Programmable legal infrastructure

Your legal department, built into your company.

Every company needs a legal department. Most startups can't afford one. LStack forms, operates, finances, governs, and protects your company through intelligent legal endpoints — and turns corporate legal work into software.

Built for venture-backed Delaware startups, incorporation through Series A.

The company stack, 2026

PaymentsStripe
BankingMercury
PayrollGusto
AccountingQuickBooks
EquityCarta
CodeGitHub
InfrastructureAWS
Legalno system of record

Every function in your company became software. Except legal.

Seven vendors run the company's money, code, and people — each with an API, an audit trail, and a source of truth. The eighth function still runs on email attachments.

Legal is the last system your company runs by hand.

Count the systems a two-year-old startup uses to answer one question about its own legal state.

01One provider to incorporate
02Another system for the cap table
03A law firm for financings
04Google Drive for corporate records
05DocuSign for signatures
06Templates for NDAs
07Another lawyer for employment questions
08Calendars for compliance deadlines
09Spreadsheets for contracts
10Email for board approvals
11ChatGPT whenever you don't know what to do
Nothing that knows the whole company

There is no persistent intelligence coordinating any of it. The result is expensive, reactive, and surprisingly manual — and founders often don't know a legal action was required until something goes wrong.

Startup legal work isn't an endless collection of unrelated questions. It's mostly repeatable corporate transactions.

Those are workflows. Workflows can become software. And once legal workflows become software, they can become endpoints.

AI General Counsel

Ask LStack. The answer becomes an action.

You don't need to know which endpoint to call. Tell LStack what you want your company to do — it figures out the legal workflow and runs it.

AI General CounselContext: 1,204 events · 61 documents

Maya Sandoval · CEO

We're bringing on a senior engineer in California — full-time, with options.

LStack

That's /hire-employee with an option grant. California employee, exempt classification. Four documents and one board approval. Here's the plan:

Workflow plan · 4 documents · 1 board approvalEst. 2 days to fully executed

Offer letter — exempt, at-will, California

Salary, exempt classification under the CA professional exemption, at-will language, and the wage notice California requires at hire.

Offer LetterNotice to Employee (Lab. Code §2810.5)

Confidentiality and IP assignment

Present assignment of inventions, with the Labor Code §2870 carve-out California requires. Signed before the start date, not after.

CIIAA

Option grant — 40,000 shares from the 2025 Plan

ISO, $0.19 strike per the 409A dated Dec 4, 2025, 4-year vest with a 1-year cliff. Pool has 887,500 shares available.

Notice of GrantStock Option Agreement

Board approval — required before the grant is valid

Option grants require board authorization. Unanimous written consent drafted and routed to 3 directors; the grant date is the date they sign.

Unanimous Written Consent

Escalated to counsel · human judgment required

The candidate is joining from a competitor and asked about their prior confidentiality agreement. Routed to Dana Whitfield (CA Bar #241886), with the offer package, the graph, and the two open questions attached.

Ask anything, or tell LStack what the company should doRun workflow
LStack plans the workflowOffer letter, confidentiality and IP assignment, option grant — and the board approval the grant requires.
Then executes itDocuments drafted, approvals routed, signatures collected, corporate records updated, new obligations tracked.
And escalates when it shouldAnything requiring human legal judgment goes to a licensed attorney — automatically.
Counsel Network · escalationOpen · 2 h

Dana Whitfield

Employment & equity · California Bar #241886 · in the Counsel Network since 2024

MATTERPrior confidentiality agreement, incoming senior engineer RECEIVEDOffer package, Legal Graph, 1,204-event history, AI analysis OPEN Qs2 — scope of prior obligations; §2870 carve-out wording FEE$450 flat, quoted before work started

When a lawyer does get involved, they don't start from a blank email thread. They receive the issue, the relevant documents, the corporate history, the AI analysis, and the open questions.

Lawyers become an escalation layer for judgment — not the interface every routine transaction has to pass through.

Health check

Already incorporated? Start with a health check.

Connect your existing legal documents. LStack reconstructs your Company Legal Graph, scores your legal readiness, and shows you exactly what needs attention — then fixes it.

Run your legal health check

What it reads

Certificate of incorporation Bylaws & board minutes Cap-table export SAFEs & notes Offer letters IP assignments EIN letter Franchise tax receipts A Drive folder nobody has opened since 2024

No forms to fill in. LStack reads what exists, then asks only for what it can't find.

Legal health check · Northwind Robotics, Inc.61 documents read · 4 min 12 s

READINESS SCORE

82% legally ready

Up from 61% at connect · 3 issues require attention

ENTITYGood standing, Delaware OWNERSHIP1 unreconciled instrument GOVERNANCEComplete through Feb 2026 IP1 assignment missing COMPLIANCE1 filing due in 21 days

Founder IP assignment missing

Priya Raghunathan's Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement was never executed. Work product from March 2024 onward is not assigned to the company. Investors will find this in diligence.

Critical

One SAFE isn't reflected in corporate records

The $400,000 Rivet Seed Fund II SAFE (Sep 9, 2025) is signed, but missing from the cap table and from the 2025 board minutes. Form D was never filed.

Needs attention

2026 Delaware annual report due soon

Annual report and franchise tax are due March 1, 2026. Filing is prepared; $450 estimated under the assumed par value capital method.

Due in 21 days
LStack can resolve all three: 1 agreement, 1 record reconciliation, 1 filing. Download report Fix everything

For developers

Everything a founder can do in LStack, software can do programmatically.

Same endpoints. Same approvals. Same audit trail. Called from your product instead of clicked in ours.

Read the API
node · lstack@2.4
await lstack.safe.execute({
  investor: "Alex Morgan",
  amount:   250_000,
  cap:      8_000_000
});
// → board authorization → documents
// → signatures → cap table → records filed

Architecture

Five layers. One system of record.

Each layer is useless alone and compounding together. The graph gives memory something to describe; memory gives intelligence something to reason over; intelligence gives endpoints their judgment; counsel catches what software shouldn't decide.

01Legal GraphA structured, always-current representation of your company and its legal state.
02Legal MemoryA persistent history of every corporate legal action, from formation onward.
03Legal IntelligenceAI that understands your documents, policies, transactions, and obligations.
04Legal EndpointsExecutable corporate legal workflows — from incorporation to closing a financing.
05Counsel NetworkLicensed attorneys providing jurisdiction-specific review and judgment when software reaches its boundary.

Together, they're the Legal Stack.

Every layer of the company became programmable. Legal is next.

Stripemade payments programmable
Twiliomade communications programmable
AWSmade computing programmable
LStackmakes corporate legal activity programmable

Today, startups manage legal work through attorneys, emails, documents, and disconnected software.

Tomorrow, legal actions become endpoints — always available, machine-readable, auditable, and intelligent.

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