Aegis is your startup's legal department.
Stop wasting precious founder time juggling Clerky, Carta, ChatGPT, Docusign and panic emails to expensive lawyers. Aegis brings it all together for less cash.
Aegis Start: $349/month | $3,839/year(save 8%)
Upgrade to Aegis Raise or add Aegis Deal for B2B contracting when your business is ready
You think you're saving lawyer money cobbling together:
Clerky
Needs a lawyer to tell you HOW to fill the forms or WHY it matters
$799 lifetime
Carta
More complicated than the space shuttle to output a spreadsheet you built anyway
$3,000+/year
ChatGPT
To tell you whatever you want to hear, even when it's horribly wrong
$200 + ???
Common Paper
Generates over-simplified templates big customers will make BLEED
Free
BigLaw
BigLaw
Congrats! Cleaning up your "free" sh*t made their bill even bigger!
$800-2,000/hour
$15,000–50,000/year in lawyer time, plus subscription fees, plus mistakes you don't find out about until later.
and get a better version of all of them.
The reality:
The time your lawyer spends just getting access to your tools and getting oriented often costs more than a year of Aegis.
And that's BEFORE they find the mistakes you didn't know you made.
Aegis is the whole stack. Processes, not templates. Verified, not hallucinated. Lawyer-in-the-loop, not DIY.
Real client conversation reproduced with permission.
Ready to get the right answers to your legal questions?
PROCESS MATTERS
Aegis' legal processes construct documents unique to the scenario;a template is a form of document built for someone else.
(This is what you pay lawyers to clean up - if they know how.)
Document Generators fill TEMPLATES (Clerky, Stripe Atlas, etc.)
- •
Trash in, trash out
- •
Founders do all the signing and filing work
- •
You have no idea what you're signing
- •
You have no idea what other documents need to exist first
- •
You have no idea how to execute next steps like option exercises
- •
You have no idea whether what you just signed was legal
- •
You can't intelligently negotiate it on your own
Founders make costly mistakes without realizing it.
Aegis Processes RUN OPERATIONS
- ✓
Right document for your situation
- ✓
Guided completion with context-aware questions
- ✓
Timing and sequencing built in
- ✓
Cross-checks against your existing legal file
- ✓
Board consent automation where needed
- ✓
Cap table updated automatically
- ✓
Human attorney review ready for anything custom
Founders can't accidentally skip critical steps.
Everything you need to stop worrying about legal.
(And stop overpaying.)
Real client conversation reproduced with permission.
Ready to get the right answers to your legal questions?
UNLIMITED GUIDANCE INCLUDED, PAID WORK AS NEEDED
Aegis gives you a top-tier legal team - saving YOU
money, time, and anxiety.
INFORMATION — Free for everyone
- ✓
"What does it take to get a trademark? How much is the filing fee?"
- ✓
"What kind of tax lawyer can answer my questions about QSBS?"
- ✓
"What's the difference between a corporation and an LLC?"
- ✓
"I just got this demand letter. What kind of lawyer should I hire?"
- ✓
"I think someone is infringing my patent - what can I do about it?"
Find the right lawyer for your needs, hire them, and manage them. No retainer subscription required.
GUIDANCE — Included in your subscription
- ✓
"Help me issue stock to my new cofounder, we have plenty"
- ✓
"Hire an employee with an option grant and standard vesting schedule"
- ✓
"Help me take a SAFE Investment"
- ✓
"What is my cap table, really? And what should be on it?"
- ✓
"Is this Term sheet market?"
- ✓
"What are our options for removing a cofounder?"
Unlimited guidance included in your subscription. Top-tier attorneys + AI that knows your company.
WORK — Pay as needed (way less than BigLaw)
- $
"Review this contract and tell me: sign, walk, or negotiate?"
~$400-700/hr
- $
"Make me the optimal form of customer agreement"
~$400-700/hr OR INCLUDED in Aegis Deal
- $
"We never set up an option plan. Can you help us adopt one?"
~$500 flat fee
- $
"Draft Terms of Service for my product"
~$800-2,000 (vs $8,000-20,000 BigLaw)
- $
"I made a mistake with our initial stock issuance - can you help me fix it?"
$600-750/hr
Biglaw-trained attorneys available when you need them — at 70–95% less than their old firms charge.
Human-in-the-loop means hallucination-proof.
HOW IT WORKS
Upload your mess. We'll make it investor-ready.
400 duplicate documents? Half-signed contracts? Misfiled SAFEs? Our AI + legal logic sorts, validates, and organizes everything—like a diligence attorney, but in minutes. Human-in-the-loop means hallucination-proof.
