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Changelog

Every feature, fix, and security improvement we've shipped, month by month. The product launched as Minute Book Cloud in October 2025, began integrating with Equity Vault in January 2026, completed the merger on April 17, and was renamed to Octelligence on May 6.

May 2026

21 updates
Site

Atom feeds for the blog and changelog

Both the blog and this changelog now publish Atom feeds, with auto-discovery in the page head and visible Subscribe links. The blog feed includes full-body content so readers can read articles inline in their feed reader. Blog feed · Changelog feed

Learn

"SAFE Notes for Canadian Startups" published

How a SAFE works for Canadian incorporators: pre-money vs post-money, valuation caps and discounts, how conversion and dilution play out at a priced round, and the securities and tax wrinkles that don't apply south of the border. Read it →

Learn

"How to Structure a Multi-Entity Holdco" published

Why founders use a holdco, how corporate-records obligations multiply across the group, intercompany transactions, the Section 85 rollover, governance across entities, and how holdco groups fail under diligence. Read it →

Learn

"Delaware vs Canadian Corporate Records" published

Side-by-side comparison of the two regimes: what each requires, where records sit, inspection rights, beneficial-ownership registers, retention periods, and what it all means for cross-border startups and holdcos. Read it →

Learn

"Cap Table Management for Startups" published

The first-principles version: what a cap table is, what belongs on it, why the share register is the source of truth, and how dilution, option pools, and SAFEs interact from incorporation through a priced round. Read it →

Learn

Learning Center launched

A new section dedicated to long-form educational content on corporate records, equity, and the law and tax that sits behind both. The first pillar, The Complete Guide to Corporate Minute Books, covers what records belong inside a minute book, the requirements across Canadian, US, and UK jurisdictions, paper vs digital, and how minute books fail under diligence. Browse the Learning Center →

Site

Product Hunt launch

Octelligence launched on Product Hunt as "the only cap table tool with a real corporate records book." Welcome to anyone arriving from PH. The docs and the comparison pages are the best starting point.

Docs

Documentation section updated

Eleven new articles published covering getting started, share class setup, SAFE conversion, options vesting, certificate issuance, transfers, corporate records, team access, migration paths, and a long-form FAQ. Browse the docs →

Site

Comparison pages launched: Carta, Pulley, Mantle, Cake Equity

Detailed alternatives pages positioning Octelligence against the four most common cap-table-only platforms, with feature-by-feature comparison and migration notes. See all comparisons →

Blog

"Cap Table Basics for Founders" published

Long-form post covering the structure of a cap table, key terminology, and the most common mistakes early-stage founders make. Read it →

Brand

Equity Vault long-form posts migrated to Octelligence

Five of the most referenced Equity Vault posts now live at octelligence.com with consolidated authorship and updated internal linking. Old URLs continue to resolve.

Site

Acceptable Use Policy and SLA pages published

Standalone acceptable-use and service-level-agreement pages joined the existing privacy, terms, DPA, and subprocessors documents under Trust.

Records

Operating Agreement template

The first LLC-specific governance document is live. The Operating Agreement template fills the same role for LLCs that the bylaw wizard fills for corporations: capital contributions, members and managers, distribution waterfall, transfer restrictions, and dissolution. Built with the same wizard flow as the bylaw and shareholder-agreement wizards.

Research

Governance Maturity Benchmark 2026 v1.0 published

First benchmark study applying the Governance Maturity Framework to private corporations. Tier distribution, dimension-by-dimension findings, and cuts by stage and jurisdiction. Read it →

Security

Subprocessors page published

The full list of subprocessors, including AWS, Stripe, Postmark, and Cloudflare, is now public with notification commitments for any changes. Required by most enterprise procurement reviews.

Cap Table

Cap table styling improvements

Sticky column headers, denser default row height, and improved keyboard navigation when paging through long holder lists. Especially noticeable on cap tables with 200+ holders.

Blog

"Stock Ledger for US Private Companies" published

In-depth post on the stock ledger as it's understood in US (Delaware-typical) corporate practice, and how it relates to the share register. Read it →

Site

Homepage redesign for new brand

New hero, refreshed value proposition, and a single CTA. "Corporate records. Equity. One platform." replaces the previous longer message and ties together both halves of the product.

