# Legal floor

URL: /systems/legal-and-corporate/floor · Id: `page:systems/legal-and-corporate/floor`

> Every legal obligation a Startup carries, what wakes it, the Process that meets it, and who signs.

The legal floor lists every obligation the law puts on a [Startup](/business/nouns/startup): what wakes it, the [Process](/business/nouns/process) that meets it, and the [Role](/business/nouns/role) that signs. Rows specific to a profession, data class, activity, admission rule, or [Market](/business/nouns/market) lead.

| Row | Keyed to | Wakes | Signs |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Clinical practice](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/clinical-practice) | Profession | An Offer includes diagnosis, treatment, therapy, or prescribing. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Engineering seals](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/engineering-seals) | Profession | An Offer delivers designs, drawings, or reports that a building or public authority relies on. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Attest](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/attest) | Profession | An Offer promises an audit, review, compilation, or other assurance report. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Tax preparers](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/tax-preparers) | Profession | An Offer prepares or files tax returns for Customers. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Investment advisers](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/investment-advisers) | Profession | An Offer recommends securities or allocations to a Customer for pay. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Insurance producers](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/insurance-producers) | Profession | An Offer sells, compares, or refers insurance for pay. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Minors](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/minors) | Data class | A Product is directed to children, or learns a user is under 13, or under 16 in the EU. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Student records](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/student-records) | Data class | A Product receives education records from a school or district. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Financial privacy](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/financial-privacy) | Data class | A Product offers a financial product or service to consumers. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Consumer reports](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/consumer-reports) | Data class | A Product is built as a consumer report for credit, insurance, employment, or housing decisions. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Debt collection](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/debt-collection) | Data class | A Product collects consumer debts owed to someone else. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Biometrics](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/biometrics) | Data class | A Product collects a biometric identifier, including a face or voice template. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Vulnerability handling](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/vulnerability-handling) | Activity | A Startup sells Software or an App in the EU, or publishes any Interface. | [Security Engineer](/agents/engineering/security-engineer) |
| [Automated hiring](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/automated-hiring) | Activity | An agent scores, ranks, or screens Candidates for a job. | [People Lead](/agents/people/people-lead) |
| [Export controls](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/export-controls) | Activity | A Startup ships Software, a Dataset, or a Service to a Customer outside its own country. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Comparative advertising](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/comparative-advertising) | Activity | A Page, Ad, or Message compares the Startup with a named competitor. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Sweepstakes](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/sweepstakes) | Activity | A Play offers a prize, contest, or giveaway. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Gambling](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/gambling) | Admission | A Startup Template or Offer takes stakes on an uncertain outcome. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Money services](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/money-services) | Admission | An Offer holds, moves, exchanges, or lends money for others. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Telecom](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/telecom) | Admission | An Offer resells phone numbers, calling, or messaging as its own service. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Regulated goods](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/regulated-goods) | Admission | A Startup Template or Offer sells or brokers a regulated good. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [French language](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/french-language) | Market | A Startup in the Canada Market serves Customers in the province where the French language is the sole official language. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [CAN-SPAM](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/can-spam) | General | A Startup sends its first commercial email. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Phone](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/phone) | General | A Startup calls or texts a Person, including with an AI voice. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Jurisdictions](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/jurisdictions) | General | A first email goes to a Person outside the US who has no relationship with any sibling Startup. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [AI disclosure](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/ai-disclosure) | General | An Agent talks with a Person, a Product generates images, audio, or video, or an Agent Offer serves a high-risk use. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Delegated sending](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/delegated-sending) | General | A Human connects their own account and grants an Agent a Mandate to send in their name. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Automation terms](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/automation-terms) | General | An Agent posts, connects, or messages on a venue through an owned or delegated account. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Endorsements](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/endorsements) | General | A Startup asks for a review, shows a testimonial, pays a creator or affiliate, or recommends a sibling Startup. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Notices](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/notices) | General | A Startup’s Site or API collects anything about a Person or takes a card. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Tracking](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/tracking) | General | A Site serves a Visitor in the EU or UK. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Privacy rights](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/privacy) | General | A Person asks about their data, or the Company total crosses a state privacy law’s threshold. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Breach](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/breach) | General | An Incident exposes personal data. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Tenant data](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/tenant-data) | General | A Product stores content its Tenant writes or uploads about other people. | [Contracts Manager](/agents/legal/contracts-manager) |
