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Open Forest

Open Forest

Software Development

Helping small businesses automate their legal, tax and accounting obligations.

About us

Open Forest a company compliance operating system that helps small companies meet their legal, tax and accounting obligations automatically, under one roof and for super-low costs.

Website
https://openforest.co/
Industry
Software Development
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Dublin
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2024
Specialties
Company Incorporation, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Software, Automation, AI, Contracts, Governance, Compliance, and LegalTech

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Employees at Open Forest

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  • Open Forest reposted this

    You really know you've made it when your company is getting name dropped in scams 😎 Someone is legitimately out there targeting Irish companies trying to get documents from them so take care! If anyone happens to know what documents they are looking for let me know!?

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    833 followers

    Open Forest will NEVER contact any of our companies by phone unless pre-arranged. We even built an in-house chat platform so we don't have to wonder about inbound emails. It would also be extremely unusual for the Companies Registration Office to call anyone looking for any documents, which is what happened in this case. Take care with your data out there!

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  • Please don't sue us. 🙏🏻

    If you haven't a clue what Open Forest actually does, I can't promise this chart will help - but it certainly looks cool. Open Forest is a compliance operating system built as close as possible to the source of the rules (legislation etc). Law firms and accountants do the same thing manually, but they tend to be siloed into individual practice areas, and it's no secret that they are dinosaurs when it comes to tech, for the most part. 🦖 Then there are tech companies, like Xero for example, that are further up the compliance chain. They don't claim to do your tax and accounting, they give you the tools to do it yourself, but you need to know what you are doing. You can spend time learning it but that's time taken away from your actual business. Classic founder mistake. That is where Open Forest differs - we are a tech platform, but we have put our money where our mouth is. We take on the liability of doing your legal / tax / accounting / company secretarial. You can hand the reigns to us, we tell you what to do and when to do it, so it's super light touch for you. You can even sue us if we get it wrong 🙃 If you are starting a new business, you are on the clock. You have a year or so before it fails. So what's the plan? Are you going to spend half that time trying to figure out your compliance obligations or are you going to focus 100% on selling your actual business? As always, this mildly antagonistic post was written using my own brain and fingers in an attempt to help save you from the endless AI slop cesspit that is now Linkedin. Although the image is AI in fairness.

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  • Join one of our founders next week to hear his thoughts on how to bootstrap a company to 1m Revenue.

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    28,296 followers

    What does it actually take to build a startup to €1M in annual revenue without raising venture capital? On June 3 at Dogpatch Labs, Stuart Connolly, CEO & Co-founder of Open Forest, joins us to share how he built the company to €1M ARR without VC funding, and what sustainable, profitable growth actually looks like from the inside. Open Forest is building a company compliance operating system that helps small businesses manage their legal, tax and accounting obligations automatically, under one roof, at a fraction of the usual cost. Moderated by Malaika Judd, Managing Director of NDRC Accelerator, this conversation will explore the go-to-market decisions that made it work, the moments that tested the model, and what building without venture capital really requires. 📍 Dogpatch Labs, Dublin 📅 Wednesday, June 3 | 5:00 - 6:15 PM Apply to join via link in comments. Malaika Judd I Lorraine Curham I Raquel Nogueira da Silva I Open Forest I Stuart Connolly

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  • Open Forest reposted this

    📣 Public service reminder - if you are starting a business in Ireland, DO NOT start it outside of Open Forest. I don't care if you are the world's preeminent expert on starting companies and you've started 5 gazillion companies before, if you don't do it through Open Forest, then you are on your own for the whole journey (unless you love paying traditional lawyers and accountants?). If you do it through us, then you'll make the cash up 10x in a year from our market-leading accounting pricing alone. Not to mention, you have somewhere to turn any time something legal, tax, accounting, corporate governance or compliance related breaks - which it will. You can start with us for literally €99 now (you'll have to pay €50 to the CRO anyway) and then upgrade later, or just pay as you go for anything you need, like legal agreements, compliance filings, company changes etc. It's the very definition of a no-brainer. Non-slop AI disclaimer - wrote this with my own bare hands.

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  • 🌲🌲🌲

    It's a very surreal experience to see an idea that's spinning around in your head transpire into a full-blown company with a full time team of 14 (+ consultants + interns). Open Forest covers so many bases in the one place (legal, tax, accounting, compliance, tech) that every now and again we need to have an all-hands catchup so that everyone knows what's on the horizon for the company. Got a bit of a shock today when I joined the call to see so many faces. In summary: - UK expansion this year - Opening the platform to existing (eligible) companies in a couple of months - Our bespoke tax and accounting software will go live later this year - All existing customers that are currently accessing old Open Forest will be moved over to our new (massively upgraded) platform in the next few weeks - Can't seem to spend our revenue right now, might buy some gold tigers for the office? 💸 - 🦄 ?... PS - still bootstrapping, for now 😉 Pourya Saber Kevin Kelly Mustofa Amar Zakaria Amirali Omidvar Sepehr Sanaee Mohamad Najafi Ryan Misaghi Mohammad Khaki Bakhtiarvand Masih Moloodian Fatemeh Samie Taine Bueno Ashlyn Flynn Alona Headley

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  • Open Forest reposted this

    🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 The proposal for EU Inc. was released by the European Commission today - all 134 pages of it. TLDR? The proposed goodies include: 1. 48 hour formation for €100. (Faster than Ireland but more expensive - slower than the UK). 2. No minimum capital requirement (basically the same as UK and Ireland). 3. Harmonised Stock Option Schemes - ok this will be decent. 4. Easier VAT registration - this would be great. 5. Three month wind-down (same as Ireland). Compared with Ireland and the UK it's not revolutionary but it will be very helpful for our European friends. In Germany a notary has to read aloud fundraising documents to legalise them - takes hours 😆 For Irish founders I think the main benefit would be easier access to European capital. Fortunately for Ireland, tax matters are to be reserved for the member state which will still be a reason for EU founders to register in Ireland. That 12.5% corp tax rate really is the golden egg. 🤑 On timing - these things take years to go through the whole process so my guess is at least 2028. 🕣 They have to adopt the proposal, draft the legislation, fight about it, listen to the lobbyists and then actually implement the thing (build the registers, set up the regulatory bodies etc). If it isn't already obvious, I actually wrote this post with my own brain and fingers which I think deserves a medal these days. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

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