The law moves.
Your documents
keep up.

Your whole document set, drafted around your business and checked against real rulepacks. Then the part a download cannot do: when the law or your company details change, everything affected is checked again and the fixes come back as tracked changes.

  • 7 days free, nothing charged
  • 30 days to change your mind
  • Every export yours to keep

Built for England & Wales. EU and US coverage in progress.

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Privacy policy

UK GDPR · DPA 2018

4.2 We process personal data on the lawful bases set out in Article 6 of the UK GDPR.

4.3 We may share your data with selected partners. We share personal data only with the processors listed in Annex A, each under a written data processing agreement.

4.4 We retain personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes set out in this notice.

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Assistant

Read UK GDPR Article 28

Clause 4.3 names no processors and no written agreement, so it does not meet Article 28(3). I have proposed replacement wording for 4.3, pointing at Annex A.

What it costs to be missing one

Paperwork costs nothing until someone asks.

Then it costs a fortnight of momentum, or a term you would never have accepted with time to think. Three moments, and not one of them arrives with notice.

PROCUREMENT

A buyer sends the security questionnaire.

The DPA, the privacy policy, the sub-processor list. Enterprise deals rarely die over missing documents. They park, for exactly as long as it takes you to produce them, and momentum does not survive the wait.

Ready before they ask: Data processing agreement, privacy policy, terms of service

THE SECURITY REVIEW

Their counsel reads what you published.

Not whether you have a privacy policy, but whether it describes what your product actually does, and whether the cookie banner tells the same story. A policy that contradicts you is worse than no policy. It is evidence.

Ready before they ask: Privacy policy, cookie policy, terms of service

DUE DILIGENCE

An investor's lawyer opens the data room.

Do the founders have vesting. Did everyone who built anything assign the IP in writing. Are customers on signed terms. Missing assignments are the classic reason a round slows down or the price moves.

Ready before they ask: Founders' agreement, employment and contractor agreements, sales agreement

Checks against

  • GDPR
  • UK DPA 2018
  • PECR
  • CCPA
  • EU AI Act

Exports to

  • PDF
  • DOCX
  • MD

Not sure what any of those are? Compliance, in plain English

How it works

Import, prompt, review, export, re-check.

Five steps, and the last one is the one that keeps paying: when your company details or the rules change, everything affected gets checked again and the fixes come back as tracked changes.

See the full product, screen by screen

01

Import

A Word file, a Drive folder, or a template. Structure survives the trip, so what lands is editable.

02

Prompt

Plain English. The assistant fetches the legislation before it quotes a provision, and says so when a lookup fails.

03

Review

Every edit arrives struck through and inserted, with its reason. Nothing is rewritten silently.

04

Export

PDF, DOCX, or Markdown, formatted like a document rather than a chat log.

05

Re-check

Change one company detail and everything that mentions it is checked again. This is the step a template cannot do.

Or start from a drafted template.

Employment contracts, NDAs, sales agreements, founder agreements: each generated from settings you control, then edited and checked like any other document. Core pack on every plan, the full library on Pro, unlimited on Team with a company profile that fills your details in everywhere.

Browse the template libraryEvery document a startup needs

Straight answers

Your three other options, honestly.

Each one has a real strength, and we would rather name it than pretend otherwise. None of the three will put money on the outcome.

A SOLICITOR

Right, but by the hour.

For the unusual, the contested, and the high-value, nothing beats one, and we say so on every template. But everyday paperwork bills at the same hourly rate, and delivered documents are not re-read when the law moves on.

StartupDocs does the everyday set, so the solicitor hours you do buy go on the judgement calls only they can make.

A TEMPLATE SITE

Fast, then quietly wrong.

A downloaded template is a snapshot: generic where your business is specific, checked by nobody, and going stale from the day you fill it in. You cannot see what it gets wrong.

Here a template is a generator with settings you control, checked against real rulepacks, and re-checked whenever a detail changes.

A CHATBOT

Drafts well, then forgets you.

ChatGPT or Claude will write you a decent first draft. It will also rewrite silently, remember nothing about your other documents, check against no rulepack, and stand behind none of it.

Here every edit is a tracked change, your whole set stays consistent, and the result is covered by a money-back promise.

None of the three will put money on the outcome. StartupDocs will: 7 days free, then 30 days to change your mind on one email, and every document you exported stays yours either way. How we compare to named products

Limits

What this is not.

We do draft and maintain the written policies a SOC 2 auditor asks for. We are not an audit or evidence-collection platform, and an automated document check is not legal advice.

  • Give legal advice, or replace a solicitor for anything unusual or high-value
  • Issue or prepare a SOC 2, ISO 27001, or any other certification
  • Guarantee compliance in any jurisdiction
  • File anything with Companies House or HMRC on your behalf

What a compliance check actually does

Fair questions

Asked before the card.

Is this legal advice?

No. StartupDocs drafts, edits, and checks documents automatically, and every automated finding is shown to you for review. It does not give legal advice and it is not a law firm. For anything unusual or high-value, have a solicitor review the final document.

What if it does not work out?

Then you should not pay for it, and the promise is that you will not. The first 7 days are free on every plan, so if it is not doing what you needed, cancel and the card is never charged. If you have already paid, email [email protected] within 30 days of your first payment and we refund everything you have paid, in full. No forms, no retention call, no questions, and no need to justify it.

Every document you exported stays yours either way, which makes the worst case a set of finished paperwork that cost you nothing. The guarantee is written into our terms, not just this page.

Why do you need a card if the first week is free?

