Free checklist
What does your company of one actually hold?
Most founders can list their bank accounts. Fewer can say which registrar holds every domain, whose name the app store account is in, or what renews next month. This checklist walks through the usual categories. Fill it in once and you have the inventory that everything else starts from.
The checklist
| Category | List each | Ask of each one |
|---|---|---|
| Entities | Yourself; every company you own or control; companies you only hold shares in | Where is it registered? Do you control it, or only hold a stake? |
| Bank and payment accounts | Bank accounts, Wise, Stripe, PayPal, merchant-of-record accounts | Whose name is it in? Which currency? Where do statements come from? |
| Brokerage and savings | Brokers, funds, wealth-management products | Personal or company? Which country? |
| Domains | Every domain, at every registrar | Who is the registrant: you or a company? When does it expire? Is auto-renew on, and on which card? |
| Developer and store accounts | Apple Developer, Google Play, GitHub organisations, cloud accounts | Individual or company account? What renews, and when? |
| Channels and audience | X, YouTube, a newsletter, a community | Is it in your name or the company’s? Which product does it serve? |
| Subscriptions and tools | SaaS tools, AI and cloud services, licences | Which card pays for it? Which product uses it? Monthly or yearly? |
| Contracts | Contractors, customers with signed terms, leases | Who are the parties? When does it end or renew? |
| Filings and obligations | Annual reports, tax returns, registered-agent fees | Which entity, which country, which date? What happens if it is missed? |
| Access | Who and what can sign in or act: people, API keys, AI agents | What can each one reach? When was that last reviewed? |
How to use it
- 01
Download the sheet
One row per thing, with a column for the owner and one for the next date. Download as CSV.
- 02
Start with what would hurt
The domains your products run on, the accounts money arrives in, the filings with penalties.
- 03
Write down the owner, even when it is awkward
“Registered to me personally, used by the company” is a fine answer. An unrecorded one is the problem.
- 04
Put the dates somewhere that reminds you
A calendar works. So does a record that raises the matter by itself.
Why “in whose name” is the question that matters
Things registered to you personally but used by the company are easy to live with and hard to untangle later: when you sell a product, add a partner, or need to show that the company’s property is separate from your own. Writing down the owner of each item is the cheapest part of that work, and the part most often skipped.
Selfirm keeps this inventory as a registry: each thing under the party that holds it, with its history, and a matter on your desk before a date arrives.
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