The Operating System
Documents, deadlines and alerts in one place - not a folder of PDFs you have to remember you saved.

Before BizUp
The formation certificate is in one thread, the EIN letter in another, and the operating agreement is on a laptop. Finding one of them means searching for a subject line you half remember.
Annual reports and renewals arrive on the state's schedule, not yours. If nothing is tracking them, the reminder is a notice in the mail - or nothing at all.
Entity status, filings, agent, documents. Each answer sits with a different provider, so nobody - including you - can see the state of the business in one view.
The Platform
Formation status, filings, documents, and what is coming up - kept together, so you always know what needs attention.

Know exactly where your LLC stands, and what to fix before you are out of compliance.

Formation status, compliance deadlines, and documents. All in one dashboard.

From formation to compliance to growth. Add products at any stage.

Annual reports filed before the deadline. Every requirement tracked for you.

Encrypted document storage, and your home address kept off the public record.

Full dashboard access, compliance alerts, and Astra. All from your phone.
Astra is built into every part of BizUp. It knows your business, answers around the clock, and hands you to a specialist the moment you want one.
Astra answers from your actual entity - state, formation date, members, and ownership - not from a generic help article. Ask “when is my annual report due?” and you get your date, not a 50-state table.

Chat from anywhere in your dashboard, at any hour. Every conversation is saved and searchable, so you can pick up a question from three weeks ago exactly where you left it.

Astra sits inside the formation and EIN flows, so help arrives where the question actually occurs. Describe your business in plain English and it suggests the right industry code.

Everything in your document vault becomes part of what Astra can answer from. Ask what your operating agreement says about ownership and it reads yours to tell you.

When you want a person, Astra connects you to a BizUp specialist and passes along the whole conversation, so you never repeat yourself. Transcripts are yours to download or email.






How compliance actually resolves
Every obligation is tracked against your business record, so the work happens on a schedule instead of arriving as a notice in the mail.

One system · every stage
Security and access
The platform comes with BizUp formation and Protect plans.
Both, and they are not separable. The filings and compliance work are performed as a service; the dashboard is where the resulting documents, statuses and upcoming obligations live. You are not buying a tool and then doing the paperwork yourself.
Yes. Protect is built for existing businesses as well as ones formed through BizUp - your current records establish the business profile, and formation documents you already hold can be stored alongside them.
Astra answers from your own entity - state, formation date, members and ownership - rather than a generic help article, and it can read the documents in your vault to answer questions about them. It sits inside the formation and EIN flows, and it hands you to a BizUp specialist with the conversation attached whenever you want a person.
You and the people you give access to. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and it is never sold. BizUp staff access it to perform the services you have asked for. A SOC 2 audit is in progress - that is a status, not a completed certification, and we will say so plainly until it is finished.
Form the business, keep it compliant, and find every document in the same place.