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Forming an LLC or corporation is only the first document. Running one properly means having a handful of internal paperwork on file — agreements, resolutions, and plans that define how the company operates, even if you never have to show them to anyone but your accountant, a bank, or a court. This page rounds up the documents most LLCs and corporations need and points you to the tools we've built to help create them.

A quick note on what this is: the two tools below are interactive generators that build a customized document from your answers, not a static file library. If you were expecting a page of downloadable blank templates, that's a different product than what's live today — see the note at the bottom of this page.

## For LLCs: The Operating Agreement

An operating agreement is the internal rulebook for an LLC: who owns what percentage, how decisions get made, how profits and losses are allocated, and what happens if a member leaves, dies, or wants out. Most states don't legally require one, but skipping it leaves your LLC governed by that state's generic default rules — which rarely match what the owners actually intended — and can undercut the liability protection an LLC is supposed to provide, especially for single-member LLCs that need to show the company is genuinely operated as a separate entity.

-   [Operating Agreement Generator](/tools/operating-agreement-generator) — answer questions about ownership, management structure, and operating procedures, and get a custom agreement built around your answers.
-   Not sure if you even need one yet? The [Operating Agreement Quiz](/tools/operating-agreement-quiz) walks through whether your situation calls for one now.

## For Corporations: Bylaws and Meeting Minutes

Corporations don't use operating agreements — they use **bylaws**, which set out the same kind of internal governance (board structure, officer roles, shareholder meeting rules, voting procedures) but in the format corporate law expects. Unlike an LLC operating agreement, bylaws are effectively mandatory in practice: most states expect a corporation to adopt them, and banks, investors, and courts will often ask to see them.

We don't yet have a standalone bylaws generator live on this site. For now, our [C-Corporation formation guide](/planning-a-business/guide-to-c-corporations) walks through what bylaws need to cover and how to adopt them at your organizational meeting, and our [guide to corporate meeting minutes](/small-business-blog/importance-of-minutes) covers the recurring documentation (annual meetings, resolutions) that keeps a corporation in good standing once bylaws are in place.

## Beyond Governance: The Business Plan

A business plan isn't a legal document in the way an operating agreement or bylaws are, but it's often the other piece of paperwork a lender, investor, or partner will ask for — and it forces you to work through market research, revenue projections, and operational strategy before you need the answers under pressure.

-   [Business Plan Generator](/tools/business-plan-generator) — answer questions about your goals, target audience, and financials to generate a structured, professional plan.

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## A Note on "Library"

If you came here looking for a page of free, blank, downloadable templates — a PDF or Word bylaws template, a fill-in-the-blank operating agreement, a stock certificate template, and so on — that library doesn't exist on this site today. What we have instead are two interactive generators (above) that produce a document tailored to your specific answers rather than a generic fill-in-the-blank form. Whether a true downloadable-template library should be built alongside these generators is a product decision, not a content one; this page frames what exists today rather than promising something that isn't built yet.

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