# Equity Compensation Advisory for Every Stage of Your Business

Building your first equity program or refining a global equity advisory strategy? We design equity compensation plans for private companies around your business, your stage, and your people.

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## Benefits of Qapita's equity compensation advisory

### Plans built around your goals, not a template

We've helped early-stage founders, pre-IPO scaleups, and public companies design 1,000+ equity compensation plans, including equity compensation plans for private companies. Whether you want to drive ownership, manage dilution, or match the market, we pair expert plan design with equity compensation software. Built around your goals, not ours.

### Equity isn't always the answer

We're equity experts, and we'll be the first to say when equity isn't the right tool. As part of our equity advisory, we help you weigh stock option compensation, cash, and phantom plans, and where each fits into your global compensation strategy by geography, role, and stage.

### Global plans, future-proofed

Employee in India? Executive in Australia? Engineering hub in Eastern Europe? Our equity compensation advisory services help you navigate the legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory complexity of cross-border plans and decide who should get what, where, and how.

## Equity compensation plan key features

### No templates. Just a plan built for your cap table.

Every company is different, so your equity compensation plan should be too. We help you size the pool, set vesting, and choose the right mix of ISO, NSO, RSUs, SARs, or cash-based alternatives based on your cap table, budget, and hiring plan. Whether it's your first grant or a legacy plan that needs a rework, we build it to last.

### End-to-End Equity Plan Implementation

We don't stop at design, we get it approved. We handle board resolutions, shareholder approvals, cap table modeling, stakeholder communications paperwork as part of our equity compensation services to turn a equity plan into a live one. Whether it's a one-pager for your board deck or a 40-page plan to be reviewed across jurisdictions, we're with you start to finish.

### Equity Incentive Strategy & Reward Frameworks

Ownership for all? Focused retention? Minimizing dilution? Managing P&L? We translate your reward philosophy into a practical equity compensation plan with the right instruments (stock option compensation, RSUs, SARs), clear sizing logic, and a rollout model built for your team.

## Global Equity Compensation Advisory

### From the US to anywhere you hire.

Equity doesn't work the same everywhere. Our global equity compensation advisory helps you decide where to offer stock, when to use alternatives like phantom units, and how to manage tax, payroll, and exchange controls across jurisdictions including equity compensation plans for private companies expanding into new markets.

### Compliance without surprises.

From IRC 409A and ISO/NSO rules to IFRS 2 and ASC 718, we help you see how your plan affects tax, accounting, and reporting. We plan for recharge structures, tax withholding, and local filings, so you're not fixing issues later, whether you have one entity or twenty.

### Employee Equity Education & Communication

We support equity education across the lifecycle with founder and HR workshops, employee tax guides in 160+ countries. We demystify stock option compensation, RSUs, and other equity-based pay, explaining grant mechanics, taxes, and long-term value in language that builds trust, not confusion.

Build the right _equity strategy_ with Qapita

Build the right _equity strategy_ with Qapita Work with experts who simplify equity planning so you can focus on building your company.

## Words from our valued customers

**One of the best Employee Stock Options management partner**  
One of the best Employee Stock Options management partner. Quick Customer Support, ease of operations, user friendly application, very easy to implement, also integration is very easy.

**Employee Dashboard is Amazing and Precise**  
Employee Dashboard provides a clear, concise view of both my vested and unvested awards, offering a summary of my equity awards and the current value. This feature keeps me well-informed about my stock options, making it effortless to track and understand my equity holdings.

**Making CapTable and Stock Options Management easy!**  
User interface. Various reports. Easy to manage, Change in capital during a month if updated post a month gets updated prospectively and not from the date when it is effected.

**Amazing Customer support**  
Ease of maintenance of captable + employee stock options. Amazing Customer support, Ease of use, Features, Integration, Audit proof.

**Qapita as a platform is very intuitive and user friendly tool.**  
The team is very supportive in providing all the required support at any point of time. The data is managed properly and have a very clear distinction to manage different stock options.