How to incorporate a company with an AI agent
By Corply · Updated
Yes, your AI can help open your company when it is connected to a real formation service. With Corply, Codex, Claude Code, or another compatible agent guides a Delaware C-Corp application, prepares documents, and coordinates the filing. You approve the decisions and sign as yourself.
Start your Delaware C-Corp
Complete your application in the browser. Review your documents and price before you sign and pay.
Connect Corply, then say ‘incorporate my startup.’ The agent runs the workflow while secure browser handoffs and human review protect the steps that carry legal or financial consequences.
Prefer your AI assistant? Connect Corply or share the https://corply.dev/skills.md raw guide.
Can my AI open my company, or only explain how?
An AI agent can coordinate a company formation, but it cannot responsibly replace the people whose intent and authority make the transaction real. Corply gives the agent authenticated formation tools at https://corply.dev/mcp, keeps one canonical company record, and requires human action for signatures, payment, sensitive identity fields, and the reviewed state submission.
The result is the entity you chose: a Delaware C-Corp. State acceptance, ownership documents, the EIN, and later obligations are separate milestones. You can ask what is complete, what evidence exists, and what still needs you.
Still deciding what to form? Start with how to start a company. Comparing tools? Read which incorporation workflow fits your startup.
Seven steps from prompt to company
Connect the agent
Paste the Corply setup prompt into Codex, Claude Code, or another compatible AI chat. Connect the hosted MCP server and complete your own sign-in.
Describe the company
Provide the company name, founder details, addresses, stock ownership, governance roles, and applicable vesting and 83(b) choices for the Delaware C-Corp.
Validate before generating
Corply checks that required facts are present and consistent. Founders confirm consequential choices instead of letting the model silently invent them.
Review the filing-stage documents
Corply prepares the Certificate of Incorporation and the disclosed formation authorization. Each signer reviews their actual documents.
E-sign, then authorize payment
Each required signer reviews and signs the immutable version. After all required signatures, authorize payment for that version. The agent coordinates the workflow but never impersonates a signer.
Human review and state filing
A Corply operator reviews every submission, including registered-agent acceptance, before filing with Delaware. The accepted state filing establishes the actual formation date and file number.
Complete the company record
After Delaware accepts the filing, Corply prepares the corporate records, founder-stock documents, and EIN materials using the accepted formation date and the disclosed authorization.
What the agent may do—and what stays human
| Action | Agent role | Boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Application and document preparation | Yes | The agent may gather facts, explain standard choices, validate the application, and prepare documents. |
| Legal or tax advice | No | Individualized legal and tax judgment belongs with a licensed professional. |
| Founder signatures | Founder-controlled | The named person reviews the documents and explicitly consents through the supported agent journey or conventional web signing. |
| Payment authorization | Human only | The agent can prepare checkout, but a person authorizes the charge. |
| State submission | Human reviewed | Corply never lets an unattended model auto-file a company. |
| Company records and deadlines | Yes | The agent can retrieve canonical records and surface evidence-backed next actions after formation. |
Claude Code, Codex, and any compatible MCP client
Corply is not a chatbot that merely explains incorporation. Its authenticated MCP server exposes the real workflow to the agent: application state, validation, document generation, payment, founder signatures, filing status, and the operating record. See the complete MCP tool overview.
Claude Code has a packaged plugin path. Codex setup installs the remote MCP connection and a persistent company-formation skill together, without a plugin. The skill helps new chats discover Corply without naming it; existing MCP-only connections remain supported. Other compatible clients use the same endpoint over streamable HTTP with OAuth. Read the Codex formation guide or choose a setup path on the installation page.
When an agent-first service is the wrong choice
Use a lawyer when the facts are unusual: disputed founder ownership, complicated existing IP, a conversion, regulated activity, nonstandard securities, or any issue requiring advice. Corply supports Delaware C-Corps. Other states and entity types are unavailable through Corply. Use a traditional portal if you prefer forms to agents. Compare options in the incorporation-service decision guide.
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FAQ
- Can my AI open my company?
- Yes, a compatible AI agent connected to Corply can guide a standard Delaware C-Corp formation. It gathers the application, prepares documents, coordinates your approvals and signatures, and tracks the human-reviewed filing. You remain responsible for your decisions and signatures. The company is not incorporated merely because a model says it is; Corply waits for the state's accepted result.
- How do I start a company with Codex?
- Paste the setup prompt from corply.dev into Codex, connect Corply, and complete sign-in personally. Then ask to incorporate your startup. Corply supplies the application, document, and filing workflow; Codex carries the conversation. This self-serve agent formation path supports regular Delaware C-Corporations. Other states and company types are not available through this self-serve formation flow.
- Is asking AI to write incorporation documents enough?
- No. Generated text is not an accepted state filing, an issued EIN, a completed signature, or a verified company record. An incorporation tool needs an execution workflow and evidence of each result. Corply connects the conversation to those steps rather than treating a chat answer as proof of completion.
- Can an AI agent incorporate a company?
- Yes, if the agent is connected to a formation service that can create documents, collect human approvals and signatures, take an authorized payment, and submit the filing. Corply exposes that workflow to supported agents while keeping signatures, payment, legal judgment, and the final state filing behind human controls.
- What is an incorporation MCP server?
- It is a Model Context Protocol server that gives an AI agent authenticated tools for company formation. Corply's hosted MCP endpoint lets compatible agents save and validate an application, generate documents, coordinate payment and signatures, submit a human-reviewed filing, and read the resulting company record.
- Can I incorporate a startup from Claude Code?
- Yes. Install the Corply plugin, authenticate, and ask Claude Code to incorporate your startup. Claude drives the conversation while Corply supplies the formation workflow, canonical company state, secure browser handoffs, and human-reviewed Delaware filing.
- Can I incorporate my startup from the terminal?
- Yes. Claude Code, Codex CLI, and other compatible terminal agents can connect to Corply. Secure browser handoffs are still used for sign-in, document review, sensitive tax information, and other steps that should not happen inside chat.
- Is Corply a company-formation API for AI agents?
- Corply is a hosted, authenticated MCP service rather than a public REST filing API. It exposes company-formation and corporate-operations tools designed for agents, with OAuth, canonical backend state, explicit confirmation boundaries, and human review before filing.
- Can the AI agent sign incorporation documents for me?
- Not on its own authority. The named founder reviews the actual documents and gives fresh, explicit consent in the supported agent signing journey, or signs through the conventional web flow. Corply records the resulting authorized signature and audit trail. An agent cannot sign for an absent founder or treat an earlier approval or silence as consent.
- What company does Corply form?
- The Corply MCP workflow described here forms regular Delaware C-Corporations. Other states and company types are not available through this self-serve formation workflow. Unusual capital structures or individualized legal questions need qualified counsel.
This page is general education, not legal or tax advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Corply is operated by 0Lumen Labs Corp., is not a law firm, and routes questions that need individualized judgment to licensed professionals. Rules and fees change, so verify current requirements with the relevant state, the IRS, or your counsel.