Matter Docs
Pick your profile
Ten persona walkthroughs across three axes. Pick by founder type, by funding stage, or by operating model; the lifecycle phases line up across all three.
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The Cookbook answers "how do I do X?" — one recipe per verb, tabs for cURL, TypeScript, Python. Use Cases answers the prior question: "what calls would I actually make for a company like mine?"
Every Matter walkthrough runs through the same three lifecycle phases — Create, Manage, Exit — but the density of each phase changes wildly with founder background, team size, and funding stage. A novice founder gives Matter the bare minimum and trusts every default; a technical founder dry-runs every option before picking one; a serial entrepreneur applies a saved template and instantiates against a portfolio. A solo bootstrapper touches three endpoints over a year; a funded Series A team runs eight in any given quarter.
Not every reader is the founder. A portfolio manager — venture studio, fund admin, accelerator, family office — operates ten to a hundred companies on other people's behalf, and works in cohorts, rollups, and fleet verbs rather than one entity at a time. A platform embeds Matter inside its own product so that its end customers own the entities; its walkthrough is about per-customer portfolios, scoped keys, and isolation rather than any single company's lifecycle. Both run the same three phases — the unit of work is the portfolio, not the company. Pick the persona that matches you and follow its walkthrough end to end.
Novice founder
First company, no prior knowledge of corporate structure. Matter resolves every default; the founder's job is to say start.
Technical founder
First company, technically rigorous. Compares jurisdictions, reads every explainer, dry-runs every mutation before committing.
Serial entrepreneur
Fourth or fifth company. Applies a saved template, reuses a single registered agent across the portfolio, expects everything to work the same way it did last time.
Solo bootstrap
One founder, no outside capital, minimal governance overhead. The path is short on purpose.
Co-founders, pre-funding
Two or more founders, no outside capital yet. Founder equity, vesting, and a clean cap table for whoever comes next.
Co-founders, seeded
Co-founders with a SAFE round closed. Hiring early team, granting equity, keeping the cap table investor-clean.
Funded team
Priced round closed, board in place, real operating cadence. Equity programs, foreign qualifications, board consents on a schedule.
Scale team
Series A and beyond. Multi-state operations, full equity programs, board cadence, and the option of an exit envelope.
Portfolio managers
Venture studio, fund admin, accelerator, or family office running ten to a hundred companies for other people. Cohort formation, one compliance rollup, fleet filings, scoped delegation.
Platform embedders
A B2B2C product whose end customers own the entities. One portfolio per customer, one scoped key per portfolio, formation in your own chrome, per-customer isolation.
Every walkthrough on this tab assumes a Delaware C-Corp. That covers the venture-track default and ~90% of the founders we see. Wyoming, LLCs, and other jurisdictions follow the same shape with a different jurisdiction parameter on the formation packet — head to the API reference when you need to deviate.
Use Cases is persona-indexed. The Cookbook is action-indexed. Pages here link straight into Cookbook recipes for the actual code — they don't duplicate. If you already know the verb you want to call, head straight to the Cookbook.