Export & open schema
Your cap table is yours. Tenacap exports the whole thing in one click — as a spreadsheet, as a single open-schema JSON file, or as a self-verifying archive — so you can back it up, hand it to your accountant, or walk away entirely. These are reports you keep, not files you edit and upload back.
“One-click export, open schema, no lock-in” is a promise written into our terms, not a marketing line. Every Tenacap account can pull its complete state out at any time, in a format that’s openly documented and licensed so any tool — or your own accountant — can read it without asking us. This article covers how to do it and what you get.
How to export
The export buttons live on your cap-table view. Open the company, find the export controls in the toolbar, and choose a format. The file downloads straight to your machine — there’s no job queue and nothing to wait for. The data is always scoped to the one company you’re looking at.
The three formats
Pick the one that matches what you’re doing:
- CSV — a flattened sheet of your outstanding shares (stakeholder, share class, certificate, quantity, price, issue date) that opens straight in Excel or Google Sheets. Six columns, one row per outstanding security. Best for a quick look or a one-off analysis. Deliberately narrow: it leaves out option grants, SAFEs and convertible notes, unissued pool shares, and anything cancelled or transferred away — so its share total is smaller than your fully-diluted total, and it is not the file to hand someone who needs the whole picture. Use the JSON for that.
- JSON — the complete
cap-table.json: every share class, stakeholder, security, convertible, transaction, and audit-log entry, in our open schema. This is the full picture. - Archive (.zip) — everything above bundled together: the validated
cap-table.json, the CSV sheets, your attached signed PDFs, and aMANIFEST.jsonthat fingerprints every file.
What’s in the archive
The .zip is the most complete export. Alongside cap-table.json and the per-entity CSV sheets, it carries the signed PDFs Tenacap generated for you — SAFEs, stock purchase agreements, and the like — plus a MANIFEST.json listing every file with its byte size and a SHA-256 checksum. Those hashes let anyone confirm the bundle hasn’t been altered since Tenacap produced it: re-hash a file, compare it to the manifest, and you have cryptographic proof of integrity.
The open, versioned schema
The JSON export conforms to the Tenacap open schema: version v1, published under Apache-2.0, and versioned with semver. It isn’t a private format you have to reverse-engineer — every section is documented field by field on our public open-schema reference, and any breaking change comes with a major-version bump and a six-month deprecation window. The full structure, an annotated sample, and the governance rules all live there.
Backup, portability & migration
Exports are for taking your data out — to back it up, to hand to your accountant or counsel, to load into another tool, or to walk away entirely. The JSON and the archive are complete and self-verifying: keep a copy in your own storage and you hold a full snapshot of your ownership records that doesn’t depend on us being around. Every field is documented on the public open-schema reference, so anyone can read it without our help.
Migration out is the case we do support. If you ever move to another tool, hand it the open-schema JSON; if you’re coming the other way, see Importing your cap table. We even publish migration guides that take you away from Tenacap — the point of an open format is that your records outlive your choice of vendor.