Frequently asked questions
Your Arabella questions,
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How the membership works, what ships today, how incorporation is priced, and when you still need a human lawyer.
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What is Arabella?
Arabella is an all-in-one legal platform built by practicing attorneys. Form your LLC or C-Corp, customize lawyer-drafted agreements from our library, and get any contract you're sent marked up for your side with real tracked changes. Everything lives in one company workspace, ready to download, email, or reuse.
Who is it for?
Anyone building a business without a legal team on payroll: startup founders, small business owners, content creators, and creative entrepreneurs. If you sign contracts, hire people, or need a real entity behind your work, Arabella handles the paperwork.
Is this legal advice?
No. Arabella gives you attorney-drafted tools and plain-English legal information, not legal advice for your specific situation, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. For a real dispute or a high-stakes deal, talk to a licensed attorney. We'll be glad you did.
Membership and pricing
How much does it cost?
Membership is $99 a month with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime. Browsing the library and exploring the platform is free; you only need a membership at your first member action, like running a redline or customizing and downloading a document.
What does the membership include?
Contract reviews with tracked-changes redlines, the full library of lawyer-drafted agreements customized to your business, and a company workspace where every document is saved and ready to re-download or email. One flat price, as many reviews and documents as you need, every month.
Do I need a membership to incorporate?
No. Incorporation is pay-per-filing: you cover only the actual costs, meaning the state filing fee and registered agent, with no monthly plan required. Your formation documents are saved to your workspace either way.
How do I cancel?
Anytime, no hoops. Cancel during your 7-day trial and you pay nothing at all. And if something isn't right, email hello@usearabella.com and we'll make it right.
What Arabella does today
How does incorporation work?
You answer a short plain-English questionnaire about what you're building, and Arabella recommends an LLC or C-Corp, checks your business name against state records in real time, and prepares your filing paperwork and attorney-drafted governing documents. It all lands in your workspace, set up for what comes next: a bank account, contracts, and investment.
What documents are in the library?
Dozens of attorney-drafted agreements: NDAs, master service agreements, client, coaching, and consulting agreements, releases, and website terms and privacy policies. There's a full Delaware C-Corp formation suite too, along with SAFEs, convertible notes, and a founder term sheet, with new documents added all the time.
How does customizing a document work?
You answer a short questionnaire in plain English, and your answers change the actual clauses, not just the blanks. A no-refunds policy and a 30-day refund window produce genuinely different contracts. Arabella recommends smart defaults and explains every question, so you know exactly what you're agreeing to.
How does contract review work?
Upload the Word document you were sent and, in minutes, Arabella marks it up for your side with real tracked changes and a plain-English explanation of every edit. Want a different position on a clause? Tell Arabella in your own words, refine the redline, and download a proper .docx ready to send back.
Can I edit documents after I download them?
Yes. Everything comes back as a normal Word file, so you can edit it, send it, and sign it like any other document. Each one also stays saved in your workspace, ready to re-download or email whenever you need it.
Can Arabella handle my first hires?
Yes. The library includes employment offer letters and independent contractor agreements, customized through the same plain-English questionnaire. Startups building toward a team can also set up an equity incentive plan and founder equity documents.
Can you file my trademark?
Not quite yet: trademarks are coming soon. When they launch, USPTO filing fees will pass straight through, the same way incorporation charges only the actual filing costs.
What about annual compliance?
Also coming soon. Annual compliance filings and renewal reminders are on the way, so your company stays in good standing without you tracking the deadlines.
How we compare
How is this different from LegalZoom?
Filing the paperwork is a commodity; plenty of services can form your LLC. What actually matters is everything after: the governing documents, the client agreements, the redline when someone sends you their contract. Arabella is built by practicing attorneys to cover that whole journey in one workspace, not just the filing.
Why not just use a free template?
Free templates are one-size-fits-none, and you fill in the blanks alone. Arabella's agreements are drafted by working attorneys, and the questionnaire tailors the actual clauses to your business and your side of the deal. You also get the why behind every term, in plain English.
Privacy and security
Are my documents private?
Yes. Your documents live in your private workspace, your data is encrypted, and it is never sold. Your contracts are your business, and they stay that way.
One more thing
Why "Arabella"?
She's named for Arabella Mansfield, who in 1869 became the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. She sat the Iowa bar exam when the statute still reserved the profession for men, passed, and was admitted anyway. That's the whole point of this: real legal muscle in the hands of founders, small businesses, and creators.
Still have questions?
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