Firstbase Agent - Ditch the lawyers, save hours on your compliance filings

@denis_galka hi VP of Ops at Firstbase. Firstbase is trying to become the all in one business OS. Our killer thesis is that we will help you organize all of your back office tools and data into one easy to use place! Imagine having all of your incorporation documents, legal compliance reminders, being able to do most business filings while also signing up for different tools like Carta or Mercury in one platform

Hey, @denis_galka ! Nice to hear from you and thanks for your question. Clerky is a great market partner and I am pretty sure everything went smoothie for you. I am obviously biased once I am also the one building Firstbase Start (our incorporation product: https://www.firstbase.io/start, but below I've shared a few killer features (hard to choose one, our team is doing a great job!): 1 - Bank account without EIN: for foreign founders, the EIN process can take a couple of weeks but, with Firstbase, you don't need to wait to have access to your business bank account! 2 - Cap table: Our integration with Carta allows you to create a cap table with just one click after incorporation. We will prepare your legal documents, file your paperwork, and complete all the essential post-incorporation documents. 3 - Rewards: More than any other platform. Our founders have access to more than 250k USD in perks and services that are essential to their businesses; 4 - Building an ecosystem: Our community has earlier access to all products we are launching and everything is smoothie once they are all interconnected. Take a look at how many products we launched last year: https://www.firstbase.io/blog/20... Much more coming in 2023 - I wish I could share some spoilers, but stay tuned!!

@paolo_degiglio Hi Paolo - once you purchase Autopilot, we help with you sign up for foreign qualification. Within our app, you have the option to select for which states you would like to foreign qualify with. All you need to do is is pay the state fees after selecting and we take care of the rest!

@paolo_degiglio thanks for your feedback! We are super excited with Agent as well. Talking about foreign qualification, we offer that at no interest rate for all 50 states (you only need to cover the state fees). The process is super simple and you can expand to any state in a few minutes: 1 - Go to agent onboarding: https://onboarding.firstbase.io/... 2 - Select you want to expand to a new state 3 - Choose your Agent plan (highly recommend Autopilot!) 4 - You will have access to our Agent dashboard where you can manage every compliance task with the state and our team will notify and handle everything on your behalf! You are more than welcome to test our product and count on me if you need any assistance!

@scott_ames_messinger My experience with them has been similar, they have not executed on my change of agent request for 3 months and given the excuse of too much workload. I am surprised that they are launching their service on PH now

@scott_ames_messinger Almost all of the upvotes and positive comments seem to be by people who have not actually used the service

@neiljlobo So weird! I wonder if there's some gaming going on. I kinda thought the company was a ghost company that barely existed -- it was such an odd experience. Being sent 3rd party ads after onboarding blew my mind. And I agree -- I was also surprised to see them launch! And, perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but I figured if they had launched on PH, they would probably see my post, find the old email, form an apology, and I might consider trying them out again. But, alas. It's a space that needs more competition. I wish they were rising to the occasion.

@scott_ames_messinger @neiljlobo damn, guys, this sounds rough. I want to open a company in the US and Firstbase is on my top list next to Stripe Atlas and Clerky. What are your recommendations, guys?

@neiljlobo @alaverdyan I wouldn't. Here's how another company handled something similiarly: A company I was using (Stable) was unresponsive and I mentioned it on ProductHunt. When they saw the comment, they apologized profusely, found the email, identified why it happened, and apologized again. All my future interactions were positive -- it was clear my experience was an outlier and they felt bad and embarrassed and fixed it. I'd work with Stable if we needed their services. Take Firstbase. Neil & I have similar experiences (non responsiveness) and what does the VP of **OPS** do? In a comment now deleted, he writes, "I'm definitely open to chatting to understand feedback and how we can be better." That's a non-answer. It's clear what they can do better (be responsive) and the course of action is obvious (reach out to us proactively and resolve this). It wasn't a serious response. It's the response of a company where this probably happens a lot. So, I'd use anything other than Firstbase. I was hoping my comment on PH would lead me to like and trust them more...but the opposite has happened. I haven't used Atlas or Clerky, but we've used CorpNet in the past and they're very, very fast with registrations. I don't love them, but they're very competent at the filing part.

@filipe_senna1 @hadia_khawar07 VP of Operations here at Firstbase.io! We've already helped over 25k+ incorporate and manage their companies! Here's to many more 🚀🚀

@filipe_senna1 @rameel_sheikh Best of luck!!!

@hadia_khawar07 thanks for the kind words and for supporting us on this launch!

@russell_fieldsfh kudos to @chuck_leupen and @pedro_masid for the great designs!

@bernard_lunae many thanks! We love to receive feedback - it keeps everyone energized and eager to build much more.

@sanele_sibiya hi VP of Ops here. Appreciate the feedback and would love to hear how we can help🎉

@sanele_sibiya kudos to @chuck_leupen and @pedro_masid for the great designs!

@adam_smits thank you!

@rameel_sheikh Super proud of our product!

@musleh_khan we already incorporated a few thousands of companies from UK! Thanks for your feedback and support today.

@azwinndini_matamela thank you for supporting us on the launch!

@daniel_valenciah thank you for supporting us on the launch!

@huntert_pendergrasseh thanks for the feedback and great to hear you are using it!

@daniel_oliverer thanks a lot for the feedback and for supporting us today!

@filipe_santosdh thank you!

@alvin_collinse thank you for supporting us on the launch!

@harold_torres can't wait for that! I will love to have you and your company as our customer :)