Legal due diligence in venture financing identifies unwritten ownership promises, forcing explicit equity releases before institutional capital enters the capitalization table.
Unassigned intellectual property is resolved by auditing commit records, establishing clear inventorship, and securing retroactive assignments before financing.
Promissory estoppel requires clear proof of definitive terms, corporate authority, and quantifiable injury, which standard financing agreements extinguish.
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.
