Where you were
Pulley
Offline December 8, 2026
Shuttering all operations. Export your documents now.
We make understanding cap tables easy, because we think legal knowledge should be free.
Meet the founder-friendliest cap table. No manual data entry. Upload your signed agreements and our lawyers build your true cap table with the legal logic baked in.
Special Pulley Transition Offer
Don’t get forced into Carta.
Pulley announced in September 2026 they would cease operating this year, and they offered a transition to Carta with the price honored. We spent years hearing how much founders hate Carta, so we built a cap table with the lawyer logic baked in.
Story already had a better cap table product that requires less founder work and cash, so we’re offering a limited-time deal for startups affected by the Pulley disappearance who don’t want Carta: Aegis Cap Table software for $2,000 a year, with the lawyer logic built in and no human review. You dump documents; the software figures them out, and you can add a lawyer in the lead whenever you want one. Your cap table is more correct than it was on Pulley for a fraction of the price of Carta.
Trusted by lawyers and clients nationwide
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law firms
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specialists
51 US
states + DC
1,000+
businesses served
Common Authorized
8,500,000 / 10,000,000
Shares issued
Authorized vs. issued
What a difference issuance makes
- TLDR: your Certificate of Incorporation creates stock with a "par value" - a minimum possible value.
- That makes it *available* for issuance.
- To actually issue it, you need more: Board approval, a contract, and "consideration" (payment of some kind).
- Equity financings (aka priced round investments) usually create and issue new classes of stock.
- Most startups begin with just one "class" of stock: Common Stock.
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The Real Cost of Carta
Migrating to Carta means migrating your mistakes.
Pulley and Carta work on data entry. Your data entry MIGHT be right if you paid lawyers to help, or your company is super-simple. Founders usually do it wrong. Story LLP lawyer logic gets it right for you, with cleaner, easier interfaces and just as much investor access and modeling.
🔒All your data is privileged and confidential. We will never sell it, much less sell it without your permission like Carta.
Where you’re being sent
Carta
$5,000–$80,000/yr
Plus an expensive outside lawyer to check what you manually entered.
RECOMMENDED
The third option
Story.law
$2,000/yr
Or $199/mo billed monthly. Rebuilt from your signed documents by software with the lawyer logic built in. No human review or engagement letter required.
The Part Nobody Tells You
Your securities were never on Pulley or Carta.
We hear a lot from founders who ask, “If I quit Carta, don’t I lose my securities?” We gotta give Carta credit: they misled a lot of smart people into thinking their equity is stuck in Carta. Let’s get the truth out there: securities in your company exist because you followed an acceptable legal process to create and issue them. We run that process, and lawyers usually do. Carta and Pulley are where you enter data about your legal reality—not the place where it lives. The data you entered might be wrong if the process is wrong.
Pulley has offered migrating to Carta, which they say involves phone calls and checking data. With Story’s Aegis Cap Table, you enter no data—you upload documents. We find the legal reality, and that’s what you see on your Story Cap Table.
You’re not moving your securities anywhere. You’re choosing what to rebuild the picture from: an export, which is a picture of a picture, or the documents themselves.
We build from the documents. The record is built on the Open Cap Format, and it downloads as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day you want it.
Here’s how you get your securities “off” Pulley or Carta:
Export from Pulley or Carta
Pulley: Company Settings → Export → Full Company Export (see Pulley’s guide). Carta: Settings → Data Export → Download All Documents.
Sign up for Story Aegis
Free to start. No upfront commitments.
Upload your export zip
Drop files in the portal or email them to gc@story.law.
We rebuild your cap table
Directly from your legally executed documents, by software.
How It Works
Story Cap tables have the BigLaw lawyer logic baked in.
Stop thinking about whether you entered data right. Let your General Counsel get the cap table law right for you.
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FORWARD
A zip, a Drive folder, an inbox full of signed PDFs. Upload it, email it to gc@story.law, Slack it, or throw it in a ticket. We take it from there. You enter no other data.
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GRAPH
Aegis extracts content and key legal terms with proprietary lawyer logic into a graph of your true company reality.
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ASSESS
We consider only legally effective documents: valid agreements signed by the right parties and approved by board/stockholder consent.
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VISUALIZE
See your cap table and data room in clean investor-friendly and lawyer-friendly views.
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SHARE
Invite your lawyers and investors to save them time and cut legal bills. Use our MCP tools to integrate with investors' management systems.
Privileged Legal Verification
Attorney-client privilege included
- ✓No spreadsheet errors: We verify board consents, officer certificates, and option grants.
- ✓Open Cap Table format: Download your cap table as a lawyer-ready Excel workbook at any time.
- ✓Private law firm servers: Unlike Carta, your proprietary startup data is never commercialized or shared.
BigLaw charges $5,000–$15,000 for cap table diligence review.
Story Aegis: Included in your subscription.
A Cap Table UI that doesn't feel like you're operating a space shuttle.
Most cap table software, including Carta, is built with manual data entry — by the founder or the lawyer founders pay. Our cap table software is a data visualization of your legal reality.
Example company. Real product.
