State by State Formation is a small independent site about how forming an LLC differs from state to state. It exists because the question is genuinely hard to answer from vendor marketing alone.

What gets written here

Reviews of one option at a time, pairwise comparisons where the difference actually matters, and background pieces on how the category works.

Pages are written one at a time and published when they are finished, rather than generated in a batch to fill a directory.

How it is written

Where one option is better than another for a given job, that is said in words, with the reason attached. It is never expressed as a number.

Funding

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Limits worth stating

Worth being clear about

State by State Formation is published information, not advice for your particular situation. Nothing here is a recommendation tailored to you, and no page can know the constraints you are actually working under.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as more confident than the evidence supports, write to [email protected] and say so. A link to the page that contradicts it is the fastest way to get it fixed.