Founder Agreement Drafting — Development skill for Claude Code

founder-agreement-drafting

A [Claude](https://claude.com/claude-code) **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