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Meet the founder-friendliest cap table. No manual data entry. Upload your signed agreements and our lawyers build your true cap table with the legal logic baked in.

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Common Authorized

8,500,000 / 10,000,000

Shares issued

Authorized vs. issued

What a difference issuance makes

  • TLDR: your Certificate of Incorporation creates stock with a "par value" - a minimum possible value.
  • That makes it *available* for issuance.
  • To actually issue it, you need more: Board approval, a contract, and "consideration" (payment of some kind).
  • Equity financings (aka priced round investments) usually create and issue new classes of stock.
  • Most startups begin with just one "class" of stock: Common Stock.

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Pulley announced in September 2026 they would cease operating this year, and they offered a transition to Carta with the price honored. We spent years hearing how much people hated Carta, so we built a cap table with the lawyer logic baked in.

Story already had a better cap table product that requires less founder work and cash, so we're offering a limited-time deal for startups affected by the Pulley disappearance who don't want Carta: Aegis Cap Table software for $2,000 a year, with the lawyer logic built in and no human review. You dump documents; the software figures them out, and you can add a lawyer in the lead whenever you want one. Your cap table is more correct than it was on Pulley for a fraction of the price of Carta.

Limited time · For former Pulley subscribers

Story Aegis Cap Table

$2,000 a year

Cap table software with no human review or engagement letter required.

  • Software only, no legal advice
  • No engagement letter required

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Migrating to Carta means migrating your mistakes.

Pulley and Carta work on data entry. Your data entry MIGHT be right if you paid lawyers to help, or your company is super-simple. Founders usually do it wrong. Story LLP lawyer logic gets it right for you, with cleaner, easier interfaces and just as much investor access and modeling.

All your data is privileged and confidential. We will never sell it, much less sell it without your permission like Carta.

Where you were

Pulley

Offline December 8, 2026

Where you’re being sent

Carta

$5,000–$80,000/yr

Plus a lawyer to check what was imported

The third option

Story.law

$2,000/yr

Or $199/mo billed monthly. Rebuilt from your signed documents by software with the lawyer logic built in. No human review.

THE PART NOBODY TELLS YOU

Your securities were never on Pulley.

We hear a lot from founders who ask, “If I quit Carta, don’t I lose my securities?” We gotta give Carta credit: they misled a lot of smart people into thinking their stuff is stuck in Carta. Let’s get the truth out there: securities in your company exist because you followed an acceptable legal process to create and issue them. We run that process, and lawyers usually do. Carta and Pulley are where you enter data about your legal reality—not the place where it lives. The data you entered might be wrong if the process is wrong.

Pulley has offered migrating to Carta, which they say involves phone calls and checking data. With Story’s Aegis Cap Table, you enter no data—you upload documents. We find the legal reality, and that’s what you see on your Story Cap Table.

You’re not moving your securities anywhere. You’re choosing what to rebuild the picture from: an export, which is a picture of a picture, or the documents themselves.

We build from the documents. The record is built on the Open Cap Format, and it downloads as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day you want it.

Here’s how you get your securities “off” Pulley before the December 8, 2026 shutdown:

  1. Export from Pulley

    Company Settings → Export → Full Company Export—see Pulley’s export guide (opens in new window) (opens in a new tab).

  2. Sign up for Story

  3. Upload your export

    Or just email it to gc@story.law.

  4. We rebuild your cap table

    From the documents themselves.

HOW IT WORKS

Story Cap tables have the BigLaw lawyer logic baked in.

Stop thinking about whether you entered data right. Let your General Counsel get the cap table law right for you.

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    FORWARD

    A zip, a Drive folder, an inbox full of signed PDFs. Upload it, email it to gc@story.law, Slack it, throw it in a Linear ticket. We take it from there. You enter no other data.

  2. 2

    GRAPH

    Aegis extracts content and key data points with proprietary lawyer logic into a graph of your legal reality.

  3. 3

    ASSESS

    We consider only legally-effective documents: valid files, signed by the right parties and approved in the right way.

  4. 4

    VISUALIZE

    See your cap table and data room in investor-friendly and lawyer-friendly format.

  5. 5

    SHARE

    Invite your lawyers and investors to save them time and save both you and your investors on legal bills. Use our MCP and more to integrate with investors' fund and management software.

A Cap Table UI that doesn't feel like you're operating a space shuttle...where you can't find anything.

Most cap table software, including Carta, is built with data entry - by the founder or the lawyer founders pay. Our cap table software is a datavizualization of your legal reality.

Common stock rows for Avery Chen and Jordan Ellis, each with a document icon that opens the signed agreement
Every row has its paperClick any holding to open the signed document it came from.

Example company. Real product.

BEFORE YOU BUY

What this won’t do.

We're lawyers, not magicians or psychics. Your Story.law cap table is based only on the actual, effective documents you upload and the specific references they make.

  1. We can only see what you send us.

    Your cap table is built from your documents. If a grant was never papered, it isn't in there, because legally it may not exist. Some tools will let you type it in anyway, which records a belief, not ownership. We'll tell you what's missing instead. Closing those gaps is legal work, and legal work costs money.

  2. We won't count a document that doesn't hold up.

    If a past lawyer or a template site got something wrong, like a grant with no board consent or a transfer nobody signed, we won't quietly treat it as valid to make your table look clean. We'll flag it and tell you what fixing it takes.

