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How do I incorporate my startup without burning cash on lawyers?

Standardized platforms handle formation for a few hundred dollars with battle-tested documents: Stripe Atlas or Clerky for a Delaware C-corp, Razorpay Rize or a good CS firm for an Indian Pvt Ltd. AI is for understanding what you're signing, not for inventing formation documents from scratch. Get the boring things right on day one (founder vesting, IP assignment, clean cap table) because fixing them during due diligence costs ten times more.

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