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

Great product, the interface is amazing!

No COO needed. This makes it easier than ever for founders and nimble teams to stay compliant across the US!

Hey Firstbase team! Congrats on the launch of Firstbase Agent! This is an amazing integrated solution for every founder concerned with compliance!

Love it! As a business model geek, I'm so impressed with your product/gtm strategy. Moving into compliance for remote teams is such an epic new chapter for y'all. Excited to use you guys as we build out a remote team.

Amazing job team! Congratulations 🎉

The comments here seem like they are upvoting with no evidence of using the product. Is this what PH has become? My experience with FirstBase Agent was a disaster and Im surprised that they are launching it on Product Hunt. I had paid for Change of agent service to Firstbase on November 6, 2022. Till date we have not received the service and repeated requests for a timeline are not answered. In January, one of their support staff responded saying they were very backlogged and recommended proceeding with a refund rather than moving forward with them. Finally in February I decided to call it quits and took the refund and cancelled my Agent subscription with Firstbase Firstbase has caused numerous business process interruptions by not having a Registered Agent for 3 months and I regret having ever considered your services.

Bookmarked it.

Congrats with the launch, Firstbase! 🎉 Currently, I’m looking into opening a company in the US to solve my issues with payments, taxes, invoices, and so on — Firstbase is one of the top choices I have on a list next to Stripe Atlas and Clerky. I really like your all-in-one approach, and that most of the stuff can be done digitally — and your company seems to cater towards a global audience rather than US residents/citizens specifically 🌐 I have a few questions regarding Firstbase Agent and Firstbase Start — hope you can help me (and maybe other folks too) clarify some things: 1. Is Firstbase Agent included in Firstbase Start? If not, does it make sense to pay for it right away after incorporating the company? Or it is not necessary until some time passes? 2. Is Firstbase Mailroom included in Firstbase Agent? The wording on the Agent page made me think so. 3. “Annual report and franchise tax filings (additional filing fees per state apply)” — this is available only on Autopilot and Payroll plans, but how does it work on a Light plan or if I just incorporate a company with Firstbase Start? Any tax filings are new to me, so I’m not sure where I need to download a form, where should I send it, and so on. Also, do I understand it right, that Franchise Tax is not included on Autopilot and Payroll plans, so I need to pay for them myself? 4. What if I want to hire a non-US resident/citizen? Does “Foreign Qualifications” cover this, or it’s only for US folks from other than incorporation state? Is it even difficult to hire such a person if I start a company with Firstbase Start? A few questions about Firstbase Start specifically: 6. Most important question: what taxes should I pay as a non-US resident/citizen and all my B2C/B2B clients are not from the US if I open an LLC/C-Corp in Delaware/Wyoming? What if the B2C/B2B clients are in the US? I’m curious specifically about B2B ones, since my initial product is for them. Hope you can clarify this moment, since it’s the most crucial to me — one of startup founders (from Russia, but lives in Montenegro) I know, opened a company in the US in Delaware via Clerky, and he says that he needs to pay only a Franchise Tax (didn’t ask him if his clients are based in the US). 5. I’m building a productized service (unlimited web design/development subscription) which I’m trying to automate as much as possible. This is not a full-blown startup per se I think (most people think about startups as apps, software stuff, etc), but I’m gonna sell digital goods and build various products (one is in idea polish stage) — am I a good fit for Firstbase? I do consider my productized service as a small startup, but not looking for investments and stuff like that right away — it’s more a bootstrapper approach on the start. 7. Considering the previous point, what’s the best state to incorporate a company in: Delaware or Wyoming? Do you have a blog post highlighting the differences between the two? 8. I did hear that LLC is somewhat easier to manage for small startups or/and when there’s only one founder/employee. However, C-Corp overall is easier and less complicated since managing LLCs might be a hassle and changing name/adding new employees/etc is a chore. Can you please clarify this moment? Are C-Corps more expensive to run? I’m not exactly sure what to choose in my situation. 9. Is it complicated to close a company in case if I want to do it with Firstbase Start? What are the fees for doing so? 10. Last, but not least: are there any immigration issues that can be caused by having a company in the US? What if I decide to move to the US? Or what if I want to travel to the US, but also do some work? Will it be considered as that I’m working in the US (and my company is registered in the country too)? My apologies for this extensive questions list, but I hope you don’t mind answering at least a few of them — I really want to use your services (digital only, yahoo!) as a non-US resident/citizen, but do not understand these important details quite yet. Thanks for your reply in advance! P.S: Love the fact that you are using Webflow for your site — as a fellow Webflower, that’s really nice to see, haha 😅

I really want to upvote this. I am a customer of Firstbase and have onboarded 5 companies there (and they have paperwork for 7 of my businesses). But there are a ton of issues with the platform, and I have asked so many times as a heavy user to speak to Mark, the CEO, and even reached out personally in the earlier days, and was ignored. I worked in marketing; isn't the best feedback the kind that comes from actual users? I have so much to share about the platform and feel like I'm unimportant despite having paid thousands. I'm sorry it's coming to a public ProductHunt post to possibly get his attention.

I really want to support this. I am a customer of Firstbase and have onboarded 5 companies there (and they have paperwork for 7 of my businesses). But there are a ton of issues with the platform, and I have asked so many times as a heavy user to speak to Mark, the CEO, and even reached out personally in the earlier days, and was ignored. I worked in marketing; isn't the best feedback the kind that comes from actual users? I have so much to share about the platform and feel like I'm unimportant despite having paid thousands. I'm sorry it's coming to a public ProductHunt post to possibly get his attention.