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Aegis is your startup's legal department.

Stop wasting precious founder time juggling Clerky, Carta, ChatGPT, Docusign and panic emails to expensive lawyers. Aegis brings it all together for less cash.

$349/month(or $320/month billed annually — save 8%)

Upgrade to Aegis Raise or add Aegis Deal for B2B contracting when your business is ready

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You think you're saving lawyer money cobbling together:

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    Clerky

    Needs a lawyer to tell you HOW to fill the forms or WHY it matters

    $799 lifetime

  • Carta logo

    Carta

    More complicated than the space shuttle to output a spreadsheet you built anyway

    $3,000+/year

  • ChatGPT logo

    ChatGPT

    To tell you whatever you want to hear, even when it's horribly wrong

    $200 + ???

  • Common Paper logo

    Common Paper

    Generates over-simplified templates big customers will make BLEED

    Free + lawyer bills on redlines

  • BigLaw

    BigLaw

    Congrats! Cleaning up your "free" sh*t made their bill even bigger!

    $800-2,000/hour

$15,000–50,000/year in lawyer time, plus subscription fees, plus mistakes you don't find out about until later.

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Or you could just use Aegis — and get a better version of all of them.

The reality:

The time your lawyer spends just getting access to your tools and getting oriented often costs more than a year of Aegis.

And that's BEFORE they find the mistakes you didn't know you made.

Aegis is the whole stack. Processes, not templates. Verified, not hallucinated. Lawyer-in-the-loop, not DIY.

User

User

I had a quick question for you. I'm looking to add myself as an officer (Secretary) to XLR8 AI. I'm leasing a business vehicle with the company but can't sign off on it since I'm not an officer. Currently, my cofounder is both CEO/President and Secretary. The dealership needs to see my name on the CA Secretary of State website. Do you know the process for this? I'd imagine a board resolution followed by filing some form with the CA Secretary of State?

7:58 PM

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Aegis

PROCESS MATTERS

Aegis' legal processes construct documents unique to the scenario;a template is a form of document built for someone else.

(This is what you pay lawyers to clean up - if they know how.)

Document Generators fill TEMPLATES (Clerky, Stripe Atlas, etc.)

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    Trash in, trash out

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    Founders do all the signing and filing work

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    You have no idea what you're signing

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    You have no idea what other documents need to exist first

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    You have no idea how to execute next steps like option exercises

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    You have no idea whether what you just signed was legal

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    You can't intelligently negotiate it on your own

Founders make costly mistakes without realizing it.

Aegis Processes RUN OPERATIONS

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    Right document for your situation

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    Guided completion with context-aware questions

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    Timing and sequencing built in

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    Cross-checks against your existing legal file

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    Board consent automation where needed

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    Cap table updated automatically

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    Human attorney review ready for anything custom

Founders can't accidentally skip critical steps.

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Everything you need to stop worrying about legal. (And stop overpaying.)

UNLIMITED GUIDANCE INCLUDED, PAID WORK AS NEEDED

Aegis gives you a top-tier legal team - saving YOU money, time, and anxiety.

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INFORMATION — Free for everyone

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    "What does it take to get a trademark? How much is the filing fee?"

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    "What kind of tax lawyer can answer my questions about QSBS?"

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    "What's the difference between a corporation and an LLC?"

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    "I just got this demand letter. What kind of lawyer should I hire?"

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    "I think someone is infringing my patent - what can I do about it?"

Find the right lawyer for your needs, hire them, and manage them. No retainer subscription required.

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GUIDANCE — with monthly retainer

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    "Help me issue stock to my new cofounder, we have plenty"

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    "Hire an employee with an option grant and standard vesting schedule"

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    "Help me take a SAFE Investment"

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    "What is my cap table, really? And what should be on it?"

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    "Is this Term sheet market?"

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    "What are our options for removing a cofounder?"

Unlimited guidance included in your subscription. Top-tier attorneys + AI that knows your company.

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WORK — Pay as needed (way less than BigLaw)

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    "Review this contract and tell me: sign, walk, or negotiate?"

