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Find out what your company is missing before someone else does

Every tool here is free, works without an account, and shows its results in full. They are built for Canadian rules rather than adapted from Delaware, which is where most of the guidance founders find online quietly goes wrong.

10 questions, about 3 minutes

Startup Legal Readiness Score

Ten questions about how your company is put together. Get a score, a breakdown by area, and the documents you are missing.

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More on the way

The tools below are next. Each one answers a question founders ask us often enough that it should not need a phone call.

In development

Contractor or employee?

Employee vs contractor in Ontario

Answer questions about how the working relationship actually runs, and see where it lands against the CRA and ESA tests.

SAFE dilution calculator

SAFEs and convertible notes in Canada

Model what a stack of SAFEs at different caps actually does to your ownership at the priced round.

Canada or Delaware?

The real cost of the Delaware flip

Put a number on what a US incorporation costs a Canadian team in forfeited SR&ED and capital gains treatment.

Termination clause checker

Waksdale, plainly

Paste the termination language from an employment agreement and see whether it survives Waksdale.

Privacy obligations checker

PIPEDA, Law 25, and CASL for founders

Work out which of PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25, and CASL apply to what you actually collect and send.

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