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founder-agreement-drafting

A Claude skill: draft & review a founders'/co-founders' agreement — equity split, vesting + 83(b), IP assignment, leaver/buyback, deadlock. Jurisdiction-agnostic, Delaware-anchored. AGPL-3.0.

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README

synced Oct 23, 2026

founder-agreement-drafting

A Claude skill that turns the drafting and review of a founders' / co-founders' agreement into a repeatable method — the document (or set of terms) that fixes equity, vesting, IP ownership, roles, decision-making, deadlock, and departure between the people starting a company.

Jurisdiction-agnostic, anchored on the Delaware C-corp default, with the highest-dispute terms handled first-class — the equity split, reverse vesting and the 83(b) clock, present-tense IP assignment, leaver mechanics, and the deadlock clause most tools skip.

What it does

Runs in two modes.

DRAFT — five phases, fourteen steps, from intake to signature:

Phase	What you produce
1 — Intake & founder mapping	Founder-and-role map, entity/jurisdiction determination, contribution inventory
2 — Equity & vesting architecture	The split with a written rationale (not a fake calculator), the vesting schedule, the 83(b) flag, acceleration
3 — Core clause drafting	IP assignment, roles & deadlock, leaver & buyback, transfer/ROFR, and the supporting terms — into the right instrument
4 — Conflict & blocker triage	Desirable-vs-blocking, plus divergent-interest points routed to independent counsel
5 — Pre-signature finalisation	The "clean, investable cap table" diligence dry-run; open blockers closed as conditions

REVIEW — audit an existing agreement against an 18-clause checklist and a red-flag scan, and output a triaged gap report (Critical / Important / Optional).

The spine running through every step: vesting is the mechanism, not the split; document the rationale, not just the number; present-tense IP assignment or nothing; every share must have a home on departure; design the deadlock before it happens; draft the terms into the right instrument and make them expire cleanly.

Install

Drop the folder into your Claude skills directory:

git clone https://github.com/sboghossian/founder-agreement-drafting.git \
  ~/.claude/skills/founder-agreement-drafting

Then invoke it in Claude Code with /founder-agreement-drafting, or just describe a founder deal and it triggers on phrases like "draft a founders' agreement", "split equity between founders", "set up founder vesting", "founder IP assignment", "founder deadlock clause", "review this founders' agreement."

Files

SKILL.md — the executable workflow (the skill itself).
REFERENCE.md — the research backbone, with every clause, the case law (Stanford v. Roche), the equity-split data (Wasserman / NBER), the jurisdiction table (Delaware / LLC / UK / MENA), and primary-source citations.

Scope

This is a drafting method, not legal, tax, or financial advice. It tells you where each founder term must live and how it must behave — it does not certify that a term is enforceable in your jurisdiction, decide who "deserves" more equity, or recommend a tax election. It drafts for the venture as a whole, the way company counsel does: each founder should have independent counsel before signing. Jurisdiction-specific terms (non-compete enforceability, MENA onshore forfeiture, LLC profits-interest tax, the 83(b) decision) are flagged for local / tax counsel, not supplied. Prompts to a public AI tool are not privileged; work with abstracted placeholders.

Credit

Part of a series of open legal skills from HAQQ Legal AI, initiated with Abbas (Chief Legal Officer). The method here is synthesised from public best-practice sources — Y Combinator, Cooley GO, Clerky, Carta, Orrick, Wilson Sonsini, SeedLegals, Noam Wasserman / HBS, and named case law (all cited in REFERENCE.md). Packaged as a Claude skill by Stephane Boghossian (Head of Growth, HAQQ Legal AI).

License

AGPL-3.0. Anyone who builds this method into a hosted or distributed product must open-source the derivative.