Get the people who left off your cap table.
Countersign clears departed co-founders, paper grants, idle advisors and unwanted angels off your cap table — documents, payment, signatures and ledger — in under a week, for a flat fee.
The co-founder who stopped showing up in month five. The first engineer with a paper grant and no vesting. The advisor who advised twice. The angel your next lead would rather not meet.
Ada Osei
Founder
4,250,000
42.5%46.7%48.3%49.4%50.0%
Rui Tanaka
Founder
3,400,000
34.0%37.4%38.6%39.5%40.0%
Option pool
Reserved
850,000
8.5%9.3%9.7%9.9%10.0%
M. Brandt
Co-founder, left month 5
900,000
9.0%cleared9.0%
Harbor Line SPV
Angel, wants out
300,000
3.0%cleared3.0%
J. Whitlow
Advisor, never advised
200,000
2.0%cleared2.0%
P. Ndiaye
Paper grant, unvested
100,000
1.0%cleared1.0%
- $350
- Flat fee, from
- < 1 week
- Most cleanups close
- $0
- Held by us, ever
- 6
- Situations covered
Where it is
You started it
04 Sep · 09:12
They agreed to terms
05 Sep · 16:40
Both signed
06 Sep · 11:03
Buyback paid
07 Sep · 08:22 · Ref CS-0117
Board sign-off
2 of 3 consents in
Cap table updated
The position
Paperwork
The second set only unlocks once the release is signed and the money has landed. Your board never sees a half-finished deal.
Partners
The platforms your cap table already lives on.
Each is a negotiated relationship, not a switch we can flip — so each one says where it actually stands. None is a prerequisite: a cleanup runs from a CSV export on day one.
Cap table, stakeholders, securities
API documented · building on their sandbox
Syndicates, RUVs and LP records
Partner programme
SPV interest transfers
Partner programme
Cap tables beyond Carta
Partner programme
Payment matching, read-only
Open API
Payment matching over OAuth
Open API
Signature bundles in the browser
Open source
Works with where founders and angels already keep the paper
● Open API ● Partner program ● Tracked, no API
Four steps, in order, every time.
Nothing moves forward until the step before it is actually done. When your lead's lawyer asks how this was handled, you send the log instead of telling the story.
01 · What they hold
Pull the grant, the vesting math, the 83(b), the side letter someone emailed in 2023. We tell you what's actually on the table before you open the conversation.
02 · The paper
Buyback, forfeiture, advisor termination, SAFE assignment — the bundle is chosen by the situation, filled from your cap table, and signed in the browser.
03 · The money
Pay from your own account, however you like. We watch for the reference and the amount, and wait for both sides to confirm. We never hold a dollar.
04 · The record
Board consent collected, ledger updated, everything time-stamped in one export you can drop straight into the data room.
Pick your situation
Not every one of these costs you money.
Half of these need no payment and no negotiation — just the right document and a board consent. Pick one to see what it takes.
The steps
- You start itOpen
- They acknowledgeOpen
- Requirements metGated
- Documents signedGated
- Money confirmedBoth sides
- Board signs offGated
- Cap table updatedDone
The heaviest one. Everything else is a lighter version of these steps.
What it takes
Board consent + payment
- What they actually ownFirst
Grant, vesting schedule as of their last day, 83(b), and any handshake in an old email thread.
- Unvested shares forfeitedAuto
Repurchased at cost under the restricted stock agreement — usually the cheap part.
- Buyback + release of claimsSign
The release is the point. Without it you have paid for shares and kept the dispute.
- Price paid and confirmedMoney
Your bank, your transfer, our reference number. Both sides confirm before anything advances.
- Board consent and ledgerClose
Written consent collected, cap table updated, everything time-stamped.
Funds & angels · by request
Sometimes it's the founder who has to come off.
A co-founder departure you're managing from the board seat, a recap, a stalled company where the paper never got done. Same machinery, run from your side, with your counsel's forms.
Portfolio dashboards, cleanup history across your companies, and structured cap-table records are part of the fund program. Priced separately, never shown to the companies.
