About Riverholt
We built the thing we kept wishing existed at 2am.
Riverholt started as a toolbox and got out of hand. Formation guides, compliance timelines, registered agent comparisons — the practical stuff lawyers charge $400 an hour to say slowly.
Plumbing for American business formation.
Every year millions of Americans start something without the faintest idea what legal structure is holding it up. That is fixable. Not with a lawyer on retainer — with good information, filed sensibly, sitting there at the exact moment you go looking for it.
Riverholt is half publication, half toolset. The writing is edited like a magazine — several rounds, real arguments, nothing published to hit a quota. The tools are built like software: fast, opinionated, and over before you get bored.
Marcus Chen
Co-Founder & CEO
Filed 200-plus entities the slow way, then got annoyed enough to build the fast way. Three years inside a Delaware formation agency, which is three years longer than anyone should be.
Priya Nair
Head of Compliance
Recovering corporate attorney. Translates compliance into English. Holds that most legal writing is a smokescreen with a billing code attached.
Devon Walsh
Head of Operations
Built registered agent networks in all 50 states. Maintains that a registered agent is a mailbox with paperwork, not a wizard, and prices should reflect that.
Aiko Tanaka
Tax Strategist
CPA who finds money the IRS was quietly holding for you. Writes the things your accountant assumed you already knew and then never mentioned again.
Plain words, no incense
If a Founder cannot read it and immediately do something about it, it is not finished. We edit for clarity first and accuracy second, then go back and do accuracy again properly.
"It depends" is not an answer
We write for the Delaware LLC with a California Founder and a seed round closing on Friday. Not for every entity type in every state at every moment in history. That document exists. It is called the internet.
Opinions, not option paralysis
A tool that hands you nine choices has handed you your own problem back. Ours pick one and tell you why. Disagree freely — you are the pioneer here, we just hold the map.
Go read something useful.
Start with Formation. It is where nearly every Founder should start, and where nearly nobody does.