# Clearouncil

*/Startups/Clearouncil*

## Startup Overview

A governance platform structures board resolutions and automates multi-stakeholder compliance sign-offs for corporate leadership. It replaces scattered communication channels with a centralized workspace where legal, financial, and executive teams draft, review, and approve critical corporate actions.

Corporate secretaries and board directors often rely on fragmented tools like Diligent Boards, Jira Service Management, or manual email workflows to track approvals. These legacy methods fracture visibility and delay time-sensitive governance decisions. The platform routes documents through predefined compliance checkpoints, guaranteeing that all required parties review and approve materials in the exact correct sequence.

Unlike disjointed ticketing systems or standard board portals, the software operates as a fully-managed resolution engine secured by immutable audit logs. Every edit, comment, and signature is permanently recorded, providing an absolute, tamper-proof record of governance actions for regulators and internal auditors.

## Startup Founding Hypothesis

**Approach**: that structures board resolutions and automates multi-stakeholder compliance sign-offs
**Competitors**:
- [Diligent Boards](/Competitors/Diligent_Boards)
- [Jira Service Management](/Competitors/Jira_Service_Management)
- [Manual Email Workflows](/Competitors/Manual_Email_Workflows)
**Differentiator2x2**: a fully-managed resolution engine and secured by immutable audit logs

## Startup Solution Coordinate

**Solution**: [Board Resolution Engine](/Software/Board_Resolution_Engine)

## Startup Position2x2

```mermaid
quadrantChart
    title Board Resolution Sign-off Solutions
    x-axis General & Unstructured --> Fully-Managed Resolution Engine
    y-axis Manual & Vulnerable Tracking --> Immutable Audit Logs
    quadrant-1 Automated & Secure
    quadrant-2 Secure Board Portals
    quadrant-3 Ad-hoc & Risky
    quadrant-4 General Workflows
    Manual Email Workflows: [0.15, 0.15]
    Jira Service Management: [0.70, 0.35]
    Diligent Boards: [0.40, 0.80]
    Clearouncil: [0.85, 0.85]
```

## Startup Offer

**Proof**:
- Targeting growth-stage companies aiming to reduce unanimous written consent turnarounds from weeks to under 48 hours.
- Designed to help corporate secretaries eliminate 100% of manual follow-up emails for board approvals.
- Aiming to enable compliance teams to pass governance audits with zero exceptions regarding resolution traceability.
**Tiers**:
- Name: Single Entity · Price: ~$400–$800/mo · Inclusions: Standard resolution engine for one operating company, including pre-built governance templates, automated email routing for signatures, and standard immutable audit logs for up to 10 board members/stakeholders.
- Name: Multi-Entity Group · Price: ~$1,200–$2,500/mo · Inclusions: Advanced resolution engine for a parent company and its subsidiaries, including cross-entity approval maps, parallel stakeholder sign-offs, and dedicated compliance reporting dashboards.
- Name: Enterprise Governance · Price: ~$30k–$60k/yr · Inclusions: Unlimited entities and stakeholders, custom immutable ledger policies, API access intended for deep ERP/equity platform integrations, and a dedicated deployment engineer.
**Guarantee**: If an executed resolution fails a standard compliance audit due to a routing error or missing log entry within the Clearouncil engine, we will refund the current quarter's platform fee and immediately assist in reconstructing the necessary documentation.
**Business Function**: ProvideService
**Objection Handlers**:
- Board members refuse to learn another portal: Clearouncil is designed to allow stakeholders to review and approve resolutions securely via email links without ever logging into a new dashboard.
- We already use DocuSign for this: Clearouncil handles the complex multi-stage routing, conditional approvals, and immutable pre-signature audit trails, and is built to integrate directly with standard e-signature tools for the final execution.
- Jira handles our internal approvals fine: Jira lacks the specific legal governance templates, corporate secretary oversight controls, and cryptographically hashed ledgers required for formal board-level resolutions.
- How secure are the audit logs?: The platform's architecture is designed to append every view, comment, and approval to a tamper-proof, immutable ledger that cannot be altered by administrators.
**Pricing Architecture**: Tiered
**Agent Checkout Support**:
- agentic-commerce-protocol

## Startup Brand

**Voice**: Formal and direct, prioritizing legal exactness in every communication.
**Tagline**: Finalize board resolutions with automated, immutable compliance sign-offs.
**Icon Concept**: gavel
**Palette Intent**: institutional-cool
**Visual Identity**: Deep navy and crisp slate project institutional stability, anchored by sharp serif typography reminiscent of traditional corporate documentation.
**Archetype Reference**: the-ruler

## Startup Buyer Chain

**Chain**: B2B → Corporate Secretary → Board of Directors
**Gtm Motion**: Acquires legal operations teams through direct sales targeting upcoming quarterly board meetings to pilot the resolution engine. Expands by selling additional workflow seats to finance, HR, and risk officers to manage routine departmental compliance sign-offs.
**Agent Channel**: Designed to register in enterprise agent catalogs like the Microsoft Copilot Studio connector library, enabling corporate legal AI agents to programmatically query audit logs and trigger multi-stakeholder approval workflows.
**Primary Channel**: Direct outbound outreach to Corporate Secretaries and Legal Operations Directors, paired with targeted search capture for queries like 'board resolution approval software' and 'digital compliance sign-off'.

