Per-client isolation
Row-level security walls each client's data off from every other. A firm operates across clients, but no client's records are ever visible to another.
The US Legal Module · For the Franchise Bar
The US Legal Module turns franchise disclosure from a patchwork of intake forms, e-signature tools, and tracking spreadsheets into a single system of record built around the FTC Franchise Rule and state registration law. Nothing is sent that shouldn't be — and everything that is sent is provable.
§ 01 Registration & Send-Authorization
PER BRAND · PER STATE
Track each brand's standing across all 50 states + DC: registration status with effective and expiration dates for the registration states, financial-assurance posture, and renewal lead-time.
Registration drives everything downstream — a brand can disclose only where it's authorized, and the system blocks any other state with a stated reason. Firms manage this for every client from one place.
WHAT REGISTRATION DRIVES
§ 02 Compliant Distribution
A HUMAN IN THE LOOP
Prospects request the FDD through a branded link, or are added directly. Each request is checked against the brand's registered states before anything is sent — an out-of-footprint prospect gets a clear “not yet available in your state”response instead of an improper disclosure.
Qualified requests land in a review queue where a paralegal sends or declines. A human authorizes every disclosure.
MULTI-PARTY DISCLOSURE
When a deal has more than one party — co-investors, a spouse, a guarantor, an entity and its principals — each is disclosed to individually. FDDHub groups them under one opportunity while giving every party their own delivery, consent, Item 23 receipt, and 14-day clock. Everyone who must be disclosed to is, on their own timeline, with the whole group tracked together.
§ 03 The 14-Day Clock
HANDLED CORRECTLY
The FTC no-sale period starts where it legally should — when the prospect consents to electronic delivery, not when the document is sent and not when a receipt is signed — and counts from the next calendar day.
The exact FDD version is pinned to that disclosure, and the earliest eligible signing date is calculated automatically.
Item 23 receipts are collected and stored automatically. The signed receipt is captured by e-signature, filed against the exact FDD version it corresponds to, and kept in the disclosure record — corroborating evidence of receipt, never the trigger for the 14-day clock. No separate e-signature tool, no manual filing.
Item 23 receipts corroborate — they never start the clock.
§ 04 An Audit Trail That Holds Up
APPEND-ONLY LOG
Every event — request, email verification, send, delivery/consent (with timestamp and IP), receipt signature — is written to an append-only log.
If a disclosure is ever questioned, the full chain is reconstructable on demand. The compliance work your team does by hand today is recorded automatically, in order, and cannot be altered after the fact.
Questioned later? The full chain reconstructs on demand.
§ 05 The Document Workspace
TEMPLATES · GENERATION · AUDIT
Disclosure is only half the job — the deal still has to be papered. The Document Workspace is where your franchise agreements, area-development agreements, and state addenda are generated, from templates your firm controls.
Upload a .docx template once and FDDHub detects its merge fields automatically. Generate a finished document for any client in a few clicks — populated from the record, pinned to that client's current FDD, with optional AI-assisted drafting that stays inside the disclosed terms. Every document generated is written to the same immutable log as the disclosure itself.
Generate from a template, pinned to the client's FDD — every version logged.
§ 06 A Workspace Built for Firms
ONE ACCOUNT · EVERY CLIENT
Manage registration and distribution across all of your franchisor clients without juggling logins — while each client's available tools follow that client's own plan.
It's made for the franchise bar — the law firms and compliance teams that deliver FDDs on behalf of franchisor clients — and for franchisors who want their disclosure to be defensible by design.
AN FDD THAT ANSWERS QUESTIONS — WITHIN THE FOUR CORNERS
Prospects can read the document alongside an AI assistant trained on that exact FDD. It stays inside what's disclosed — no projections, no recommendations — so it speeds comprehension without creating financial-performance-representation risk.
Each franchisor client has their own account and plan; your firm holds delegated access to manage registration, distribution, and compliance on their behalf — granted and revocable per client. The client owns their records; you operate across all of them from one login. Sales and Insights tools unlock on the client's own plan, never a firm-level switch.
§ 07 Independence
OWNED BY NO FIRM
FDDHub is built and owned by Paralex, Inc., a legal technology company, independent of any law firm. No relationship with any particular firm is required to use it, and any firm can bring its clients onto FDDHub on the same terms.
That independence is structural, not a slogan. A disclosure platform owned by a law firm asks other firms to run their clients through a competitor. FDDHub is deliberately not that: every firm operates in the same access class, on the same terms, with the same walls between clients.
No law firm has or will have:
§ 08 Security & Data Protection
BUILT FOR MULTI-CLIENT FIRMS
A firm holds many clients' disclosure data in one place — so isolation, access control, and an unalterable record aren't features, they're the foundation.
Row-level security walls each client's data off from every other. A firm operates across clients, but no client's records are ever visible to another.
All data is encrypted over TLS in transit and encrypted at rest in the database. Nothing moves or sits in the clear.
MFA on firm and franchisor accounts, so access to disclosure data is protected by more than a password.
Delegate access is granted per client and revocable at any time, with every grant and revocation recorded. Access ends cleanly when an engagement does.
Every disclosure event is written to an append-only log that cannot be altered after the fact — the same record that makes a disclosure reconstructable on demand.
Disclosure records are retained as a permanent, tamper-evident chain — built for the recordkeeping the FTC Franchise Rule and state law expect.
FDDHub does not integrate with your firm's existing IT systems or tools — it runs as a self-contained system of record, so adopting it adds no new connection into your environment. And no attorney-client communications are passed through or stored in the platform; FDDHub holds the disclosure record — registration, distribution, dating, receipts, audit trail — and nothing privileged.
§ 09 Pricing
COMPLIANCE IS FREE
The full US Legal Module — registration tracking, compliant distribution, the 14-day clock, and the audit trail — at no cost. One firm account across every client.
Franchisor clients get compliant disclosure free. FDDHub's Insights module — engagement analytics and lead intelligence — is available on the client's paid plan when they want it.
The compliance work your team does by hand today — registration tracking, intake, delivery, dating, receipts, recordkeeping — consolidated into one system, defensible from first contact to signed receipt.
A short walkthrough of registration-gated distribution, the 14-day clock, and the audit trail — built for how your firm actually works.
Free for law firms and their clients.