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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"Cake Equity: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity.md",
  "title": "Cake Equity: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "Cake Equity is on the AI compensation software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 27, 2026.",
  "period": "Sept. 17 to 27, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "slug": "cake-equity",
    "name": "Cake Equity",
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    "site": "https://cakeequity.com/",
    "summary": "\"The equity platform for growing startups.\" Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts.",
    "founded": 2017,
    "categories": [
      "equity"
    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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      "Equity management"
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  },
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"The equity platform for growing startups.\" Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts.",
    "source": {
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      "url": "https://cakeequity.com/"
    },
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      "map": "compensation-software",
      "title": "The AI compensation software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "Cake Equity",
      "site": "https://cakeequity.com/",
      "category": "Equity management",
      "what": "\"The equity platform for growing startups.\" Cake Equity runs cap tables, option and RSU grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, 409A valuations and an employee app, and sells to founders, finance and HR teams at startups. The AI is Cake MCP, which answers cap table questions in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor, Cake Intelligence, which watches deadlines and drafts reminders, and an AI document scanner for equity contracts.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "cakeequity.com",
        "url": "https://cakeequity.com/"
      },
      "price": "Published: free up to 5 stakeholders; Build $1,000 a year; Team $2,750 a year, which adds AI access (MCP); higher plan is custom.",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Equity administration",
          "MCP or agent API"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 2,
      "scale": "Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (Own pages claim 10,000+ companies and a 4.8/5 G2 rating from 145+ reviews. Funding amount not disclosed.)",
      "founded": "2017",
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        {
          "name": "cakeequity.com",
          "url": "https://cakeequity.com/cake-intelligence"
        },
        {
          "name": "cakeequity.com",
          "url": "https://cakeequity.com/features/mcp"
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        {
          "name": "cakeequity.com",
          "url": "https://cakeequity.com/features/ai-document-scanner"
        },
        {
          "name": "cakeequity.com",
          "url": "https://cakeequity.com/changelog"
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        {
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    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-09-27",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Cake is listed in Claude's connector directory",
      "summary": "Cake is now in Claude's connector directory, so a user can connect it once and ask about the cap table from any chat with no setup.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI compensation software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/compensation-software/#co-cake-equity"
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        "name": "Vendor changelog",
        "url": "https://cakeequity.com/changelog"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "event-2",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/cake-equity/#event-2",
      "on": "2026-09-17",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "Cake MCP lets AI tools query the cap table",
      "summary": "Cake's changelog says Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor or any MCP client can connect to Cake and answer cap table questions from the live cap table, with no export.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI compensation software map",
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      },
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      }
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