  3. We don't promise every edge case.

    Sometimes, as a startup, you had something odd happen in your legal history. We support most of that, but you should understand that some cap table realities are legal ARGUMENTS, and on our platform a manual update to your cap table must come from a lawyer unless our lawyers already said it's reasonable to treat that logic as universal.

Cap table only, or the full platform.

Free Cap Table

Upload your documents and see what's in them. No subscription, no card.

$0

Free to start. Paid only if you need more.

  • Certificate of incorporation and bylaws

  • Action by sole incorporator and organizational board consent

  • Stock purchase agreements

  • The option plan

  • SAFEs

  • A Health Check of what's found and what's missing

Founders who want to see what's in their legal records first.

Cap Table Software

Cap table software with no human review or engagement letter required.

$2,000

/year

Or $199/mo billed monthly.

  • A cap table built from your signed documents

  • Every row linked to its source document

  • Vesting tracked from each grant’s terms

  • SAFEs and notes with caps, discounts and MFN terms

  • Automated legal logic with no human review

  • Lawyer-ready Excel export

Founders who only need a cap table today — upgrade to Aegis anytime.

  • Software only — no legal advice or human review
  • No engagement letter required
  • Upgrade to lawyer support whenever you need it
PULLEY RESCUE SPECIAL

Pulley Rescue Special

Aegis Raise, with a lawyer in the lead, at the Pulley offer price.

$3,500

/year

Regular price $9,999

Billed annually. The price stays $3,500/yr at every renewal.

65% off Aegis Raise, locked at $3,500/yr forever. Available until November 30, 2026.

  • Everything in Aegis Start, plus:

  • Growth cap table (pro formas, preferred stock series, waterfall analysis)

  • Growth data room with granular investor access controls

  • Diligence management and checklist automation

  • Term sheet analysis

  • Pro forma investment or exit modeling

Companies that want a lawyer in the lead on their cap table and next raise.

  • Story engagement letter after payment

Upgrade anytime — your cap table comes with you when you move to Aegis Start or Aegis Raise.

Moving off Pulley is an export and an upload.

From Pulley

  1. Pulley is shutting down—all operations end December 8, 2026. Export before then.
  2. Export: Head to their Data Room page to download a ZIP:
  3. Pulley’s export guide (opens in new window) (opens in a new tab)
  4. Make sure you have a Story account.
  5. Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law with subject "Pulley Rescue"
  6. We assess whether your needs can be met with a spreadsheet or other options, including ours
  7. We give you an insane discount, because you deserve better than Carta for less money

From Carta

  1. Export: Settings → Data Export → Download All Documents
  3. Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law
  4. We rebuild your cap table from your source documents

From a shoebox

  1. Gather whatever you have: signed PDFs, email attachments, a shared drive
  2. Forward all of it. That’s the normal case.
  3. We work out what counts and tell you what’s missing

Questions founders are asking this week

Do I lose my shares when Pulley shuts down?

No. You do not lose any shares when Pulley shuts down. Shares, options, SAFEs, and notes exist because (the right) signed documents created them—not because a cap table platform recorded them. The benefit of exporting your documents from Pulley before December 8, 2026 is making sure you don't lose anything.

What if my Pulley export is incomplete?

Send what you have, plus any signed documents sitting in email or a shared drive. We build from the documents, and we tell you what's missing instead of guessing.

What if no lawyer has ever looked at my equity documents?

That's common. The software applies lawyer logic to your uploaded documents and shows what it couldn't find, with no human review. If you want a lawyer to fix things like a grant with no board consent, choose the lawyer-in-the-lead offer (Aegis Raise with the Pulley discount), which starts with an engagement letter with Story LLP.

What happens to my cap table if you shut down?

Download it as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day. And the same rule applies to us: your securities live in your signed documents, not in any cap table platform.

Can I upgrade to Aegis later and keep everything?

Yes. Upgrade whenever you like, and your cap table comes with you.

Do you do 409A valuations?

We offer 409A valuations a la carte when you actually need them—not bundled into a subscription you’re paying for before it’s useful.

Is this privileged?

Your data is confidential from day one. It becomes privileged when you engage Story LLP as your lawyer, which is part of the lawyer-in-the-lead offer. The software-only plan is not legal advice and has no engagement letter.

You have until December 8.

Free to start. Paid only if you need more.

Get Automated Legal with Aegis

Subscribe to Aegis to build your cap table automatically — see your ownership breakdown, equity classes, and investment history organized from your documents.

We're lawyers, remember? Please read this important note:

Story LLP is a law firm, and Story's lawyers built Aegis to deliver better, standard legal services at scale so founders can choose between top-tier specialized lawyers and standardized process automations that replicate those lawyers according to their needs and budget. By definition, a standardized process may not be perfect for you. Please review our Policies page to better understand the difference, as well as how we use AI and how we manage conflicts, privilege, etc.

As a law firm, we must screen clients for conflicts of interest, and we treat all correspondence with clients seeking legal advice as privileged and confidential to the maximum extent possible in consideration of any conflicts. However, Story's law firm or our Attorney Allies do not represent you or your company as your lawyer, do not have an attorney-client relationship with you or your company, and do not provide you with legal advice absent a formal Engagement Letter signed between you and the Story LLP law firm. Please don't confuse the free knowledge we offer on this site with legal advice for you.