Informal early venture contributions separate from equity claims by converting unquantified relational labor into formal advisory contracts or cash settlements.
Unilateral capital restructuring destroys discretionary operational capacity by breaching tacit psychological bargains, requiring explicit terms to restore agency.
Early sweat equity expectations convert into legal equity allocations or cash releases through written agreements before institutional investors finalize terms.
Early unpaid sweat converts entirely to equity value at investment closing, separating past risk from market-rate salaries for forward work.
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.
