory deadline the moment stock is granted. That is exactly the class of clock this brand’s watch machinery exists for, and exactly why the advice about it belongs to a licensed human and not to a checkout flow.
The mills sell formation as an ending: certificate delivered, transaction closed. But the moment an entity forms, it starts owing the state an annual franchise tax and report — a recurring deadline most founders learn about from a late notice.
docketing.legal serves — the family’s deadline-ownership door is live. Serving is a liveness fact, not an integration claim; the hand-off is designed, and the wired path posts below.
The wired hand-off — a real formation minting a real recurring obligation, acknowledged and rolled forward by the watch owner — flips to posted on its first cold cycle, with the evidence URL, not before.
Here the formation mints the entity as a watched Asset: a perpetual record with a docket and a status history, carrying its annual obligation as a recurring watch from day one. The watch is not a bill — you pay the state directly, at cost — it is ownership of the deadline, handed to the family’s docketing door so the clock always has an owner and never falls into dead air.
This page is the consumer door: a founder, self-serve, in plain English, at a flat finished price — reached by exact-match intent, the task spelled as the domain name. The same open act is also a programmatic row on the substrate for builders embedding formation in their own products — but that caller is a different ICP with a different door, and it belongs to api.lawyer’s record, not this one. One open act, a human door and a machine door over it, cross-routed and never blurred.
The builder door serves: api.lawyer is live with its capability contract and key-request funnel.
No statutory floor on the open act: assembly and filing migrate all the way toward Code. The floor lives next door, in the cell, where the statute names a person — and that is where the reserved advice stays.
The family, each door serving today under its own name — serving is a liveness fact per door, never a tenancy claim:
patent.click serves — the sibling task Mint that proved this pattern: one high-intent task, a flat posted price, honesty about the reserved boundary as the moat.
filings.legal serves — the instrument door of the same .legal set.
The bridge, stated as intent: the domains registry files a formation stack in the .do estate — incorporate.do and companies.do, both planned, both P1 — where entity formation becomes a rail the studio’s own businesses and their agents call as routinely as compute. This brand is the consumer-door twin of that stack: the same open act, sold to a founder in plain English here, addressed by the estate’s machines there.
incorporate.do does not serve today — observed HTTP 500, 2026-07-30. The bridge is a registry filing and a design intent, and it is stated here as exactly that. It posts when the rail does.
incorporations.legal serves: the live apex carries the full preview build — the open-act framing, the $349 posted fee, the itemized pass-through ledger, the open/reserved catalog, the watched-Asset promise, and its own candour banner: “Preview build — the formation act is open; entity-choice advice is described, not sold.”
The claim that matters: no customer formation has run end-to-end. The live surface is a preview build and says so on the page — “nothing on this page is a live-service guarantee.” The flip to posted happens on the first cold formation, with the state’s acceptance in evidence, not before.
formations filed–·–posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves · watched entities–·–posts when stack#1 §A5 resolves — no figures are presentable until the numbers gate resolves; no volume is asserted anywhere in this deck.
If nothing changes: founders keep choosing between overpaying for a form and buying an upsell funnel — and either way, the entity’s annual clock belongs to nobody until the late notice arrives.
If it works: a company formed in one pass at the price on the page, and a watched entity whose deadline has an owner from day one.
The front door is incorporations.legal — it serves today.
If this was forwarded to you: incorporations.legal forms a Delaware C-corp or LLC as one flat-fee open act — government fees at exactly cost, no bundled “attorney review”, the one genuinely reserved act (which entity to choose) described honestly and routed to an independent attorney instead of sold in disguise — and every formation mints a watched entity whose annual deadline has an owner. Every claim above carries its own state and evidence, ambers included. If you are forming a company: incorporations.legal. If you know who is: forward this.