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FileForms 2025 Annual Stakeholder Letter

By Frank Tumminello | December 30, 2025

An Annual Letter to Business Owners, Trusted Advisors, and Future Teammates

To our clients, partners, and friends of FileForms—

What a year at FileForms.

FileForms is an entity compliance platform built to help business owners and professional firms stay compliant with Secretary of State filings—including registered agent services, annual reports, business formations, foreign qualifications, and certificates of good standing—with real-time visibility and modern automation.

Over the last 12 months, our team has worked relentlessly to deliver the compliance technology business owners and trusted advisors have been asking for: fewer manual workflows, fewer surprises, and a more scalable way to keep entities active and in good standing.

From learning to execution

Our first few years were about learning the hard realities of compliance: state-by-state rules, edge cases, timing constraints, and the operational burden firms face when they manage filings for dozens—or thousands—of entities. This year marked a shift. We are no longer just learning. We’re implementing and executing, turning those lessons into a platform that performs at scale.

Why entity compliance is harder than it should be

Compliance is often treated like administrative overhead—until a missed filing creates real consequences: loss of good standing, delayed deals, banking friction, or penalties that no one budgeted for.

That’s why FileForms emphasizes proactive insights and monitoring. We help you stay ahead of deadlines, notices, and compliance events so your entities remain active and in good standing across every state where you operate.

The “superhuman” outcome (without the superhero costume)

Compliance rewards a very specific skill: relentless attention to detail. The kind that catches a one-character mismatch, a form revision, a portal requirement hidden three clicks deep, or a state fee update that changed overnight.

Historically, teams handled this in one of two ways: (1) hire more people, or (2) accept more risk and more chaos.

Our approach is different. We combine high-integrity compliance controls with AI-enabled workflows so the repetitive work is handled with speed and consistency—and humans stay focused on judgment calls, exceptions, and client service. The result is a “superhuman” level of productivity: the accuracy of a detail-obsessed compliance professional, paired with the throughput of a system that doesn’t misplace spreadsheets or forget deadlines.

And candidly, this is increasingly what clients expect. If consumers can track a $12 package in real time, business owners and professionals should be able to track mission-critical compliance work the same way.

What we launched this year

Everything we shipped this year was designed to make compliance simpler, faster, and more scalable for both business owners and professional firms.

1) Registered Agent Services in all 50 states

Electronically track and manage legal notices across your footprint, supported by secure digital document storage so you can scale with confidence.

2) Annual reporting in all 50 states

Track deadlines, store entity data, and make quick changes—so you can keep entities in good standing without reinventing your process every year.

3) Business formations in all 50 states (DIY + guided)

A streamlined formation experience that supports customizable bundles, including our Expert Launch package with a local registered agent address, EIN support, and operating agreement templates.

4) Foreign qualification filings built for multistate growth

An optimized flow for multistate businesses, with bundling for registered agent services and dynamic handling of state fees—plus certificates of good standing when required from the formation state.

5) White-label filing solutions for professional firms

Deliver a native client experience under your firm’s brand—building trust and making compliance feel like part of your service model, not a third-party handoff.

6) API + documentation for formation services

An open API and documentation that enables filing fulfillment inside large business-owner networks and professional workflows—so your clients can stay inside the tools they already use.

7) Payments, billing, and invoicing automation

Automated payment workflows for professionals who need clean allocation, billing, and reconciliation.

Just as importantly, this also eliminates a painful operational pattern: no more fronting client state fees, delaying your free cash flows, and collecting on the back end. Payments become a built-in part of the workflow—cleaner economics, fewer awkward follow-ups.

8) Certificates of Good Standing

Fast access to certificates required for foreign qualifications, financing, banking, and transactions.

9) Over 100 pieces of educational content for business owners and partners

We published 100+ educational articles on the FileForms blog to help business owners and professional firms stay aware of requirements, avoid surprises, and spot opportunities to stay at the forefront of compliance as state processes evolve.

10) Expedited filings (including 24-hour turnarounds where available)

Time-sensitive filing fulfillment—especially valuable for transactions and deadlines where speed matters.

11) Payroll and sales tax registration

Registrations that often follow formations and foreign qualifications—so businesses can operationalize faster.

12) Bulk orders for annual reports and registered agent services

Built for multi-entity filers who want to consolidate vendors into one platform that can handle real volume.

13) Partnership dashboard for real-time tracking

Order tracking with transaction data plus business and officer details—so firms can manage compliance with the same rigor they manage revenue.

14) ROI calculator for professional firms

A practical way to model revenue and margin opportunity from modernizing and offering filing solutions.

15) Compliance health checker

A structured assessment to determine compliance needs based on clients served, operating states, and existing processes.

16) Compliance audit via bulk upload

Identify filing requirements, upcoming deadlines, and potential penalties across entity portfolios—turning scattered entity data into a prioritized action plan.

Customer outcomes we’re proud of

We measure success by what we ship—and what it enables for clients.

  • 1,000+ new entity formation orders in a single engagement — Our largest to date, supporting a major investment firm’s capital call. High volume only matters if execution stays consistent—and our team delivered.
  • A national professional firm expanded into all 50 states under our watch — They started with FileForms in a handful of states. In a single year, they expanded nationwide compliantly, without operational chaos.
  • A multi-family office reseller modernized an antiquated process and improved unit economics — This partner previously used a provider with a legacy, manual workflow. After adopting FileForms across 500+ entities, they achieved 75% time savings, generated $100,000 in additional revenue, and realized $100,000 in additional net profit margin—proof that compliance modernization isn’t just operationally better, it’s financially meaningful.

What we learned (and what we’re doubling down on)

  1. Reliability beats speed when stakes are high. Fast is helpful; predictable outcomes and clean records are essential.
  2. The workflow is the product. Intake → validation → filing → confirmation → storage → visibility: customers judge the whole system, not individual features.
  3. Partners need transparency, not status emails. Real-time tracking and structured data are table stakes for professional teams.
  4. AI works best when it removes burden and reduces errors. We focus AI on consistency, monitoring, and operational control—not novelty.

What’s next

As we enter year four, we do so with more know-how, technology, and execution muscle than ever.

Our priorities are straightforward:

  • Expand proactive compliance monitoring and insights across the entity lifecycle
  • Keep strengthening partner tooling (white-label, API-first distribution, reporting)
  • Increase auditability so compliance is measurable, not mysterious
  • Raise the bar on speed, accuracy, and transparency at scale

We’re building FileForms for business owners who want to focus on growth—and for trusted advisors who want to deliver a modern compliance experience without increasing internal workload.

Thank you

I want to close with what matters most: people.

I’m extremely proud of our team for the discipline and intensity they brought to this year’s work. And I’m grateful to our clients and partners for placing trust in our hands—because in compliance, trust is earned through execution.

Thank you for building with us. We’re looking forward to what the new year brings.

Sincerely,
Frank Tumminello
CEO, FileForms

Frank Tumminello

CEO, Fileforms