Fernway

Fernway is a compliance dashboard for business owners who manage multiple LLCs or corporations across different states. It centralizes the annual reports, franchise tax deadlines, and state filing requirements that come with maintaining those entities in good standing. Instead of juggling spreadsheets, calendar reminders, or hoping you remember which state needs what by when, you get a unified view of every entity you own and every deadline approaching. The dashboard shows compliance scores, upcoming filings, and alerts, so you can see at a glance whether anything needs attention. If you have five or ten or twenty entities spread across different states, this is the kind of tool that can save you from expensive mistakes.

The underlying problem is that each state runs its own compliance calendar. If you have three LLCs registered in three different states, you're tracking three separate sets of requirements, each with its own forms, its own fee schedules, and its own penalties for missing deadlines. Lose track of one and you risk late fees, administrative dissolution, or the hassle of reinstatement. Most people start with a spreadsheet or a calendar reminder, but those systems break down as the number of entities grows. Fernway pulls all of that information into a single interface so you can see your entire portfolio at once without maintaining your own tracking system. The more entities you have, the more time it saves.

The import process is straightforward. You search for an entity by state and legal name, verify the information against the official state registry, and import it to your dashboard. Once it's in, you see a compliance score for that entity along with a list of upcoming deadlines. The system sends reminders before filings are due, so you don't have to remember the dates yourself. Fernway covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia, so no matter where your entities are registered, they can all live in one place. The state registry queries happen in real time, which means the data reflects what the state actually has on file rather than what you last entered manually. You don't have to worry about your records drifting out of sync with reality.

Beyond deadline tracking, there's a document vault for storing the paperwork that accumulates around each entity. Formation certificates, operating agreements, EIN letters, tax receipts, and anything else you want to keep on file can live in a private vault that's never publicly accessible. Every download is checked against your account, so you're not accidentally sharing files with someone who shouldn't have them. You can also use the expense tracking feature, which applies AI categorization to business spending to help keep books organized for tax season. If you've ever dug through email attachments looking for an EIN letter, having everything in one place is a noticeable improvement. The vault doesn't replace your accountant, but it gives you a central location to keep the paperwork organized.

For complex structures, there's an ownership mapping tool that draws visual diagrams of your entity relationships. You can see holding companies, subsidiaries, individual members, and intercompany transfers laid out in a diagram that makes the hierarchy easier to understand. If you've built up a web of entities over time and struggle to explain the structure to an accountant or lawyer, this visual representation can help. It's not a legal document, just a reference, but for keeping things straight in your own head it's useful. You can update it as your structure changes rather than redrawing it from scratch each time.

The target audience includes real estate investors who hold properties in separate LLCs, solo founders who've let filings slip because they got busy, holding company owners managing multiple subsidiaries, and bookkeepers or fractional CFOs who handle compliance for clients. If you've ever paid a reinstatement fee because a deadline slipped past you, this is the gap Fernway is trying to close. The service is especially useful for people who've accumulated entities over time and lost track of what's due where. If compliance tracking currently lives in your head or in a spreadsheet you dread updating, this is a structured alternative.

Fernway does not form new LLCs and does not file documents on your behalf. It's a tracking and organization layer, not a registered agent or formation service. You still handle the actual submissions yourself or through whatever service you already use. When a deadline approaches, you get a reminder, but the filing itself is still your responsibility. The platform is currently free during beta, with the team promising advance notice and a discount to early users before pricing launches. For anyone juggling multiple entities and wanting a cleaner way to stay on top of compliance, it's worth testing while access is free and before pricing kicks in.