## Startup Customer Journey

```mermaid
flowchart LR
A[Legal Operations Director] --> B[Resolution Engine]
B --> C[Quarterly Board Meeting]
C --> D[Approved Resolution]
D --> E[Parent Company]
E --> F[Risk Officer]
F --> G[Compliance Audit]
```

## Startup Proof Points

_Illustrative — target and order-of-magnitude estimate figures, not an achieved track record (this Thing is concept-stage)._

**Pilot Goals**:
- 30-day single-entity pilot: Route three standard board resolutions through the engine to prove a measurable decrease in signature collection time compared to the legacy email-to-eSignature process.
- 60-day multi-entity pilot: Map and execute cross-entity approval workflows for a parent company and two subsidiaries to validate the generation of a unified, immutable compliance dashboard.
**Target Metrics**:
- Target: Reduce unanimous written consent turnaround times from 14+ days to under 48 hours
- Aim: Eliminate 100% of manual follow-up emails required from the corporate secretary for board approvals
- Target: Achieve 0 governance audit exceptions related to missing resolution log entries or broken traceability
**Target Case Studies**:
- A Series C technology company (General Counsel) transitioning from manual DocuSign chasing to automated routing, targeting a reduction in unanimous written consent turnaround from weeks to under 48 hours.
- A mid-market holding company with multiple subsidiaries (Corporate Secretary) shifting from scattered email chains to centralized approval mapping, aiming to secure parallel stakeholder sign-offs without requiring board members to adopt a new portal.
- A pre-IPO financial services firm (Chief Compliance Officer) deploying the immutable ledger architecture to target zero exceptions during external governance audits regarding resolution traceability.
**Testimonial Targets**:
- General Counsel: Expressing relief that board members can review and approve formal resolutions securely via email links without complaining about learning a new software dashboard.
- Corporate Secretary: Highlighting the complete elimination of manual tracking spreadsheets for multi-stage conditional approvals across parent and subsidiary entities.
- External Auditor / Chief Compliance Officer: Validating the trustworthiness and ease of verifying the cryptographically hashed, tamper-proof ledger during an annual governance review.

## Startup Top Risks

**Risks**:
- Severity: existential · Description: Key legal stakeholders refuse to abandon email and Microsoft Word for executing legally binding board resolutions. · Mitigation Status: unmitigated
- Severity: high · Description: A breach or data exposure in the audit log system causes immediate enterprise churn and opens the company to liability claims. · Mitigation Status: in-progress
- Severity: high · Description: Incumbents like Diligent replicate the automated compliance sign-off workflow and bundle it for free into their existing enterprise contracts. · Mitigation Status: unmitigated
- Severity: moderate · Description: Custom integrations with fragmented enterprise identity providers delay onboarding and drastically lengthen sales cycles. · Mitigation Status: in-progress

## Startup Competitors

- [Diligent Boards](/Competitors/Diligent_Boards) — Incumbent
- [Jira Service Management](/Competitors/Jira_Service_Management) — Generic Ticketing
- [Manual Email Workflows](/Competitors/Manual_Email_Workflows) — Status Quo
- [Nasdaq Boardvantage](/Competitors/Nasdaq_Boardvantage) — Legacy Board Portal
- [Passageways OnBoard](/Competitors/Passageways_OnBoard) — Point Solution

## Startup Solution Stack

- [Board Resolution Service](/Services/Board_Resolution_Service) — Service-as-Software
- [Sign-off Routing Agent](/Agents/Sign-off_Routing_Agent) — Agent
- [Compliance Verification Worker](/Agents/Compliance_Verification_Worker) — Agent
- [Resolution Structuring API](/Software/Resolution_Structuring_API) — Software
- [Immutable Audit Engine](/Software/Immutable_Audit_Engine) — Software

