We form your LLC or corporation with the Secretary of State, and we can be the registered agent it is required to name — at a staffed Texas office, not a mailbox. One filing, tracked to the state's own record.
About six minutes. Already have a company? Move your registered agent to us.
Registered agent — $249/year. Texas requires every company to name one, and your company cannot be its own. Add us and your registered office is a staffed desk in one of four Texas buildings, with anything served on you scanned the same business day.
Forming a Texas company is a single document — the certificate of formation. What trips people up is not the form. It is the registered agent it obliges you to name.
The Secretary of State rejects a name that is not distinguishable from one already on the record. We check before you pay, and tell you what came close.
Every Texas company has to have one, and your company cannot be its own. It is either an individual Texas resident who has agreed, or a company registered to do business here. Us, for example.
It has to be a street address where a process server can hand someone the papers during business hours — the statute rules out a mailbox service. Use your home and your home is the address on the record.
Your first franchise tax report is due the May after you form. Lose your registered agent and the state can terminate the company involuntarily. We prepare the filings before the reminder goes out.
You answer what only you can answer. We prepare the certificate, file it through the state's portal, and watch the record until your company exists.
We search the state's active records while you type, and show you what came close before you spend anything.
Add us and pick your building — you see the exact street address that will be published. Or name your own agent; we will still form the company.
Members or managers, their addresses, and the purpose. General purpose covers almost everyone.
State fee shown at cost. You sign as organizer, we record our consent to serve as agent, and the certificate goes to the Secretary of State.
A submission receipt means the portal took your money. It does not mean your company exists. The state issues your file number when it accepts the certificate, and until then you have a filing, not a business. We watch the record and tell you the moment that changes.
Your registered office is the address the state publishes and where a process server will go. Every one of ours has a staffed front desk during business hours.
A Texas company that legally exists: the certificate of formation prepared, filed with the Secretary of State, and tracked until the state issues your file number — with the file-stamped certificate in your documents vault. If you add registered agent service, we are also the agent named on it.
No. You can name anyone who qualifies — an individual Texas resident, or a company registered to do business here, who has agreed to serve. What you cannot do is name the company itself. If you name your own agent we will still form the company for you.
You personally, yes, if you are a Texas resident with a street address where you can be served during business hours. Two things make people stop: that address goes on the public record, and you have to be there. The company itself, though, can never be its own agent.
Most new Texas businesses form an LLC: liability protection without the shares, directors and formalities. A corporation is what outside investors usually expect. Both cost the same $300 to file. We cannot advise you on which — that question is legal and tax advice, and we are neither.
We file the same day you sign. The Secretary of State's own processing is what determines when your file number is issued, and your tracker shows the filing sitting with them until it lands.
Not yet. Today we form the company, act as registered agent, and prepare your state filings. We would rather do that properly than bundle things we do not yet do well.
Your first franchise tax report is due the May following formation. We build the draft seventy-five days ahead and ask you only what changed. And if you are ever sued, whatever is served on us is scanned and sent to you the same business day.
No. We prepare and submit the filings you instruct us to prepare, using the state's own promulgated forms. We are not a law firm, and nothing here is legal or tax advice.