Use Cases
Solo bootstrap
One founder, no outside capital, no team. The lightest Matter walkthrough — three to four endpoints carry the whole year, and the exit path is the cleanest of any persona.
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One natural-person founder, no outside capital, no employees, no investors. The whole API surface you'll touch in a year fits on this page. The exit path — sell the assets, then dissolve the shell — is the cleanest of any persona, and it's the one we've shaped this product around.
Create
Bring the entity into existence — formation, founder equity, EIN, registered agent.
You become a real US Delaware C-Corp in one call. Matter's form_company workflow cascades the Certificate of Incorporation, founder share grant, EIN application, and Incorporator Receipt — and the agent rail (UETA §14) signs as your delegated electronic agent so you don't have to be in front of a notary.
POST /v1/workflows/form_companyOne call. The agent files the Certificate of Incorporation, applies for an EIN, grants you 100% of the authorized shares with no vesting, and emits the Incorporator Receipt that proves entity birth.
POST /v1/entities/{id}/bank_accountsMercury, Brex, or Chase — Matter exports the Certificate of Good Standing, EIN, and authorizing-resolution bundle each bank requires. You can technically skip this and route through Stripe into a personal account, but commingling makes the eventual exit messy.
Manage
Operate the live entity — equity programs, board cadence, compliance, qualifications.
A solo founder still has corporate housekeeping. Once a year you re-elect yourself as the sole director (yes, even with one person, the formality matters — it's what keeps the corporate veil intact). Once a quarter you sweep compliance.
POST /v1/entities/{id}/resolutionsSole-director consent. Re-elect yourself as the director for the year, ratify the prior year's actions, approve any officer titles. Matter generates the resolution body, you sign once, the corporate record stays current.
POST /v1/workflows/file_all_dueQuarterly sweep. Delaware franchise tax (flat-rate at this share count), federal annual report, BOI update if anything material changed. Matter discovers what's due in the next 30 days and prepares the bundle.
Exit
Wind the entity down — dissolution cascade or M&A envelope.
This is the canonical exit envelope we built Matter around. Two clean paths — a buyer wants the assets, or you wind down the shell. Both end with the entity in dissolved and your obligations closed.
Buyer takes the IP, the customer contracts, and any meaningful inventory. The C-Corp shell stays behind and you dissolve it. This is the gold standard for solo bootstraps — clean tax treatment for the buyer, simple wind-down for you.
POST /v1/corporate_transactionsBill of sale, asset schedule, allocation under §1060. Matter runs the LOI → diligence → definitive → closing envelope and emits ordered webhooks at each transition. Proceeds land in your bank account; the shell now holds cash and a tax bill.
POST /v1/entities/{id}/dissolveForm 966 to the IRS, final franchise tax to Delaware, Certificate of Dissolution filed, BOI report closed. One cascade, one terminal state. The entity is gone — your obligations are closed.
Project didn't land — fine. Wind the shell down before another franchise-tax cycle hits and your BOI obligation stays open another year.
POST /v1/entities/{id}/dissolveSame dissolution cascade — Form 966, final franchise tax, Certificate of Dissolution, BOI closure. With no buyer there's no asset-sale step ahead of it.