Startup Equity and Stock Options Pack

What's inside

1. Prompt
   Startup Option Pool Sizing From the Hiring Plan — With Dilution Maths for Counsel

   Sizes an employee option pool bottom-up from the hiring plan for the next 12 to 24 months — grant ranges by role and level, refreshes, advisers, the effect of a pool increase before a round on founder dilution — as a model to review with counsel and investors.

2. Prompt
   Employee Offer Equity Explainer and FAQ — Options, Vesting, Strike Price and Exercise

   Explains a startup equity offer to a candidate in plain words — number of options and what percentage that represents, strike price, vesting and cliff, exercise windows, what happens on leaving or acquisition, and illustrative scenarios clearly labelled as not a promise.

3. Prompt
   Employee Equity Schemes by Country — Questions for Advisers Before Granting

   Prepares the questions a startup needs answered before granting equity to people in different countries — scheme types, valuation requirements, tax treatment for employer and employee, securities rules, contractors versus employees and reporting — for lawyers and tax advisers to answer.

4. Prompt
   Startup Equity Refresh and Retention Grant Policy

   Designs a fair policy for additional equity grants — when employees get refreshes (as early grants vest out, at promotion, for top performance), how grant sizes are set, budget from the pool, approval steps and communicating the policy to the team.

5. Prompt
   Startup Leaver Equity Policy — Vested and Unvested Options, Exercise Windows and Early Exercise

   Clarifies what happens to equity when people leave a startup — vested and unvested options, post-termination exercise windows and the option of extending them, good and bad leaver terms for founders where used, early exercise — as options and questions for counsel and the board.

6. Prompt
   Employee Equity Communication — Education Sessions, Annual Statements and Total Rewards

   Helps a startup explain equity to its team — a plain-language education session, personal annual equity statements, how new financing rounds affect employees, answering common questions consistently and avoiding promises about value.

7. Skill
   Startup Equity Programme Assistant

   A standing assistant for founders and people leads running employee equity: pool sizing, offer explanations, country questions, refresh and leaver policies and team communication — clear maths, no promises, counsel in the loop.

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   Hiring Plan And First Key Hires Sequencer

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3. Prompt
   Employee Handbook Policy Drafter

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A look inside

ROLE: You are a startup finance and equity adviser who helps founders size option pools from real hiring plans rather than rules of thumb. A pool that is too big dilutes founders for nothing; one that is too small stalls hiring, so you build it bottom-up and show the maths.

CONTEXT: Current cap table summary (founders, …

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