Most founder agreements die the day they are signed.
Two founders sit down, talk through equity, vesting, who owns the code, what happens if someone walks away. They generate a document, sign it, drop it in a folder, and never open it again.
Then, months later, something shifts. Someone stops showing up. Someone controls the GitHub organisation. Someone remembers being promised more. And the document that was supposed to protect everyone is buried under forty other files, already out of date.
The agreement exists. It just does not live.
That gap is the whole reason we built Goodvernance.
A Goodvernance Founder Agreement starts like any contract. You answer plain questions about roles, intended equity, vesting, IP, assets and how decisions get made. It generates, you sign. So far, nothing unusual.
What changes is what happens next. The agreement becomes a live dashboard. You watch intended founder equity get earned over time. You simulate what a departure would actually mean before anyone is in the room. You see which assets still sit under one person's personal account. You amend the deal when the deal changes, and you keep every version.
A standard founder agreement records the promise. Goodvernance keeps the promise alive.
None of this is about mistrust. It is the opposite. The founders who write things down clearly tend to be the ones who most intend to honor what they wrote.
A founder agreement should be useful while you are still building, not only once a lawyer is involved and the damage is already done. That is what a living agreement is for.