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 "id": "doola",
 "name": "doola",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "doola.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Business formation and compliance made easy. Launch your US LLC or C-Corp from anywhere globally, complete with banking and tax management.",
 "best_for": "founders (often non-US) who want US LLC/C-Corp formation, EIN and compliance handled in one place without the paperwork",
 "skip_if": "you're a US resident comfortable filing formation yourself — the state fee plus a cheap registered agent costs far less than the bundle",
 "honest_knock": "Formation is the cheap part; the recurring bookkeeping and tax tiers are where the real cost sits, and state fees are extra on top of doola's price. Convenient especially for non-US founders, but a local accountant may be cheaper once you're established.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$297",
  "entry_price_terms": "a year plus state fees (LLC/C-Corp formation, EIN, registered agent, US address)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "$297 a year plus state fees",
    "includes": "LLC or C-Corp formation, EIN, registered agent, US address"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pulse",
    "price": "$300 a year",
    "includes": "bookkeeping, 30-day trial"
   },
   {
    "name": "Tax and Compliance",
    "price": "$1,999 a year plus state fees",
    "includes": "Most Popular tier"
   },
   {
    "name": "Business-in-a-Box",
    "price": "$2,999 a year, or $329 a month, plus state fees",
    "includes": ""
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 1 October 2026 on doola.com/pricing) These are the list prices. Starter is $297 a year plus state fees and covers LLC or C-Corp formation, EIN, a registered agent and a US address; state filing fees run $50 to $500 depending on the state, and they are yours, not doola's. Pulse bookkeeping comes with a 30-day trial and renews at $300 a year. Tax and Compliance, the tier the page marks Most Popular, is $1,999 a year plus state fees. Business-in-a-Box is $2,999 a year, or $329 a month, plus state fees. doola's own FAQ states that all plans are billed annually. Worth knowing for timing: doola runs periodic automatic sales on top of that list. We have recorded two: an up-to-$750 sale that ran through 31 August 2026 and a 20% sale badged Back to Building that ran from 21 to 30 September 2026. Both ended on schedule, and on 1 October 2026 the page showed no sale banner; the one struck-through figure left was the monthly view of Business-in-a-Box, $329 shown at $263, with no badge or end date beside it. So budget from the list column, because that is what year two costs.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-01",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Firstbase or a local accountant",
  "why": "other formation services, or doing it yourself"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/doola.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/doola-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/doola/",
  "vendor_site": "https://doola.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://partnersps.doola.com/sds9aznrrrcj",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "doola:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "doola:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "doola:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "doola:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 },
 "offers": [
  {
   "offer_id": "doola-reader-offer",
   "version": "8afd2650b1",
   "offer_type": "price_discount",
   "benefit": "10% off your first plan purchase",
   "verification_status": "vendor_confirmed",
   "expires_at": null,
   "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/offers.json#doola-reader-offer"
  }
 ]
}