Close your company cleanly — every filing, fee, and deadline in order.
You've decided to close your LLC or corporation. What's left is a maze across the IRS, the Secretary of State, and your state's tax and employment agencies — in an order nothing official ever spells out. Winddown turns your answers into a personalized runbook: every filing named with its real form, current fee, official link, and date window, plus the consents and notices drafted and ready to sign.
$349 Standard · $699 Complete. One-time — you see your tier and price before you pay.
Sample runbook
This sample was generated for Bright Harbor Marketing LLC, a fictional two-member California LLC that had employees (last payroll August 2026) and wants to be fully closed by December 31.
- 12 steps, sequenced and dated — internal consent first, payroll and tax finals before the state filing where the state requires it, federal finals and cleanup after.
- Every fact from an official source — Every state-specific fee, form, and requirement shown comes from our dataset of official California and federal sources, each linked so you can verify it.
- Documents drafted, not described — the member consent and creditor notice are written out with the company's details, ready to review and sign.
How it works
Step 1
Answer eight questions
Formation state, any other states you're registered in, entity type, whether you had employees, a sales-tax permit, or investors, and the date you want to be done by. About four minutes, no uploads, no account.
Step 2
See your tier, then pay once
Your answers determine the tier — Standard for a single-state company with no employees or investors, Complete for everything bigger — and you see the exact price before checkout.
Step 3
Work through your runbook
Shortly after payment your runbook is ready at a permanent link and in your inbox: every filing in order with its real form, current fee, official link, and date window, plus drafted consents and creditor notices with your company's name filled in. Check steps off as you file.
Two tiers, computed from your answers
Standard — $349
One formation state, no employees, no sales-tax permit, no investors. The clean single-state close: authorization, state tax finals, the dissolution filing, federal finals, creditor notice, account cleanup.
Complete — $699
Any of: registrations in additional states, past employees, a sales-tax permit, or investors. Adds foreign-state withdrawals, payroll-account closure, permit close-out, and the investor-consent paperwork — sequenced around your formation state's requirements.
The intake computes your tier and shows the price before the payment step — no quotes, no calls.
Questions owners actually ask
What exactly do I get?
An ordered, dated wind-down plan personalized to your company: internal authorization documents (drafted member consent or board and shareholder resolutions), payroll account closure where you had employees, state tax finals including sales-tax permit closure and tax clearance where your state requires it, the Secretary of State dissolution filing itself with the real form name and current fee, foreign-state withdrawals, federal finals (final income return, Form 966 for corporations, EIN account closure), a creditor notice letter, and an account-cleanup checklist. It lives at a permanent link with a working checklist, downloadable as Markdown and JSON, and printable.
Where do the fees and form numbers come from?
From a curated dataset built from the official state and federal pages, each fact linked to its source. Anything we could not verify against the official page renders as an instruction to confirm there — with the link — never as a guessed number.
Why not just stop operating and let the state dissolve the company?
Because taxes and penalties usually keep accruing against the entity until you formally dissolve. For example, California's FTB states an LLC must pay the $800 annual tax every year until the cancellation paperwork is filed with the Secretary of State — including for the year of the final return. Administrative dissolution also does nothing to close federal or payroll accounts.
Is this legal or tax advice?
No. The runbook is procedural information and drafted templates built from official sources. Items that genuinely need professional judgment — contested debts, insolvency, unusual cap tables — are flagged in the runbook with the exact question to bring to a CPA or attorney, instead of papered over.
Which entity types and states are covered?
US LLCs and corporations, in the states listed on our state guides page. Nonprofits, professional corporations, limited partnerships, and non-US entities are out of scope for now — the runbook will tell you at intake rather than sell you a wrong plan.
Does Winddown file anything for me?
No. You stay in control of every filing — the runbook gives you the order, the forms, the fees, and the official links, and drafts the internal documents you need to sign. Nothing is submitted on your behalf.
What does it cost?
$349 Standard for a single-state company with no employees, no sales-tax permit, and no investors. $699 Complete when any of those apply — additional registered states, past employees, a sales-tax permit, or investors. One-time, computed from your answers before you pay.
What about refunds?
Two verifiable conditions. If your runbook is not generated or not delivered because of our system, we refund automatically. If our logs show you never opened or downloaded the runbook after delivery, contact support within 30 days and we refund the purchase.
California's final-year $800 annual-tax rule referenced above: ftb.ca.gov. Free per-state summaries of the dissolution filing, clearance, and franchise-tax rules are on the state guides page.