Where you were
Pulley
Offline December 8, 2026
Shuttering all operations. Export your documents now.
Pulley Alternative · Carta Freedom
Your cap table, easy
Meet the founder-friendliest cap table. No manual data entry. Upload your signed agreements and our lawyers build your true cap table with the legal logic baked in.
Special Pulley Transition Offer
Don’t get forced into Carta.
Pulley announced in September 2026 they would cease operating this year, and they offered a transition to Carta with the price honored. We spent years hearing how much founders hate Carta, so we built a cap table with the lawyer logic baked in.
Story already had a better cap table product that requires less founder work and cash, so we’re offering a limited-time deal for startups affected by the Pulley disappearance who don’t want Carta: your first year of Aegis Cap Table for $2,000, with lawyer review and an engagement letter included. You dump documents; we review them and figure them out. Your cap table is more correct than it was on Pulley for a fraction of the price of Carta.
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The Real Cost of Carta
Migrating to Carta means migrating your mistakes.
Pulley and Carta work on data entry. Your data entry MIGHT be right if you paid lawyers to help, or your company is super-simple. Founders usually do it wrong. Story LLP lawyer logic gets it right for you, with cleaner, easier interfaces and just as much investor access and modeling.
🔒All your data is privileged and confidential. We will never sell it, much less sell it without your permission like Carta.
Where you’re being sent
Carta
$5,000–$80,000/yr
Plus an expensive outside lawyer to check what you manually entered.
RECOMMENDED
The third option
Story.law
$2,000/yr
Or $199/mo billed monthly. Rebuilt from your signed documents with lawyer review and engagement letter included.
The Part Nobody Tells You
Your securities were never on Pulley or Carta.
We hear a lot from founders who ask, “If I quit Carta, don’t I lose my securities?” We gotta give Carta credit: they misled a lot of smart people into thinking their equity is stuck in Carta. Let’s get the truth out there: securities in your company exist because you followed an acceptable legal process to create and issue them. We run that process, and lawyers usually do. Carta and Pulley are where you enter data about your legal reality—not the place where it lives. The data you entered might be wrong if the process is wrong.
Pulley has offered migrating to Carta, which they say involves phone calls and checking data. With Story’s Aegis Cap Table, you enter no data—you upload documents. We find the legal reality, and that’s what you see on your Story Cap Table.
You’re not moving your securities anywhere. You’re choosing what to rebuild the picture from: an export, which is a picture of a picture, or the documents themselves.
We build from the documents. The record is built on the Open Cap Format, and it downloads as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day you want it.
Here’s how you get your securities “off” Pulley or Carta:
Export from Pulley or Carta
Pulley: Company Settings → Export → Full Company Export (see Pulley’s guide). Carta: Settings → Data Export → Download All Documents.
Sign up for Story Aegis
Start with a 7-day free trial. No upfront commitments.
Upload your export zip
Drop files in the portal or email them to gc@story.law.
We rebuild your cap table
Directly from your legally executed documents with lawyer review.
How It Works
Story Cap tables have the BigLaw lawyer logic baked in.
Stop thinking about whether you entered data right. Let your General Counsel get the cap table law right for you.
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FORWARD
A zip, a Drive folder, an inbox full of signed PDFs. Upload it, email it to gc@story.law, Slack it, or throw it in a ticket. We take it from there. You enter no other data.
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GRAPH
Aegis extracts content and key legal terms with proprietary lawyer logic into a graph of your true company reality.
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ASSESS
We consider only legally effective documents: valid agreements signed by the right parties and approved by board/stockholder consent.
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VISUALIZE
See your cap table and data room in clean investor-friendly and lawyer-friendly views.
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SHARE
Invite your lawyers and investors to save them time and cut legal bills. Use our MCP tools to integrate with investors' management systems.
Privileged Legal Verification
Attorney-client privilege included
- ✓No spreadsheet errors: We verify board consents, officer certificates, and option grants.
- ✓Open Cap Table format: Download your cap table as a lawyer-ready Excel workbook at any time.
- ✓Private law firm servers: Unlike Carta, your proprietary startup data is never commercialized or shared.
BigLaw charges $5,000–$15,000 for cap table diligence review.
Story Aegis: Included in your subscription.
A Cap Table UI that doesn't feel like you're operating a space shuttle.
Most cap table software, including Carta, is built with manual data entry — by the founder or the lawyer founders pay. Our cap table software is a datavisualization of your legal reality.
Every row has its paperClick any holding to open the signed document it came from.
Example company. Real product.
Before You Buy
What this won’t do.
We're lawyers, not magicians or psychics. Your Story.law cap table is based only on the actual, effective documents you upload and the specific references they make.
We can only see what you send us.
Your cap table is built from your documents. If a grant was never papered, it isn't in there, because legally it may not exist. Some tools will let you type it in anyway, which records a belief, not ownership. We'll tell you what's missing instead. Closing those gaps is legal work, and legal work costs money.
We won't count a document that doesn't hold up.
