We accept legal service on your entity's behalf, scan it the day it arrives, and carry the calendar of everything your entity owes after that.
Every entity is required to name one, and to keep that appointment current, for as long as the entity exists.
The agent is the entity's official point of contact: a named person or company, at a physical street address, available during normal business hours, authorised to accept legal process and official correspondence on the entity's behalf.
Two consequences follow, and they're the whole reason the role matters. First, service on your agent is service on you — the clock starts whether or not the paperwork ever reaches your desk. Second, if the appointment lapses, the state stops being able to reach you, and that is usually the first domino in an administrative dissolution.
Almost nothing happens for years. Then one afternoon everything happens at once, and the only thing that matters is whether someone was actually there.
You may serve as your own agent in most cases. People stop doing it for three reasons: their address becomes public, they can't be reliably present all day, and being personally handed a lawsuit in front of staff or family is a bad afternoon.
Service of process is the one document class where a delay of two days can be the whole case. So it doesn't sit in a queue behind junk mail, and it isn't handled by whoever happens to be at the desk.
A commissioned employee signs for it in person and records who delivered it, when, and what was in the envelope. That record is the beginning of the chain of custody.
Every page, at legible resolution, with a content hash so the file you hold and the file we hold are provably the same document.
Email, SMS and the portal, to every contact you've designated — because the one person on the notification list is always the one on a plane.
The exact moment of service is recorded and never overwritten. It's frequently the first fact your counsel asks for, and the last one anyone thinks to preserve.
Originals are retained and the digital copy is kept for the life of your account. Documents don't expire because your subscription lapsed.
If what arrives looks serious, we call you. An email into a full inbox is not a delivery mechanism for a lawsuit.
A process server walks into an office and hands someone a stack of paper. Everything after that is a question of how quickly the right person finds out.
The failure mode isn't dramatic. It's an envelope that gets forwarded to an old address, sits for eleven days, and arrives after the answer deadline has passed. Default judgments are almost never entered against companies that knew. They're entered against companies whose agent didn't tell them.
When we're appointed, we read your entity's public record and load every recurring obligation it has into a real calendar. You didn't ask for that; it should just be part of having an agent.
Periodic and annual reports. Franchise tax information reports where applicable. Good standing certificates before they're stale. Amendments when your officers, managers or address change. The renewal of the agent appointment itself.
On Agent, you see the calendar and we chase you until it's done. On Agent+, we prepare and submit the filing and you approve it in one click.
How compliance worksIn four years of conversations, it's always one of these five, and it's usually the third one.
A notice was forwarded, not scanned, and got to them a week after it mattered. Once that happens once, the relationship is over.
A ticket form, a callback window, and a support agent who has never filed anything with a state in their life.
Usually from a bank or a buyer, in the middle of a transaction. The agent's job description didn't include telling them.
A cheap first year, then an invoice at three times the rate, plus fees for things that were previously described as included.
Three entities became eleven, and there was no single place to see what any of them owed or when.
Because switching sounds like paperwork. It's one signature and a filing we make for you, and we don't charge for it. That's the entire reason it's free.
No transfer fee, no waiting for your current agent's renewal date, and no form for you to figure out. Three steps, about four minutes of your time.
Legal name and where it's registered. We pull the rest from the public record — file number, formation date, current agent, standing — so you're not retyping your own filing from memory.
One consent form naming us as your agent. If your jurisdiction requires it notarized, we do that in the same session — there's anotary in house.
We submit the change, watch for it to post, send you the stamped confirmation, and load your compliance calendar. You don't need to notify your old agent — the record change does that.
Your previous agent's fee is between you and them. Most don't refund the unused portion of a year already paid. That's the only cost of switching, and it isn't ours — we charge $0 for the transfer and the state change filing.
There are good agents cheaper than us and bad agents more expensive. This is the pattern we see most often at the bottom of the market.
| Centurion Corporate Services | A typical cheap agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Service of process | Same business day, scanned Plus a phone call if it looks serious | Forwarded by post, or scanned "within 1–3 business days" Which is 1–3 days of your answer window |
| Chain of custody | Timestamped, hashed, permanent | The postmark, if you kept the envelope |
| Deadline tracking | Every obligation, loaded at signup | An emailed reminder, sometimes Often an upsell, priced separately |
| Filings done for you | Prepared and submitted on Agent+ | You file it. They remind you. |
| Transfer fee | $0 — we file the change | A "change of agent" service fee, plus the state fee marked up |
| Who answers the phone | The people who sign your filings Houston office, business hours | A tiered support queue, or a form Escalation measured in days |
| Document retention | Kept for the life of the account Exportable in full, any time | 30–90 days, then purged Gone entirely if you cancel |
| Renewal pricing | Same price you signed at | Introductory year, then the real number |
The right-hand column describes common practice in the low-cost segment, not any named competitor.
If your question isn't here, call. The number reaches a desk in our Houston office, not a menu.
$199 a year. Transferring in is free and we file the change for you.