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This names no specific firm or product. It compares a free browser tool against the generic method most New York LLC owners actually use right now: searching the Act, landing on two or three law-firm client alerts, and assembling your own answer from them.
| Question | Reading client alerts | This tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Which category your LLC is in | The rule is explained in general; you apply it to your own facts | You answer three questions — formed in New York, authorized in New York, formed outside the US — and it applies the published rule to those answers |
| Whether the scope narrowing is reflected | Depends entirely on the alert's date. One written before the NYDOS guidance confirmed December 31, 2025 can describe a broader set of LLCs as Reporting Companies than current guidance does | Applies the narrowed scope — a full Beneficial Ownership Disclosure only for an LLC formed outside the United States with a New York nexus — and says which guidance and date that comes from |
| Your own filing date | Both deadline tracks are described; you work out which one you are on and count the days | Computes the applicable initial deadline from your nexus date and shows a countdown to it |
| What to collect before filing | Listed in prose, often mid-article, and you rebuild it as your own checklist | Structured worksheet rows, plus a downloadable organizer and CSV to review before you write the filing email |
| Not confusing this with the federal filing | Many alerts cover both the federal Corporate Transparency Act and the New York Act, which is thorough but easy to conflate on a skim | Covers the New York state filing only, and says plainly that a FinCEN filing does not satisfy it |
| Authority behind the answer | Its real strength — written and reviewed by licensed attorneys, and citable | A likely category, not a determination. Not legal advice, and no substitute for counsel on a hard question |
| Where the beneficial-owner details live | Usually a document or spreadsheet you create, syncing to whatever cloud account and sharing that folder already has | In page memory only. No upload, no copy-a-link feature at all, and saving to your browser is off by default |
| Submitting the filing | Explains the process; you send the email | Never contacts New York State and files nothing — you remain the filer and send it yourself |
Neither approach decides whether your LLC has a New York nexus, and neither files anything for you. Both are only as good as the facts you bring to them, and both should be checked against NYDOS before you rely on a date.
Client alerts are written by licensed attorneys and are usually accurate about the rule as of their publication date — that is their real strength, and this tool does not replace it. The friction is that an alert explains the rule in general while you still have to apply it to your own LLC, compute your own date, and build your own list of what to collect. The specific risk is date drift: NYDOS narrowed the reporting scope in guidance confirmed December 31, 2025, so an alert written before that change, or a search result surfacing one, can describe a broader set of LLCs as Reporting Companies than the current guidance does.
No, and it is not trying to. This tool is a reference and an organizer: it applies a published rule to the facts you enter and arranges what you will need, but it produces a likely category rather than a determination of your actual filing status. It is not legal advice and does not replace an attorney licensed in New York. If your ownership structure is layered, contested, or you are unsure whether your LLC has a New York nexus at all, that is a question for counsel, not for a web page.
It is handled differently, and deliberately so. Beneficial-owner details are name, address, date of birth, and government ID number. This tool runs entirely in your browser, never uploads anything, ships no copy-a-link feature at all, and does not save the worksheet to your browser unless you explicitly switch that on — it is off by default, and reloading the page clears the worksheet. A document in a shared drive, by contrast, syncs to a cloud account and inherits whatever sharing that folder already has. Neither approach is a substitute for your own judgment about where this category of data belongs.