When people hear "DealCycl Company," they assume we're building another cap table product. Another Carta alternative. Another place to track shares and model waterfalls.
They're half right.
We are building cap table management. But a cap table without corporate governance documents is half a platform. And half a platform is what the industry has been selling you.
The documents that make your cap table valid
Every entry on your cap table exists because a legal document authorized it. Board resolutions approve stock issuances. Bylaws define how equity decisions get made. Employment agreements contain option grants and vesting schedules. Your certificate of incorporation establishes the entity that owns the cap table in the first place.
These aren't separate concerns that happen to coexist. They're the legal scaffolding that makes your cap table meaningful. Without the board resolution that authorized a stock grant, the grant is just a number in a spreadsheet. Without the bylaws that govern voting rights, your ownership percentages are academic.
Yet every cap table platform on the market treats these documents as someone else's problem. They'll track the shares. The legal paper trail that makes those shares real? That's on you.
The $16,000 Google Drive folder
The incumbent charges companies $16,000 to $40,000 a year to manage their cap table. And when those same companies need to store their board resolutions, their certificate of incorporation, their NDAs, their employment agreements, their insurance certificates — they're told to figure it out.
So founders do what founders always do: they create a shared Google Drive folder. Maybe a Dropbox. No version control. No audit trail. No way to know if the board resolution you're looking at is the final version or the third draft from six months ago.
Then due diligence comes. A VC asks to see your board minutes from last quarter. Your original certificate of incorporation. Your signed employment agreements. And the founder who can produce every document, organized and versioned, in minutes — that's the one who closes the round without delays.
The one digging through a shared folder hoping to find the right version of a board consent? That's a different conversation.
What we built
DealCycl Company includes a secure document vault alongside cap table management — not as an add-on, not as an upsell, but as a core part of the platform. Every edition includes it, from day one.
Document Repository — A centralized, auditable home for every corporate governance document your company produces. Certificates of incorporation, board resolutions, bylaws, NDAs, employment agreements, insurance certificates — stored in a secure vault with immutable version history. Every version records who created it and when.
Because your cap table and your governance documents aren't two separate products. They're two sides of the same coin. And a platform that only gives you one side is selling you half of what you need.
The bottom line
You don't need another Google Drive folder. You don't need a separate governance platform that costs as much as your cap table provider. You need one platform that treats corporate governance as a first-class concern — right next to your equity.
That's what DealCycl Company is. Not just a cap table product. The platform your company actually needs.
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Chris Goodwin is CEO & Co-Founder of DealCycl.