Go from idea to company without leaving your development workflow

Stripe has made it possible to start a Stripe Atlas application, its service for incorporating a startup, from inside a developer's own tools: either from an AI agent connected to Stripe's MCP server, or from the terminal through Atlas commands in the Stripe CLI's tools plugin (stripe.dev). In the agent version, a founder describes what they want in plain language, for example two founders forming a Delaware C corporation, and the agent creates the application and collects company details, founder names, board seats, ownership percentages and vesting schedules. Atlas, not the agent, decides what information is required, validates each value and keeps the application's state, so an invalid website or a missing founder representative comes back as a correction the agent relays. Before each update is sent, the agent shows the values and asks the founder to confirm them.

The handoff point is deliberate. Once the application passes validation, Atlas gives a link to the Stripe Dashboard, where each founder enters sensitive identity information, reviews the formation documents, pays, signs and submits. Stripe's post says the agent can explain how Atlas represents a choice but should not pick an entity type, ownership split or vesting schedule, because those decisions carry legal and financial consequences that stay with the founders. Because the MCP server, the CLI and the Dashboard all work on the same saved application, a founder can begin in Claude Code, continue in the terminal and finish in the browser without starting over. The CLI route supports Delaware C corporations and LLCs, including applications with several founders.