Some founders assume a plan means a company. The real question is narrower: which activity in your plan cannot be done without a legal entity of its own, and what happens if you wait. This page helps you separate the two.
A company is a tool for holding contracts, assets, liability and money in a name other than yours. If your plan does not need any of those four things yet, the case for a company is weaker than it feels. If it needs even one, such as signing with a corporate customer who will not deal with an individual, the case becomes concrete.
The assessment tests each part of the plan against those four functions and tells you which ones are real today and which are still hypothetical.
Same question, different answers. Which one is closest to you changes what the assessment concentrates on.
The client pays an individual contractor and nothing else is planned. An entity may add cost and filings without adding anything the client values, so waiting can be a sound answer.
Employees, inventory or intellectual property create liability and ownership questions that are awkward to carry personally. Here a company may be the cleaner container.
If a partner or investor will contribute funds, someone must hold those funds and the resulting rights. A vehicle is needed, though perhaps not the final one.
Signing contracts, receiving payments, employing people, holding assets, limiting personal exposure. Mark each as needed now, needed later or not needed.
Trading personally, using a partner entity or an entity you already own, or a simple agreement. Each is weighed for what it leaves exposed.
The events that would turn a maybe into a yes: a first employee, a large contract, an outside investor, a regulated activity.
Either a reasoned case for not forming yet, with the triggers to watch, or a short list of structures worth comparing.
This is business and structuring analysis, not legal, tax or investment advice. Where a legal or tax opinion is needed, we say so and point you to a licensed adviser.
Yes. If the assessment concludes the plan does not need an entity yet, it says so and lists what should trigger a rethink. It does not treat registration as the default outcome.
It points out where tax treatment differs between options and what to ask, but a tax conclusion needs a licensed adviser in the relevant country.
A plain description of the activity, who the customers are, where the owners live and how money will move.
No obligation. We read your request and reply with a straight answer.
Describe your plan and your constraints. We reply with what we would look at first.
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