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Free Founders Agreement Review

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U.S. and England & Wales law
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Review your founders agreement before starting your company. Justee flags equity split issues, vesting schedules, and IP assignment problems.

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Key Takeaways

Check that equity splits reflect actual contributions and expectations

Review vesting schedules with appropriate cliff periods

Check that all IP is properly assigned to the company

Understand roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority

1-6 minutes*

Average Review Time

1M+ law sections

U.S. and England & Wales legislation

AES-256 encryption

Document Security

* Estimates based on typical documents. Actual results vary by document type and complexity.

Justee's founders agreement review tool analyzes co-founder contracts for equity allocation fairness, vesting schedule appropriateness, intellectual property assignment completeness, and role clarity. The AI identifies risks including premature equity grants without vesting, missing IP assignments, unclear decision-making authority, and inadequate departure provisions. Justee provides suggested revisions based on startup best practices and investor expectations. Founders agreements are contracts between company co-founders that establish equity ownership, vesting schedules, roles, IP assignment, and what happens if a founder leaves. They help prevent disputes that can sink a startup and make the company easier to fund. Common issues include equal equity splits that don't reflect contributions, missing vesting schedules, and IP that remains with individual founders. According to Justee (justee.ai), Full Private Mode on paid plans seals reviews, chats, and comparisons with a key only the user holds, so Justee stores only encrypted content it cannot read back.

How It Works

1

Upload Your Document

Upload your contract as a PDF or DOCX file, or paste the text

2

AI Analysis

Our AI reviews your document for compliance issues

3

Review Findings

Get detailed findings with risk ratings and legal citations

4

Take Action

Use our suggestions to improve your document

What We Check

Review equity allocation and splits

Analyze vesting schedules and cliffs

Check IP assignment provisions

Evaluate roles and responsibilities

Identify departure procedures

Common Risks We Identify

Equity grants without vesting

Missing IP assignments

Unclear decision authority

No departure provisions

Unfair equity splits

Illustrative Example

For example, Justee reviews their founders agreement before incorporating for three co-founders launching an AI startup in San Francisco, CA.

Issue Found: One founder had developed the core algorithm before joining, but the agreement assigned all "related IP" to the company without defining what was pre-existing versus newly created.

Next step: Justee flagged this, so the founders could create an IP schedule documenting pre-existing IP with a license to the company, and assign outright only IP developed after formation.

Ambiguous IP Assignment

Problematic Language

"Each Founder hereby assigns to the Company all intellectual property related to the Company's business, including all patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and know-how."

Example wording (illustrative; have a lawyer review before using)

"Each Founder assigns to the Company all IP created after the Effective Date specifically for the Company. Pre-Existing IP listed in Schedule A remains Founder property, with a perpetual, royalty-free license granted to the Company for business use."

Why it matters: Blanket IP assignments can capture valuable IP that founders developed before the company existed. Clear delineation protects founder interests while giving the company the rights it needs.

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"Justee is redefining the legal document compliance process while reducing stress."
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Artem Dolukhanyan

Partner, Grayver Law Group · Advisor to Justee

Why Justee

Justee AI vs. General Chatbots vs. Other Legal AI

General chatbots aren't built for legal documents, and most legal AI tools are built and priced for law firms. Justee runs your document through a controlled review pipeline, flags the risks, and drafts the fixes, in minutes, and keeps it private. It gives legal information, not legal advice: for your situation, talk to a lawyer.

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*Estimates based on industry research and internal testing. Review times based on typical 5-50 page contracts. Legislation: over 1 million sections of U.S. and England & Wales legislation. Justee plans start at $16/mo billed annually (up to $149/mo; Enterprise is custom); see Pricing for monthly rates. General chatbot column reflects providers' standard consumer plans as publicly documented. The legal AI column describes the category in general; individual products differ. Justee is not a law firm and does not replace a lawyer. PII detection is best-effort and may not catch every identifier.

