I Spent $1,847 on Legal Templates My First Year as a Solo Founder. Here's Why I'd Pay $0 in 2026.

The first invoice I remember framing was from LegalZoom. It was for a single-member LLC operating agreement. $249. I was bootstrapping a consulting business, I had exactly one employee (me), I needed exactly one document to open a business bank account, and the template that came back was visibly a Word document with my name find-and-replaced into seven places. Nine more documents followed that year. Consulting agreement. Independent contractor agreement for my first subcontractor. Offer letter