Before You Buy
What this won’t do.
We're lawyers, not magicians or psychics. Your Story.law cap table is based only on the actual, effective documents you upload and the specific references they make.
We can only see what you send us.
Your cap table is built from your documents. If a grant was never papered, it isn't in there, because legally it may not exist. Some tools will let you type it in anyway, which records a belief, not ownership. We'll tell you what's missing instead. Closing those gaps is legal work, and legal work costs money.
We won't count a document that doesn't hold up.
If a past lawyer or a template site got something wrong, like a grant with no board consent or a transfer nobody signed, we won't quietly treat it as valid to make your table look clean. We'll flag it and tell you what fixing it takes.
We don't promise every edge case.
Sometimes, as a startup, you had something odd happen in your legal history. We support most of that, but you should understand that some cap table realities are legal ARGUMENTS, and on our platform a manual update to your cap table must come from a lawyer unless our lawyers already said it's reasonable to treat that logic as universal.
Cap table only, or the full platform.
Straightforward pricing. No surprise Carta price hikes based on stakeholder count.
Free Cap Table
Upload your documents and see what's in them. No subscription, no card.
$0
Free to start. Paid only if you need more.
Certificate of incorporation and bylaws
Action by sole incorporator and organizational board consent
Stock purchase agreements
The option plan
SAFEs
A Health Check of what's found and what's missing
Founders who want to see what's in their legal records first.
Cap Table Software
Cap table software with no human review or engagement letter required.
$2,000
/year
Or $199/mo billed monthly (20% more than annual).
A cap table built from your signed documents
Every row linked to its source document
Vesting tracked from each grant’s terms
SAFEs and notes with caps, discounts and MFN terms
Automated legal logic with no human review
Lawyer-ready Excel export
Founders who only need a cap table today — upgrade to Aegis anytime.
- Software only — no legal advice or human review
- No engagement letter required
- Upgrade to lawyer support whenever you need it
PULLEY RESCUE SPECIAL
Pulley Rescue Special
Aegis Raise, with a lawyer in the lead, at the Pulley offer price.
$3,500
/year
Regular price $9,999
Billed annually. The price stays $3,500/yr at every renewal.
65% off Aegis Raise, locked at $3,500/yr forever. Available until November 30, 2026.
Everything in Aegis Start, plus:
Growth cap table (pro formas, preferred stock series, waterfall analysis)
Growth data room with granular investor access controls
Diligence management and checklist automation
Term sheet analysis
Pro forma investment or exit modeling
Companies that want a lawyer in the lead on their cap table and next raise.
- Story engagement letter after payment
Aegis Raise includes an engagement letter with Story LLP and attorney-client privilege; cap table software is software only. Upgrade anytime without losing your historical records.
Simple Migration
Moving off Pulley or Carta is an export and an upload.
No tedious re-keying of numbers. We ingest raw files and do the heavy lifting.
From Pulley
Offline December 8, 2026
- Pulley is shutting down—all operations end December 8, 2026. Export before then.
- Export: Company Settings → Export → Full Company Export.
- Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law.
- We rebuild your cap table from the documents themselves.
From Carta
Escape annual rate hikes & data sales
- Export: Settings → Data Export → Download All Documents.
- Download Carta’s ledger export as a secondary reference.
- Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law.
- We rebuild your cap table from your source documents.
From a shoebox
Spreadsheets, inbox folders, and Drive files
- Gather whatever you have: signed PDFs, email attachments, a shared drive.
- Forward all of it. That’s the normal case for early startups.
- We work out what counts legally and tell you what’s missing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions founders are asking this week
Do I lose my shares when Pulley shuts down or if I quit Carta?
No. You do not lose any shares. Shares, options, SAFEs and notes exist because signed legal documents created them, not because a software vendor recorded them. Export your documents from Pulley before December 8, 2026 (or from Carta anytime) so you retain your files.
What if my export is incomplete or messy?
Send whatever you have, plus any signed agreements sitting in your inbox or shared drive. We build from the underlying agreements and explicitly identify what's missing instead of guessing.
What if no lawyer has ever reviewed our equity grants?
That's extremely common. The software flags anything that needs fixing, like an option grant missing board consent. When you want a lawyer to fix it, add a lawyer in the lead with Aegis Raise.
What happens to our cap table if Story ever shuts down?
Download it as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day you like. And the same fundamental rule applies to us: your securities live in your signed legal documents, never trapped inside a proprietary platform.
Can I upgrade to the full Aegis platform later?
Yes. Upgrade anytime to Aegis Start or Aegis Raise, and your entire cap table, data room, and historical records transition seamlessly.
Do you provide 409A valuations?
We offer 409A valuations a la carte when you actually need them—not bundled into an expensive forced annual plan you’re paying for before it’s useful.
Is our cap table data protected by attorney-client privilege?
Your data is confidential from day one. It becomes privileged when you engage Story LLP as your lawyer, which is part of Aegis Raise. The software-only plan is not legal advice and has no engagement letter. Client data is hosted on secure law firm infrastructure and never shared or sold to secondary markets.