    ~$400-700/hr

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    "Make me the optimal form of customer agreement"

    ~$400-700/hr OR INCLUDED in Aegis Deal

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    "We never set up an option plan. Can you help us adopt one?"

    ~$500 flat fee

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    "Draft Terms of Service for my product"

    ~$800-2,000 (vs $8,000-20,000 BigLaw)

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    "I made a mistake with our initial stock issuance - can you help me fix it?"

    $600-750/hr

Biglaw-trained attorneys available when you need them — at 70–95% less than their old firms charge. Human-in-the-loop means hallucination-proof.

HOW IT WORKS

Upload your mess. We'll keep it deal-ready.

400 duplicate documents? Half-signed contracts? Misfiled SAFEs? Our AI + legal logic sorts, validates, and organizes everything—like a diligence attorney, but in minutes. Human-in-the-loop means hallucination-proof.

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    UPLOAD

    Drag in everything you think MIGHT be legal. (Or just email it to gc@story.law)

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    ANALYZE

    Aegis checks what's legally effective, like whether the necessary parties signed

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    DEDUPE

    Everything gets deduplicated and the signature pages get combined.

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    ORGANIZE

    Files are renamed, categorized, diligence-ready, shareable.

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    VERIFY

    Biglaw-trained attorney reviews anything flagged as unusual. No hallucinations, ever.

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BigLaw will bill you 8-25 hours at $800-2,000/hr for data room organization - and that's after you took more time than that organizing it for yourself

Aegis: Included. Savings: $5,000+

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CAP TABLE

Aegis builds your cap table based on legally-effective documents.

It's no longer the founder's job to go update two different terminations in Carta and keep them in sync. Aegis does what you'll otherwise pay a lawyer to do at investment time.

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    Who owns what

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    Vesting schedules

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    Conversion terms

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    Exercise history

Click any row to see the source document. Export lawyer-ready Excel for diligence.

Why is this better than Carta?

Carta tracks what you tell it. Aegis verifies what your documents actually say. With cap table software, you still pay lawyers $5,000-10,000 to verify accuracy. With Aegis, the verification is built in.

How cap tables work

Issue equity without a lawyer bill

Grant stock options, restricted stock, or advisor shares. Aegis handles the board consent, the agreements, the vesting schedules, the common terms, the file checks, and the timing. You just click to sign.

  • BigLaw: $3,000-5,000 per grant batch

  • Aegis: Included. Savings: $3,000+

Hire and fire compliantly

Offer letters, employment agreements, IP assignment, contractor agreements, worker classification controls—state-specific and ready to sign - at the right moment in time.

Firing includes: Notice email, severance agreement drafting, option notices.

  • BigLaw: $1,500-4,000 per hire, $3,500-10,000 per termination

  • Aegis: Included. Savings: $1,000+ per hire, $3,000+ per complex termination

Customer & vendor contracts

NDAs, consulting agreements, vendor contracts. Standard forms designed by biglaw-trained attorneys, customized to your company and the deal, ready in minutes.

Need custom enterprise agreements with redline support? → Model a deal with an expert

LAWYER-IN-THE-LOOP

“I'll just ask ChatGPT.”

Here's why that's a $1,000+ mistake.

ChatGPT (and other AI)

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    Doesn't know YOUR business context

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    You don't know what question to ask

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    Gives the answer you want, not the answer you need

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    Legal reasoning requires process, not just logic

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    No way to verify if it's hallucinating

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    "Should I sign this?" is the WRONG question

Common failure:

You ask: “Is this contract okay?” ChatGPT says: “Yes, the terms look standard.” Reality: Standard—for the other party. You're signing away rights you don't even know you have.

Aegis

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    AI + humans who know YOUR company

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    We know what questions to ask YOU

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    Biglaw-trained lawyers verify everything AI outputs

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    Processes designed by specialists, not general AI

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    Human-in-the-loop = hallucination-proof

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    We'll tell you the RIGHT question: "Sign, walk, or negotiate?"

How Aegis handles it:

You ask: “Is this contract okay?” Aegis: “What's your leverage? Who's the counterparty? Here's what I'd push back on—and here's when to walk away.”

