Volume Three · Section Four
Filing Day.
The careful, hour-by-hour plan for the day SkyMining LLC and JDBuilders LLC come into existence.
There is no rush. Filing Day is one calm afternoon, not a sprint. Nothing on this list expires, nothing penalizes you for taking your time, and every step has a clear written record at the end of it. The whole point of laying it out hour by hour is so that on the day itself your mind is free to read carefully instead of remember what comes next.
- Hour 0
Before you sit down
Coffee or tea, a closed door, both phones charged, your password manager open, the working PDF of this volume saved on the device you're filing from. Tell whoever shares your time that you'll be focused for about three hours. Filing Day works best when nobody is rushing you.
- Hour 1 — SkyMining
File the Articles of Organization
Open the Secretary of State (Missouri) or Corporation Commission (Arizona) online portal. Create an account if you don't already have one. Walk through the LLC formation form and paste in the SkyMining Articles language from Volume III · Section 2. Pay the $50 filing fee with a debit card. Save the confirmation page and email as PDFs to your password manager's secure-notes section.
- Hour 2 — JDBuilders
File the Articles of Organization
Same portal, second filing. Paste in the JDBuilders Articles language from Volume III · Section 3. Pay the second $50 filing fee. Save the confirmation page and email PDFs the same way. You now have two LLCs in flight; the state will return formal approval certificates between minutes and a few business days later.
- Pause
Wait for the approval certificates
In Arizona this often arrives within minutes; in Missouri usually within one to three business days. Do not proceed to EINs, banking, or operating agreements until you have the approval certificate PDFs in hand. The certificate is the legal proof the LLC exists.
- Hour 3 — Operating Agreements
Sign the two Operating Agreements
Once the approval certificates land, print and sign the SkyMining LLC Operating Agreement and the JDBuilders LLC Operating Agreement (drafts will be provided as PDFs by Manus once you confirm the home state). For a single-member LLC, your signature alone is sufficient. Date them, scan them, and store the signed PDFs in your password manager's secure-notes section. These never get filed publicly.
- Hour 4 — EINs
Apply for two EINs at IRS.gov
Open irs.gov/ein and apply once for SkyMining, then a second time for JDBuilders. Each session takes about ten minutes and the EIN is issued instantly on the screen. Save both CP 575 confirmation letters as PDFs. The IRS only generates these once — losing the PDF means a 30-day wait to request a replacement (Letter 147C). Save them in two places.
- Hour 5 — Banking
Open the two business bank accounts
With the approval certificates and the EIN letters in hand, open business checking accounts in each LLC's name. Mercury, Relay, and Bluevine are the most common crypto-friendly online options; for a local relationship try a credit union that explicitly serves small businesses. Open a SEPARATE account for each LLC. Do not share an account between them.
- Hour 6 — Capital contributions
Seed each LLC with a small initial deposit
From your personal account, transfer $100 (or any small amount) into each new business account. In your records, label this transfer 'Initial capital contribution by Johnathon Drew Bias' for each LLC. This single act establishes the line between you and the entity and is what makes future veil-piercing arguments fail.
- Hour 7 — Document
Write the day into the Journal
Open the Journal page in Volume Two and write what you did, in your own words, dated. Filing Day is a milestone and it deserves to be in the record. This is also the entry your future self will most want to find again.