Ownership & Governance
Run the cap table, profit waterfall, and governance record from the same iPad your operators use.
See who owns what, split profit automatically, and keep every ownership document in one place. It lives right next to live venue performance, so your finance picture finally matches reality. No more lonely spreadsheet or separate fund-admin tool.
Why it matters
Your cap table, distributions, and governance, finally in one place.
Most hospitality platforms stop at operations. BirdBrain adds the layer above the org chart: who owns the business, how profit gets split, and where the paperwork lives. Ownership stays separate from floor access, so partners get a clean financial picture without ever touching daily operations.
Who it's for
Built for CFOs, managing partners, and ownership groups at multi-location hospitality companies. If you juggle a cap-table spreadsheet, a distribution calculator, and a folder of legal docs, this brings all three into the platform your operators already run.
Connects with
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A real ownership hub, not a bolt-on spreadsheet
Know exactly who owns what, down to the percent, without a spreadsheet that drifts every time you edit it. Individuals and entities sit on the same cap table, and when one company owns a piece of another, you can see the real people behind it. Allocations are checked as you go, so you can't accidentally hand out more than you have.
One clear view of every stake at a glance
Owners and parent companies, side by side
See through nested entities to the real owners
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Profit-sharing math that runs before you commit a dollar
Split profit fairly, every time, without doing the math by hand. Preview exactly what each owner gets before you commit a single dollar, then move the payout from draft to approved to paid on the record. Once an approval is signed off, it's locked, so the trail holds up later.
Preview every split before you pay
Automatic profit-sharing math, owner by owner
A locked approval trail you can stand behind
Waterfall Rules configuration
The profit-sharing setup with a preferred-return rule and a pro-rata residual rule in order, ready to preview the full split.
Ownership -> Distributions tab -> 'Manage Waterfall Rules' button
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Governance, capital accounts, and documents in one place
Keep your governance and paperwork in the same place as your ownership. Define share classes, record formal votes with quorum tracked for you, and watch capital balances build from real activity. Every legal document, from K-1s to operating agreements, lives in one searchable vault.
Share classes with voting and payout rules built in
Formal resolutions with vote tallies tracked live
Every ownership document in one tagged vault
Share class definitions
Two share-class cards side by side, showing how voting power, payout priority, and preferred return differ between Class A and Class B.
Ownership -> Classes tab
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Two-level approval control for owners
Keep the cap table where it belongs: with owners, not the floor. Edits are owner-only, and payouts take two sets of hands, so the person who builds a distribution isn't the one who signs it off. Switch organizations and the whole ownership picture follows.
Ownership access kept separate from floor roles
Two-person sign-off on every distribution
Each organization gets its own clean picture
Owner detail drilldown
An owner drilldown showing one partner's stake, voting weight, investment details, and a history of past distributions paid out.
Ownership -> Cap Table tab -> tap 'Graham Garrison' row
Inside the module
Built for the way the floor actually runs
Every capability below is live in BirdBrain today, available at each location with role-based access.
Precise cap table
Know exactly who owns what, down to the percent, with a clean dashboard that never drifts on rounding.
Beneficial look-through
When a company holds a stake, see straight through to the real people who ultimately own it.
Share classes
Set up share classes once, with their own voting power and payout priority, and let them drive every distribution.
Waterfall distributions
Split profit fairly with automatic waterfall math, and preview exactly what each owner gets before you pay a dollar.
Owner approvals, tracked end to end
Move every payout from draft to approved to paid, with a locked record of who signed off and when.
Capital & documents
Keep per-owner capital balances and every legal document, from K-1s to operating agreements, in one place.
Product tour
See it in BirdBrain
Captured from the Eagle Enterprises demo workspace.
Governance resolution list with vote progress
A governance view with two resolutions: one passed with full support, one mid-vote, each showing live progress toward quorum.
Ownership -> Governance tab
Governance resolution list with vote progress
A governance view with two resolutions: one passed with full support, one mid-vote, each showing live progress toward quorum.
Ownership document vault
The document vault with a year's K-1, an operating agreement, and a share certificate, each tagged and easy to filter.
Ownership -> Documents tab
Ownership document vault
The document vault with a year's K-1, an operating agreement, and a share certificate, each tagged and easy to filter.
Built for real venues
Not a roadmap. Live in real venues today.
Cap table, distributions, governance, and documents in one hub
Allocations checked live, so ownership can never exceed 100%
Preview every profit split before a single dollar moves
Two-person sign-off and a locked approval trail on every payout
See through parent companies to the real owners behind a stake
Why it beats the point tools
Operations-first platforms have no idea who owns the business or how profit is split, so that work falls to spreadsheets and a separate cap-table tool. Dedicated cap-table products, meanwhile, know nothing about the floor. BirdBrain keeps ownership and live venue performance in one place, so a managing partner reads the numbers and the next distribution without leaving the app, and the floor manager never sees the cap table.
Where it fits your plan
This is an Enterprise capability. It is built for ownership groups and venue portfolios that need location-level access, formal records, and rollout support, exactly the Enterprise profile. On the pricing page it sits under Enterprise’s ownership, governance, and rollout support.
One operating record
What Ownership & Governance works with
These modules share the same record, so context follows the work instead of being re-entered.
Financials
Your whole financial picture, on the floor, in one place.
QuickBooks Accounting
Your real numbers, live from QuickBooks, on the floor where you run the business.
Multi-Location
Run every venue independently, then read them all as one portfolio.
Approvals & Workflow Governance
One queue for every move that matters, before it goes live.
See Ownership & Governance running on your venue
Walk through Ownership & Governance with the rest of the BirdBrain platform, mapped to how your team actually operates — from one location to a multi-venue group.