REGISTER OF VENTURES · THE ENTITY.ID PROTOCOLENTRY 01 / 12
ENTITY.ID · INVESTOR EDITION · JULY 2026
The registry where ventures begin.
Form a real venture in minutes. Operate it from one dashboard. Incorporate when you're ready — a step, not a starting point.
VOL. I · FOR FOUNDERS, COLLECTIVES, AND AI AGENTS
REGISTER FEED — ILLUSTRATIVE⬡ VERIFIED RECORDS
Open with the line, slowly: Entity.ID — the registry where ventures begin. Pause. This is a deck about a reorder: recognition first, paperwork later. Everything else follows from that.
WHY NOWENTRY 02 / 12
Ventures are being born faster than the filing system was built for.
0M
US business applications in 2025 — an all-time record, tracking higher in 2026
CENSUS.GOV/ECON/BFS
+0%
Stripe Atlas incorporations, YoY in Q1 2026 — AI is minting founders
STRIPE / MINDSTUDIO.AI
THE REGISTER, FILLING — ILLUSTRATIVE2,935,661
EVERY ONE OF THEM STARTS ONLINE — WHERE NO REGISTRY EXISTS.
SOURCES CITED PER FIGURE02
Last year, Americans filed about five and a half million new business applications — an all-time record. Atlas incorporations are up 130% year over year because AI is minting founders. The strange part: these teams start online — where no registry exists. The register on the right is what we're building: ventures going on the record, in real time.
THE PROBLEMENTRY 03 / 12
Off the record, a venture is invisible.
03.130.4M US businesses have zero employees — $1.8T in receipts (Census, rel. Jul 2025)UNRECORDED
03.2Most run on handshakes, group chats, and someone's personal bank accountUNRECORDED
03.3No bank can check them. No investor can verify them. Due diligence hits a wallUNVERIFIABLE
03.4Courts treat unstructured collectives as general partnerships — personal liability(Samuels v. Lido DAO, 2025)EXPOSED
03.5The remedy — incorporation — costs weeks and fees before the venture has earned themTHE TOLL
THE REGISTER IS EMPTY WHERE IT MATTERS MOST03
Most of those ventures will never incorporate. Thirty million US businesses have zero employees — nearly two trillion dollars of activity — running on handshakes, group chats, and Venmo. It's not that they don't want structure; structure comes in exactly one flavor: incorporation. Weeks of forms, state fees, a registered agent — all purchased up front. So most teams just... don't. They stay invisible. And courts have started calling those handshake groups general partnerships — personal liability.
THE INSIGHTENTRY 04 / 12
Flip the order. Recognition first, paperwork later.
A venture becomes real the moment it goes on the record — not the day the paperwork clears. Once real, it can operate, prove itself, and incorporate when it's worth it.
INCORPORATION: A STEP, NOT A STARTING POINT.
SPECIMEN RECORDPUBLIC REGISTER
ENTRY NO.2,935,662
NAMETarka Labs Venture
ADDRESStarka-labs.public.entity.id
MEMBERS7 — verified
OWNERSHIP100% allocated
CONSTITUTIONModel 2 — ratified
STANDINGON THE RECORD
ONE BIG IDEA — REAL WHEN IT GOES ON THE RECORD04
Entity.ID flips the order. You form a real venture in minutes: name it, add your partners, set the ownership split, pick your rules from proven templates. That becomes a record in a public registry, with its own address — anyone can look you up and see who's who, who owns what, and who decides. [Let the VERIFIED stamp land, then move on.]
THE PRODUCTENTRY 05 / 12
One record. One dashboard. Operating from day one.
SIMULATED DEMO · FICTIONAL VENTURE (TARKA LABS) · CLICK TO PLAY
05.3Treasury · Fundraising · Governance · Members · Compliance — live on registration
05.4Every module writes to the same record
05.5"Operate today, incorporate when you're ready" — no competitor can say it
FORMATION TAKES MINUTES · THE RECORD IS PUBLIC AND TAMPER-PROOF05
And the venture doesn't just exist — it runs. A treasury with approval controls, fundraising with proper agreements, governance with recorded votes. One dashboard, and every module writes to the same record. When you're ready to incorporate — and only then — it's a step, not a do-over: records, members, and history carry over. [Play 20–30s of the demo if the room wants it.]
