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Source the rule
Official data first
State fees, registry rules, and tax notes are grounded in public sources before they become copy or calculator inputs.
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Formation clarity system
Start your U.S. company from anywhere.
A proof-led operating desk for global founders: compare LLC costs, estimate S-corp savings, choose a jurisdiction, and avoid the traps that generic formation ads skip.
- State fees
- 50+DC
- Countries
- 13
- Access
- Free
Lanzamo Formation Signal
State -> EIN -> Bank -> Compliance
State fees
50 states + DC
EIN path
No SSN route
Banking
Founder-ready
Compliance
5472 alerts
You, anywhere U.S. company ready
Calculator-first decisions
Source-aware guides
Paid links visibly disclosed
Tools
Start with a real answer.
The brand is useful because the tools are useful. Each one gives a first decision without collecting your email.
All tools
Setup route report Company Setup Report
A printable setup route: country, state, EIN, banking, service path, and compliance.
CountryEINCompliance
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State fee map LLC Cost by State
Filing + annual fees for all 50 states, sorted side by side.
FilingAnnualFirst year
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Tax split model LLC vs S-corp Tax Calculator
Estimate S-corp tax savings vs a default LLC, instantly.
ProfitSalarySavings
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Country desk Where to Incorporate: Country Comparison
Compare 13 startup-friendly countries — fees, tax, and the resident-director catch.
FeesTaxDirector rules
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Fit recommender Find Your Jurisdiction
Answer 6 questions → your best-fit countries, ranked with reasons.
MarketBankingSpeed
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The Lanzamo Method
Credibility should not be a paragraph at the bottom of the page. Lanzamo turns its editorial rules into visible interface: source, calculate, flag, disclose.
Trust receipt
- Calculators
- Run in browser
- Recommendations
- Editorial first
- Paid links
- Disclosed
- Legal boundary
- Not advice
02
Run the math
Tools before advice
The calculators run in the browser, expose their assumptions, and keep founders out of service pitches until the numbers make sense.
03
Flag the trap
Risks get visual weight
Form 5472, resident-director rules, franchise taxes, and banking friction appear as warnings, not buried footnotes.
04
Disclose the money
Affiliate links are labeled
Paid links sit beside the recommendation, never inside the calculation. The commercial layer cannot rewrite the math.
New jurisdiction desk
The U.S. is not your only option.
Compare 13 startup-friendly jurisdictions by fee, tax, setup speed, banking friction, and resident-director rules from a non-resident founder's point of view.
Guides
Plain-English operating manuals.
Researched guide paths for the moments where global founders usually get stuck.
Start here
Form a U.S. LLC as a non-resident
State, EIN with no SSN, U.S. banking, Stripe, and staying compliant.
Delaware C-corp for fundraising
VC-track setup for non-residents: founder stock, 83(b), SAFE financing, Rule 506, Form D, and franchise tax.
U.S. business banking for non-residents
Mercury, Relay, Wise and Payoneer compared, plus the documents and address issues that trigger rejections.
Best LLC services, compared
Doola, Northwest, Firstbase and more, with the EIN-without-SSN detail founders actually need.
Form 5472: the $25,000 trap
The compliance requirement every foreign-owned LLC has to understand, even at $0 income.
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