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Formation guidance
Guide users through solo, DBA, LLC, corporation, and employee-stage considerations with Texas-first assumptions.
Texas-first v1 beta
An open-source AI mentor for small business operators.
Mentrovia helps small business owners understand formation, taxes, compliance, banking, owner pay, branding, and recurring operating tasks — starting with Texas and built to expand state by state.
Mentrovia is an educational and workflow-assistance project, not legal, tax, accounting, or financial advice.
What it helps with
A practical mentor for the messy middle of running a business.
Mentrovia combines structured business checklists with AI-assisted explanations and validation workflows so users can understand what to do next.
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Tax and compliance scope
Organize sales tax, franchise tax, employer registration, city/county considerations, and annual obligations.
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Recurring task rhythm
Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly task plans keep owners oriented after setup is complete.
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Banking separation
Encourage dedicated business banking, clean recordkeeping, merchant services, and practical setup readiness.
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Owner pay education
Compare draws, salary, guaranteed payments, dividends, and retained earnings by entity type and use case.
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Brand kit tools
Generate name ideas, logo prompts, ad concepts, social copy, and basic brand positioning for new businesses.
V1 beta scope
Start narrow. Build trust. Expand carefully.
The first beta should focus on Texas, company intake, guided roadmaps, reusable advisory content, source-backed task lists, and a conservative AI validation pipeline.
Phase 1
Scratch start
Solo operator, no entity, no employees, needs business basics.
Phase 2
Existing DBA
Already operating, may need entity, accounting, and tax cleanup.
Phase 3
First employee
Payroll, registrations, policies, recurring HR obligations.
Phase 4
Operating cadence
Weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly task plans and reminders.
AI validation
Cached answers, checked before they guide.
Mentrovia should not rely on a single model for compliance-sensitive guidance. The roadmap uses cached advisory content, low-cost freshness checks, contradiction detection, and a stronger final arbiter model.
Laravel-first stack
Built for a practical Laravel product workflow.
The planned stack is Laravel, MySQL, Livewire, Tailwind, and Alpine, with OpenRouter-backed model routing for advisory generation and validation.
Laravel application core
Livewire guided intake
MySQL advisory cache
OpenRouter model routing
Open source
Built in public for small business operators.
Mentrovia is intended to be transparent, auditable, and contributor-friendly. Advisory content should be source-backed, versioned, and validated before users depend on it.