Know what your ESOPs are worth in hand.
EVC turns a grant letter into one clear answer: what you hold, what it costs to exercise, and what you keep after tax.
Built foremployees.HR teams.CA firms.founders.
Sample grant · Northstar Analytics (illustrative)
Live modelEstimated take-home
₹18,27,231
from ₹23,09,375 on paper · ₹50 Cr exit
Take-home
₹18.3 L
Tax
₹3.7 L
Exercise cost
₹1.2 L
6,250 options · ₹18.50 strike · new regime · 26.1% dilution. Not tax advice.
Use your grantThe problem
A grant letter says how many options. Nobody tells you how much money that is.
Employees guess. HR answers the same questions in one-off emails. Advisors rebuild the same spreadsheet for every client. The numbers exist, but the answer people actually need is scattered across a PDF, a cap table and a tax slab.
How much is vested today?
And what lapses if I leave next month?
What does exercising cost?
Cash out of pocket, long before any exit.
How much does dilution take?
Every funding round shrinks the stake.
What do I keep after tax?
Taxed at exercise, and again at sale.
Getting this right means mastering three things:
Source
codename: trace
Reads the grant letter and keeps every number tied to the page it came from.
›Options · 12,500 · p.1
›Strike · ₹18.50 · p.1
›Cliff · 12 months · p.2
Model
codename: chain
Vesting, exercise, dilution and tax as one chain. Change a link and the rest follows.
›Exit ₹50 Cr → ₹100 Cr
›Dilution 26.1% applied
›Tax recalculated
Report
codename: plain
Ends every analysis in a sentence a non-finance person can repeat at dinner.
›“₹23.1 L on paper…
›…about ₹18.3 L in hand.”
›PDF · CSV · Excel
How it works
From grant letter to decision, in four steps.
Start from the grant letter.
Drop in the PDF. EVC reads options, strike price, vesting, expiry and exit clauses straight from the document.
Reads the grant document itself
Upload grant document
Extractinggrant_letter_northstar.pdf
Every field checked before it counts.
Nothing is calculated until each extracted term is confirmed against the source. Clauses that matter on exit are flagged for review.
9 grant fields · clause flags
Confirm extracted fields
5 of 9 confirmed3 high-priority clauses flagged for review
One model, every consequence.
Vesting, exercise cost, dilution and tax run as one connected chain. Move one assumption and the whole answer moves with it.
Bear · Base · Bull exits
Take-home by exit · vested options
New regimeA page people actually read.
Export a one-page report that ends in a plain sentence: what is on paper, and what is left in hand.
PDF · CSV · Excel
Export report
ReadyESOP Value Clarity — Employee Equity Report
Sample grant · vested options
12,500
granted
6,250
vested
₹18.50
strike
₹1.2 L
to exercise
esopvalueclarity.com/pro
Step 01/04Upload grant document
Extractinggrant_letter_northstar.pdf
Confirm extracted fields
5 of 9 confirmed3 high-priority clauses flagged for review
Take-home by exit · vested options
New regimeExport report
ReadyESOP Value Clarity — Employee Equity Report
Sample grant · vested options
12,500
granted
6,250
vested
₹18.50
strike
₹1.2 L
to exercise
Under the hood
How your grant data moves through EVC.
Six stages, one direction. Nothing reaches a calculation until a person has confirmed it, and every output can be traced back to the page it started on.
Stage 01 of 06
Grant letter
The original document is the starting point. Nothing is typed in from memory.
Data at this stage · sample
{
"file": "grant_letter.pdf",
"uploaded_by": "holder",
"status": "received"
}
grant letter in
fields confirmed against source
exit scenarios modelled
report out
The output
Where the money actually goes.
Paper value is the number people remember. Take-home is the number that matters. EVC shows every rupee in between.
- Built from the employee’s own confirmed grant
- Bear, Base and Bull exits side by side
- Every assumption listed, with what is not modelled
- Export as PDF, CSV or Excel
Base case · ₹50 Cr exit
Sample grant · 6,250 vested options
Value kept
79.1%
Plain reading: ₹23.1 L on paper becomes about ₹18.3 L in hand, after ₹1.2 L to exercise and ₹3.7 L in estimated tax.
The platform
Everything between the grant letter and the decision.
See what is vested on any date.