- 1
UPLOAD
Drag in everything you think MIGHT be legal. (Or just email it to gc@story.law)
- 2
ANALYZE
Aegis checks what's legally effective, like whether the necessary parties signed
- 3
DEDUPE
Everything gets deduplicated and the signature pages get combined.
- 4
ORGANIZE
Files are renamed, categorized, diligence-ready, shareable.
- 5
VERIFY
Biglaw-trained attorney reviews anything flagged as unusual. No hallucinations, ever.
BigLaw will bill you 8-25 hours at $800-2,000/hr for data room organization - and that's after you took more time than that organizing it for yourself
Aegis: Included. Savings: $5,000+
CAP TABLE
Aegis builds your cap table based on legally-effective documents.
It's no longer the founder's job to go update two different terminations in Carta and keep them in sync. Aegis does what you'll otherwise pay a lawyer to do at investment time.
- ✓
Who owns what
- ✓
Vesting schedules
- ✓
Conversion terms
- ✓
Exercise history
Click any row to see the source document. Export lawyer-ready Excel for diligence.
Why is this better than Carta?
Carta tracks what you tell it. Aegis verifies what your documents actually say. With cap table software, you still pay lawyers $5,000-10,000 to verify accuracy. With Aegis, the verification is built in.
Issue equity without a lawyer bill
Issue equity without a lawyer bill
Grant stock options, restricted stock, or advisor shares. Aegis handles the board consent, the agreements, the vesting schedules, the common terms, the file checks, and the timing. You just click to sign.
BigLaw: $3,000-5,000 per grant batch
Aegis: Included. Savings: $3,000+
Hire and fire compliantly
Hire and fire compliantly
Offer letters, employment agreements, IP assignment, contractor agreements, worker classification controls—state-specific and ready to sign - at the right moment in time.
Firing includes: Notice email, severance agreement drafting, option notices.
BigLaw: $1,500-4,000 per hire, $3,500-10,000 per termination
Aegis: Included. Savings: $1,000+ per hire, $3,000+ per complex termination
Customer & vendor contracts
Customer & vendor contracts
NDAs, consulting agreements, vendor contracts. Standard forms designed by biglaw-trained attorneys, customized to your company and the deal, ready in minutes.
Need custom enterprise agreements with redline support? → Add Aegis Deal
LAWYER-IN-THE-LOOP
“I'll just ask ChatGPT.”
Here's why that's a $1,000+ mistake.
ChatGPT (and other AI)
- ✗
Doesn't know YOUR business context
- ✗
You don't know what question to ask
- ✗
Gives the answer you want, not the answer you need
- ✗
Legal reasoning requires process, not just logic
- ✗
No way to verify if it's hallucinating
- ✗
"Should I sign this?" is the WRONG question
Common failure:
You ask: “Is this contract okay?”
ChatGPT says: “Yes, the terms look standard.”
Reality: Standard—for the other party. You're signing away rights you don't even know you have.
Aegis
- ✓
AI + humans who know YOUR company
- ✓
We know what questions to ask YOU
- ✓
Biglaw-trained lawyers verify everything AI outputs
- ✓
Processes designed by specialists, not general AI
- ✓
Human-in-the-loop = hallucination-proof
- ✓
We'll tell you the RIGHT question: "Sign, walk, or negotiate?"
How Aegis handles it:
You ask: “Is this contract okay?”
Aegis: “What's your leverage? Who's the counterparty? Here's what I'd push back on—and here's when to walk away.”
SPECIALTY MATTERS
You wouldn't let your dermatologist do heart surgery — so why is your commercial lawyer handling stock issuances?
Most fractional GCs specialize in one area and guess at the rest. Aegis matches every question to the right specialist.
Enterprise AI
An Enterprise AI commercial contracting specialist with decades of privacy and security training designed our enterprise AI processes.
Venture Capital Financings
A seasoned venture capital lawyer who has done hundreds of high-end financings and exits designed our cap table logic and corporate governance processes.
Employment Specialists
State-licensed employment lawyers build state-specific employment processes and respond to employee disputes.
Litigation Specialists
For disputes, Aegis consults with litigators who know the state, judge, and court - not just the subject matter of the claim.
Commercial Contracting
When you're making a deal, we find the lawyer who does healthcare deals all day, or the one who does fintech deals all day, or the one who does SaaS deals all day.
Product Counsel
A privacy specialist advises on data protection, a fintech specialist advises on banking compliance, and an insurance specialist advises on Insurance tech.
We have thousands of specialists. Aegis learns from all of them in their specific area of specialization.
