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Employee Offer Letter & Equity Terms

Turn a hiring decision into a specific offer — equity, vesting, at-will terms, and IP assignment — for your first employee hire, not a contractor.

What you walk away with

A real document, built from everything you worked through — then critiqued the way a tough reviewer would and polished round by round. Plus a project summary that shows your work.

18 steps in the full journey.

The first 3 questions

This is where the conversation starts. Each answer shapes what gets asked next.

  1. 01Who are you hiring, and is this your first employee (versus contractors you've already worked with)?
  2. 02Have you already worked through a Hiring Brief for this role, or are we starting from the offer itself?
  3. 03What's your current cap table and option pool situation — do you know how much equity is actually available to offer?

+ 13 more questions across discovery, validation, and the creative brief — each one adapting to what you've already said.

Ready to work through it?

The first five questions of any project are free — no card required.

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