Brand

octelligence.com domain live

The new domain is live with redirects from minutebookcloud.com and equityvault.app preserving every URL. SSL, hreflang, and canonicals all configured.

Brand

Renamed from Minute Book Cloud to Octelligence

The original brand, Minute Book Cloud, described the corporate-records side accurately but no longer captured the full scope after the Equity Vault merger completed on April 17. Octelligence covers both corporate records and equity in one platform. Same team, same database, same data, new identity.

Docs

Documentation section launched

The first version of the docs section goes live alongside the marketing site, with the docs hub, sidebar navigation, and the structure that the May 21 article wave then filled in.

Site

Resources hub launched

A dedicated landing for downloadable resources, starting with the share certificate template. Will expand to additional founder and counsel resources over coming months.

April 2026

18 updates
Site

"For Law Firms & Accountants" solutions page

New solutions page positioning the platform for firms managing many client corporations, with the Portfolio Licensing pitch and concrete workflows for paralegals and bookkeepers.

Site

Cap table solutions page launched

Dedicated landing for cap table and financing features, with side-by-side coverage of SAFE conversion, option pools, vesting, and waterfall analysis.

Site

Solutions pages launched

Three solutions pages went live: Digital Corporate Records, Share Certificates, and For Law Firms & Accountants. Each gets its own value proposition without crowding the homepage. The cap table solutions page follows a week later.

Cap Table

Equity timeline visualization

A timeline view of every equity event: incorporation, share issuances, transfers, options granted, SAFEs raised and converted, financing rounds. All laid out chronologically. Lands with the rest of the Equity Vault feature set as the merger completes.

Cap Table

Warrant recording

Warrants with strike price, expiration date, and exercise conditions are now a first-class instrument. Tracked separately from options on the cap table.

Cap Table

Custom vesting schedules

Monthly, quarterly, milestone-based, or fully custom schedules can be defined per option grant. The standard 4-year-with-1-year-cliff also lands as a single-click template.

Cap Table

Stock option grants with vesting

Grant ISOs, NSOs, or non-US stock options to employees and advisors with their own vesting schedule, strike price, and expiration. Granted, vested, and exercised states are tracked separately. Part of the equity feature set ported in with the Equity Vault merger.

Brand

Equity Vault merger completed

The Equity Vault integration that began on January 4 formally completes today. The remaining equity features (stock options, vesting, warrants, equity timeline) land alongside the merger this week. The corporate-records and equity layers are now a single product under a unified data model, single team, and single billing system. The brand transition to Octelligence follows on May 6.

Cap Table

Stock option pool creation

Create an option pool with a fixed authorized count. Subsequent grants draw from the pool and surface a pool-utilization indicator next to the cap table summary. The first of the equity-side features to land in the final merger week.

Research

Governance Maturity Framework v1.0 published

Four-tier model for evaluating private-corporation governance across seven dimensions, with a 0 to 100 scoring methodology and an open framework applicable across CBCA, DGCL, and Companies Act 2006 jurisdictions. Read it →

Plans

French pricing localization

French pages now display prices in CAD with French-language plan names and feature descriptions. Stripe checkout localized to French.

Certificates

Certificate states: active, superseded, revoked

Every certificate now moves through one of three states. State changes are timestamped and logged, and the public verification page always reflects the current state.

Site

French translation of the marketing site

The full marketing site is now bilingual EN/FR with hreflang annotations and a French solutions, pricing, alternatives, and contact tree. Required for Quebec-incorporated customers and Bill 96 compliance.

Site

Pricing page redesign

Four-column plan comparison with feature roll-ups and an interactive plan-comparison row that scrolls horizontally on mobile. Made the differences between Starter, Growth, and Scale much easier to read at a glance.

Records

Firm-branded diligence exports

On Portfolio Licensing, diligence exports now carry the firm's brand on the cover page, headers, and watermark. Every client export looks like it came from the firm rather than from the platform.

Certificates

Branded verification page

Public verification pages now carry your corporation's (or firm's, on Portfolio Licensing) logo and color scheme. The verification page is often the first interaction a bank or auditor has with your brand, so it should be yours rather than ours.

