Tarka Labs — a demo venture · day 0 · the handshake
This is a real company.
You've met it. Maybe you've been it.
Entity.ID
Your venture is already real.
Make it official.
The venture record — official-making for companies that already exist.
investor deck · 2026-07-07 · approach v3 — the founder journey
why now · the unofficial economy, 2025–2026
More companies are being born
than the filing system was built for.
problem · month 3 at tarka labs · the diligence email arrives
Real work. Unofficial company.
- §Fuzzy equity — said out loud once, remembered three ways
- §Revenue in a personal account — the venture has no money of its own
- §No rules for the falling-out — until the day they're needed
- §Nothing to show diligence — the company exists everywhere except on paper
A US court held members of one unstructured collective potentially liable as general partners.
Samuels v. Lido DAO · 2025 — the stakes of staying unofficial
insight
Fix the order,
not the founders.
Founders build first and formalize under duress — because the system offers nothing between the handshake and a $500 Delaware filing.
Move the official record to where the company actually begins, and every later step — diligence, raising, incorporating — becomes downhill.
product · eight months, one record · tarka labs, a demo venture
The journey, made official.
tarka-labs.public.entity.id live on day one — and nothing to rebuild in month eight: same members, same cap table, 27 recorded decisions, walked into the corporation.
the product · operate from day one
Seven steps to official. Minutes, not weeks.
flagship demo · silent · simulated data — tarka labs is a demo venture
month 4 at tarka labs · a fourth teammate joins
The next teammate isn't human.
- →Agents can already pay — every major payment network shipped agent rails within 18 months (Forbes, Jun 2026)
- →But nowhere gives them standing — no identity a counterparty can verify, no one accountable behind them
- →On Entity.ID an agent joins as a verified member — KYA: Know Your Agent — disclosed operator, scoped permissions
- →The same journey, one more kind of teammate — not borrowed passwords
market
Paperwork money, operations money —
and a greenfield.
Entity.ID collects the journey end-to-end — months earlier in every company's life.
traction
Ventures made official.
The registry will publish its own counters — Estonia turned a registry into a €125M/yr product.
e-resident.gov.ee · ERR 2025
business model
Free to become official.
Paid to operate.
Formation
Becoming official costs nothing — the top of the funnel and the moment of trust.
Operations
Treasury, fundraising, governance — where cap-table incumbents proved the revenue lives.
Incorporation hand-off
The carry-over at maturity — paid once, at the moment of highest value.
KYA verification
Standing checks for platforms and counterparties, priced per verification.
roadmap
Make official → operate → carry over.
The record
7-step formation + the operating record: treasury, fundraising, governance, members, compliance.
The bridge
Incorporation bridge and jurisdiction menu; KYA standing API for platforms.
The expectation
The carry-over as an industry norm — diligence answered from the record by default.
team
We've been that first slide.
This team has lived the unofficial company — and builds registry-grade infrastructure with founder empathy.
the ask · month 8 — and every team after
Every team in that first slide
is already a company.
We're how they make it official.
Entity.ID