SPECIALTY MATTERS

You wouldn't let your dermatologist do heart surgery — so why is your commercial lawyer handling stock issuances?

Most fractional GCs specialize in one area and guess at the rest. Aegis matches every question to the right specialist.

Enterprise AI

An Enterprise AI commercial contracting specialist with decades of privacy and security training designed our enterprise AI processes.

Venture Capital Financings

A seasoned venture capital lawyer who has done hundreds of high-end financings and exits designed our cap table logic and corporate governance processes.

Employment Specialists

State-licensed employment lawyers build state-specific employment processes and respond to employee disputes.

Litigation Specialists

For disputes, Aegis consults with litigators who know the state, judge, and court - not just the subject matter of the claim.

Commercial Contracting

When you're making a deal, we find the lawyer who does healthcare deals all day, or the one who does fintech deals all day, or the one who does SaaS deals all day.

Product Counsel

A privacy specialist advises on data protection, a fintech specialist advises on banking compliance, and an insurance specialist advises on Insurance tech.

Enterprise AI

An Enterprise AI commercial contracting specialist with decades of privacy and security training designed our enterprise AI processes.

Venture Capital Financings

A seasoned venture capital lawyer who has done hundreds of high-end financings and exits designed our cap table logic and corporate governance processes.

Employment Specialists

State-licensed employment lawyers build state-specific employment processes and respond to employee disputes.

Litigation Specialists

For disputes, Aegis consults with litigators who know the state, judge, and court - not just the subject matter of the claim.

Commercial Contracting

When you're making a deal, we find the lawyer who does healthcare deals all day, or the one who does fintech deals all day, or the one who does SaaS deals all day.

Product Counsel

A privacy specialist advises on data protection, a fintech specialist advises on banking compliance, and an insurance specialist advises on Insurance tech.

We have thousands of specialists. Aegis learns from all of them in their specific area of specialization.

(We even filed a patent on this process.)

70+ law firmsNationwide specialist coverageAll 50 statesHundreds of clients served

Healthtech contracts

Fintech contracts

Product counsel

Cybersecurity

Web contracts

Enterprise AI contracts

Manufacturing contracts

Distribution contracts

Collaboration agreements

Benefits & Compensation

M & A

Asset sales

Healthtech contracts

Fintech contracts

Product counsel

Cybersecurity

Web contracts

Enterprise AI contracts

Manufacturing contracts

Distribution contracts

Collaboration agreements

Benefits & Compensation

M & A

Asset sales

Partnerships

Debt financing

Patent prosecution

Trademarks

Shareholder litigation

Insurance coverage

Vendor agreement

Customer agreements

License agreements

Production agreements

Venture funding

Tax law

Partnerships

Debt financing

Patent prosecution

Trademarks

Shareholder litigation

Insurance coverage

Vendor agreement

Customer agreements

License agreements

Production agreements

Venture funding

Tax law

IP litigation

Immigration

Privacy law

Restructuring

Commercial contracts

Corporate finance

Mediation

Fund formation

Trademarks

Healthcare

Legal research

Family law

IP litigation

Immigration

Privacy law

Restructuring

Commercial contracts

Corporate finance

Mediation

Fund formation

Trademarks

Healthcare

Legal research

Family law

Founders who stopped overpaying.

Robyn Exton

“We spend less to get more, and do things correctly and compliantly in real time. Running my company with the confidence that we are optimized on legal is priceless.”

Robyn Exton

Founder & CEO, Her App

Dillon Zhang Forrest

“When any type of lawyer needs to be involved, Story LLP should be the first email and phone call that any founder makes.”

Dillon Zhang Forrest

CEO, Steady Capital

Javi Palafox

“Using lawyers who understand AI and the AI they create to scale our AI business is game-changing.”

Javi Palafox

Co-founder, happyrobot

Jenn Limm

“Working with Story LLP helped me understand my legal needs... and new legal strategies I wasn't aware of before.”

Jenn Limm

Co-founder, Delivering Happiness

Robyn Exton

“We spend less to get more, and do things correctly and compliantly in real time. Running my company with the confidence that we are optimized on legal is priceless.”