| [Data broker](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/data-broker) | General | A Product sells Person records to outside buyers in a state with a broker registry. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Eligibility](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/eligibility) | General | A Product sells facts about people that a buyer could use for an eligibility decision. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Motor records](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/motor-records) | General | A Dataset serves personal fields drawn from a state motor vehicle record or NMVTIS data. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Health data](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/health-data) | General | A Product handles PHI for a provider, plan, or clearinghouse, or collects health data from consumers. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Taxpayer data](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/taxpayer-data) | General | A Product touches tax return information, IRS transcripts, or TIN matching. | [Privacy Officer](/agents/legal/privacy-officer) |
| [Public content](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/public-content) | General | A Product shows content its Customers write to other people. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Accessibility](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/accessibility) | General | A Company selling covered services to EU consumers reaches 10 persons or €2M in yearly turnover. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |
| [Advice](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/advice) | General | A Startup in a licensed field writes to a Person in words that could apply law or tax rules to their facts. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Lawyers](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/lawyers) | General | Copy, a Play, a Price, or a data read touches a lawyer’s services. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Licensed acts](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/licensed-acts) | General | An Order’s work reaches a Verb the published catalog marks as a Reserved Act. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Licensing](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/licensing) | General | An Offer, or a new state and outcome it serves, needs a Credential before its first Order. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Renewals](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/renewals) | General | An Offer bills as a Subscription and its buyer can be an individual. | [Billing Specialist](/agents/finance/billing-specialist) |
| [Chargebacks](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/chargebacks) | General | Card disputes rise against a Startup’s settled charges, or against the shared merchant account. | [Risk Analyst](/agents/operations/risk-analyst) |
| [Sanctions](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/sanctions) | General | Any checkout, and any payment to a Supplier, Partner, referrer, or creator. | [Risk Analyst](/agents/operations/risk-analyst) |
| [Splits](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/splits) | General | A charge carries money that belongs to someone else, such as a fee, a share, or a premium. | [Treasurer](/agents/finance/treasurer) |
| [Sales tax](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/nexus) | General | The Company total of sales into one US state crosses that state’s economic-nexus threshold. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [VAT](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/vat) | General | The Company makes its first digital sale to a consumer in the EU or UK, or crosses another country’s threshold. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Information returns](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/information-returns) | General | A Company pays a Person or business that is not its employee. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Unclaimed property](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/unclaimed) | General | Money owed to someone, such as prepaid credit or a failed payment, sits untouched past a state’s dormancy period. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Standing](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/standing) | General | A Company is formed in, or registers to do business in, a state. | [Finance Lead](/agents/finance/finance-lead) |
| [Fund offering](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/fund-offering) | General | The Studio offers, sells, or reports on interests in its Fund. | Fundraiser |
| [Governance](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/governance) | General | A Company acts as an entity, such as forming, passing a bank resolution, or signing a SOC 2 management assertion. | [Founder](/agents/founding/founder) |
| [Identity checks](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/identity) | General | A payment account, bank, notary, or upstream requires a natural person’s own identity. | [Founder](/agents/founding/founder) |
| [Sworn filings](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/sworn-filings) | General | A government form requires a natural person’s signature or declaration, such as a tax return or an inventor’s declaration. | [Founder](/agents/founding/founder) |
| [Securities](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/securities) | General | A Company issues equity, signs a SAFE, grants options, or accepts an investor’s subscription. | [Founder](/agents/founding/founder) |
| [Insurance applications](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/insurance-applications) | General | A Company applies for, or renews, an insurance policy. | [Founder](/agents/founding/founder) |
| [Legal process](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/legal-process) | General | A Startup is served, or receives a subpoena, court order, or demand letter. | [Legal Lead](/agents/legal/legal-lead) |
| [Whistleblowing](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/whistleblowing) | General | A Startup seats its first Human, or reaches 50 workers in the EU. | [Compliance Officer](/agents/legal/compliance-officer) |