Cofounder agreement
Work through ten agreement modules, mark each one configured, verify identity, and record your sign-off. Signing is a recorded click, not a legal e-signature.
On this page
The agreement builder is where you and your cofounders write down how you will work together: who owns what, how much time each person gives, how equity vests, and what happens if someone leaves. Open it from Agreement in the sidebar (/dashboard/agreement). The page has a module list on the left, the module you are editing in the middle, and a summary on the right.
The builder records your decisions inside FounderSync. It does not produce a legal contract. Have a lawyer turn your terms into a real document, and treat nothing here as legal advice.
The ten modules#
| Module | What you set |
|---|---|
| Roles & Responsibilities | An owner, an optional support person and a time share (steps of 5%) for nine domains: product, engineering, design, sales, marketing, fundraising, hiring, operations, finance. |
| Time Commitment | Weekly hours per founder (0 to 60, steps of 5), an availability type (full-time, part-time, evenings and weekends, transitioning to full-time) and dated planned changes. |
| Equity Split | A percentage per founder, plus the factors you weighed: idea origin, time commitment, capital invested, relevant experience, network and fundraising, salary tradeoff. |
| Vesting Schedule | Duration (3, 4 or 5 years), cliff (none, 12 months or a custom 0 to 24), monthly or quarterly vesting, and three acceleration triggers. |
| Salary & Compensation | Current monthly salary, deferred salary you want tracked, and future salary triggers tied to milestones. |
| Decision Rights | For five decision types, an owner, whether a vote is needed, and the threshold (majority, unanimous or owner decides). |
| IP Ownership | Whether pre-incorporation IP is assigned to the company, side projects you will keep, and prior inventions. |
| Exit Scenarios | Free text for voluntary departure, involuntary removal, a non-performance clause and equity buyback rules. |
| Conflict Resolution | Up to three steps: internal discussion (14 days by default), advisor mediation, formal arbitration with a jurisdiction. |
| Verify Identity | Each cofounder uploads an ID document. See below. |
Moving one founder's slider in Equity Split rescales the others in proportion, rounded to whole percentages.
How sections are completed#
Changes save on their own after about 1.5 seconds without typing. The first edit moves a module from "not started" to "in progress". A module only becomes configured when you click Mark as Configured at the bottom of it, and it stays configured after later edits.
Marking a module is your own declaration. The button does not check your inputs, so you can mark Equity Split configured while its total is not 100%. The summary panel flags problems instead: equity not adding up to 100%, domains with no owner, hours that do not match equity, and more than three unanimous decisions.
Completion is the number of configured modules divided by ten. Save & Continue saves and jumps to the next module that is not configured.
Verifying identity and signing#
Verify Identity is locked until the other nine modules are configured. Each cofounder chooses a passport, national ID or driver's license and uploads a JPG, PNG, WebP or PDF up to 10 MB. The file goes to private storage and each person can read only their own uploads. Nothing in the app inspects the document: the module counts as verified as soon as the upload succeeds.
Sign Agreement unlocks when every cofounder has uploaded an ID and completion is 100%. Clicking it saves your user, the time and your browser's user-agent string.
Signing is only a recorded click. There are no agreement versions, no PDF and no signature certificate, so it is not a legal e-signature. You are saving over the same record every time, and editing the agreement after you sign does not clear anyone's signature.
Not available yet#
Preview Agreement, Generate Legal Draft and Schedule Alignment Review show a "coming soon" message. Related pages: Agreement reviews explains the prompts that ask you to reread the agreement, and the cap table overview covers importing your agreed split.