Institutional investor diligence resets unvested founder shares into enforceable four-year vesting schedules, reconciling past contribution against future operational retention.
Informal equity promises collapse under institutional audits because venture diligence demands certified capitalization tables that void unwritten relational pledges.
Corporate recapitalizations extinguish historical contribution multipliers by converting dynamic formulaic equity claims into non-voting shadow instruments or subordinated debt notes.
Pre-incorporation software obligations resolve through retroactive intellectual property assignment contracts that transfer sole ownership to the corporation using explicit consideration releases.
Unstated pre-seed debt resolves through dynamic equity calculation and formal conversion instruments before external seed investors price the capital table.
External capital forces dynamic implicit agreements into static legal equity allocations, triggering psychological contract breach and destroying early team cohesion.
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.