Cliff, monthly schedule, and what lapses if you leave, on one timeline.
Both tax events, split.
Perquisite at exercise, capital gains at sale.
Ownership, round by round.
Watch the stake shrink before it surprises anyone.
Two offers, one basis.
Guaranteed cash and equity opportunity, compared honestly.
Every client, one console.
Client companies, grant registers, diligence checks and tax events.
Reports for the whole team.
Roll clear reports out from each employee’s own grant.
After seed
₹25 Cr
- Founders59.8%
- Investors6.0%
- Employees1.5%
- Advisors0.7%
- ESOP pool12.0%
- Seed investor20.0%
Founders today
80.0%
Founders after
59.8%
Price / share
₹18.68
Live sample · drag the sliders · 12% ESOP pool after the round
Free tool · no sign-up
Build your cap table in minutes. Free.
Add founders, investors, employees and your ESOP pool, then model your next round. See who owns what, the price per share, and exactly how much each person is diluted.
- No account needed to build and model
- Model a priced round with an ESOP top-up
- Dilution chart for every shareholder
- Export to CSV with a free account
New · For startups
Run your cap table and ESOPs. Show every employee what theirs is worth.
The Startup Equity Desk keeps your cap table, ESOP pool and every grant in one place, and gives each employee a private page that explains their grant in rupees, after tax. Equity only motivates people who understand it.
Cap table, as of any date
Every allotment, transfer, conversion and buyback in one log. Fully diluted, ESOP pool included.
ESOP pool and grants
Grant from your approved pool, with checks flagged before you issue. Options register in Excel.
A page for every employee
Vesting, cost to exercise, tax and take-home after tax, with an Accept button. No login needed.
Bring what you already have
Import your cap table and existing grants from Excel. Every row checked before anything is saved.
Cap table · fully diluted
Northstar Analytics
Founders
Equity shares
61.0%
Angel & seed
Equity · Seed CCPS
16.5%
Series A
Series A CCPS
11.0%
ESOP pool
Granted + unallocated
11.5%
Employee grant page
Private linkRavi, here is your ESOP grant
Granted
12,500
Vested
6,250
Strike
₹18.5
Take-home after tax · base case
₹36.4 L
Sample company and grant, illustrative. Take-home from EVC's tax engine, not a promise.
Workflows
One model. Four ways teams work with it.
Know what your grant is worth in hand.
Before you sign an offer, exercise, or resign, see the cash it costs and the money it could become, after tax.
- Vested today, and what lapses if you leave
- Cash needed to exercise, before any exit
- Take-home across Bear, Base and Bull exits
- Two offers compared on the same basis
The workflow
- 1
Upload your grant letter
Or enter the numbers for a quick free estimate.
- 2
Confirm the fields
Options, strike, vesting and expiry, checked against the letter.
- 3
See today’s position
Vested options and the cash needed to exercise them.
- 4
Test the futures
Bear, Base and Bull exits, after tax, in both regimes.
- 5
Decide with a report
Exercise, wait, negotiate or walk away, with the numbers in hand.
Why EVC
Not another ESOP calculator.
Calculators take your guesses. Spreadsheets take your weekend. EVC starts from the document and shows its working.
Built for India
Rupees, lakhs and crores, perquisite tax, old and new regimes. Not a US tool with a currency switch.
Source, not guesswork
Every number starts on a page of the grant letter and stays tied to it.
Minutes, not a week
A clear answer in one sitting instead of an email chain with HR and a CA.
One model, everyone
The same numbers for the employee, the HR team and the advisor.
| Capability | Spreadsheet | Online calculator |  EVC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from the actual grant letter | |||
| Every number traced to its source page | |||
| Vesting, exercise, dilution and tax connected | Manual | Manual | |
| Indian tax at exercise and at sale, with surcharge and cess | Manual | Manual | |
| Bear, Base and Bull exits side by side | Manual | ||
| One-page report a non-finance person can read | |||
| Works for a team or a client book, not one person | Manual | ||
| Cap table and ESOP grants kept alongside what each grant is worth | Manual |
“Manual” means possible, if you build and maintain it yourself.
Go on, push back
We’ve heard every reason not to. Here are our answers.
Built to be checked
Money decisions need numbers you can verify.
A number you cannot trace is a number you cannot defend in front of a CA, a founder or your own family. EVC keeps the trail.
