LegalZoom

LegalZoom is an online legal services provider aimed at small businesses and individuals. It covers entity formation, registered agent service, ongoing compliance filings, trademark applications, and personal documents like wills and trusts, with guided flows and access to attorney advice.

We list it in the Company Stack as the mainstream option for company formation and routine legal paperwork. The case for using something like it is narrow but real: incorporation and annual filings are high-consequence and entirely procedural, and a guided flow removes the chance of getting a form wrong in a way you only discover later.

Clerky is the option we would point a venture-track startup at instead — its documents are built specifically for the fundraising and equity paperwork investors expect, which is where generic formation services get thin. Doola and Firstbase target founders incorporating from outside the country, bundling the bank account and tax pieces that trip that group up. Stripe Atlas covers formation for internet businesses with the payment stack attached. A local corporate lawyer is still the right call for anything genuinely bespoke — the whole category is optimised for the standard case, and knowing whether yours is standard is the actual decision.