Thanks for the reply. This is certainly what makes the most sense but as you said I'm sure there will be a lot of editing and clarification to come :D.

Specifically Page 10 under Corporate Clocks tells you to start a clock as soon as they as established which is what I think a lot of people will do by default anyways. I think that Threat clocks and reporter's clocks are fine as exceptions, it totally makes sense that they don't exist until a trigger, but since corps are made in step 0 I would possibly consider keeping the current wording and have only the additional people joining a Links phase advance the clock. Would make it simpiler and encourge more back story missions but then it might cause too many +links without enough of downside.