## Startup Story Brand

**Hero**:
- **Need**: to be the authority on corporate governance, not a high-priced administrative assistant
- **Want**: to finalize board resolutions with absolute compliance without chasing directors for signatures
- **Identity**: the corporate secretary at a high-growth multi-entity organization
**Plan**:
- Step: Select · Detail: Choose a pre-built governance template and define your stakeholder approval map.
- Step: Confirm · Detail: Verify the automated routing logic to ensure every director receives the correct resolution draft.
- Step: Execute · Detail: Stakeholders sign via secure email links, instantly updating the immutable compliance log.
**Guide**:
- **Empathy**: Legal integrity and momentum are won in the details of the signature path — but manual email workflows break the chain of custody.
**Problem**:
- **Villain**: fragmented approval chains
- **External**: Executing a single written consent takes weeks of manual email follow-ups across Diligent, DocuSign, and disparate spreadsheets
- **Internal**: You feel anxious that a missing audit trail or improper routing will invalidate a critical board vote
- **Philosophical**: Why should a corporate legal team accept administrative friction when governance is a matter of record?
**Success**: Resolutions finalize in under 48 hours with a tamper-proof audit trail that satisfies any compliance examiner.
**One Liner**: Instead of chasing signatures through manual email workflows, Clearouncil automates multi-stakeholder board resolutions — ensuring 100% compliance with an immutable audit log.
**Positioning**:
- **So That**: pass governance audits with zero exceptions regarding resolution traceability
- **Unlike**: Diligent Boards and Jira
- **For Whom**: growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups
- **Category**: Governance Automation for Corporate Secretaries
**Call To Action**:
- **Direct**: Draft a resolution
- **Transitional**: View sample audit ledger
**Failure Stakes**:
- Failed governance audits
- Invalidated board decisions
- Delayed funding rounds
**Transformation**:
- **To**: one of the few legal leads who commands perfect governance
- **From**: the secretary buried in DocuSign follow-ups
**Controlling Idea**: Corporate governance should be automated, immutable, and finalized in days, not weeks.

## Startup Token Hero

**Genre**: founding-hypothesis
**Rendered**: Instead of chasing signatures through manual email workflows, Clearouncil automates multi-stakeholder board resolutions — ensuring 100% compliance with an immutable audit log.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-founding-hypothesis
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 78a88accbcad08ac

## Startup Token Positioning

**Genre**: moore-positioning
**Rendered**: Governance Automation for Corporate Secretaries for growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups. Unlike Diligent Boards and Jira — pass governance audits with zero exceptions regarding resolution traceability.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-moore-positioning
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 1090510048f137e5

## Startup Token Pitch Deck

**Genre**: pitch-deck
**Rendered**: Problem: Executing a single written consent takes weeks of manual email follow-ups across Diligent, DocuSign, and disparate spreadsheets
Solution: Instead of chasing signatures through manual email workflows, Clearouncil automates multi-stakeholder board resolutions — ensuring 100% compliance with an immutable audit log.
Customer: growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups
Unlike: Diligent Boards and Jira
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-pitch-deck
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 319cd3596429bb47

## Startup Token M E D D P I C C

**Pain**: Executing a single written consent takes weeks of manual email follow-ups across Diligent, DocuSign, and disparate spreadsheets
**Metrics**: Target: Resolutions finalize in under 48 hours with a tamper-proof audit trail that satisfies any compliance examiner.
**Rendered**: Pain: Executing a single written consent takes weeks of manual email follow-ups across Diligent, DocuSign, and disparate spreadsheets
Economic buyer: Corporate Secretary
Metrics: Target: Resolutions finalize in under 48 hours with a tamper-proof audit trail that satisfies any compliance examiner.
Competition: Diligent Boards and Jira
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Competition**: Diligent Boards and Jira
**Economic Buyer**: Corporate Secretary
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 67612f5364b36300

## Startup Token Cold Email

**Genre**: cold-email
**Rendered**: Subject: Governance Automation for Corporate Secretaries for growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups

growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups — Executing a single written consent takes weeks of manual email follow-ups across Diligent, DocuSign, and disparate spreadsheets Instead of chasing signatures through manual email workflows, Clearouncil automates multi-stakeholder board resolutions — ensuring 100% compliance with an immutable audit log.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-cold-email
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 25666ae04d241eec

## Startup Token Agent Spec

**Genre**: ai-agent-spec
**Rendered**: Governance Automation for Corporate Secretaries. Instead of chasing signatures through manual email workflows, Clearouncil automates multi-stakeholder board resolutions — ensuring 100% compliance with an immutable audit log. Serves growth-stage companies and multi-entity groups.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-ai-agent-spec
**Vocab Fingerprint**: bd61f27a81fb7e42

## Neighborhood

### Candidate solutions

- [Defect Reporting Latency](/Problems/Defect_Reporting_Latency) — candidate solution for · Problems

### Composed of

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- [Immutable Audit Engine](/Software/Immutable_Audit_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Resolution Structuring API](/Software/Resolution_Structuring_API) — composes · Software
- [Compliance Verification Worker](/Agents/Compliance_Verification_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [Sign-off Routing Agent](/Agents/Sign-off_Routing_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Board Resolution Service](/Services/Board_Resolution_Service) — composes · Services

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- [Board Resolution Engine](/Software/Board_Resolution_Engine) — offers · Software

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