How To Get the Essential Document Templates Your LLC Needs

Good morning and Happy Mother’s Day!

1. Feature: How To Get the Essential Document Templates Your LLC Needs

2. Dear TCoL: Dealing with a Rebuttal of an Employee Review

3. From the Archive: Like You Mean Business: Your LLC’s Credit Blueprint.
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Make it a great Sunday!

-TCoL

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Every minute you spend piecing together a client pitch, employment offer, or legal agreement from scratch is a minute you’re not growing your business. Worse, one wrong move—like borrowing shaky legal language from a random Reddit thread—could cost you thousands in legal fees, lost contracts, or even your reputation. If you’re running a real business, you know the stakes are high. The question is: why are you still doing it the hard way?

Before: Chaos, Risk, and Wasted Hours

Picture this: You’re scrambling to draft an NDA for a critical partnership, but you’re stuck Googling templates that don’t quite fit and trying to educate AI. Or you’re hiring your first ops manager, but your offer letter feels like a gamble because you’re not sure it’s legally sound. Maybe you’re manually renaming files or splitting equity with a co-founder without a clear plan, hoping it won’t bite you later. Sound familiar? This is the reality for too many operators—wasting time, taking risks, and reinventing the wheel for every document.

After: Streamlined, Secure, and Operator-Grade

Now imagine a library of plug-and-play templates—instantly accessible, legally sound, and built for growing businesses like yours. Our professionally-prepared templates are designed to remove guesswork and save hours (and $ thousands), so you can focus on what matters: closing deals, hiring well, and scaling smart.

These aren’t generic downloads. They’re operator-grade tools, ready when you need them. All of our templates are professionally-prepared for TCL by a practicing attorney with decades of experience helping and counseling SMBs and their owners. Experience matters.

Here’s a look at the premium templates we’ve added to our TCL Template Library since February 17, 2025 (and, listed below are the articles related to each template):

• TCL Template Digital Asset Protection Language

  This Business Had 75k Followers. Then It Had Zero.

• TCL Template Doc Naming Policy

  Name and Track Files Like a Trillion-Dollar CEO

• TCL Template Employment Offer

  Hiring in a Side Hustle World

• TCL Template Equity Matrix

  Why Smart Founders Rarely Split Equity Evenly

• TCL Template Independent Contractor Agreement

  SMB Risk Management: How to Avoid Turning Your Contractor Into an Employee

• TCL Template Member Managed LLC Operating Agreement

  Your LLC Is Missing Its Most Important Document

• TCL Template NDA

  Make Friends, Not Enemies: The Smarter Way to NDA

• TCL Template Policy Neutrality

  Is Building a Politically Neutral Business Still Possible in 2025?

• TCL Template Sole Member LLC Operating Agreement

  Your LLC Is Missing Its Most Important Document

Test Drive a Template

Now, click on the TCL Template Employment Offer below to access and see for yourself the quality of the templates in our Template Library.

Why Premium? Leverage That Pays Off

For just $7.95/month or $85.86/year, The Co. Letter Premium gives you instant access to our entire Template Library, plus new templates most every week. These aren’t just documents—they’re leverage to save time, reduce risk, and move faster. Premium subscribers also get priority support to keep your business on track.

But here’s the deal: premium spots are limited to ensure our community stays tight-knit and our tools remain top-tier. With new templates dropping weekly, the longer you wait, the more you’re missing out on. Once you’re in, every template in your vault is yours to keep—forever.

Make Your Mother Proud: Your Business Deserves Better

Don’t let another cobbled-together document slow you down or put your business at risk. Upgrade to The Co. Letter Premium today and unlock the tools that top operators rely on.

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Save time. Protect your business. Build smarter.

Dear TCoL: Dealing with a Rebuttal of an Employee Review

Question: I went through a review process with an employee and he surprised me and wrote me a lengthy rebuttal to my review. That has never happened, and I am not sure how to handle it. Any ideas?

Answer: Not knowing the specifics, I am assuming that you wouldn’t be asking if he didn’t have some good points. Ignoring a detailed effort like a review rebuttal is not a good option for several reasons.

So, I would suggest you schedule a short meeting with the employee and sit down and let him speak first and then cover what you feel are the best points made in the rebuttal (so he knows you spent time analyzing it).

If you are legitimately swayed into changing some element of your initial review, then tell him, file an updated version of the review, and the rebuttal. However, if you are not swayed by the rebuttal and conversation, then again, tell him, and put the rebuttal in his folder along with a note that you met with him concerning the rebuttal and were not swayed from your original review.

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