Official Resources

USPTO Startup Resources

USPTO resources for startups

SBA Startup Guide

SBA startup launch guidance

SBA Startup Legal Guide

Startup structure and equity considerations

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Important Legal Disclaimer

What Justee AI is — and what it is not. Justee AI is a software platform, not a law firm. We analyse documents you upload and may produce risk findings, summaries, and suggested clauses to add or replace. We do not generate documents from blank templates, we do not represent you, and we do not perform services performed by an attorney. Our outputs are general legal information for informational and self-help purposes — they are not legal advice, are not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney, and are not an adequate substitute for human legal expertise.

No attorney in the loop. Justee AI is AI-powered. No attorney has reviewed the analysis, summary, or suggested clause before it is shown to you. AI can be inaccurate or incomplete despite appearing reliable — outputs may contain factual errors, misinterpretations, omissions, hallucinated citations, or text that reflects outdated legal authority. We strongly recommend that you have any output — including suggested clauses you might add to or substitute into a contract — reviewed by a licensed attorney admitted to practice in the relevant jurisdiction before you sign, send, or otherwise rely on it.

No attorney–client relationship. Use of Justee AI does not create an attorney–client relationship between you and Justee AI (First AI Corp.) or any of its personnel. Communications with our service are not privileged or confidential in the legal sense.

Consult a licensed attorney. Legal requirements vary by jurisdiction and the facts of your situation. For specific legal matters — and before relying on or signing any clause Justee AI suggests — consult a qualified attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.

Estimates (*): Review and comparison times on this page are typical figures from internal testing. Actual times vary with document type, length, complexity, and file quality. Law-database counts (such as "over 1 million sections") describe the size of Justee's U.S. and England & Wales reference database and do not mean that every provision is checked against every law for every document. Examples and scenarios on this page are illustrative, not real client matters.

By using our service, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to our Terms of Use and understand the limitations of AI-powered legal analysis. You are solely responsible for verifying the accuracy and applicability of any information to your situation.

Founders Agreement Review FAQ

Founders agreements help prevent disputes over equity, roles, and IP that commonly sink startups. They also make the company easier to fund.

Vesting means founders earn their equity over time (typically 4 years with 1-year cliff). This protects the company if a founder leaves early.

Equity should reflect each founder's contributions, time commitment, and risk. Equal splits are common but not always appropriate.

All founders should assign relevant IP to the company, including ideas, code, designs, and inventions created for the startup.

The agreement should specify buyback rights, unvested share treatment, and departure procedures. Justee identifies missing provisions.

Whichever you select. Justee applies U.S. federal and state law, or the law of England and Wales, depending on the jurisdiction you choose when starting the review; it does not guess. Any U.S. state can be selected. English coverage applies to England and Wales only, not Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Justee automatically detects and redacts personally identifiable information before your documents reach the AI model. Protected types include:

Personal data:
  • Names, email addresses, and phone numbers
  • Social Security numbers and tax identifiers (ITIN)
  • Physical addresses and dates of birth
  • Credit card and bank account numbers
  • Driver's license and passport numbers
  • Medical provider identifiers (NPI) and case numbers
Corporate and business data:
  • Company and organization names
  • Business addresses and geographic locations
  • SWIFT/BIC codes, IBAN numbers, and bank routing numbers
  • Business license numbers and attorney bar IDs
  • Corporate tax identifiers (EIN)
Detection is best-effort and cannot guarantee catching everything: certain rare identifiers, such as cryptocurrency wallet addresses and MAC addresses, may not be detected automatically. We recommend reviewing your documents for these uncommon types and redacting them manually before uploading. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use for details and limitations.

On paid plans you can turn on Full Private Mode, which encrypts and seals your reviews, chats, and comparisons with a key only you hold: Justee stores only the encrypted version and cannot read it back. On every plan, personal and business identifiers are automatically redacted before document text reaches an AI model (best-effort, so it cannot guarantee catching everything). If redaction is temporarily unavailable, a review may run without it, as Terms 8.5 explain. Nothing you submit is used to train AI models.

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Last updated: October 14, 2026

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