Amadae vs Pulley

Pulley is shutting down: what founders should know

Pulley's own site now carries the date: it is shutting down on December 8, 2026. That deserves a moment before the logistics. Pulley was one of the tools that made starting a company feel less like a paperwork gauntlet. Ownership questions that used to need a lawyer got answered in an afternoon. It is genuinely sad to see it go.

The logistics still matter, though. December 8 is the end of the road; your export window and any refund terms are in the messages Pulley sent to your account email. Treat those dates as hard deadlines and do the exports early, not the week access ends.

What to export before your Pulley account closes

Take everything your next platform and your accountants will ask for: the full cap table and stakeholder ledger, every signed grant and agreement stored in the platform, board consents, your 409A valuation reports, and any exercise or transfer history. The valuation reports matter more than they look; future grants, audits and tax filings all lean on them.

Keep a copy outside any platform too. The lesson of this year is that software homes change; a folder of signed PDFs you control does not.

The benefits Pulley provided, and where they continue

What made Pulley good was never complicated: one place where the cap table was true. Stakeholders and their stakes in a clean ledger, share certificates and templated agreements generated instead of drafted from scratch, 83(b) deadlines that did not slip, board consents where you could actually find them. Losing that home should not mean going back to spreadsheets and scattered PDFs.

Amadae picks those benefits up. We rebuild your cap table from your Pulley exports into an ownership registry, keep generating the paperwork (share certificates, restricted stock purchase agreements, stock assignments, 83(b) elections, board consents), and keep the corporate record in one place. The one exception we will name plainly: standalone 409A valuations and late-stage equity comp administration belong with a dedicated valuations provider, and we will point you to one when that is the right call.

Half of what you paid Pulley

The switcher offer is simple: whatever Pulley charged you, Amadae charges half for cap table management. Startup customers paid $1,200 a year, so they pay $600. Growth customers paid $3,500, so they pay $1,750. Book the free review before December 8, 2026 and mention you are coming from Pulley.

And because the registry lives next to real accountants, the ownership it records flows into K-1s and returns when you want the money side handled too. That part is there when you are ready, not a requirement.

How to choose

Do the exports first, before any deadline pressure. Then decide where the cap table lives. If you want it somewhere that keeps generating the paperwork and stands behind it with real people, at half your Pulley bill, that is the offer, and the review is free either way. If your equity needs are heavy enough for dedicated valuations and comp administration, we will say so on that same call.