(We even filed a patent on this process.)
Healthtech contracts
Fintech contracts
Product counsel
Cybersecurity
Web contracts
Enterprise AI contracts
Manufacturing contracts
Distribution contracts
Collaboration agreements
Benefits & Compensation
M & A
Asset sales
Partnerships
Debt financing
Patent prosecution
Trademarks
Shareholder litigation
Insurance coverage
Vendor agreement
Customer agreements
License agreements
Production agreements
Venture funding
Tax law
IP litigation
Immigration
Privacy law
Restructuring
Commercial contracts
Corporate finance
Mediation
Fund formation
Trademarks
Healthcare
Legal research
Family law
Founders who stopped overpaying.
“We spend less to get more, and do things correctly and compliantly in real time. Running my company with the confidence that we are optimized on legal is priceless.”
Robyn Exton
Founder & CEO, Her App
“When any type of lawyer needs to be involved, Story LLP should be the first email and phone call that any founder makes.”
Dillon Zhang Forrest
CEO, Steady Capital
“Using lawyers who understand AI and the AI they create to scale our AI business is game-changing.”
Javi Palafox
Co-founder, happyrobot
“Working with Story LLP helped me understand my legal needs... and new legal strategies I wasn't aware of before.”
Jenn Limm
Co-founder, Delivering Happiness
The math is simple.
Add what you need, when you need it.
Aegis Start
Get equity, IP, governance, and commercial legal basics right so you get the best bang for your legal bucks in the long run.
$320
/month
$3,839/year
Save $349/year
7-day free trial
- ✓
Private data room - share with investors and lawyers in bulk only
- ✓
Basic cap table (summary of equities and stakeholders, common stock and convertible investment only—no preferred stock)
- ✓
Basic data room (founder can view and email a link to the whole data room)
- ✓
Equity issuance (stock, options, SAFEs)
- ✓
Hiring and firing
- ✓
Compliant legal processes
- ✓
Unlimited "lawyer wisdom" questions (expert legal knowledge)
- ✓
Unlimited matter management and specialist sourcing
- ✓
3 Admin seats included
- ✓
Unlimited Assistant seats (free)
Pre-VC Startups getting their legal house in order
Aegis Raise
Everything in Start, plus: Automate diligence-prep work, analyze term sheets, and get Series A-ready or exit-ready.
$833
/month
$9,999/year
Save $1,989/year
7-day free trial
- ✓
Everything in Aegis Start, plus:
- ✓
Growth cap table (pro formas, preferred stock series, waterfall analysis)
- ✓
Growth data room (granular document group sharing permissions for investor invitees, revoke access)
- ✓
Diligence management and checklist automation
- ✓
Term sheet analysis
- ✓
Pro forma investment or exit modeling
Startups preparing for or managing institutional investment rounds and preferred stock financings, or approaching an exit
Aegis Deal
Add-onAegis Deal
Add-onAutomate Enterprise customer contracting and get tools to make expert human lawyers more efficient and lower billable hours.
Add to either plan — b2b startups with significant enterprise/commercial contracting needs
+
$833
/mo
Save $1,989/year
Not sure which plan? Compare all plans
FAQ
Q: What if I already have a lawyer?
Aegis makes ANY lawyer less expensive. It organizes and focuses the right information in the right way. Keep your BigLaw firm—you'll just spend less on them.
Q: What if I already paid for Clerky/Carta?
Cancel before you renew. Grab any 409A you can before the subscription ends, and start using Aegis to run the right process rather than spending on lawyers' bills to clean up Carta. It feels like a sunk cost - but you're not done spending.
Export your documents from Carta (Settings → Export → All Documents) or Pulley. Upload to Aegis. We'll build a diligence-ready data room in 24-48 hours.
Carta: Full guide
Pulley: Log in, click Company in the left sidebar, click Data Room under Company, then click Download All.
Q: Is this actually hallucination-proof?
Yes. Human-in-the-loop means world-class attorneys verify anything AI does. We have a policy page on this: /policies.
Q: What's the difference between Admin, Signatory, and Assistant seats?
Admin (3 included, then $99/seat): Full access, can incur & pay bills, add users, trigger automations, ask lawyer wisdom
Authorized Signatory ($99/seat): Can execute documents, ask lawyer wisdom—routes to Admin for billing
Assistant (free unlimited): Can upload docs, prepare contracts—routes to Admin or Signatory for signing
Q: Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. No long-term commitment required.
Learn more
Stop Cobbling Together Your Legal Stack
Biglaw-caliber legal work, not biglaw-caliber invoices. Try Aegis free for 7 days.
*Account required