Building Corpbook for corporate governance

Today I am launching Corpbook, a platform to store all your corporate governance records in one place. I realize this might seem a bit out of left field for me, since it’s not really related to my scientific work. Essentially though, when I incorporated by business I realized that the tools I want to manage my own corporation are somewhere between not existing at all and costing tens of thousands of dollars a year to get started. With the costs of developing software dropping dramatically and a clear gap in the market, I decided this was an opportunity worth taking up.

Small corporations and startups often end up with governance records like minute books, director registers, share registers, cap tables, government filings, and more scattered across PDFs scattered across PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, paper files, and copied into systems they don’t control. I myself initially started with a simple spreadsheet for my company. But this is fragile, and even if you back up the docs into a shared cloud drive, you can still end up with data duplicated and out of sync across devices.

Even worse, I realized that there is a legal requirement to collect and store personally identifying information on significant shareholders that will soon include SIN numbers and ITN numbers with changes to BC law regarding the (BC Transparency Register)[https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/employment-business/business/bc-companies/transparency-register] soon to be in force. I don’t want SIN numbers sitting in my email inbox, on my computers, or in my cloud drive. I want them fully encrypted, locked down, and ideally I don’t even need to see them. This in particular is what tipped me into making Corpbook. The existing minute book software seems to lack a good way to handle this case, but the solution is simple: send secure forms to significant individuals that use public key encryption to encrypt sensitive information like a SIN number and store it encrypted straight into a database, where the private key is only used to decrypt when a government official asks for it, which is rare. As a user of the system, you literally never even need to see this data, so it’s not even available. This is the same principle that is applied to payment information for most businesses, instead of storing financial data like credit card info, it’s handled by third party payment providers whose entire job is to securely manage it.

Beyond the basics and the motivating case of British Columbian legislative changes, as a solo owner and founder of a corporation in 2026, I am using LLM tools such as agents to automate what I can, but the reality is that although the tools are incredibly powerful, they are non deterministic and error prone, which means the approach to software needs to change to accomodate them. Instead of only having a webpage with standard login credentials, and data that is ephemeral and lost if you change it, reliable agentic workflows require fine grained access controls, human review and approval, and version control so that any mistakes they make can be revreted easily. Most software was not built for this, and what software was built that way comes with an ‘enterprise grade’ price tag that puts it out of reach for small businesses and startups. But with software development costs dropping, solo developers more empowered than ever, and the features which used to be mainly useful for large corporations now essential for even a single person directing agents, it’s time to bring those features to every business, even the ones with a single founder.

I built Corpbook because the software platform I wanted to manage my business didn’t exist. Here it is.

Let’s fix your records

If you own, manage, or invest in businesses structured as corporations, check out Corpbook and let me know how I can make it a platform so good that your corporate records practically run themselves.