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Raising soon? Sell only the stake you meant to sell.

Plain guides to SAFEs, option pools, cap tables, data rooms and investor updates. Each one points to the calculator or BildrX feature that does the math on your own company.

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Here's how it usually goes

A founder signs two SAFEs and agrees to a bigger option pool. At the priced round the SAFEs convert, the pool comes out of the founders' share, and the founder owns less than planned because nobody modelled it first. The numbers lived in a spreadsheet nobody trusted.

These guides walk through that math in plain words.

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SAFEs Explained:

what a SAFE converts into, and how the cap, discount and MFN change the answer. Tool: SAFE calculator.

SAFE or Priced Round?:

which instrument to raise on, and what each does to your ownership. Tool: dilution calculator.

ESOP Pools, Grants and Vesting:

how a pool works, how grants draw on it, and what it costs the founders. Tool: ESOP calculator.

Cap Table Hygiene:

keep the ledger clean so every share traces back to a signed document. Feature: cap table.

How to Build a Seed Data Room:

the folders and documents investors ask for, laid out as a diligence checklist. Feature: data room.

Investor Updates Investors Read:

what goes in an update and who should get it. Feature: investor updates.

Founder Vesting & Co-founder Agreements:

coming soon. Founder vesting itself is live in ESOP & Vesting.

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