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title: How to create a Founder Agreement
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# How to create a Founder Agreement
## In this guide, we'll walk you through how to create a Founder Agreement on SeedLegals
If you're unsure of which one you need, please check out this great article on the [difference between the more detailed Founder Service Agreement and the basic Founder Agreement.](https://help.seedlegals.com/en/1866450-founder-agreements-explained?hsLang=en)
🎥 **Prefer to watch? Here’s a short video walkthrough of the process:**
You can create your Founder Agreement in just a few clicks...
- Click **Team** in the left panel and click **+Add team member** or select the team member you'd like to create this agreement with. Enter **'Founder** as type, enter their start date, job title & salary.
- If they're not being paid a salary yet, just enter £0 for the salary, and we'll create an agreement that doesn't include employment provisions, we call that a Founder Agreement.
- If they are being paid a salary, then enter that in, and we'll create a Founder Service Agreement which is like the more basic Founder Agreement but with employment provisions.
- Click **Create Founder Agrement** at the bottom
- Fill in the rest of the questionnaire and save the terms
- It’s ready to share and sign!
You can amend the terms of the contract once signed by creating a new agreement which will supersede the previous version, do make sure that this is all agreed beforehand.
If you're looking to amend the terms before it is signed, then you can click on **View Agreement\> terms \> click on the term you would like to amend**.
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