How we work

Four ways to bring a virtual GC into the room.

Start with a short fit call. We identify the work, urgency, stakeholders, documents, and decision points. If the engagement is not right for us, we say so clearly.

Monthly Retainer

Funded startups, growth companies, and operators that need recurring legal ownership.

  • Slack/email-speed legal triage
  • Contracts reviewed within agreed SLA
  • Board & secretarial hygiene
  • Monthly compliance calendar

Project Sprint

A defined outcome with a clear deadline, such as a fundraise, acquisition, data room, policy stack, licensing arrangement, or compliance clean-up.

  • Fixed scope, fixed fee
  • Defined deliverables & timeline
  • Single counsel as the point person
  • Handover document at close

On-demand Hours

Early-stage founders, small teams, and investors that need senior review only when the issue is material.

  • Pre-paid hour bank
  • No monthly commitment
  • Same counsel, every time
  • Rolls over for 6 months

Embedded GC

Family offices, HNIs, founder groups, and operating companies that need a longer-horizon legal desk.

  • Quarterly strategy sessions
  • Succession & holding structures
  • Cross-border coordination
  • Confidential file room
Guide

What is a Fractional General Counsel?

Embedded, not outside counsel

A fractional general counsel is a senior lawyer who sits inside your operating rhythm, on Slack, on your board calls, on your contract queue, without the full-time cost of hiring an in-house General Counsel. The distinction is simple. Outside counsel is retained matter by matter and reacts to what you send them. A fractional general counsel owns the legal function: contracts, compliance, board, fundraise, disputes, hiring, exits, all of it, at a defined cadence.

Why founders choose the fractional model

Bringing on a full-time GC is expensive and premature for most companies below Series B. A law firm retainer, on the other hand, delivers reactive review but rarely owns commercial context. A fractional general counsel is the middle path, a senior lawyer with GC experience, priced for the stage you are actually at, embedded enough to know your product, cap table, and counter-parties.

Best-fit for SaaS startups

SaaS companies live on MSAs, DPAs, order forms, security addenda, and a stack of enterprise-buyer questionnaires. A fractional general counsel builds the playbook once, negotiates within it, and clears the contract queue on your revenue timeline, not on external counsel's billing cycle. The same desk covers DPDP, GDPR, cross-border data flows, ESOP grants, investor reporting, and board hygiene, so the founder does not have to translate between five different specialists.

What Monk3y GC does as your fractional GC

We run the legal desk. Contracts move on an agreed SLA. Compliance runs on a calendar. Fundraises get a data room, a term-sheet review, and a negotiation position. Board meetings get proper minutes and resolutions. Your team gets a single point of contact, a senior advocate who already knows your history, and a rate structured for how much legal you actually consume this quarter.