Unrecorded sweat equity agreements face complete extinction during institutional venture rounds via definitive disclosure schedules and strict integration clauses.
Enforceable equity terms with express consideration and integration clauses bar quantum meruit claims by contractually defining the exclusive remedy for service.
Informal equity promises lack statutory corporate validity, defaulting enforcement claims to fair market wage restitution or equitable promissory estoppel remedies.
Oral equity claims fail without definitive terms, corroborating conduct, or written evidence overriding statutory fraud bars.
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.
