New founders reach for the registrations that feel like progress: the GST number, the fancy bank account, the logo on the letterhead. The ones that get missed are the quiet early ones: the filings a company owes from the day it exists, the registers it must keep, the board records nobody thinks to open until someone asks for them a year later.
The pattern we see is not founders doing the wrong things. It is founders doing the right things in the wrong order, and discovering that a step skipped at the start is expensive to insert at the end. A registration taken before the one it depends on has to be unwound. A register begun late has to be reconstructed. None of it is hard when it is done in sequence; all of it is tedious when it is done backwards.
So when you incorporate, the useful question is not “what do we need”. The matter page answers that. It is “in what order”. Tell us what the business will do and who owns it, and we will set the sequence so the early, unglamorous things are done first, when they are cheap.