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Cap Table Desk

For founders, CFOs, and deal teams: 9 Claude prompts that rebuild the cap table from the signed documents instead of the spreadsheet, run the waterfall clause by clause against the actual LPA or charter, and recompute fee and carry independently, so a stale sheet gets caught before a round closes on it.

Free — runs in your own ClaudeMedium setup · 4 steps9 ready-to-run prompts
Set it up free — takes 3 minutes ↓Or have us wire it in →
Step 1 · setup
Three minutes, four steps, nothing to install by hand

Claude sets it up for you. You just paste.

Never used Claude? It is free and takes 30 seconds to open. Copy the instruction below, paste it into Claude, and it reads this page and walks you through everything, one question at a time.

  1. 1

    Tell Claude how to talk to you

    One tap. It changes how much Claude explains, and how slowly it goes. You can change it any time.

  2. 2

    Copy your setup instruction

    A short instruction plus a link to this page lands on your clipboard. First copy asks for your email once. That unlocks every button across the whole library.

  3. 3

    Open Claude in a new tab

    Free account, no card, 30 seconds. This tab stays open so you can come back.

    Open claude.ai ↗
  4. 4

    Paste, send, and answer one question

    Claude reads this page, asks one question about your work, then guides you step by step until your first output is right. If anything looks wrong, tell Claude what you see, and it fixes it with you.

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Set me up with Cap Table Desk in my own Claude. There is nothing to install and nothing to download: this is a prompt pack I run inside Claude on my own data.

Guide: https://consultance.ai/library/cap-table-desk
What it does: For founders, CFOs, and deal teams: 9 Claude prompts that rebuild the cap table from the signed documents instead of the spreadsheet, run the waterfall clause by clause against the actual LPA or charter, and recompute fee and carry independently, so a stale sheet gets caught before a round closes on it.

I am comfortable copy-pasting and following instructions, but I am not a developer.

Rules:
- Plain English. Define jargon the first time it appears (repo, env var, port, dependency).
- One step at a time. Exact command in a code block. Tell me which app to paste it into (Terminal on Mac, PowerShell on Windows).
- One sentence per command explaining what it does and what success looks like.
- After each command, wait. I will tell you the output before you move on.
- If a tool is missing (git, node, docker, python), give me the one-line install for my OS first.
- If something errors, diagnose before the next step. Do not skip.

First message: ask only "What is your operating system, macOS, Windows, or Linux?" Then start step 1.

Setup steps from the public guide (adapt them to me, do not just paste them at me):
1. Open Claude, pin Claude Opus 5, and create a private Project for the entity. Cap table documents stay in your own tenant and are never uploaded to us, stored by us, or seen by us.
2. Load the actual instruments into Project knowledge: stock purchase agreements, SAFEs, convertible notes, option grants, the charter or LPA. Prompt 01 will not produce a real rebuild from a description of them.
3. Run prompts 01 and 02 first. That is where the drift between the working spreadsheet and the signed documents surfaces.
4. Run 03 for the waterfall against your real governing language, 04 for the fee and carry recompute, and 05 to 09 once you have a live round to model.

Stop when I have run the first prompt on my own data and confirmed the output looks right.
Step 2 · run it on your data

Step 1 set it up. These 9 prompts do the work.

the vault

The 9 prompts

Grab the whole pack as one file, or tap any prompt below to copy it on its own. Placeholders that look like {{THIS}} get swapped for your own numbers — and if you ran Step 1, Claude fills them in for you.

One .md file · all 9 prompts, numbered, in order · nothing left out.
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You are rebuilding a cap table from primary documents, not from an existing spreadsheet. Treat any spreadsheet I mention as a claim to verify, not a source.

Documents I am providing: {{LIST_STOCK_PURCHASE_AGREEMENTS_SAFES_OPTION_GRANTS_CONVERTIBLE_NOTES}}

For each document, extract: holder name, instrument type, shares or units, price per share or conversion terms, issue date, and any special rights attached. Build the rebuilt cap table as a single table, one row per holder per instrument, with the document it came from cited in every row. Flag any holder or instrument you cannot find a signed document for.
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Compare the rebuilt cap table from prompt 01 against the existing spreadsheet or reported totals I paste in below.

