Corporate Governance Office

The governance office of a corporate services firm, without the overhead.

Ironclad Governance Solutions delivers corporate secretary functions, compliance oversight, entity filings, and fiduciary training to LLCs, limited partnerships, and nonprofit corporations, from a single-member trade business to a multi-entity portfolio, without the overhead of building the department in-house.

Articles of Engagement

  • Art. IGovernance audits against LLC, LP, and nonprofit compliance standards.
  • Art. IIOperating agreements, partnership agreements, and bylaws drafting.
  • Art. IIIOngoing compliance monitoring and annual filing oversight.
  • Art. IVCorporate secretary services, retained monthly.
LLCs  ·  Small Business LLCs  ·  Limited Partnerships  ·  501(c)(3) Nonprofits  ·  Dedicated Point of Contact
What We Do

Six articles of practice.

The discipline a corporate services firm brings to a portfolio of entities, delivered by a team that knows your organization directly, not a rotating account team.

Article I

Governance Audits

A full governing-document and structural review, benchmarked against the standards that actually apply to your entity type, delivered as one report with a prioritized remediation plan.

Article II

Governing Document Drafting

Operating agreements, partnership agreements, and bylaws drafted with the precision the filing requires, in language your members, partners, or board will actually read.

Article III

Compliance Monitoring & Filings

State annual reports, franchise filings, and registered-agent tracking across every jurisdiction you operate in, including 50-state charitable registration.

Article IV

Meeting Support & Minutes

Meeting attendance with formal minutes and resolutions turned around the same week: a governance record you can produce on demand.

Article V

Fiduciary Training & Transitions

Duty-of-care and duty-of-loyalty training for boards, managers, and partners, paired with structured succession planning for leadership transitions.

Article VI

Entity Formation & Structuring

Guidance on choosing and standing up the right structure, with formation documents built for the governance work that follows.

Why Governance

Governance is the paperwork trail that proves your business is what you say it is.

Every LLC, partnership, and nonprofit is a legal shield, separating your personal assets from your business's. But it only holds if it's maintained: filings kept current, decisions documented, agreements up to date. Skip that, and the shield can fail exactly when you need it, in a lawsuit, an audit, or a lender's review. Below are the four ways we maintain it, scaled to what you run.

For Small Business LLCs

Your LLC only protects you if it's actually run like one.

Most single-member and family-run LLCs never get to the paperwork that keeps the liability shield intact. If a court can't see your LLC was run as a real, documented entity, it can decide to treat you and the business as the same thing, and your house, truck, and savings lose their protection. LLC Shield closes that gap, in plain language.

  • Roofing
  • Painting
  • Landscaping
  • HVAC & Electrical
  • General Contracting
  • Cleaning & Trades
  • Family-Run LLCs
LLC Shield

Built for the working LLC

Starting at $225/ month
  • Annual report & franchise filing, handled before it's due.
  • Registered agent & deadline tracking, no surprise dissolutions.
  • Plain-English operating agreement, the document courts check first.
  • Annual shield checkup call before your busy season.
  • Contract templates reviewed, so job paperwork holds up.
  • Direct email access, no call center.
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For Growing Portfolios, Nonprofits & Multi-Entity Organizations

As what you run gets bigger, so does what can go wrong.

Real revenue, a funder-facing board, or a group of related entities all carry more exposure than a solo LLC: outside stakeholders, formal fiduciary duty, and paperwork that has to survive someone else's audit. These three tiers scale the same discipline to that level.

Governance Compliance Filings & Registrations Fiduciary Training
One-Time

Governance Audit

Starting at $4,000flat
For when you don't yet know how exposed you are: one review, one report.
  • Full document & filing history review, cover to cover.
  • Compliance benchmarking for your exact entity type.
  • Findings report & remediation roadmap, prioritized.
  • Live advisor call to walk through results, included.
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Tier I

Foundational Retainer

Starting at $1,500/ month
A standing advisor for one entity that's outgrown "figure it out as we go."
  • One entity, fully covered (LLC, LP, or nonprofit).
  • Quarterly review, catching drift before it's a finding.
  • Filing deadline tracking, no last-minute scrambles.
  • Minutes & resolutions reviewed for compliance.
  • Direct email access, no support queue.
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Tier III

Fractional Corporate Secretary

Starting at $7,500/ month
A full outside governance officer, for when governance is a real operating risk.
  • Unlimited entities in one organization group, one rate.
  • Meeting attendance & minutes, every cycle.
  • 50-state filing coordination, full jurisdictional coverage.
  • Annual fiduciary training for boards and managers.
  • Same-week response, guaranteed.
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Retained like an outside corporate secretary: no hourly billing, no rotating account team. LLC Shield clients who outgrow it move into Tier I. Rates above are starting points; final scope and pricing are confirmed on a call. Get your quote.

GOVERNANCE RECORD Operating Agreement CURRENT Annual State Filing ON FILE Meeting Minutes RECORDED Registered Agent ACTIVE Compliance Review COMPLETE GOOD STANDING Verified & up to date
A Governance Record, Maintained
About Us

Governance built with the rigor it deserves.

Ironclad Governance Solutions applies the discipline of a corporate services firm to entity compliance: governing documents drafted with care, filings tracked before they're due, meeting records kept in order. We work directly with LLCs, both small business and multi-entity, limited partnerships, and nonprofit boards that want that discipline without carrying it in-house. The result is a governance function that holds up to scrutiny, whether from a lender, a board, a funder, or an auditor, without the overhead of a full department.

  • Entity-Specific ExpertiseWe work across small business LLCs, multi-entity LLCs, limited partnerships, and nonprofit corporations, applying the standards that govern each one rather than a single template stretched to fit.
  • Direct AccessEvery engagement runs through the people doing the work. No account managers, no support queue.
  • A Record You Can Produce on DemandMinutes, filings, and governing documents kept in a state ready for a board meeting, a lender's review, a funder's review, or an audit, at any time.
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Governance Tracks Served
50
States Covered for Filings
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Areas of Practice
Fall Cohort

Join the waitlist for our next governance cohort.

We take a limited number of organizations and small business LLCs each quarter so every client gets direct time with a principal consultant. Leave your email and we'll reach out when a seat opens.

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Request a governance review.

Tell us where your business or board is today. We'll follow up within two business days with next steps.

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Practice Areas Small business LLCs, multi-entity LLCs, limited partnerships, nonprofit boards, 50-state charitable registration & corporate filings
Response Time 2 business days