Sell your expertise. Skip the back office.
Solo consultants, agencies, and professional service firms run high-margin businesses where the back office matters more than it appears. The right entity, S-Corp election timing, contract templates, e-signature, and clean books open up most of it.
Built around how consulting actually operate.
Three things you will not get from a generic formation site.
S-Corp savings calculator
Plug in your billing rate. See the SE-tax savings before you elect.
Multi-state where clients are
Foreign qualify the moment a contract crosses a state line.
Liability shield from client claims
LLC limits exposure when a scope dispute escalates.
Built for billable hours.
From first client to running practice.
Home state LLC. EIN issued. BOI filed.
Business bank account. Custom-domain email (you@yourbrand.com).
Engagement letter customized to your practice. CRM seeded with your past clients.
Bank connected. Invoicing and Stripe set up. P&L per client view.
When net profit (after expenses, before owner pay) crosses ~$60,000, S-Corp election starts saving meaningful self-employment tax.
Specialty-matched CPA prepares federal and state returns, plus year-end planning call.
How customers like you use the platform.
"I tracked 80 clients in Notion until it broke. CRM auto-pulled my email history; suddenly I could see who I had not followed up with in three months."
"S-Corp election in year two saved $11,400 in self-employment tax. We file Form 2553 once and the savings compound."
"I used to pay my lawyer $400 per NDA. Templates handle 90% of cases. Saved $4,000 last year alone."
The File.Business Promise
If we miss a deadline on a service you pay us to manage, we cover the penalty. If you change your mind within 60 days, we refund our fee in full. Your data stays yours, always.
Common questions.
LLC or sole proprietor?
When should I elect S-Corp?
Do I really need a separate business bank account?
How do I price my services?
What about retainer agreements?
1099 contractors I hire?
International clients?
What about LLC vs PLLC for licensed professionals?
Multi-state clients?
Pricing?
Start your consulting LLC.
Tell us a few details. We do the rest. You get a single dashboard for everything.
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On the $129/yr Compliance Annual Filings plan, we cover state late fees.
When you autofile your annual report through the $129/yr plan and we miss the deadline, we pay the state's late fee. The guarantee applies to that specific plan and the filings it includes. Other File.Business services are billed at the prices on this page.
Four steps from request to delivery
File.Business runs your filing on a single concierge workflow. You provide what we need; we handle the rest.
Tell us what you need
2-minute intake. We confirm the filing type, jurisdiction, and any supporting documents required.
We prepare the filing
Our specialists draft the document, validate against state requirements, and queue for your review where required.
We submit to the state
Filed through the state portal. We pay the state fee, track the submission, and resolve any state correspondence.
Confirmation in your vault
state-required document delivered to your SOC 2 encrypted document vault, with deadline tracking for the next filing.