By the numbers
Where we are today
0Companies formed since 2019
0Entities we serve as agent
0Accepted on first submission
0People, all U.S.-based
Charterline is a U.S. business formation and registered agent company. Real filing specialists, published prices, and an agent address in all fifty states. No call centre, no franchise model, no private equity owner asking us to test a higher renewal price.
Our founders spent years inside this industry, and the same thing kept happening. A first-time business owner would arrive expecting to pay a filing fee, and would leave having agreed to a compliance subscription, a rush fee for something the state processed in a day, and a registered agent plan that quietly tripled at renewal.
None of it was illegal. Most of it was disclosed somewhere. But it treated the least experienced customer in the room as the most profitable one, and it worked precisely because forming a company is something most people do once or twice in a lifetime.
We thought the honest version could still be a good business. Charge a fair flat price for real work. Pass the government fee through untouched. Tell someone when they don't need the thing they're asking for. Answer the phone. That's the entire strategy, and after 41,000 filings it's held up better than we expected.
Short enough that every person here actually remembers them.
Your file is assigned to one specialist who drafts it, checks it against that state's requirements, submits it and follows it to approval. You get their name and their email address. Nobody's file goes into a queue that no one owns.
Every service we sell has a price on the pricing page. There is no quote-based tier, no "call for enterprise", and no discount that requires abandoning a cart first. What you see is what everybody pays.
We are not attorneys or accountants, and we say so before it matters rather than after. We explain how the options generally work and file accurately. When your question needs licensed advice, we tell you — and we don't charge to say it.
We can't make a Secretary of State move faster. We can draft same-day, submit same-day, and never be the reason a filing sat for a week. Orders in before 3pm Eastern are filed that business day.
Filing specialists in Wilmington and Denver, an agent operations team that opens and scans mail every business day, and a support desk that is staffed by people who have personally filed in all fifty states.
Independent and profitable. No outside investors setting our renewal pricing.
“Fourth entity I've moved to them. One renewal date, one invoice, and I've never had to chase a scan.”
“I emailed at 8pm expecting a ticket number and got a real reply from the person filing my articles.”
“They caught that my company name was too close to an existing one before it got rejected. That saved me two weeks.”
Start a filing, move an agent, or just ask the question you've been putting off.