What is a Corporate Guide Service?
Personalized Service by True Filing Experts
Corporate Guide Service is something Northwest Registered Agent invented, so you’ll only find it here. It’s a service that connects you, a business owner, with our Corporate Guides, a team of business experts. You can call, email, or chat with a real person and get answers to your questions—like, can you list a PO Box as your principal business address on your California Articles of Organization? (No!) Or do you need to publish a notice of your Arizona LLC’s formation in a newspaper? (Not if your registered agent is in Pima or Maricopa County!)
In other words, our Corporate Guides are all nerds about forms, fees, statutes, due dates, licensing requirements, and processing times—everything you have questions about but don’t need a lawyer to answer. And when you hire us, our Corporate Guides are in your corner for the entire lifetime of your business.
Who Are Our Corporate Guides?
Our Corporate Guides are real people—over 900 of them. They work at our headquarters, in our offices across the country, and even from their homes.
Corporate Guides are experts, most of whom can rattle off obscure rules for any US jurisdiction. Some have PhDs and law degrees, but all Corporate Guides learn how to do it first-hand by filing paperwork for hundreds of businesses daily. They dig deep into the recesses of state statutes, wait on hold with government agencies, or even walk down to the local Secretary of State’s office to ask directly if that’s what it takes.
In short, Northwest’s Corporate Guides venture deep into the weeds of bureaucracy and emerge victorious every day.
Why Use a Corporate Guide Service?
Starting and maintaining a business can be confusing. It’s so confusing that some folks just hire lawyers to do it for them. But not everyone wants or can afford to do that, and not everyone needs to.
Here are the benefits of hiring a Corporate Guide Service:
Just check out our reviews. We love to help people start businesses, and we’ll answer questions for visitors to our website even if they aren’t yet clients. So when you come across a problem and you don’t know how to proceed, you have the advantage of being able to consult with experts before you make your decision.
The best part? No scripts. No quotas. If we don’t know the answer right away, we’ll figure it out in real time. Our Corporate Guides love going down a good rabbit hole.
We have offices in every state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, and we hire locally. That means when you ask your Corporate Guide questions, you’re interacting with someone with direct experience with how things are done in your state.
All services at Northwest include Privacy by Default®, and Corporate Guide Service is no exception. Our guides maintain ultra-high standards for data protection in our facilities and our systems, and they’ll even show you how you can maximize your privacy when starting a business.
Starting a business is one thing. But what about maintaining it? Will you move? Add owners? Roll out new products? Use an alternate business name? Expand into another state? For most businesses, these events mean filing more paperwork. And even if your company only experiences minor changes, you’ll still need to file annual or biennial reports to the state.
Where most filing services just help get your business off the ground, Northwest’s Corporate Guide Service will keep your company flying into the future. Whether it’s a year from now, five years, a decade, or more, we’ll be there to lend a hand with whatever lies ahead.
Northwest Corporate Guide Service FAQs
No other company has our unique infrastructure. We started our journey by opening offices in every state so we could grow into a national registered agent service without farming out local services to third parties. That allowed us to hire locally and foster a nationwide company culture dedicated to supporting our clients.
No. Our Corporate Guide Service is a way of doing business and supporting our clients, not an additional line item charged on top of our other services. Like Privacy by Default®, it’s baked into everything we do.
Every Northwest client can reach out for support from our Corporate Guides whenever they need it. In fact, you don’t even need to be a client to get help from our Corporate Guides.
Yes! You can contact our Corporate Guides through our website’s chat, by email or by phone. Or, simply reach out through our Contact form.
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