We're an independent editorial team covering LLC formation, compliance, and the operational decisions every new business owner faces. No sales calls. No quotas. No sponsored verdicts.
The LLC industry is filled with affiliate-funded content that ranks formation services by referral payout rather than user fit. We started Company Path because the same five articles kept showing up at the top of every search, all repeating the same upsell-friendly script, and none of them answering the actual founder question: what do I actually need to do, in what order, and what does it cost?
Our goal is the boring version of that answer. Plain reads, state-specific detail, current numbers, and the honest admission when a paid service is genuinely the better path and when it isn't.
A short history of how we got here — and what we built along the way. We don't move fast. We update often.
Company Path started as a 40-page personal research document written while our founder was trying to form a single multi-state LLC. Every "best LLC service" article online seemed to ignore the questions that actually mattered.
The doc got shared with a few peer founders, then a few more, and within six months had become an informal reference being passed around small-business Slack groups.
We hired our first two full-time editors and published individual formation guides for every U.S. state in our first six months — each verified against the relevant Secretary of State fee schedule.
Day-one editorial policy: no service ever pays for placement, and every recommendation is reproducible by the reader at the quoted cost.
We expanded beyond formation into the operational follow-ons: annual reports, BOI filings, S-Corp elections, registered agent strategy, and the post-formation 30-day checklist.
More importantly, we onboarded our first cohort of attorney and CPA reviewers — fourteen domain experts who fact-check every guide before publication.
We've grown to a team of eight editors, with our state guides and category indexes refreshed on a quarterly cadence. Every piece carries a "last verified" date and the name of the domain expert who reviewed it.
We make money exclusively through affiliate links — and we list every relationship we have, publicly, on our disclosure page.
Editorial principles that govern every guide, ranking, and recommendation we publish. Posted publicly so you can hold us to them.
No service has ever paid us to be ranked higher, recommended, or mentioned. Rankings reflect our editorial judgment only.
Every cost we cite is something you can independently verify with the relevant Secretary of State or service on the day we published.
Every guide is reviewed by a licensed attorney, CPA, or registered agent before publication, with their name and credentials posted on the article.
Every affiliate relationship we have is listed on a single page, updated within 30 days of any change.
Our editors and expert reviewers each have a public profile with their credentials, areas of focus, and recent work.