For founders, angels & syndicate leads
Every integration, and exactly how far it goes.
Positions from AngelList, Carta and Sydecar; money matched from Mercury, Brex or Plaid; signatures, filings and sanctions screening in the same log. A spreadsheet works on day one — every integration is an accelerant, never a prerequisite.
Cap tables & SPVs
Where your angels' positions actually live. Ledger works standalone from CSV; each of these is an accelerant, never a prerequisite.
- Partner program
AngelList
Syndicate and RUV positions, LP records
- Partner program
Carta
Company cap tables and grant history
- Partner program
Sydecar
SPV LP interest transfers, incl. investor-led
- Partner program
Pulley
Cap table sync for early-stage companies
- Partner program
LTSE Equity
Cap table and grant records
- Open API
CSV import
Any spreadsheet cap table, day one
The money
We watch for the reference and the amount. Read-only, bank to bank. We never hold a dollar.
- Open API
Mercury
Transactions and webhooks for payment matching
- Open API
Brex
Transactions via OAuth and webhooks
- Open API
Plaid
Any other bank, for the same matching
Signatures
The bundle is chosen by the situation and signed in the browser.
- Open API
DocuSeal
Open-source e-signature, self-hosted
- Open API
Dropbox Sign
E-signature for counsel who prefer it
- Open API
Anvil
PDF fill and signature in one call
Filings & the record
Seed the ledger on onboarding and keep the deadlines honest.
- Open API
SEC EDGAR
Form D history; Form D/A via EDGAR Next
- Open API
OpenCorporates
Entity status across state registries
- No API · tracked
Delaware ICIS
Name search only; status is a paid lookup
- No API · tracked
NASAA EFD
Blue-sky notice calendar and fee table
Who's receiving money
Anyone taking a buyback or a transfer is screened before funds move.
- Open API
OFAC SDN
US sanctions list
- Open API
OpenSanctions
Global sanctions and PEP lists
- Open API
Middesk
Entity checks for trusts and holdcos
The engine underneath
Every holder is resolved and screened on the record before paper or money moves.
Integrations in build · partner programs by arrangement
What we don't do.
Being narrow is the point. Everything outside this belongs to you, your lawyer, or your bank.
We don't hold your money
Payment goes bank to bank. We match the reference and record that it cleared.
We don't find buyers
No listings, no marketplace. Usually the company is the buyer, and you already know the other side.
We don't set the price
You use your last 409A or whatever you and the board agree. We record it, we don't opine.
We're not your lawyer
Standard forms your counsel can review once and reuse. Bring your own if you'd rather.
Flat fee. Cheaper than the email chain.
For reference, the same cleanup at a startup firm runs $4k–$12k and three weeks of your attention.
No money changes hands
$350
Unvested forfeiture, advisor wind-down, an expired grant nobody cancelled. Document, consent, ledger.
Start this cleanup→Buyout or transfer
$1,250
Everything above plus terms, release of claims, payment matching, and the buyer side if the shares move to someone new.
Start this cleanup→Pre-round sweep
$3,500
Every loose holder cleared before the round, run in parallel, one export for the data room. Fund partners get a portfolio rate.
Start this cleanup→Early pricing · first twenty companies
Questions founders ask first.
Do I still need a lawyer?+
For standard cases, no: the forms are standard and your counsel can review them once and reuse them. If your situation needs a lawyer, we'll tell you that up front rather than sell you a cleanup.
What if the person won't respond?+
“Nobody can reach them” is one of the six situations. We run the notice steps your documents require and record every attempt, so the file shows you did it properly.
Does this work if we're on Carta or AngelList?+
Yes. Start from a CSV export today; direct connections are in build. The ledger never depends on a platform, so a partner program never blocks your cleanup.
Who touches the money?+
Nobody but you. Payment goes from your bank to theirs; we match the reference and amount and wait for both sides to confirm.
Start with the one that's been bothering you.
Tell us who's on the cap table who shouldn't be. We'll come back with what it takes to remove them and what it costs. If the answer is “call your lawyer,” we'll say that too.