Symptom · 02
02 Filing ≠ Structure
Every piece is correct. None of the pieces are talking.

The filing is not the structure.

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The LLC was filed correctly. 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.
2
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. You have a contractor invoice template. They have not seen the cap table.

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.
· The arithmetic of new builds ·

Five correct pieces.
Zero coherent structure.

2 down. 5 to go.

Naming the gap is step two. Building across it is the work.

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