Find contradictions
Where clauses fight each other
The engine cross-reads the agreement and flags provisions that pull in opposite directions, the ones that only reveal themselves in the exact scenario you hoped would never happen.
Early access · For founders & co-owners
The clause you never wrote is the one that hurts.
A shareholder agreement is fine until a co-owner wants out, a round changes the cap table, or two clauses contradict each other, and suddenly the document you filed away is the most important one you own. The Shareholder Agreement Engine reads yours (or helps you build one) and surfaces the contradictions and the gaps, in plain language, for you and your lawyer. An analysis aid, not legal advice.
60-second check
Six questions most shareholder agreements fail.
Most shareholder agreements are never tested until the day they're needed, a death, a disability, a deadlock, an exit, and by then it's too late to fix them. A missing funding mechanism turns a buyout into a cash crisis. Insurance bought years ago against a smaller company leaves the rest to find in cash. A vague valuation clause turns the whole thing into a lawsuit.
Answer six questions about your own agreement and see, in under a minute, where it likely stands.
Not legal advice. This check runs entirely in your browser, nothing you answer is sent anywhere or stored. It flags common gaps based on your own answers; it does not review your actual document or tell you what the law requires.
A shareholder agreement is a bet on the future being tidy.
Most agreements are drafted once, at the beginning, when everyone is aligned and optimistic. Then the company grows, the cap table shifts, a partner's life changes, and the document quietly stops matching reality. The gaps do not announce themselves. They wait for the exit, the death, the divorce, the deadlock, or the funding round, and then they cost real money and real relationships.
The other failure is subtler: two clauses that each made sense on their own but contradict each other in the case that finally arrives. A drag-along that fights the transfer restrictions. A valuation method for a buyout that no longer exists. A financing provision that assumes a structure the company outgrew.
The Shareholder Agreement Engine is built to find those two things, the missing provision and the internal contradiction, before the situation that exposes them does.
What it does
Two ways in. One review-ready result.
Start from the agreement you have, or from nothing at all. Either way you end with a plain-language findings list and a review-ready draft to take to your lawyer, never a final document the engine signs off on by itself.
Find the gaps
The situations with no plan
Exit, death, disability, divorce, deadlock, a new investor, a shareholder who stops contributing, plus the funding and financing gaps that only surface when you go to raise. Where the agreement is silent, the engine says so.
Or build from scratch
No agreement yet? Start here
An adaptive interview builds a first draft around your actual ownership, funding, and governance, with the standard protections in place from the start, then the same engine surfaces anything still missing.
Not legal advice. The engine produces findings and drafts for you and a qualified lawyer to review. It does not tell you what the law requires and does not produce a binding agreement on its own. Have counsel review before you rely on or sign anything.
How it works
From your document to a document you trust.
Bring it or build it
Upload your existing shareholder agreement, or answer the adaptive interview to generate a first draft if you do not have one yet.
See the findings free
Get the contradictions and gaps in plain language, with the scenario each one would surface in, no charge to look.
Assemble the package
Turn the findings into a review-ready package with drafted language for the gaps, ready to take to counsel. A paid upgrade; the price is shown up front.
Keep it current
Optionally keep the document living: revisit it as the cap table, the company, and the law change, instead of letting it drift out of date again.
Who it's for
Anyone who owns a piece of a private company.
Founders & co-owners
You signed something at the start and have not looked at it since. Find out whether it still protects you before the moment that tests it arrives.
Companies raising capital
A new investor and a funding round put every clause under a microscope. Surface the contradictions and financing gaps before diligence does.
CPAs & lawyers
Triage a client's shareholder agreement in minutes and spend your time on the judgment calls, not the first read-through. The findings come to you review-ready.
Honest status
In early access.
The Shareholder Agreement Engine is rolling out to early users. The findings, the contradictions and gaps it surfaces in your own agreement, are free. A full assembled package and the option to keep the document current are a paid upgrade, with the price shown before you commit to anything. Request access through the contact form and we will reach out.
Free
- Contradiction and gap findings on your own agreement.
- Plain-language explanation of the scenario behind each.
- The adaptive interview to start a draft from scratch.
Paid upgrade
- A full assembled, review-ready package.
- Drafted language for the gaps, for your counsel to review.
- The option to keep the document living and current.
Note: everything the engine produces is a draft and a set of findings for professional review. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace your lawyer. It makes the conversation with them faster and better informed.
Also in the Toolbox
Where this one sits.
The Toolbox is a set of small, self-contained tools for the parts of incorporating and running a Canadian corporation that are easy to get wrong and expensive to fix late. A shareholder agreement is the one you reach for the moment the company has more than one owner.
Incorporation Checklist
The steps that come before this one: incorporating in Canada in seven stages, federally or in any province or territory, with each item tagged to the statute, the registry, the CRA, or practice.
CRA accounts & first-year tax
Picks up once you hold the Certificate of Incorporation: which CRA accounts a new corporation needs, when each one is triggered, and the thresholds that decide it.
Questions owners ask first.
Find the gap before it finds you.
Request early access, tell us about your company, and we will reach out as the engine opens up. Nothing is charged to look.
An analysis and drafting aid, not legal advice. It produces a lawyer-ready discussion package, never a signed final contract. Your own CPA and legal counsel supply the binding advice, and you confirm they have reviewed it before you rely on or sign it.