James Rodriguez
Owner & Managing Consultant
James oversees every formation file personally. Fifteen years in entity filings, compliance calendars and multi-state registrations for owner-operated businesses.
About us
A Tallahassee filing practice built on plain answers
Hargis Business Formation Services LLC was founded to fix a specific frustration: business owners paying for formation packages they did not understand, from companies they could never reach twice.
Our story
James Rodriguez spent nine years handling entity filings and compliance calendars for accounting practices in North Florida before opening his own office on Lombard Street in 2016. In that time he watched the same pattern repeat: a founder would form an LLC online for “free”, receive a generic operating agreement, and discover two years later that the company had been administratively dissolved for a missed annual report.
Hargis LLC Services exists to close that gap. We are deliberately small. We take on a limited number of new formations each month so every client speaks with the person doing the work, and we keep a written record of every decision so the file makes sense to your accountant, your bank and, if it ever comes to it, a court.
What we believe
- Price transparency is not a feature. Government fees are shown at cost, on every quote, every time.
- Scope before payment. You approve a written scope of work before we charge a card.
- Know the limits. We are not attorneys or CPAs. When a question crosses that line we refer you out rather than guess.
- Answer the phone. A real person, during posted business hours, at a number that does not change.
The team
Who you will actually work with
Carla Benton
Compliance Manager
Carla runs the annual report calendar, registered agent forwarding and reinstatements. If a deadline exists, it is already on her board.
Tomas Okafor
Client Documents Specialist
Tomas prepares operating agreements, amendments and membership ledgers, and handles EIN applications for international founders.
Where we work
Rooted in Tallahassee, filing nationwide
Our office sits minutes from the Florida Division of Corporations, which is why Florida remains our busiest jurisdiction. But formation is a national business, and we file routinely in Georgia, Texas, Delaware, Wyoming, New Mexico, North Carolina and 42 other states.
If you are choosing between states, we will walk you through the practical difference in fees, privacy and annual obligations rather than steering you toward whichever filing pays us more — because it does not.
- Florida LLC formation and annual reports
- Delaware and Wyoming formations for holding structures
- Foreign qualification for out-of-state expansion
- Registered agent coverage in all filing states
Talk to James directly
No sales script and no obligation — just twenty minutes to work out what your business actually needs to file.