We form your LLC with the Secretary of State, and we are the registered agent it is required to name, at a staffed Texas office, not a mailbox. One filing, tracked to the state's own record.
*Per-item fees apply; state compliance notices are forwarded free. Fee schedule.
Forming a company requires a single document: the certificate of formation. What trips people up is not the form. It is the registered agent it obliges you to name.
The Secretary of State rejects a name that is not distinguishable from one already on the record. We check before you pay, and tell you what came close.
Every Texas company has to have one, and your company cannot be its own. It is either an individual Texas resident who has agreed, or a company registered to do business here. Us, for example.
Your agent's address goes on the public record. It has to be a street address where a process server can hand someone the papers during business hours; the statute rules out a mailbox service. Name us as your agent and you avoid having your home address published.
Your first franchise tax report is due the May after you form. Lose your registered agent and the state can terminate the company involuntarily. We prepare the filings before the reminder goes out.
You make the decisions. We handle the paperwork. We prepare the certificate, file it through the state's portal, and watch the record until your company exists.
We search the state's active records while you type, and show you what came close before you spend anything.
Our office address is the one the state publishes, not yours. The first year is free.
Members or managers, their addresses, and a mailing address. The purpose is the standard Texas general purpose.
State fee shown at cost. You sign as organizer, we record our consent to serve as agent, and the certificate goes to the Secretary of State.
A submission receipt means the portal took your money. It does not mean your company exists. The state issues your file number when it accepts the certificate, and until then you have a filing, not a business. We watch the record and tell you the moment that changes.
Your registered office is the address the state publishes and where a process server will go. Ours has a staffed front desk during business hours.
A Texas company that legally exists: the certificate of formation prepared, filed with the Secretary of State, and tracked until the state issues your file number, with the file-stamped certificate in your documents vault. If you add registered agent service, we are also the agent named on it.
When we form your company, yes: we are named as its registered agent, and the first year is free. The company can never be its own agent.
Most new Texas businesses form an LLC: liability protection without the shares, directors and formalities. A corporation is what outside investors usually expect. Today we form LLCs; corporations are coming soon. We cannot advise you on which to choose. That question is legal and tax advice, and we are neither.
We file once you sign. The Secretary of State's own processing is what determines when your file number is issued, and your tracker shows the filing sitting with them until it lands.
Not yet. Today we form the company, act as registered agent, and prepare your state filings.
Your first franchise tax report is due the May following formation, and one is due every year after that. We build the draft seventy-five days ahead and ask you only what changed. Your company must also keep a registered agent at all times; without one the state can terminate it.
We receive everything delivered to your registered office for your company, from lawsuits to state notices to ordinary mail. We process it and send it to you electronically, or on paper to the address on file.* State compliance notices from the Secretary of State and the Comptroller are forwarded free.
Registered agent service is an annual charge. It renews automatically each year and is billed at current pricing.
*Fees apply. See the fee schedule.
No. We prepare and submit the filings you instruct us to prepare, using the state's own promulgated forms. We are not a law firm, and nothing here is legal or tax advice.