Same-business-day LLC filing typical in NY, CA, FL & TX.Same-business-day filing in 4 states. See pricing
About us
Most people think starting a business means lawyers, expensive filing services, weeks of waiting, and confusing legal forms. It doesn't. The state already has the system. The IRS already has the system. We just walk you through it — fast, honestly, and for free.
The story
I used one of the big-name LLC formation services. They charged me a service fee on top of the state filing fee, then upsold me a registered-agent subscription, an operating-agreement template, and a compliance reminder service. Six weeks later I had my Articles of Organization, four ongoing subscriptions, and a mailbox full of vague upsell emails.
The forms themselves had taken about 20 minutes to fill out. The state had processed them in three days. Everything else was friction the formation service had added — friction I'd paid for.
The Midnight Founder is what I wished existed: a service that does the actual work — filing the LLC, walking you through the IRS EIN, helping you open a bank account — without the upsells, the markup, or the wait.
You should be able to start a business tonight. So we built the thing that lets you.
What we believe
Filing should be boring.
Forming an LLC is paperwork. The system is designed for it. There's no reason it should take six weeks or cost $1,500. We submit the same forms, to the same portals, that a lawyer would — only faster.
Your data is yours.
We collect what we need to file your business — nothing else. We don't sell it, we don't share it with advertisers, and we don't trade it with data brokers. The only third parties we use are the service providers that run the platform (Stripe for payment, Supabase for accounts, Resend for email, Anthropic for the AI tools, Google Analytics on marketing pages). Full list in our privacy policy.
No upsell traps.
Standard filing is $0 service fee — you pay only your state's filing fee. We won't bury you in a $300 "compliance subscription," a $99 "operating agreement template," or a $49 "registered agent service" you don't need. (Our hands-on pilot offering is priced openly on its own page.)
Founders helping founders.
We're a small team — not a private-equity-rolled-up legal mill. We answer email ourselves. We make decisions ourselves. And if something breaks, we fix it ourselves.
Talk to us
Press inquiries, partnership questions, or just want to say hi? Reach out — a real person will read it and write back.