Your Arabella questions,
answered.

Arabella is one legal workspace for your company. You can form an LLC or a corporation, customize lawyer-drafted agreements, get the contracts you are sent marked up for your side, set up founder equity and prepare a SAFE or convertible note. Every document lands in the same workspace, ready to download, send for signature or use again. Arabella's founder is a startup lawyer with fifteen years of experience.

Founders, freelancers, studios, agencies and creators who sign contracts, hire people or need a company behind their work, and who do not have a legal team on payroll. Startups get the most out of it, because the formation, founder equity, hiring and fundraising documents all live in one place and build on each other.

No. Arabella is not a law firm. It gives you lawyer-drafted documents, document automation and plain-English legal information, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. When you want a licensed attorney to look at your own contract, members can request a paid lawyer review, and that work starts only after you sign an engagement letter. For a dispute or a high-stakes deal, work with a licensed attorney.

Launch is $20 a month, Build is $100 a month and Scale is $300 a month. Build adds email support with an Arabella agent, and Scale adds three 30-minute attorney calls each month. Every membership can be billed yearly for 15% less, which makes Launch $204 a year. You can cancel anytime.

No. Billing starts the day you join. Before that, you can browse the document library, read template details and available previews, open the formation questionnaire and look around the Fundraise Toolkit and the Equity Plan without an account or a card. Arabella asks you to create an account and choose a membership at your first member action, such as customizing, downloading or redlining a document.

Every membership includes over 100 lawyer-drafted templates you customize to your business, redlines of the contracts you are sent, electronic signature, Ask Arabella, the pro forma cap table model and one workspace that keeps every document. Launch comes with a monthly allowance for redlines and customizations, and Build and Scale have no monthly limit. Build adds email support with an Arabella agent for requested templates, customizations, redlines and your questions. Scale adds three 30-minute attorney business calls a month. Company formation is a separate purchase.

No. Forming a company is a separate one-time purchase, and you do not need a membership for it. The checkout total covers the state filing, your first year of registered agent service when Arabella is your agent, and Arabella's service fee. You see the full amount before you pay, and that is the step where you create your account.

Yes. Members can request a review from Ask Arabella. For $100 per contract, a licensed attorney reads the agreement or the redline end to end and writes back with what to change, what to push on and what is fine to sign. For $300 you get that written review plus a half-hour call with the lawyer who did it. The team emails an engagement letter and a payment link, and the work starts once both are done.

Open the Membership page (under Plans) and choose Cancel membership. Your membership runs to the end of the period you have already paid for, then stops, and your documents stay in your workspace. On yearly billing that is the end of the paid year, and the unused part of the year is not refunded. If something is not right, email hello@usearabella.com and we will fix it.

You answer plain-English questions about what you are building, and Arabella helps you choose between an LLC and a C corporation. It checks your company name against state records, prepares the state filing, appoints Arabella as your registered agent unless you choose to be your own, and drafts your governing documents, such as an operating agreement or bylaws. Your EIN is filed for you free of charge. Everything lands in your workspace, ready for the bank account, the first hire and the first contract.

Yes, in every state. Every company has to name a registered agent, the address the state and the courts use to reach it during business hours, so a lawsuit or an official notice does not arrive at your front door. Arabella appoints yours during the filing unless you choose to be your own agent, and when Arabella is your agent the first year is part of what you pay to incorporate. After that it renews at $200 a year, billed by Arabella, and the state paperwork that keeps the appointment current comes through us too. You can also name Arabella as the agent for a company you already have.

Over 100 lawyer-drafted agreements. For customers and clients there are NDAs and master services, consulting, coaching, SaaS and influencer agreements, along with website and app terms and privacy policies. For a startup there are Delaware formation documents, founder stock purchase agreements, 83(b) elections, IP assignments, an equity incentive plan, SAFEs and convertible notes. For hiring there are offer letters, contractor agreements and invention assignment agreements.

You answer plain-English questions, and your answers change the clauses themselves, not just the blanks. A no-refunds policy and a 30-day refund window produce two different contracts. Each question explains what it decides and starts on the recommended answer, so you know what you are agreeing to before you download. Details from your business profile fill in for you, and anything you type yourself always wins.

Upload the contract you were sent. In minutes Arabella marks it up for your side with real Word tracked changes and a plain-English note on every edit. If you want a different position on a clause, say so in your own words and Arabella revises the redline. You download a .docx you can send straight back to the other side.

Ask Arabella is the chat inside your workspace. Ask about a contract, a founder approval, a hire or a financing term in plain English. It answers with the documents in your workspace in view, points out the gaps and takes you to the agreement or record that handles the question. When you want a lawyer to look at something, it offers the paid review. Ask Arabella is for members.

Yes. Every document downloads as a normal Word file you can edit like any other. You can also send a contract for electronic signature straight from Arabella. Every document stays saved in your workspace, ready to download again or email whenever you need it.

Yes. The library has offer letters for full-time, hourly and intern roles, independent contractor agreements and invention assignment agreements, all customized through the same plain-English questions. When you want to give the team equity, the Equity Plan workspace lets you adopt an equity incentive plan, approve it, grant awards under it and add shares to its pool.

Yes. The Fundraise Toolkit has SAFEs, convertible notes, term sheets and the board approvals that go with them. For a SAFE round you set the cap and discount and get the SAFE, the board consent and the side letters as one set. Venture Math models every round from your first SAFE to a sale, so you can see your dilution before you sign and export the pro forma cap table. Venture Math is for members.

Trademark filing, annual compliance filings and an investor diligence kit are coming soon. None of them is part of a membership today, and each one goes on the product list the day it launches.

Filing the formation is the easy part, and plenty of services do it. The work that matters comes after it. That means the governing documents, the founder equity, the customer agreements and the redline when someone sends you their contract. Arabella keeps all of it in one workspace, drafted by lawyers and built on the same company record.

A free template leaves you to fill in the blanks alone and guess which clauses fit. Arabella's agreements are drafted by lawyers, and your answers change the clauses to fit your business and your side of the deal. Every question explains what it decides, so you know why each term is there.

Yes. Your documents sit in private storage that only your account can reach, your data is encrypted, and it is never sold.

She is named for Arabella Mansfield, who in 1869 became the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. Iowa still reserved the bar for men when she sat the exam. She passed and was admitted anyway. Arabella exists for the same reason, to put real legal work in the hands of the founders, small businesses and creators who need it.