{{PASTE EXISTING SPREADSHEET TOTALS OR REPORTED SHARE COUNTS}}

Line by line, state where the rebuilt count matches the reported count, and where it does not. For every mismatch, state the direction of the difference and the most likely cause: a missing document, a stale entry, a rounding convention, or an instrument that converted and was not removed from the old sheet. Do not resolve the mismatch in the spreadsheet's favor by default, the documents are the source of truth here.
Click to copy
Run the liquidation or distribution waterfall for this cap table against the actual preference and priority language in the governing document, not against a generic waterfall template.

Governing document: {{PASTE RELEVANT CLAUSES FROM LPA, CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION, OR SHAREHOLDER AGREEMENT}}
Exit or distribution scenario: {{DEAL_VALUE_OR_DISTRIBUTION_AMOUNT}}

Walk the waterfall step by step: return of capital, preferred return if any, participation rights, conversion decisions each preferred holder would rationally make, then common. At each step, quote the clause governing that step. If a clause is ambiguous about ordering or conversion mechanics, say so rather than picking an interpretation silently.
Click to copy
Check the management fee and carry calculations against the fund or deal documents.

Fee and carry terms as stated in the documents: {{PASTE RELEVANT LPA SECTIONS}}
Reported fee and carry figures: {{PASTE CURRENT CALCULATIONS OR STATEMENTS}}

Recompute the management fee for the period from the stated basis, whether that is committed capital, invested capital, or NAV, using only the rate and basis in the documents. Recompute carry, including whether a hurdle or preferred return applies before carry accrues, and whether a clawback provision exists. State any variance between the recomputed figures and the reported figures, and whether the direction favors the fund or the LPs.
Click to copy
Model the next financing round three ways, using the rebuilt cap table from prompt 01 as the pre money base.

Round parameters: {{PROPOSED_RAISE_AMOUNT}} at {{PROPOSED_PRE_MONEY_OR_VALUATION_RANGE}}

Run it as: (1) a straightforward priced round with a new option pool sized at {{POOL_TARGET_PERCENT}}, pool created pre money. (2) The same round with the pool created post money instead, and show the dilution difference this single mechanical choice makes to existing holders. (3) A round with a full ratchet or weighted average anti dilution provision triggered, if any existing preferred carries one, and show that impact separately. State the resulting ownership percentage for every existing holder under each of the three.
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Across the cap table history and the round modeled in prompt 05, rank every dilution driver by how much ownership it has cost the founders or the earliest holders, in descending order.

Consider: each priced round, the option pool top ups, any convertible instrument's conversion terms, and any anti dilution adjustment. For each driver, state the ownership percentage impact in isolation, holding everything else constant, so the ranking reflects each driver's actual weight rather than just chronological order.
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Reconcile the option pool against individual grant documents.

Pool size as authorized: {{AUTHORIZED_POOL_SIZE}}
Individual grants: {{PASTE GRANT DOCUMENTS OR A GRANT LIST WITH DATES AND VESTING TERMS}}

Sum the individual grants against the authorized pool and state whether the pool is over allocated, under allocated, or matches. For each grant, state the vesting schedule, how much is vested as of {{AS_OF_DATE}}, and flag any grant with vesting terms that are missing or unclear in the documents. Flag any departed employee whose unvested shares should have returned to the pool but do not appear to have been reclaimed.
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Summarize the investor rights and preference stack across every round represented in the rebuilt cap table, from the documents, not from memory of how these things usually work.

For each preferred series: liquidation preference multiple and whether it is participating or non participating, any dividend rights, board seat or protective provisions, information rights, and pro rata or major investor rights. Present it as one table, one row per series, with the document clause cited for each right. Flag any right that appears to conflict with a right held by a different series, since that is where a future round gets complicated.
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Using the rebuilt cap table from prompt 01 and the round scenario from prompt 05 that we are actually proceeding with, draft the pro forma capitalization table for the closing.

