Guides
Step-by-step instructions for implementing Fairly Exact
Getting Started
7 sections
A practical guide to implementing Fairly Exact in your startup
Contribution Blocks Guide
8 sections
This guide helps teams make the key decisions when running Contribution Blocks (Build, Sell, Manage, Maintain work): the founding block, block sizing, stage multipliers, allocations, and adjustments.
Dynamic Equity and Voting
9 sections
How the member ledger, configurable voting thresholds, departures, and finalization work during the dynamic period.
Freeze and Finalization
6 sections
How to close the dynamic period, calculate frozen percentages, and complete either finalization path with professional review.
Legal and Tax Review
5 sections
A professional-review checklist for the LLC-based structure Fairly Exact assumes.
Glossary
5 sections
Definitions of every key term in the Fairly Exact framework, grouped by topic.
When they apply
These describe situations a team may not be in. Each one states the fact that makes it apply, so you can tell at a glance whether it is yours yet.
Applies when
Before the Entity
No entity exists yet.
5 sections
How to run contributions before an entity exists, and why the entity forms before the first customer pays.
Applies when
Funding Blocks Guide
Cash has come in expecting equity, or a member has paid for something on the company's behalf.
8 sections
How to document cash negotiations through Funding Blocks without placing funding in the member ledger or treating the framework as a financing instrument.
Applies when
Advisor Blocks Guide
An advisor is engaged for guidance rather than delivery.
6 sections
How to document external contributions without placing advisors or their negotiated economics in the member ledger.