Because it is what separates a real trial from a tyre-kick, and that decision is what lets us give trials the whole product rather than a crippled demo: full functionality, every rulepack, and exports included from the first minute.

Nothing is charged during the 7 days. Cancel before day 7 from the plan page in your account and your card is never touched. You do not have to email anyone to do it.

Which jurisdictions do you cover?

Templates are drafted for England & Wales, and that is the only jurisdiction we claim today. Compliance rulepacks reach further: UK DPA 2018 and PECR for the UK, GDPR and the EU AI Act for the EU, and CCPA for California. EU and US template coverage is in progress.

How is this different from asking ChatGPT or Claude?

A general chatbot will draft you a document, and often a decent one. It will not remember what it wrote for you last month, keep your six documents consistent with each other, or re-check them when the law or your company changes.

StartupDocs holds your whole document set in one place: edits arrive as tracked changes you accept or reject, checks run against curated rulepacks, and when a company detail changes you can run the checks again across everything that mentions it.

And unlike a chatbot, the result is covered: if it does not do what you needed, one email inside 30 days refunds every penny and the documents you exported stay yours.

Do I still need a lawyer?

For anything unusual, contested, or high-value: yes, and we say so on every template. StartupDocs handles the everyday paperwork in between, so the solicitor time you do buy goes on the judgement calls only they can make.

What happens to my documents if I cancel?

You can export everything in full before your cancellation takes effect: PDF, DOCX, and Markdown. Cancelling applies at the end of the period you have paid for, so you keep complete access, including export, until then. Your documents are not held hostage.

Who wrote the templates?

Our team drafts and maintains them against standard England & Wales precedents, and every template states plainly that it is a starting point, not legal advice. We are arranging independent solicitor review of the core pack; when a reviewer has signed off, their name and firm will be published on this page.

Is my data used to train models?

We do not train AI models on your documents. Automated edits and checks send the document being worked on to third-party AI model providers, solely to produce the response you asked for. We are confirming the retention terms of each provider we route to, and we will publish those details here.

Anything else, ask us

Pricing

Plans from day one.

7 days free on any plan. Card required, cancel anytime, no charge if you cancel before day 7. Every plan includes the full editor, compliance checks, and every export format.

Compare the plans in detail

Starter

The essentials for one founder.

£190per year

  • 50 documents a month
  • 400 AI edits a month
  • Core rulepacks: GDPR, UK DPA 2018
  • Core template pack, plus 1 business template a month
  • All export formats
  • Single user
Start 7-day trial

Pro

Full throttle for one power user.

£490per year

  • 500 documents a month
  • 1500 AI edits a month
  • Every rulepack: UK, EU, and US coverage
  • Full template library, 10 a month
  • Priority queue
  • Single user
Start 7-day trial

Team

MOST TEAMS

Your whole company, one hub.

£390per seat per year

Minimum 2 seats

  • Everything in Pro, per seat
  • Company profile: your details fill every template, everywhere
  • Unlimited template library
  • Shared folders and roles
  • Compliance audit log
  • Bulk agent runs across folders
  • Priority support
Start 7-day trial

Optional add-on

Repository monitoring

£49 per repository / month

Watch a codebase, not just a document. Available on Pro and Team. Includes 1,000 deep checks a month. A repository pushed to every working day stays inside the allowance. Large monorepos with busy CI are what the blocks are for.

Past the allowance it is £6 per 500 checks, shown on your dashboard as it accrues and added to your next invoice. Every repository has a monthly cap you set, £60 by default. At the cap monitoring pauses until the month rolls over, so a runaway build loop costs you a pause and never a surprise bill.

These are automated checks against the standards you pick. They are not an audit and they do not collect evidence for one.

The guarantee

Worst case, you keep everything and pay nothing.

Cancel inside the free week and the card is never charged. Pay, change your mind, and one email inside 30 days returns every penny. Either way the documents you exported are still yours, so the downside of trying this is a set of finished paperwork and a bill for nothing.

No lawyer, template site, or chatbot puts money on the outcome. We do.

Written into our terms, not just this page.

What the free week covers

The whole operating set, not a starter pack. Drafted around your business, checked, and exported to sign.

  1. 01

    Privacy policy

    The day your site collects anything

  2. 02

    Cookie policy

    PECR, and a banner that agrees with it

  3. 03

    Terms of service

    Cover for what you sell, and how

  4. 04

    Data processing agreement

    The first customer whose procurement asks

  5. 05

    Mutual NDA

    Partnerships, pilots, data rooms

  6. 06

    Sales agreement

    So deals open on your terms, not theirs

  7. 07

    Employment contract

    Required in writing by day one

  8. 08

    Contractor agreement

    The document that makes the work yours

  9. 09

    Advisor agreement

    Scope, equity, and vesting, in writing

  10. 10

    Founders' agreement

    Agreed while everyone still agrees

Nothing is charged for 7 days

The card is asked for up front and not touched. It is what separates a real trial from a tyre-kick, and it is why trials get full functionality, exports included, instead of a crippled demo.

30 days to change your mind

Paid, and it did not do what you needed, or you simply changed your mind? One email within 30 days of your first payment refunds everything you have paid. No forms, no retention call, no questions.

Every export stays yours

Documents you export are yours to keep, refund or not. Which makes the worst case a finished set that cost you nothing.

Enterprise: SSO, custom rulepacks, custom template packs built from your house documents, data residency, and a DPA for accelerators and studios. [email protected]

Start tonight. Decide in a week.

Create an account, import whatever you already have, and run the checks over it. Every finding names the rule behind it and arrives with a fix you can accept or reject. Cancel before day 7 and the card is never charged. Accounts created now carry a founding member tag.