If a past lawyer or a template site got something wrong, like a grant with no board consent or a transfer nobody signed, we won't quietly treat it as valid to make your table look clean. We'll flag it and tell you what fixing it takes.
We don't promise every edge case.
Sometimes, as a startup, you had something odd happen in your legal history. We support most of that, but you should understand that some cap table realities are legal ARGUMENTS, and on our platform a manual update to your cap table must come from a lawyer unless our lawyers already said it's reasonable to treat that logic as universal.
Cap table only, or the full platform.
Straightforward pricing. No surprise Carta price hikes based on stakeholder count.
POPULAR FOR PULLEY / CARTA
Aegis Cap Table Only
Dedicated cap table product with lawyer review and engagement letter included.
$2,000
/yearOr $199/mo billed monthly.
7-day free trial · Card required at checkout
- ✓A cap table built from your signed documents
- ✓Every row linked to its source document
- ✓Vesting tracked from each grant’s terms
- ✓SAFEs and notes with caps, discounts and MFN terms
- ✓Lawyer review and Story LLP engagement letter included
- ✓Lawyer-ready Excel export
Founders who only need a cap table today — upgrade to Aegis anytime.
- Processing time: 24-72 hours for lawyer review
- Lawyer logic built into the software
- Engagement letter and attorney-client privilege included
- Card required; full refund if canceled within 7 days
Aegis Start
Early-stage legal foundation, contracts, and cap table.
$320
/monthBilled annually ($3,839/yr)
7-day free trial
- ✓Private data room for board & investors
- ✓Basic cap table (equities, common stock, SAFEs)
- ✓Equity issuance (stock, options, SAFEs)
- ✓Hiring and firing agreements
- ✓Compliant legal processes
- ✓Unlimited Lawyer Scoping questions
- ✓3 Admin seats + Unlimited Assistant seats
Best for growth startups looking to optimize early legal and equity setup.
Aegis Raise
Full platform for priced equity rounds, pro formas & diligence.
$833
/monthBilled annually ($9,999/yr)
7-day free trial
- ✓Everything in Aegis Start, plus:
- ✓Growth cap table (pro formas, preferred series, waterfalls)
- ✓Growth data room with granular investor access controls
- ✓Diligence management and checklist automation
- ✓Term sheet analysis
- ✓Pro forma investment or exit modeling
Best for startups preparing for Series Seed / Series A priced rounds or exit.
Every subscription includes an engagement letter with Story LLP and attorney-client privilege. Upgrade anytime without losing your historical records.
Simple Migration
Moving off Pulley or Carta is an export and an upload.
No tedious re-keying of numbers. We ingest raw files and do the heavy lifting.
From Pulley
Offline December 8, 2026
- Pulley is shutting down—all operations end December 8, 2026. Export before then.
- Export: Company Settings → Export → Full Company Export.
- Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law.
- We rebuild your cap table from the documents themselves.
From Carta
Escape annual rate hikes & data sales
- Export: Settings → Data Export → Download All Documents.
- Download Carta’s ledger export as a secondary reference.
- Upload the zip, or email it to gc@story.law.
- We rebuild your cap table from your source documents.
From a shoebox
Spreadsheets, inbox folders, and Drive files
- Gather whatever you have: signed PDFs, email attachments, a shared drive.
- Forward all of it. That’s the normal case for early startups.
- We work out what counts legally and tell you what’s missing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions founders are asking this week
Do I lose my shares when Pulley shuts down or if I quit Carta?
No. You do not lose any shares. Shares, options, SAFEs and notes exist because signed legal documents created them, not because a software vendor recorded them. Export your documents from Pulley before December 8, 2026 (or from Carta anytime) so you retain your files.
What if my export is incomplete or messy?
Send whatever you have, plus any signed agreements sitting in your inbox or shared drive. We build from the underlying agreements and explicitly identify what's missing instead of guessing.
What if no lawyer has ever reviewed our equity grants?
That's extremely common. Every Aegis Cap Table subscription includes lawyer review of your uploaded documents and an engagement letter with Story LLP, so an attorney flags anything that needs fixing—like an option grant missing board consent—under attorney-client privilege.
What happens to our cap table if Story ever shuts down?
Download it as a lawyer-ready Excel file any day you like. And the same fundamental rule applies to us: your securities live in your signed legal documents, never trapped inside a proprietary platform.
Can I upgrade to the full Aegis platform later?
Yes. Upgrade anytime to Aegis Start or Aegis Raise, and your entire cap table, data room, and historical records transition seamlessly.
Do you provide 409A valuations?
We offer 409A valuations a la carte when you actually need them—not bundled into an expensive forced annual plan you’re paying for before it’s useful.
Is our cap table data protected by attorney-client privilege?
Yes. Every subscription includes an engagement letter with Story LLP, and attorney-client privilege covers lawyer review of your cap table documents. Client data is confidential, hosted on secure law firm infrastructure, and never shared or sold to secondary markets.