The Agent On File Registered agent · Compliance calendar · Mail on file

The failure modes, written down.

Five essays on how entities actually get hurt in this corner of the law — agent resignations, default judgments, dissolution, the second-state problem, and the home address most owners publish without noticing. Every state figure in them traces to the verified dataset; the mechanics are stated as mechanics, and none of it is legal advice.

§1

What happens when your registered agent resigns

An agent resignation starts a state clock. The windows, the no-agent dissolution, and why curing it costs several times a normal reinstatement.

§2

Service of process, and how a lawsuit becomes a default judgment

Process is served on your agent, the clock starts on delivery — not on your reading it. How defaults happen, and the acknowledgement discipline that prevents them.

§3

Administrative dissolution: how companies die on paper, and how revival works

The state ends your entity for a missed filing, not a judge. The dissolution clocks by state pattern, the revival windows, and what cannot be revived.

§4

Foreign qualification: when your company starts existing in a second state

Formed in one state, operating in another — the qualification trigger, the second agent, and the second calendar most owners never open.

§5

Keep your home address off the public record

The address on your formation filing is public, permanent, and searchable. Where a home address leaks, where an agent’s address lawfully replaces it, and where it cannot.

The rate card, and the order we open in

The Agent On File — agent, calendar, mail vault$149per entity, per year · renews at $149
Bundled — the annual filing included$199per entity, per year · renews at $199
Filing add-on — one cycle, prepared and filed$129added to the base plan, per use

Launch pricing, published before enrollment opens. State filing fees pass through at cost and are shown before anything is filed. The reminder tier — one entity’s ledger, watched and reminded — is free.

Enrollment is not open today. It opens when our wholesale fulfillment agreement is executed and a first test order has been completed and proven on the record. The founding list hears first — by state, in order. Questions before joining: write to the desk.