Blog · a series
Rutba Sign
Electronic signature where the evidence is the product: how an agreement is drafted, sent, signed, sealed, verified by anybody, and managed for as long as it runs — and the documents we deliberately refuse to draft.
7 parts · about 22 minutes to read them all
Part 1 · 3 min read
Every signature API returns an audit report the vendor vouches for
Which is worth exactly as much as your relationship with that vendor. Ours returns a record anyone can check independently — from a public endpoint, with no key, that does not reach your systems at all.
Part 2 · 4 min read
Anyone can put a picture of a signature on a page
What decides a dispute two years later is whether you can still show what happened: who opened it, from where, what they accepted, in what order, and that not one byte has moved since. That record is the product.
Part 3 · 4 min read
An agreement does not end when it is signed
Signature software treats the signature as the finish line. For the business that sent it, that is the moment an agreement starts costing attention — renewals, notices, formalities, and proof somebody asks for years later.
Part 4 · 3 min read
Answer the questions, and the agreement drafts itself
Eleven everyday agreements, fifteen jurisdictions, and a rule we hold to: a guided document is not a template. It asks what is true, composes the agreement from the answers, and arrives with its parties and fields already in place.
Part 5 · 3 min read
The documents we refuse to draft, and why that is the product
A flatshare agreement that is not a tenancy, a letter of authority that is not a power of attorney, and wills last of all and on paper. Where a document generator draws its lines says more about it than what it generates.
Part 6 · 3 min read
A receipt in your hand before anybody else has signed
In an agreement with five parties, the first to sign may wait weeks for the last. Until now they held nothing for it. Each party now leaves with proof of their own act, countersigned by Rutba the moment they acted.
Part 7 · 2 min read
Stamps, seals and notaries — arranged at cost, and never faked
Some agreements need more than signatures before a court will look at them. The formality is declared on the agreement and has to be satisfied before it is sent or sealed. Arrange it yourself for free, or have a person at Rutba arrange it at cost.
