How HYVV works

Use these docs to set up a company on HYVV and run it day to day: agree ownership with your partners, form the company, keep the cap table and pay revenue shares. They describe the product as it works today: when a page says HYVV does something, it is live in the app.

Who these docs are for

• Founders setting up a new company, or bringing an existing one into HYVV.
• Partners, contributors and advisors who hold equity or a revenue share and want to see what they own and what they have been paid.

Quick start

1. Start for free (opens in a new tab).
2. Start a new company with Foundation and Hyper Formation, or import a company you already run.
3. Agree on ownership with your partners in the Foundation flow. Each proposal passes only when every partner approves it.
4. Connect your company’s Stripe account, so HYVV can see the payments it receives.
5. Create a revenue share for a member, or share an Earn Link. Once the recipient connects their own Stripe account, payouts run on your company’s payout schedule. Pricing shows which parts are free and which need a monthly plan.

Key concepts

Foundation — Before anything is filed, the founding team sets out contributions, equity and revenue-share terms. Each proposal passes only when every partner approves it, and handing the approved plan to Hyper Formation locks it.

Revenue share — A contractual right to a percentage of the gross revenue your company receives through Stripe, with an optional dollar cap and end date. It is not equity.

Waterfall — Shares are paid in priority order, starting with priority 1. If the cash above your reserve runs short, the shares lower in the order get what is left.

Earn Link — A link to a revenue-share offer: a percentage of your company’s gross revenue, with an optional cap on what each person who claims it can earn. Anyone can read the terms; whoever claims it signs a revenue participation agreement and connects Stripe to get paid.

Payout schedule — HYVV splits each payment the moment it clears in Stripe — or batches it daily, weekly or monthly on the schedule you choose. Stripe then pays each person out to their own bank on their Stripe payout schedule.

Receipt — Every payout produces a receipt that shows the payment it came from, the share it was paid under and the amount. Receipts can be shared and verified by link.

Tamper-evident ledger — Every money movement is written to a hash-chained ledger that is re-verified every night, so any later change is detectable (tamper-evident).

Read next

• Product overview — the whole lifecycle, stage by stage.
• Using the cap table — stock, options, SAFEs, notes, vesting and 83(b) forms.
• Setting up revenue sharing — create a share, set payouts, and read receipts.