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Terms and conditions or a customer agreement, an NDA for early conversations, IP assignments from founders and contractors, and a data processing agreement if you handle customer personal data.

The IP assignments matter most and are missed most often. Investors check them, and a missing founder assignment is expensive to fix once someone has left.

Typically a term sheet, then a subscription agreement or investment agreement, a shareholders agreement, amended articles and a disclosure letter. Early rounds often use a convertible instrument instead of a priced round.

The term sheet is not usually binding on the commercial terms, but it sets the position everything else is drafted from, so it is worth more attention than its length suggests.

Yes. Work created by a contractor belongs to the contractor unless it has been assigned in writing, and the same applies to anything a founder built before the company existed. An IP assignment moves it to the company.

This is the first thing diligence checks and the hardest to fix retrospectively, because it depends on people who may no longer be involved.

Uncapped liability, broad indemnities, termination for convenience at short notice, IP grants wider than the service requires, and auto-renewal with unilateral price escalation.

A first enterprise customer often sends paper written for much larger suppliers. Accepting it whole can create obligations the business cannot meet at its current size.

Equity split and vesting, roles and decision making, what happens when a founder leaves, and ownership of anything created before incorporation. A founders agreement settles it while the relationship is good.

Vesting is the provision that matters most. Without it, a founder who leaves in year one keeps a stake the company then cannot offer to their replacement.

Yes. GenieAI scales with you from incorporation to Series E. Pre-seed and seed-stage startups use it for fundraising paperwork, customer contracts, and employment agreements without needing a full-time lawyer.

GenieAI offers a free tier for early-stage teams and discounted seat pricing for venture-backed startups. Talk to us about credits for portfolio companies of major VCs.

Yes. SAFEs, convertible notes, subscription agreements, shareholder agreements, side letters - GenieAI generates the full fundraising stack to current market terms for your stage and jurisdiction.