Founder Agreement Brief

Everything left unsaid between founders is decided later, under pressure, by whoever holds the leverage — this decides it now, while it is free.

What it is

The four conversations founders postpone — who owns what, what happens when someone leaves, who decides, and how this ends — held in one sitting while the company is worth nothing and every clause is therefore free. Produces a term sheet carrying the reasoning behind each number, vesting and leaver terms, decision rights, money in and out, and the deadlock and exit mechanisms, all marked as intent and routed to counsel. For co-founders about to incorporate, and for teams trading on a handshake.

What you receive

the conversation founders keep postponing, written as a term sheet a lawyer can draft from — contributions, commitments and disclosures on the record, the split with its stated basis, vesting with its cliff and the leaver categories priced in advance, the IP assignment that must exist regardless of the split, decision rights split into solo and unanimous, money in and out, and the deadlock, transfer and exit provisions agreed while the room is friendly, marked as intent and routed to counsel

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “how to split equity between two founders fairly”
• “what happens to my cofounder's shares if he leaves after a year”
• “cofounder wants 50 50 but is not full time yet”
• “what to agree with my cofounder before we incorporate”
• “founder agreement term sheet to send to a lawyer”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.