Robyn Exton

Founder & CEO, Her App

Dillon Zhang Forrest

“When any type of lawyer needs to be involved, Story LLP should be the first email and phone call that any founder makes.”

Dillon Zhang Forrest

CEO, Steady Capital

Javi Palafox

“Using lawyers who understand AI and the AI they create to scale our AI business is game-changing.”

Javi Palafox

Co-founder, happyrobot

Jenn Limm

“Working with Story LLP helped me understand my legal needs... and new legal strategies I wasn't aware of before.”

Jenn Limm

Co-founder, Delivering Happiness

The math is simple.

Add what you need, when you need it.

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Aegis Start

Aegis Start

Get equity, IP, governance, and commercial legal basics right so you get the best bang for your legal bucks in the long run.

$320

/month

Billed annually — $3,839/year

You save $349/year (8%)

7-day free trial

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    Legal Vault

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    Customer Agreement

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    People Processes

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    Matter Management

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    Unlimited Customers/Vendors

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    Unlimited Owners

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    Governance Processes

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    Angel Investment Processes

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    Basic Automated Diligence

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    Smart Data Room

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    Data Room Lawyer Review

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    Cap Table

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    Cap Table Lawyer Review

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    E-Signature

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    Lawyer Scoping

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    Lawyer Seats

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    Agent & MCP Access

Growth Startups expecting to raise funds or exit looking to optimize their legal setup

Aegis Raise

Aegis Raise

Automate all the software you pay lawyers to help you use, automate all the lawyer's diligence-prep work, and get Series A-ready.

$833

/month

Billed annually — $9,999/year

You save $1,989/year (17%)

7-day free trial

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    Everything in Aegis Start, plus:

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    Growth cap table (pro formas, preferred stock series, waterfall analysis)

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    Growth data room (granular document group sharing permissions for investor invitees, revoke access)

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    Diligence management and checklist automation

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    Term sheet analysis

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    Pro forma investment or exit modeling

Startups preparing for or managing priced round equity investment or exit

Aegis Deal

Aegis Deal

Add-on

Aegis Deal

Add-on

Maximize the throughput on deals with enterprise customers using collaboration tools with lawyersand lower billable hours.

Add to either plan — b2b startups with significant enterprise/commercial contracting needs

✓Aegis Deal✓Custom Customer Agreement

$833

/mo

Save $1,989/year

Model a deal with an expert

FAQ

Q: What if I already have a lawyer?

Aegis makes ANY lawyer less expensive. It organizes and focuses the right information in the right way. Keep your BigLaw firm—you'll just spend less on them.

Q: What if I already paid for Clerky/Carta?

Cancel before you renew. Grab any 409A you can before the subscription ends, and start using Aegis to run the right process rather than spending on lawyers' bills to clean up Carta. It feels like a sunk cost - but you're not done spending.

Export your documents from Carta (Settings → Export → All Documents) or Pulley. Upload to Aegis. We'll build a diligence-ready data room in 24-48 hours.

Carta: Full guide

Pulley: Log in, click Company in the left sidebar, click Data Room under Company, then click Download All. Pulley is shutting down, with all operations ending December 8, 2026—export soon rather than waiting on their Carta transition process. Pulley: Full guide

Pulley Data Room page showing Company and Data Room highlighted in the left sidebar, and the Download All button in the main content area

Q: Is this actually hallucination-proof?

Yes. Human-in-the-loop means world-class attorneys verify anything AI does. We have a policy page on this: Policies.

Q: What's the difference between Admin, Signatory, and Assistant seats?

  • Admin (3 included, then $99/seat): Full access, can incur & pay bills, add users, trigger automations, use Lawyer Scoping

  • Authorized Signatory ($99/seat): Can execute documents, use Lawyer Scoping—routes to Admin for billing

  • Assistant (free unlimited): Can upload docs, prepare contracts—routes to Admin or Signatory for signing

Q: Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. No long-term commitment required. If you cancel within 7 days of purchase, we refund your payment.

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