What’s New in Pulley: Compliance, Clarity, and Simplicity

Pulley is raising the bar for growth stage CFOs with built-in compliance, decision-ready reporting, and streamlined operations — delivering equity management that is defensible, accurate, and simple.

Managing equity has always been a complex but necessary requirement for growing companies. But navigating high-stakes processes — like modifying securities, reporting on grants outstanding and shares available for issuance, and settling RSUs — requires time-consuming manual effort that introduces risk to compliance, auditability, and efficiency. 

With this launch, Pulley is introducing a bundle of new features that help you protect your business from costly compliance mistakes, access the data you need in the format you want, and easily manage complex equity tasks. 

Compliance and Audit-Readiness

Equity management sits at the intersection of legal, tax, and audit requirements, where even small mistakes can have large consequences. Our Q4 updates remove compliance and audit risk with new and updated automated workflows and disclosures.

Updates to modifying securities capabilities introduce a structured, auditable process complete with document version control. The improved workflow ensures notifications are sent to stakeholders when modifications occur and new signed documents are generated to reflect changes. Stock-Based Compensation capabilities are enhanced with reporting that helps identify if changes are due to legitimate modifications, or clerical errors. 

Compliance to SEC Rule 701 can be verified in a new dashboard that indicates your eligibility for exemption from registering securities and providing financial disclosures to stakeholders. Pulley admins can also generate a detailed, audit-defensible report that includes transparency into how thresholds are calculated.

Employees also benefit from Pulley’s compliance investments, as new ISO/NSO split enhancements give stakeholders the ability to choose the order that they’d like to exercise ISOs and NSOs for better tax outcomes. The update creates separate ISO/NSO exercise agreements and common shares that provide clarity into Form 3921 requirements and streamline Form 3921 submission. 

Finally, critical notifications introduce on and off-platform alerts that guide you to complete time-sensitive equity tasks such as RSU settlements, form 3921 deadlines, share repurchases, and more. 

Accurate and Rigorous Reporting

The modern CFO expects more than just data, they need clarity and defensible insights. Our reporting updates are designed to help you make faster, clearer, and more confident decisions. 

New Equity Transaction Reports provide complete transparency into granted and cancelled equity with both executive-ready summaries and granular details. The out-of-the-box, audit-defensible reports make it easy to determine the status of equity plan share reserves, improves communication with your board, and includes line-of-sight into the underlying calculations used throughout the reports.

Updated cap table views display a simple, detailed view that outlines ownership by stakeholder, with the option to export reports for easy sharing to stakeholders or their legal representation. The improved experience reduces manual effort, helps streamline decision-making, and supports compliance and reporting needs.

Simple, User-Friendly Experiences

Equity administration shouldn’t take hours of manual work. Pulley’s workflows are designed to save you time while improving accuracy and efficiency.

Updates to in-app spreadsheet mode and Pulley-provided Excel templates expand bulk action capabilities in Pulley and streamline the completion of common equity tasks such as issuing multiple RSUs or RTUs. The updated templates speed up workflows while reducing your risk of error, and improvements to in-app spreadsheet mode let you complete bulk actions in a familiar format without leaving Pulley.

Equity operations are streamlined with comprehensive RSU workflows for single and double-trigger RSUs, complete with automated tax handling, certificate creation, and certificate distribution to security holders. 

Finally, filing 83(b) elections becomes easy and accurate with pre-filled, copy-ready fields from Pulley. Employees can confidently and efficiently complete electronic submission with Pulley’s expert guidance.

Pulley - Cap Table Management Built for Your Business

These enhancements strengthen Pulley’s core promise: delivering a cap table management platform that puts your business first. Pulley now gives CFOs the tools they need to be confident in their compliance, gain clarity into the data and information they need, and manage equity operations efficiently and easily. Backed by customer-centric agreements and industry-leading support, Pulley is the better way to manage equity.