If you’ve ever run a small business, you know the moment.
A new client says yes, and suddenly you need a contract — today. A landlord asks for paperwork you’ve never heard of. Your first hire is starting Monday and there’s no offer letter, no agreement, nothing in writing. You know the document matters. You know getting it wrong could cost you. And you know exactly what your options look like.
You can call a lawyer and pay hundreds of dollars for something they’ll adapt from a template in twenty minutes. You can spend half a night searching for a free form — squinting at some blurry PDF written for another state, another decade, another business entirely — and hope the parts you didn’t understand don’t matter. Or you can do the thing so many people quietly do: go without, cross your fingers, and run your business on a handshake.
None of those felt like real options to us. Because we’ve been the person making that choice. We’ve paid the invoice that stung for a document we barely understood. We’ve signed things we didn’t fully follow because asking would cost more. We’ve watched people we care about — family running restaurants, friends freelancing, neighbors renting out a spare unit — get burned by the paperwork they couldn’t afford to do right.
That’s backwards. A solid agreement isn’t a luxury good — it’s how ordinary people protect the businesses they’ve poured their savings, nights, and weekends into. The single mom starting a cleaning company needs a service agreement just as much as a funded startup does. The retired couple renting out their garage apartment needs a proper lease just as much as a property empire does. They just can’t spend $400 every time.
So we built BizDocs the way we wished it existed the first time we needed it: you answer plain-English questions — the kind a helpful friend would ask — and you get a complete, professionally structured document, customized to your situation, in minutes. Download it as a PDF or Word file. Edit it when things change. Pay $29.99 once if you need one document, or try BizDocs Unlimited — 7 days for $1.99, then $29.99 a month or $99 a year — if paperwork is a regular part of your life. No hourly rates. No jargon. No gotchas.
We’re a small team, and honestly, we like it that way. Every question in every questionnaire got argued over. Every document type got built because a real kind of person needs it — a landlord, a freelancer, a founder, a nonprofit director. When you email us, a person answers.
And we’ll always be honest about what we’re not. BizDocs isn’t a law firm, and we’ll never pretend to be one. For the big, strange, high-stakes moments, a good attorney is worth every penny — we’ll be the first to tell you so. But for the everyday paperwork of running a business? That shouldn’t require anyone’s permission, and it shouldn’t break anyone’s budget.
That’s the whole idea. That’s why we’re here.