ScorpEase LLC

You started a business. You didn't sign up for the admin.

You signed up for the work you're actually good at. What came with it was a second job — justifying the salary you pay yourself, tracking filings nobody reminds you about, being the only person who knows where anything is. It has no hours, no job description, and nobody obvious to hand it to.

ScorpEase builds software that takes it off you.

Keystead Vault → Salary Sherpa →

Our products

Different problems. The same reason they go unsolved.

Both of these are jobs you can postpone indefinitely without anything visibly breaking. Both get expensive the moment somebody else needs an answer. And both end the same way — with something someone else could pick up cold.

Deadlines, records & continuity

Keystead Vault

A calendar nobody else is keeping.

Estimated payments. Sales-tax filings. Annual reports. Return due dates. None of them show up with a reminder, and the only thing standing between you and a late-filing penalty is remembering. Keystead Vault tracks every deadline in one place and tells you before it's due.

It also holds the paperwork — the operating agreement, the filed returns, the insurance, the key contacts — so the week you're not there, a spouse, a partner, or your accountant can pick it up without a scavenger hunt. Logins are the one exception: those are mapped, not stored, so it never becomes a single basket for your passwords.

Free to build · $100/year per business, capped at $300

What It Does Go to keysteadvault.com →

S-Corp reasonable compensation

Salary Sherpa

A decision you'll have to defend.

The IRS requires S-Corp owners to pay themselves a reasonable salary. It has never said what that number is. Set it too low and you're exposed to reclassification, back payroll tax, and penalties. Set it too high and you're handing over tax you never owed.

Salary Sherpa produces the number and the research behind it — your role, experience, hours in the business, and industry wage data, weighed against IRS guidance — in a report you can hand to an agent or to your CPA.

$400 per report · delivered same day

How It Works View a Sample Report (PDF)

Who we build for

One owner or five, the admin still lands on somebody.

The work is the same. What changes is how easy it is for everyone to assume someone else is handling it.

Solo owners

You are the business. Every decision, every password, every deadline routes through you — efficient right up until the week you can't get to your desk. It's also why your salary position has never been written down anywhere but your own head.

Partnerships & multi-tier groups

More owners means more compensation questions — different roles, different hours, different pay, each one defensible on its own terms. And when ownership runs through holding companies and layered entities, every tier carries its own returns and deadlines. "Who handles that?" quietly becomes nobody.

CPA firms & advisors

You're already the one clients call when the notice arrives or the owner doesn't. Both products are built to be handed to a client and to come back as an answer — without the annual document chase.

Why ScorpEase

Every product here started as a client problem.

The problems came first, from years of hands-on tax work with small-business owners at ENGAGE CPAs. Keystead Vault exists because of how many clients we watch scramble to stay on top of estimated payments, sales-tax filings, and annual reports — and because when something does go wrong, a spouse or a business partner inherits every bit of it, unorganized, at the worst possible time. Salary Sherpa exists because we were rebuilding the same reasonable-compensation analysis from scratch every year, by hand, for client after client.

We built the software because we were tired of the manual version. Nothing here is a general-purpose tool looking for a use; each one replaces a specific job we used to do the slow way.

The admin is the scorpion: the part of owning a business that stings when you're not looking. ScorpEase exists to take the sting out — to make that work something you finish instead of something you carry.

Most owners start with the Vault.

Deadlines and records apply to every business. If you also run an S-Corp, the salary question is the other one worth settling.

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