Equity Vault integration begins

The first version of Minute Book Cloud could handle the corporate records side of a private company with confidence. What it couldn't do was answer the most basic founder question: who owns what, as of right now? In January, that started to change. The Equity Vault integration began on January 4 and the basic cap table view landed the same week. The deeper instruments (SAFEs, options, warrants, the equity timeline) ramp up across the next three months and complete with the formal merger on April 17.

The cap table view, connected to the share register

On January 7, the basic cap table view went live: holders, share classes, totals, ownership percentages. The version that existed in Equity Vault, brought across and connected to the share register already in Minute Book Cloud. Holder profile pages followed January 9 with the picture per holder: every holding, every transfer, and the documents attached to each. The fully-diluted ownership view (January 11) lets you toggle between issued-and-outstanding and fully-diluted treatment, though at this point fully-diluted only includes authorized-but-unissued shares; full instrument treatment lands once SAFEs, options, and warrants ship in the months ahead.

The big design constraint: the cap table couldn't be a parallel system to the existing share register. They had to be the same data. By January 31, that was true for shares. Issuing on the cap table updated the register, and recording a register transfer updated the cap table. Synchronization for the other instrument types follows as those instruments arrive.

Annual Meetings and Minutes (January 30)

The biggest launch this month sat on the corporate records side. The Annual Meetings and Minutes module shipped January 30, replacing the previous pattern of treating the minute book as a folder of files. Now every meeting becomes a structured entry: meeting type (board, shareholders, committee, written consent), date, attendees, quorum confirmation, resolutions passed, and the signed PDF.

This matters because counsel asking "what did the board approve in Q3 last year?" should get an answer in seconds, not in an afternoon of digging through PDFs. Structured minute book entries make that possible.

Authorization checks block over-issuance

One under-the-hood improvement that ships small but matters a lot: 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. This eliminates one of the most common and most expensive diligence findings: corporations that quietly over-issued shares in a way that nobody noticed for years, requiring expensive cleanup and ratification at the next financing.

What's coming next (March and April)

The integration ramp is multi-month. The features still to land:

• March 5 — SAFE recording with cap, discount, MFN
• March 8 — Convertible note support
• March 18 — Pre-round and post-round cap table snapshots
• March 20 — Batch SAFE conversion at priced rounds
• April 16 — Stock option pool creation
• April 17 — Equity Vault merger formally completes
• April 18 — Stock option grants with vesting
• April 19 — Custom vesting schedules
• April 20 — Warrant recording and equity timeline visualization

By the numbers

• 7 changelog entries in January 2026
• 1 shared data model (cap table and share register, for shares)
• 3 more months of integration work before the formal merger on April 17

For the line-by-line view of every change shipped in January, see the changelog.