Team

Cross-corporation roll-up of filings due

For firms on Portfolio Licensing, the portfolio dashboard now surfaces every filing due across every client corporation in a single sortable view. Paralegals stop missing deadlines across a portfolio.

Team

Portfolio admin dashboard

Firms managing many clients now have a top-level dashboard with client list, filings calendar roll-up, and bulk team-management actions across clients.

Plans

Portfolio Licensing for firms launched

A new plan designed for law and accounting firms managing many client corporations. Volume pricing, firm-branded certificates, cross-entity reporting, and a portfolio admin tier. See Portfolio Licensing →

March 2026

12 updates
Certificates

Certificate PDF improvements

PDFs now embed fonts and metadata to PDF/A archival standards, so they remain readable in long-term archives. Verification QR codes were updated to higher error-correction so they scan reliably from worn or photocopied paper.

Performance

Share register pagination optimized

Server-side pagination for share registers with thousands of entries. Page loads stay under 300ms even for the largest registers we have on the platform.

Records

Unified activity log across both layers

As the Equity Vault integration deepens, the activity log now spans both halves of the product. Issuances, transfers, minute book edits, register changes, and cap table actions all live in one chronological view, filterable by source.

Migration

Concierge migration service launched

Growth and Scale plans now include hands-on migration assistance. We handle holder import, historical issuances and transfers, options and vesting, minute book entry, and reconciliation, regardless of the source system (Carta, Pulley, Mantle, Cake, Excel, or paper). Typical turnaround: 5 business days for a clean cap table.

Cap Table

Batch SAFE conversion at priced rounds

Convert multiple SAFEs in one transaction at a priced round. The conversion engine handles cap, discount, and MFN provisions, generates the new preferred certificates, and produces a pre-round/post-round snapshot.

Cap Table

Pre-round and post-round cap table snapshots

At any financing event, an automatic before-and-after snapshot is captured. The snapshot is permanent, exportable, and linked to the related board approvals from the Annual Meetings module.

Records

Corporate bylaw wizard

Draft a complete set of bylaws through a guided wizard. Board composition, officer roles, meeting requirements, quorum, indemnification, share transfer restrictions, and dispute resolution. Tailored to your jurisdiction (CBCA, OBCA, Delaware, and others). Reviewed by counsel before adoption.

Records

Bylaw amendments and version tracking

Bylaws and articles of amendment are now version-tracked. Every change captures the effective date and the approving resolution, and the prior version stays queryable.

Research

Cross-Jurisdiction Governance Comparison published

Structured comparison of CBCA, DGCL, and UK Companies Act 2006 across nine governance dimensions: written consent, director residency, inspection rights, beneficial ownership, share certificates, conflicts, annual meetings, audit, and dissolution. Read it →

Cap Table

Historical issuance entry

Issuances can now be recorded with their original date and original certificate number. The verification page shows the actual historical date, which matters for diligence and corporate-records integrity during a migration.

Cap Table

Convertible note support

Convertible notes with interest accrual, maturity dates, and qualified-financing conversion mechanics are now a first-class instrument. Notes appear separately from SAFEs on the cap table.

Cap Table

SAFE recording with cap, discount, and MFN

The first equity-side feature merged in from Equity Vault. Record SAFEs as their own instrument class with valuation cap, discount rate, and MFN provisions. Pre-conversion they appear on the fully-diluted view at their cap or post-money assumption.

Records

Shareholder agreement wizard

Generate a full shareholder agreement from a structured intake: classes of shares, voting thresholds, pre-emptive rights, ROFR, drag-along, tag-along, valuation methodology, and exit waterfall. The wizard reflects each share class already defined in the cap table so the agreement and the cap table never drift apart.

February 2026

8 updates
Performance

Bulk CSV imports up to 10,000 rows

Previous limit was 2,500. Imports now stream and process server-side rather than blocking the browser, so large historical registers come in cleanly.

Records

Activity log enhancements

The activity log now supports filters by actor, action type, and date range. Exportable as CSV or as part of the diligence package.

Cap Table

Conversions between share classes

Convert common to preferred or preferred to common between existing share classes. Conversions preserve the chain of title and supersede the previous certificates.

