Understand what QSBS depends on before the big tax conversation.

QSBS.ai guides founders through the key facts that may matter for Section 1202, explains each step in plain English, and creates an advisor-ready QSBS Discussion Brief.

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Guided Interview

One question at a time with clear explanations.

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Understand

Learn what may matter for QSBS in plain English.

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Advisor-Ready Brief

Organized facts and talking points for your advisor.

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Find the Right Professional

Connect with trusted QSBS advisors when ready.

QSBS Agent

What is your company legal structure?

Why this matters

Certain legal structures may be more aligned with QSBS requirements.

Question 4 of 15 27%

QSBS Discussion Brief

Draft
Potential Positive Indicators
Items to Verify
Possible Red Flags
Next Steps and Questions for Advisor

Guided interview to QSBS Discussion Brief to advisor conversation

Preparation only. Not tax or legal advice.

QSBS preparation is a fact-gathering problem first.

QSBS conversations often slow down because key facts are scattered across formation documents, stock records, cap tables, and memory. QSBS.ai helps organize those facts before the professional review.

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Answer guided questions

The interview asks about formation, issuance, shareholder, asset, business activity, transfer, and document facts.

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Keep uncertainty visible

Not sure and unknown answers are preserved as review items instead of being forced into conclusions.

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Bring a better brief

The output helps a CPA or attorney focus on documents, open questions, fact gaps, and next steps.

Agent interview card

One question at a time

Question 4 of 15

Did you receive the stock directly from the company?

Answer, add notes, or mark not sure. The goal is to preserve reviewable facts, not produce a qualification result.

Why this matters

Understanding stock issuance details helps you and your advisor focus on the documents that may matter.

Interview Progress 27%
Progress by question category
Facts collected from answers
Document hints to gather next
Review screen before brief creation

A guided interview that preserves uncertainty.

The interview keeps the founder focused on one clear question at a time while the side panel shows progress, captured facts, possible document needs, and the trust boundary.

Turn scattered facts into a review-ready structure.

The sample brief shows the target document format: company facts, potential positive indicators, items to verify, possible review issues, document requests, and advisor questions.

Open Sample Brief

QSBS Discussion Brief

Fictional founder scenario

Draft

Preparation only. Not tax or legal advice.

Company fact summary
Potential positive indicators
Items to verify
Possible review items
Documents to gather
Questions for professional

Advisor conversation

Organized facts and open questions for review with a qualified professional.

Built for preparation, not advice.

QSBS is fact-specific. QSBS.ai helps you organize the facts, understand what may matter, and prepare questions for a qualified advisor.

QSBS.ai provides general educational information and interview-based organization only. It does not provide tax, legal, accounting, or investment advice and does not determine QSBS eligibility.

No tax, legal, accounting, investment, or financial advice.
No QSBS determination or final conclusion.
Unknown answers remain visible for professional review.
Next step

Start with the facts you know. Mark the rest for review.

QSBS.ai helps founders prepare, so qualified advisors can advise. The interview organizes what you know, preserves uncertainty, and turns scattered facts into a discussion brief.