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Northwest Registered Agent

Mark is an assistant layered on a formation and registered agent business that runs without it. Northwest forms LLCs, corporations and nonprofits, acts as registered agent in every state, files annual reports, amendments and foreign qualifications, scans mail, and supplies a business address, a domain, website, email and phone line. Mark sits in the client portal, answers questions from live account data and carries out account tasks such as paying invoices, adding products and creating email inboxes. The filings, mail handling and Corporate Guides keep working without the models.

Mark answers from live account data. Through the MCP server, each tool runs against the customer's account and returns structured results that the AI client turns into plain language. One of Northwest's sample questions asks whether a Washington annual report is due and what the state requires, yet nothing says which state rules Mark draws on or whether an answer shows its source. The Terms of Service say AI output is not advice and may contain errors or hallucinations. No accuracy figure, test or evaluation is published.

Mark acts on the account, and the tool catalog sets out what each of its 114 tools may do. Sixty are read only and change nothing. Tools that add to the cart never charge; only checkout and tools marked as charging a saved payment method take money. Thirty three tools wait for the customer's approval in chat, some after a summary of the plan and price, and a cancellation asks for the reason and the customer's typed name before it runs.

Seventeen are limited to the company owner, so shared collaborators cannot run them, and tools that delete, cancel or make a change that cannot be undone carry a warning. Payments use a method already saved on the account, card numbers and CVVs are never collected in chat, and a payment that needs a CVV goes back to the portal. The Terms say assistants perform only limited actions. Nothing describes what happens when Mark gives a wrong answer or takes a mistaken action, and a Corporate Guide joins on request rather than as a review step.

Northwest calls itself the largest business formation service in the United States, says it forms thousands of companies across the country every day and employs more than 1,300 people. Its LLC offer shows a Google rating of 4.7 from 1,881 clients, and its testimonials carry first names only. No named customer, dated outcome or usage figure for Mark is published.

The Terms of Service, updated October 2026, treat input to and output from the AI features as customer data, with the customer owning the input and, where permitted, the output. Northwest describes its AI as self contained, running on its own LLMs in its own datacenter, with filings, invoices and conversations processed on infrastructure it operates. It never trains on customer chats or business data, never sells or shares conversation history and never hands AI work to a public model vendor.

That training commitment appears in Northwest's AI material rather than in the Terms. A customer who connects an outside client such as Claude or ChatGPT sends the results the tools return to that client. Northwest states that it is not a law firm or fiduciary and gives no legal advice, so no privilege attaches, and an attorney client relationship exists only for a trademark matter accepted by Law on Call. Nothing describes how one customer's conversations and records are kept apart from another's beyond account sign in.

The Terms of Service state that Northwest is not a law firm or fiduciary and provides no legal advice, that its free forms are templates used at the customer's own risk, and that AI output is not advice. Trademark work runs through Law on Call, with an attorney client relationship limited to the accepted matter, and Northwest's trademark attorneys review intake forms and assess whether a mark is likely to register. Corporate Guides, a mix of paralegals, accountants, advisors, educators, lawyers and business experts, answer questions by phone and email.

Northwest's description of Mark carries no statement that its answers are not legal advice, and no state rules on document preparation services are named.

No AI governance position is published. Northwest describes its AI as built and run in house without outsourcing, which concerns privacy and hosting. Nothing describes how Mark is tested before release, who at Northwest is accountable for it, or how its answers hold up across states, entity types or account situations.

The privacy policy limits collection to what Northwest needs to form and maintain an entity and run the services hired. Customers may ask for copies, correction, deletion with exemptions, limits on use and a portable export, and may appeal a refusal. Information is kept only as long as law allows or requires, and the California notice keeps each category for as long as its purpose needs unless law sets a longer period.

Service providers work under contracts that require security, limited use and deletion when the work ends. Northwest says it performs nearly every service in house; Corporate Filings LLC processes card payments, and Northwest does not store card data. Two factor authentication is on by default. An in house IT team encrypts data, monitors applications for unusual use and attacks, tests new applications for vulnerabilities and keeps records of security issues, on servers and backup servers Northwest owns. No retention period is stated for Mark conversations, and no subprocessor list is published.

The Terms of Service provide the services as is with no warranties, exclude indirect damages and liability for hacking, and cap Northwest's liability at the amount paid in the prior twelve months. The customer indemnifies Northwest for claims arising from its use, inaccurate information, document handling and Northwest being named as a defendant. AI output is described as not advice and possibly wrong, and nothing covers a wrong answer or a mistaken action by Mark.

Washington law governs, claims must be brought within one year, and Northwest may choose individual arbitration or Spokane County court.

The Northwest MCP server connects Mark's tools to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Grok and any other client that speaks the Model Context Protocol, with a setup guide for each. Its catalog covers 114 tools in 14 groups: account and companies, filings and compliance, filing forms, documents, cart and checkout, invoices and payments, registered agent and mail, domains, DNS, domain forwarding, business email, hosting, phone service and utilities.

Each entry gives what the tool does, a sample prompt, its access, who can run it and whether it waits for approval. A customer signs in with a Northwest account, and the same tools run inside Mark in the portal. No connection to accounting, banking or document storage software is described.

Northwest runs as a hosted service on its own infrastructure. It runs its own LLMs in its own datacenter, processes filings, invoices and conversations on infrastructure it operates, and keeps its own servers and backup servers, so Mark's AI processing stays with Northwest inside the portal. Through the connector, the customer's chosen AI client handles the conversation and the results the tools return. No region, residency commitment or tenancy model is stated.

No independent security attestation is published. Northwest describes an in house IT team, encryption, monitoring for unusual use, security testing of new applications and its own servers, and names no SOC 2 report, ISO certification or PCI attestation.

Mark runs on LLMs that Northwest operates and hosts in its own datacenter, and Northwest says it does not hand its AI to a public model vendor. The MCP server exposes the same tools to outside clients, and there the client's own model reads what the tools return. The models are not named, nothing says whether they were built in house or adapted from published models, and no notice of model changes is offered.

Prices are public. The Northwest LLC costs $39 plus state fees and comes with a year of registered agent service, same day processing, Northwest's address on state filings, compliance reminders and the free identity services. Registered agent service then costs $125 a year per state, or $100 a year per state for five or more states, and covers up to 15 legal documents a year. The trademark service costs $599 per application, with the USPTO charging $350 per class on top.

A free domain covers one name up to $25 a year, the website, email and phone line are free, and Mark comes with the client portal at no listed charge. Purchases are generally not refundable after 90 days and state fees never are, and any service can be canceled in the portal at any time with no fee.

Northwest serves people starting and running businesses in the United States. It forms LLCs, corporations, S corporations and nonprofits, including companies for noncitizens, acts as registered agent in every state, and handles annual reports, amendments, reinstatements, dissolutions, foreign qualification, EINs, DBAs, trademarks, a business address and a virtual office. Its free forms library covers operating agreements, bylaws, resolutions, meeting minutes and guides to filing and defending a lawsuit.

Mark covers the account's companies, filings, invoices, documents, domains, email and phone service. The Terms rule out legal advice, and nothing states which entity types, states or questions Mark does not handle. The product is not built for lawyers or law firms.