Records

Filings calendar with 30/14/3-day reminders

Annual returns, change notices, and tax filings now fire reminders 30, 14, and 3 days before the due date. The dashboard surfaces any filing due in the next 60 days.

Cap Table

Cap table scenarios

Model new share issuances and authorized-count changes without committing to them. Scenarios are saved per workspace and can be shared with counsel for review before execution. Modeling for SAFEs, options, and warrants follows once those instruments land in March and April.

Records

Debt obligations register

Track outstanding debt obligations (promissory notes, term loans, lines of credit, and similar) with principal, rate, maturity, and security interests. Required under CBCA s. 50 for federally incorporated entities and equivalent provisions in several provinces.

Records

PSC register for UK companies

People with Significant Control register, aligned with UK Companies Act 2006 requirements. Captures nature of control, percentage thresholds, and effective dates for each PSC.

Records

ISC register for Canadian corporations

Individuals with Significant Control register, aligned with CBCA s. 21.1 requirements. Required for most Canadian federal and provincial corporations since 2019, and one of the most frequently mishandled corporate records.

January 2026

7 updates
Cap Table

Cap table and share register synchronized

The first integration milestone: the cap table view from Equity Vault now reads from the same share register that Minute Book Cloud has been maintaining since October. Holders, share classes, and current ownership all reflect a single source of truth. Deeper instrument types (SAFEs, options, warrants) follow in March and April.

Records

Annual meetings and Minutes module launched

Structured minute book entries for annual general meetings, special meetings, board meetings, and written resolutions. Each entry captures meeting type, date, attendees, quorum, resolutions passed, and the signed PDF. Replaces the previous pattern of treating the minute book as a folder of files.

Research

The Diligence Failure Taxonomy published

Seven structured ways corporate records fail under diligence: incomplete authorization, ownership-record drift, unenforceable transfer history, IP leakage, dormant filing decay, conflict-of-interest blind spots, and convertible-instrument ambiguity. For each: producing conditions, surfacing documents, and remediation. Read it →

Cap Table

Authorization checks block over-issuance

The cap table now refuses an issuance that would exceed a share class's authorized count, and prompts you to file articles of amendment first. Eliminates one of the most common and most expensive diligence findings.

Cap Table

Fully-diluted ownership view

Toggle between issued-and-outstanding and fully-diluted views of the cap table. At this point fully-diluted treats authorized but unissued shares and any reserved pools; SAFE, option, and warrant treatment follows once those instruments land.

Cap Table

Holder profile pages

Each shareholder now has a profile page showing every holding, every transfer, and the documents attached to each. The page is exportable for counsel. Grants and warrants are added to the profile when those instruments arrive.

Cap Table

Cap table view live (basic)

The first cap table view, brought over from Equity Vault as integration begins. Holders, share classes, totals, and ownership percentages. This is the foundation; the equity-instrument features (SAFEs, options, warrants, equity timeline) land progressively over the next three months.

Brand

Equity Vault integration begins

Work begins on integrating Equity Vault's equity layer into Minute Book Cloud. The basic cap table view lands this month; SAFEs follow in March; options, warrants, and equity timeline follow with the formal merger on April 17. The rename to Octelligence follows May 6.

December 2025

9 updates
Performance

Continuous backup with 90-day retention

Every workspace now has continuous backup with 90 days of point-in-time recovery. Backup status is visible from Settings › Workspace.

Security

Configurable session timeout

Owners can now set session timeout policies per corporation. Default is 14 days; sensitive workspaces typically dial it down to 24 hours or less.

Certificates

Public verification URL launched

Every certificate now has a unique public URL that anyone (bank, auditor, counsel) can visit to confirm a holding is current. This is the difference between a certificate that exists as a document and a certificate that exists as a queryable record.

Certificates

QR codes embedded on every issued certificate

The first half of QR-verified certificates: a unique QR code on every certificate PDF. Scanning the code from a phone opens the verification page once it ships two days later.

Team

Viewer role with section scoping

Add board members, investors with information rights, or auditors as Viewers with access scoped to specific sections of the corporate records. Reduces the "share everything" pattern that creates leakage risk.

