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 "id": "business-structure-chooser",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Business structure chooser",
 "summary": "Share your country, plans and owners. Get business structures compared on risk, tax and paperwork, plus questions for an accountant.",
 "headline": "Business structure chooser",
 "subhead": "Tell it your country, what you plan to do and who is involved. It compares the usual ways to set up a business there, such as a sole trader, a partnership or a company, on personal risk, tax, paperwork and room to grow. You get a leaning and questions to settle with an accountant.",
 "job": {
  "id": "plan-strategy",
  "name": "Plan your strategy"
 },
 "level": "beginner",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-27",
 "first_published": "2026-10-27",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  },
  {
   "type": "question",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Question",
   "what": "the problem, decision or piece of work you want help with, and what a good outcome looks like"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Your country or state",
  "What the business will do, and whether it carries risk of harm or debt",
  "Who owns it: only you, or others, and how you will split it",
  "Whether you expect to hire, borrow or take investment (optional)",
  "How much profit you expect to take out as income (optional)"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "The usual structures where you are, named in plain words",
  "A comparison on risk, tax, paperwork, partners and change",
  "A leaning for now, with the reasons",
  "Questions for an accountant or lawyer"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "You want to start an LLC, or work as a sole trader or a limited company, and need to choose.",
  "You started as a sole trader and wonder if it is time to change.",
  "You are starting with a partner, and need to compare ways to share ownership."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You want to register the business: do it through your government's business registry, with an accountant or lawyer.",
  "You want your tax worked out: ask an accountant.",
  "You want a shareholder or partnership agreement drafted: ask a lawyer."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your country or state, and what the business will do",
   "Who owns it and how you will split it",
   "Whether you expect to hire, borrow or take investment (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Your plans",
    "contains": "Your country, activity, owners, risk and growth plans, as you gave them."
   },
   {
    "name": "The options",
    "contains": "Each usual structure, compared on risk, tax, paperwork, partners and changing later, with facts to confirm."
   },
   {
    "name": "My leaning for now",
    "contains": "The structure that fits what you said, why, and what would change it."
   },
   {
    "name": "Questions",
    "contains": "What to ask an accountant or lawyer, one line each."
   },
   {
    "name": "Missing",
    "contains": "Anything you did not tell it that changes the comparison."
   },
   {
    "name": "Checks missed",
    "contains": "One line for each of its own checks that still fails, or none."
   }
  ]
 },
 "output_shape": "YOUR PLANS\n<country, activity, owners, risk, growth>\n\nTHE OPTIONS\n<structure> | Personal risk: <...> | Tax and taking income: <...> | Paperwork and cost: <...> | Partners and investors: <...> | Changing later: <...> | TO CONFIRM: <facts>\n\nMY LEANING FOR NOW\n<structure, reason, and what would change it>\n\nQUESTIONS FOR AN ACCOUNTANT OR LAWYER\n- <question>\n\nMISSING\n<what you did not tell it>\n\nCHECKS MISSED\n<one line per check still missed, or none>",
 "how_to_use": [
  "Start a chat with the skill. Open it if you added it to your AI, or copy it and paste it in.",
  "Give your country, plans, owners and how you expect to grow.",
  "Read the comparison and mark each fact TO CONFIRM against your government's business site.",
  "Take the questions to an accountant or lawyer in your country.",
  "Make the choice, then register through the official route."
 ],
 "checks": [
  "The options are real ones for your country, not a generic list.",
  "Every option is compared on the same points.",
  "Every fact about law, tax or cost is marked TO CONFIRM.",
  "The leaning follows from what you said and says what would change it.",
  "It says an accountant or lawyer decides, and that this is not tax or legal advice."
 ],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Business insurance needs checker",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/business-insurance-needs-checker",
   "why": "Business insurance needs checker"
  },
  {
   "name": "Tax set-aside planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/tax-set-aside-planner",
   "why": "Tax set-aside planner"
  },
  {
   "name": "Startup business planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/startup-business-planner",
   "why": "Test the idea with real people"
  }
 ],
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  "page": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/business-structure-chooser",
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