The filing is not the structure.
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The LLC was filed correctly. The EIN came through. Congratulations. That was the easy part.
1
The operating agreement is the default template your attorney uses for every LLC. Including the ice cream truck your neighbor registered last year.
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The buy-sell provisions reference events that cannot happen yet because you have not issued units to the second founder.
3
You hired a finance contractor and signed the invoice template they sent you. Nobody has shown them who owns what.
Each specialist handled one piece.
No one checked how the pieces work together.
The expensive part is the owner-level view. You paid for isolated pieces and called the structure done. Nobody was hired to hold all of it at once, because that is your job and nobody told you.
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Five correct pieces.
Zero coherent structure.
Filing. EIN. Operating agreement. Buy-sell. Finance help.
Each one correct on its own terms. None of them read against the others.
2 down. 5 to go.
Naming the gap is step two. Reading the pieces against each other is the work.
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