Include: every existing holder's pre and post round ownership, percentage and share count, the new investor's ownership, the option pool position, and a summary row confirming the total accounts for 100%. Flag any instrument still outstanding, like an unconverted note or a warrant, that this pro forma should reflect but that I have not given you clean terms for.

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For founders, CFOs, and deal teams: 9 Claude prompts that rebuild the cap table from the signed documents instead of the spreadsheet, run the waterfall clause by clause against the actual LPA or charter, and recompute fee and carry independently, so a stale sheet gets caught before a round closes on it.

Path A · free

You just did it

The setup rail and every prompt above are free and stay free. The cost is your time, and the risk of wiring it wrong on live data.

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Path B · done with you

We wire it into your business

The vault runs on documents you paste in. Consultance wires the last mile inside your own environment: a governed cap table connector (Carta, Pulley) or the VDR pulled under access control, the waterfall wired to your actual preference stack instead of re pasted each time, a diff that fires when the record moves, and counsel plus fund admin sign off as a real gate before anything becomes the record. Reply "wire it" for a 30-minute slot.

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data safety

Before you use live numbers

  • • Run last quarter's numbers first. Live data is not a test bed.
  • • Nothing here uploads to us. It runs in your own Claude account, on your own machine.
  • • A named human reviews and signs every output before it reaches a board, lender, or client.
  • • Mask account numbers and names to the minimum the task needs.
the fine print

Straight answers on ownership

Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. This is decision support, not legal, tax, or accounting advice, and not a substitute for counsel, your fund administrator, or the transfer agent record. Ambiguous clause language is flagged, never silently resolved. A named human signs anything that closes. Your documents stay in your own Claude tenant, we never see them.

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What is Cap Table Desk?

Cap Table Desk is a finance and data build in the consultance.ai AI Build Library. For founders, CFOs, and deal teams: 9 Claude prompts that rebuild the cap table from the signed documents instead of the spreadsheet, run the waterfall clause by clause against the actual LPA or charter, and recompute fee and carry independently, so a stale sheet gets caught before a round closes on it. It fits founders, CFOs, fund CFOs, and deal teams working off a cap table spreadsheet that has been carried forward and lightly edited since the seed round and never tied back to the instruments. Setup difficulty is Medium, with 4 plain-English steps.

What does Cap Table Desk do?

For founders, CFOs, and deal teams: 9 Claude prompts that rebuild the cap table from the signed documents instead of the spreadsheet, run the waterfall clause by clause against the actual LPA or charter, and recompute fee and carry independently, so a stale sheet gets caught before a round closes on it.

Who is Cap Table Desk for?

It fits founders, CFOs, fund CFOs, and deal teams working off a cap table spreadsheet that has been carried forward and lightly edited since the seed round and never tied back to the instruments.

How hard is Cap Table Desk to set up?

Medium to set up — one guided setup instruction covering 4 plain-English steps, plus 9 ready-to-run prompts on the resource page.

How would consultance.ai build this out?

The vault runs on documents you paste in. Consultance wires the last mile inside your own environment: a governed cap table connector (Carta, Pulley) or the VDR pulled under access control, the waterfall wired to your actual preference stack instead of re pasted each time, a diff that fires when the record moves, and counsel plus fund admin sign off as a real gate before anything becomes the record. Reply "wire it" for a 30-minute slot.

What are the licensing terms?

Prompt set authored by consultance.ai. This is decision support, not legal, tax, or accounting advice, and not a substitute for counsel, your fund administrator, or the transfer agent record. Ambiguous clause language is flagged, never silently resolved. A named human signs anything that closes. Your documents stay in your own Claude tenant, we never see them.

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Cap Table Desk is the starting point. On a free AI audit we map where it fits your stack and what consultance.ai would build around it.

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