The no-gap switch: new agent on file before the old one lets go.
Changing your registered agent is a relay. Run it in the wrong order and there is a window — hours or weeks, depending on the state — in which your entity has no agent at all, and everything the state or a process server sends in that window goes nowhere you will ever see.
The relay, drawn
Successor filed
The new agent designation goes to the state first. State fee for this folio: per state, in the ledger below — at cost, at cost.
Read-back
The state record is read back. It must show the new agent before anything else moves.
Release
Only then is the old agent released. Release first, file second — that order leaves the entity with no agent, and it is never run. The shaded node is the no-agent-gap window the relay exists to close.
What the states charge (verified)
Change-of-agent state fees, from the same record the folios render
State fees pass through at cost. States not listed have their change fee confirmed in writing when the switch is prepared — our dataset publishes a fee only when it has been verified against the state’s schedule. Virginia’s row carries its note because Virginia publishes no single change fee: the agent cannot be changed on the annual report and a separate filing is required — the pointer is the honest state there. Per-state detail lives on each state folio.
When to switch
The clean window is right after your annual obligation is satisfied for the cycle — the new agent starts with a quiet calendar. The worst window is inside a live deadline or a live lawsuit. If you are mid-anything, tell us first; the protocol absorbs it, but it has to know.
Where enrollment stands. The Agent On File is built and enrolling soon — not today. Enrollment opens when our wholesale fulfillment agreement is executed and our first test order has been completed and proven on the record. Join the founding list and we will tell you the day it opens. The Entity Checkup and the free one-entity reminder tier work now.
Founding list, switchers’ line
The rate card, and the order we open in
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.