Team

Owner and Editor roles

The first two roles ship: Owner (full control including billing and deletion) and Editor (full operational access without billing). Both are required to have 2FA enabled.

Plans

Stripe checkout integration

Self-serve upgrade from Free or Starter into Growth or Scale, with monthly or annual billing. Card details never touch our servers.

Plans

Annual billing

Pay annually and save vs. monthly on every paid tier. The annual option is the default highlight on the pricing page.

Plans

Paid tiers launched: Free, Starter, Growth, Scale

Free supports one corporation with the corporate records core. Starter at $19/mo adds branded certificates and the filings calendar. Growth and Scale unlock multi-corporation workspaces, concierge migration, and (after the integration ramp-up) the cap table and equity features.

November 2025

8 updates
Records

Document version control

Articles of incorporation, articles of amendment, bylaws, and similar constitutive documents are now version-tracked. Each new upload preserves the prior version with its effective date instead of overwriting.

Security

IP and timestamp logging on every action

Register edits, document uploads, certificate issuances, and member changes all log the actor's IP and a precise timestamp. The activity log is queryable under Settings › Activity.

Certificates

Sequential certificate numbering per share class

Certificate numbers are auto-generated and sequential within each share class. Manual override is allowed during historical-import flows to preserve original numbering.

Research

The Corporate Records Maturity Framework published

Five-stage model for evaluating how a private corporation manages its records, from ad-hoc to diligence-ready. For each stage: observable signals, common failure modes, the diligence outcome, and the operational playbook for moving up. Read it →

Records

Registered office tracking with effective-date history

The registered office address is recorded with an effective date. Changes are appended as new entries rather than overwrites, so notices that arrived at the old address remain traceable to the address registered at the time.

Records

Share transfer ledger

A dedicated ledger for share transfers: from-holder, to-holder, share class, count, date, consideration, and authorizing document. Transfers also supersede the seller's certificate and generate a new one for the buyer.

Records

Securities register

The transactional record of every issuance, transfer, conversion, and cancellation against the share classes. Distinct from the shareholders register (which lists current holders); this register tracks events over time.

Certificates

Share certificate PDF generation

The first version of certificate generation. PDFs include all elements required by Canadian and US corporate statutes: corporation, holder, class, count, date, certificate number, signature block. QR-based verification ships in December.

Records

Constitutive document upload

Upload articles of incorporation, bylaws, unanimous shareholder agreement, and any articles of amendment. Each upload is timestamped and stored as part of the corporate records package.

October 2025

9 updates
Security

Two-factor authentication via TOTP

Authy, 1Password, Google Authenticator, and any other TOTP app work. 2FA will be required before any sensitive action (issuance, transfer, member change) once the roles ship in December.

Records

Shareholders register

The third register template ships. Captures each current shareholder with name, contact, share class, count, and effective date. Combined with the directors and officers registers, the three together cover the most basic CBCA / state-corporation record-keeping requirements.

Records

Officers register

President, CFO, secretary, treasurer, and other officers, each with role, appointment date, and resignation date. Historical entries stay queryable for diligence and disputes.

Records

Directors register

The first register template ships. Structured entries with name, appointment date, resignation date, and residency (used by the residency-check feature that follows in November).

Records

Share class structure

Define share classes (common, preferred, and custom) with authorized counts, par value, voting rights, and dividend preferences. This is the legal-structure foundation. The cap table view comes later, after the Equity Vault integration begins in January.

Records

Corporation entity profile

The first workspace primitive. Capture corporation name, jurisdiction, incorporation date, business number, and registered office. Everything else in the product hangs off this entity.

Security

Account authentication and SaaS infrastructure

The plumbing: account sign-up, email verification, password recovery, session management, and the AWS infrastructure that everything else runs on. Encryption at rest and in transit from day one.

Site

Marketing site live

The first version of the Minute Book Cloud marketing site goes live, with the initial pitch focused on the minute book and corporate records use case.

Brand

Minute Book Cloud launched

The product's first day. The pitch: a structured, queryable replacement for the binder of paper records that most Canadian and US private corporations keep their minute book in. Built solo, shipping continuously from this date forward.

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