Source first
Every number traces back to a confirmed field and the page it came from.
Assumptions in the open
Dilution, exit value and tax inputs are visible and editable. Nothing hides in a formula.
Estimates, not promises
Decision support, not tax, legal or investment advice. Every report says so.
Your data, handled carefully
Grant documents are used to build your model. The privacy policy sets out exactly how.
Audit trail
01 · Field
Exercise price · ₹18.50
02 · Source
grant_letter.pdf · page 1, clause 3.2
03 · Status
Confirmed by holder
04 · Used in
Exercise cost · Tax · Take-home
Listed on every report: not modelled
See it working
Watch the product, not a pitch.
Real screens, real flow. Start with the short overview, or watch the full walkthrough to see every step an employee or advisor takes.
In this video
- Why ESOP letters leave people guessing
- Grant letter to confirmed model
- Bear, Base and Bull take-home
- The one-page report
From the founder
“Equity is supposed to make people feel like owners. Most of the time it makes them feel confused. I built EVC so anyone holding ESOPs in India can see, in rupees, what their grant means, and so the companies and advisors behind those grants stop rebuilding that answer by hand.”
Sheshank
Founder, ESOP Value Clarity
Partner programme
Know a firm that needs EVC? Earn 10%.
If you introduce a person, firm or company to EVC, you get 10% of what they pay for their plan: PRO for individuals, Team Intelligence for companies, the Startup plan for founders, or the Advisor Console for CA, CS and advisory firms. No quota, no joining fee, no lock-in.
What you would earn
IllustrationEVC PRO · individuals
For organisations · annual
You would receive
₹12,499.50
5 × ₹24,999 × 10% = ₹12,499.50. That is ₹2,499.90 for each customer who buys PRO Annual.
Simple arithmetic on our published plan prices, not a promise of how many customers you will bring.
Apply
Email us who you are and who you work with. We reply with written partner terms.
Introduce
Tell your people about EVC. We note your name against every customer you bring.
They subscribe
A customer new to EVC buys a plan: PRO, Team Intelligence, the Startup plan or the Advisor Console.
You earn 10%
We pay you 10% of the amount they paid, once the payment has cleared.
The fine print, up front
- 10% of the plan amount a referred customer actually pays: PRO, Team Intelligence, the Startup plan or the Advisor Console. Refunded payments do not earn commission.
- The customer must be new to EVC. No self-referrals.
- Partners tell their audience they are an EVC partner when they recommend it.
- Custom or negotiated plans: commission is on the amount actually paid.
- Payout timing and any tax on the payout are set out in your written partner terms.
Talk to us
20 minutes. Your grant or your clients, on screen.
Bring a real grant (anonymised is fine). We model it live, and you leave knowing exactly what the report would tell you. No slide deck.
HR & founders
Team-wide ESOP clarity
CA & advisors
Client work in one console
Employees
One grant, one decision
How the 20 minutes go
0–5 min
Your situation and questions
5–15 min
Your grant, modelled live
15–20 min
What it means and next steps
Product walkthrough with the founder
20 minutes · online · IST
Next available times
Live · IST
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Pick a time that suits you
Bring an anonymised grant if you have one
No obligation to buy
Questions
Straight answers.
What EVC does, what it does not do, and how it handles your numbers.
Still have a question?
Ask about your grant, your team or your clients. You will hear back from the founder directly.
No. EVC does not value the company. It shows what a grant could mean for the holder under exit values you choose or review, after exercise cost and estimated tax.
Grant size, vesting and cliff, ownership, dilution, exercise cost, Bear / Base / Bull exits, estimated tax, offer comparisons and a one-page report, all as one connected model.
In exit scenarios: liquidation preferences and buyback-specific tax treatment. The Startup Equity Desk records multiple share classes on the cap table, but exit take-home does not yet apply preferences. Every report lists what is excluded, so nobody mistakes an estimate for a payout.
Yes, with the Startup plan. Record or import your cap table, your ESOP pool and every grant, and give each employee a private page that explains their grant. EVC does not draft your ESOP scheme or grant letters: your CS or lawyer does, and you can upload the signed letter for the employee to download.
ESOP Value ClarityYour grant, in rupees, before you decide.
Understand today. Decide better. Own tomorrow.
EVC provides estimates for decision support. It is not tax, legal or investment advice.