{
  "description": "Legal groundwork for a startup that can't yet pay a lawyer for everything: an agreement checked before you sign it (blanks, broken cross-references, mismatched amounts, the renewal date, and the clauses that hurt a small company, with wording to ask for), and your cap table modelled through SAFEs, notes and a priced round. Each says what is worth a lawyer's hour.",
  "display_name": "Startup legal",
  "keywords": [
    "legal",
    "startup",
    "founder",
    "contract review",
    "NDA",
    "SAFE",
    "cap table",
    "dilution"
  ],
  "links": {
    "documentation": "https://sananthanarayan.github.io/skilldrop/packs/startup-legal/"
  },
  "maintainers": [
    {
      "name": "sananthanarayan"
    }
  ],
  "first-value": {
    "audience-posture": "non-technical",
    "prerequisites": [
      "The agreement you've been sent, as a Word, Markdown or text file",
      "Python 3 on the machine, which the checks run on"
    ],
    "starter-task": "Check an agreement before you sign it",
    "starter-prompt": "We're the customer in this SaaS agreement (agreement.docx), and the first year ends on 1 July 2027. Review it before I sign: what's broken, what should I push back on, and when do we have to give notice if we don't want it to renew?",
    "verification": "contract-check opens with a verdict and the three things that matter most, lists each mechanical fault with its clause number (blanks, references to clauses or exhibits that don't exist, amounts whose words and figures disagree), gives wording to ask for on each clause that hurts you, and gives the renewal notice deadline as a date.",
    "recovery": "If contract-check does not activate, ask for it by name (\"use contract-check\"). If your agreement is a PDF, save it as Word or text first."
  },
  "requires": [
    "core"
  ],
  "journey": {
    "when": "You're a founder without a lawyer on retainer, and an agreement, a round or a launch is coming.",
    "you_bring": [
      "the agreement you've been sent, or your own template",
      "your cap table, SAFEs and any term sheet"
    ],
    "steps": [
      {
        "skill": "contract-check",
        "you_do": "Give it the agreement and say which side you're on.",
        "you_get": "A verdict, the fixes to ask for with wording, every mechanical fault with its clause, and the dates to diarise.",
        "decide": "Sign, send the redline, or take the one flagged clause to a lawyer."
      },
      {
        "skill": "cap-table",
        "you_do": "Give it your shareholders, SAFEs, notes and the term sheet.",
        "you_get": "What each founder and investor owns after the round, what each SAFE converted at, and what the pool top-up cost you.",
        "decide": "Which valuation and pool terms to negotiate for."
      }
    ],
    "you_end_with": "Agreements you understand before signing, and a cap table you can defend in a negotiation."
  }
}