THE AI WEDGE — KYAENTRY 06 / 12
The same registry admits a second registrant: AI agents.
06.1Agents got payment rails in 2025–26 — they still can't legally existNO STANDING
KYC MADE BANKING SAFE · KYA MAKES AGENT COMMERCE SAFE06
There's a second registrant arriving. AI agents are starting to transact and hold funds, and they have no legal existence at all. The same registry gives them what it gives founders: registered identity, disclosed operators, a treasury bound by rules. The industry already has a name for it — KYA, Know Your Agent. Say it once, define it, move on.
THE MARKETENTRY 07 / 12
The wedge is paperwork. The prize is the operations layer.
$0B→$0B
Online legal services, 2025 → 2030 — the wedge market
NATLAWREVIEW.COM, 2026
$0M
LegalZoom's annual revenue — paperwork alone, in a ~4%-CAGR market
FY2025 EARNINGS (SEC)
$0M
Carta's ARR on the operations layer — reachable only after the filing
SACRA
0M
Ventures the filing system never served — our open market
CENSUS NONEMPLOYER STATISTICS
START WHERE VENTURES ACTUALLY START07
The paperwork market is real money — LegalZoom makes seven hundred fifty-six million dollars a year filing forms — but it's grown four percent a year for two decades and it starts in the wrong place. The prize is the operations layer, where Carta built four-hundred-plus million of ARR — opened up to the thirty million ventures the filing system never served. We start where ventures actually start.
Real numbers only — nothing on this slide is invented. Tarka Labs is demo material, never traction.
REGISTER FEED — ILLUSTRATIVE08
Founder fills this slide before the meeting. The framing: a registry publishes its own statistics — the way Estonia's e-Residency dashboard does. Lead with whichever number is strongest; never present demo material as customers.
BUSINESS MODELENTRY 09 / 12
Registry economics.
09.1Registration & renewal— free or near-free to exist; renewal keeps the record current and the registry growingRECURRING
09.2Operations take-rate— treasury and fundraising tooling on live ventures: the Carta-shaped revenue, moved to day zeroSAAS
09.3Verification & API— banks, registrars, and platforms pay to check standing against the registerPER-QUERY
Field anchors: incumbents charge $297–$9,500 to create an entity, and $2,800–$75K/yr to operate one.
FREE TO EXIST · PAID TO OPERATE · PRICED TO THE RECORD09
Three lines of registry economics: registration and renewal keep the record current; an operations take-rate on treasury and fundraising captures the Carta-shaped revenue at day zero; and verification — every time a bank or platform checks a record — is a per-query API business. Estonia proved a registry can be a product: €125M a year to the state.
ROADMAPENTRY 10 / 12
Deepen. Bridge. Standardize.
NOWDeepen operations— treasury, fundraising, governance on every live record (shipped)LIVE
NEXTThe incorporation bridge— records, members, and history carry over when a venture takes the stepIN BUILD
THENThe open registry standard— adopted by banks, registrars, and platforms; standing checks anywhereHORIZON
[FILL] dates & sequencing from the founders' plan
THE RECORD OUTLIVES EVERY STEP10
Three moves. Now: deepen operations on every live record. Next: the incorporation bridge — the moment a venture graduates, nothing is lost; records, members, and history carry over. Then: the open registry standard, so any bank or platform can check standing against the register the way they check DNS today.
Lead with formation/legal, fintech-operations, and registry-infrastructure credibility — anything that touches registries, identity, or corporate services goes first.
CREDIBILITY: REGISTRY · FINTECH · LEGAL11
Founder fills. If any credential touches registries, identity, or corporate services, it leads. Keep this slide to names, one-line credentials, and one proof point each.
THE ASKENTRY 12 / 12
[FILL] round size & terms[FILL] use of funds, mapped to the roadmap
Every venture has to begin somewhere. We're building the place.
FORM TODAY · OPERATE NOW · INCORPORATE WHEN YOU'RE READY
REGISTER FEED — ILLUSTRATIVEENTITY.ID
State the round and the three uses of funds, mapped to the roadmap slide. Then close slowly: every venture has to begin somewhere — we're building the place. Stop talking. Let the feed tick.