Legal & corporate, from zero

The axis nobody lists on an engineer's résumé, done in month two of the project:

• FlexMesh Inc. is a real corporation — organized under Ontario law, registered office in Hamilton, ON. Not a side-project pseudonym: a legal entity, standing behind the store listings.
• A 21-section Terms & Conditions, self-authored, dated 2025-06-03 — eligibility, license grant, prohibited conduct, IP, indemnity, warranties, limitation of liability, severability… including sections most indie apps never think to have: EU/EEA/UK consumer-withdrawal rights (§7) and export & sanctions compliance (§16).
• §17 Tax Compliance shows actual reasoning, not boilerplate posture: CRA small-supplier treatment (≤ CAD 30k trailing revenue) until GST/HST registration is required; EU/UK direct sales under the Non-Union OSS scheme (OSS = One-Stop Shop, the EU's single VAT registration for non-EU sellers) with reverse-charge for valid-VAT B2B; US economic-nexus state sales tax for direct sales; store sales delegated to Apple/Google as merchant of record. Someone worked out which tax regimes attach to which sales channel before there was revenue to tax.
• Monetization was designed early: Paid Plans, auto-renewal with 24-hour cancellation windows, direct-billing provisions — the commercial skeleton existed from month two, even as the product hunted for activation.

Honest note on authorship: clauses like these are template-adapted, surely with drafting assistance — the acquired axis isn't legal prose, it's the judgment of what applies: knowing that a small supplier threshold exists, that OSS is the EU answer for a Canadian seller, that the stores' merchant-of-record status changes everything. That judgment was zero before this project.

Interview archetype: "have you handled the business/legal side?" — incorporated in Ontario, authored the T&C, and worked out the cross-border tax posture per sales channel — in month two, solo.