What Invisible Exit Is

Invisible Exit is a site for employed founders: free client-side tools and guides about the legal and practical sides of building a side business while you still have a day job. The centerpiece is the Side-Project Ownership Check, a free tool that answers the question every employed founder should settle before investing evenings and weekends: can my employer claim what I build on my own time?

The Side-Project Ownership Check

Six questions, about 3 minutes

Your state, whose time and equipment you used, whether the project overlaps your employer's business, and whether the idea came from your job. Optionally paste the invention-assignment clause from your own contract.

Your state's real statute, quoted

The operative text of your state's own-time carve-out (where one exists), linked to the official legislature or code source. Ten states have such statutes; in the rest, your contract governs. The check shows you which situation you are in.

Your clause, flagged

Phrases like "hereby assign" or "whether or not during working hours" explained in plain English, so you know what your contract actually claims.

A next-step pack

A prior-inventions list, a written side-project disclosure request, and a separation checklist, ready to copy and fill in.

Private by design

Everything runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded, logged or stored. The check is an informational tool, not legal advice, and says so on every result.

What Invisible Exit Is Not

To be clear about the name: Invisible Exit is about quietly building a side business while employed. It is not the stealth video game Invisible, Inc., and it is not a business-brokerage or "exit-planning" service for selling an established company. The "exit" here is your personal path out of a 9-to-5, built invisibly.

FREE · TAKES ABOUT 3 MINUTES

Who owns your side project?

Run the free Side-Project Ownership Check: your state's invention-assignment statute quoted from the official source, the risky phrases in your own contract clause flagged, and a next-step pack. Everything runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Invisible Exit?

A site for employed founders: free client-side tools and guides about the legal and practical sides of building a side business while you have a day job. The centerpiece is the Side-Project Ownership Check at /check.

Is the ownership check legal advice?

No. It is an informational tool that quotes statutes and flags contract language so you know what to look at and what to ask a lawyer about. Anything high-risk deserves an hour with an employment lawyer licensed in your state.

Does every state protect side projects built on my own time?

No. Ten states have statutes limiting invention-assignment clauses for work done entirely on your own time, without employer resources, outside the employer's business. In most states no such statute exists and your contract governs. The check shows you the exact text either way.

How much does Invisible Exit cost?

The check and the guides are free. There is also a membership with planning tools for building a side business while employed, from $9/month. You do not need it to use the check.

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