The hardest co-founder conversation, on rails.
Roles, time commitments, expectations, exits, and what happens when one of you wants out. Every founder answers the same questions, side by side, before you incorporate.
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Most co-founder breakups were avoidable at month one.
The conversation was skipped because it felt awkward. Eighteen months later one founder is full-time, the other is half-in, the equity split made sense at signing, and the resentment is fully priced in. Nobody wrote down what happens next.
Of startup failures attributed to founder conflict — per Harvard Business Review / Noam Wasserman's research.
Typical time from mismatch to irreparable. The conversation at month zero would have cost a weekend.
OwnershipFlow has every founder answer the same questions independently, then shows the diffs.
Three moves. Each founder fills their own. You review together.
Role, hours, income needs, exit horizon — alone first.
Each founder fills a short frame without seeing the other's answers. Less social-proofed into agreement. More honest. You submit when you're done — no face-saving revisions.
A side-by-side view of where you agree — and where you don't.
The mismatches are the meeting. Role overlap, time-commitment gaps, different definitions of "full-time," different exit horizons. You see them before the equity conversation, not after.
One founder agreement you both sign.
Roles, hours, vesting, termination, exit preferences, dispute resolution. Not boilerplate — built from your answers. Export the PDF, sign it, attach to your incorporation docs.
You start the company with everything a divorce attorney would ask for — written down.
After one evening with your co-founder(s):
Aligned expectations, in writing.
Who does what, at what pace, for how long, expecting what outcome. No ambiguity to exploit later.
A founder agreement ready for incorporation day.
Not generic. Built from your answers. Your lawyer reviews in an hour instead of drafting from scratch.
Early warning on the conflicts that were going to happen anyway.
Better to argue about bonus rights in a coffee shop than in a Series A diligence call.
Investors notice.
A clean founder agreement on day one is the cheapest signal of seriousness you can send to a lead.