Why Docsliy

Getting it signed is the easy part. Getting it right is the product.

Docsliy drafts your contract under the law of the country you're signing in, applies the local formalities, refuses what that law excludes, and executes at the tier that market requires. DocuSign and Adobe Sign collect the signature. Docsliy makes sure there's something worth signing.

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27 Markets published, free to read
SHA‑256 All a signing provider ever receives
AES-256 Encrypted at rest and in transit
The solution

Four ways a contract fails after signature — all four closed before it goes out.

A signature proves who signed. It says nothing about whether the document survives the law of the place it was signed. Here's each gap that leaves, and exactly what Docsliy does about it.

The risk

Clauses that don't survive locally

Restraint clauses in India, unfair contract terms in Australia, mandatory employee benefits in Brazil. The signature is valid; the terms are not.

What Docsliy does

Drafts from clause libraries reviewed by counsel qualified in that jurisdiction, with every clause citing the library entry it came from — so a draft is auditable back to its source.

The risk

Formalities nobody flagged

Stamp duty in India, registration thresholds in Indonesia, notarisation across parts of Latin America, witnessing for deeds in Australia. Signing platforms don't touch any of it.

What Docsliy does

Resolves them before signature, because in several markets stamping afterwards invalidates the signature. Duties are computed, remitted and passed through at cost, without markup.

The risk

Instruments that can't be signed at all

Most markets exclude wills, powers of attorney and property transfers from electronic execution. A tool that signs whatever you upload produces something that fails exactly when it matters.

What Docsliy does

Refuses to execute it and names the rule it relied on, at the drafting step rather than after the fact. Refusing is intended behaviour, written into our terms — not a defect.

The risk

The wrong signature tier

Every jurisdiction sets its own bar for a binding signature. Get the tier wrong and enforceability is the first casualty — usually discovered in a dispute.

What Docsliy does

Supports SES, AES and QES natively and applies the one that market requires by default, with signer identity verified through Docsliy Verify.

The difference

Three things nobody else does

Not feature comparisons — architectural choices that competitors would have to rebuild their product to match.

01

Assembled, not improvised

Contracts are built from a clause library reviewed by counsel qualified in the relevant jurisdiction, and every clause cites its source. It's a drafting tool that shows its working — not a chatbot writing law from memory.

How you check it: open any generated draft and trace a clause back to the library entry it came from.
02

It knows what it can't do

Docsliy refuses to execute instruments that the local law excludes, and tells you which rule applies. Refusing is a feature — silently producing an unenforceable document is the failure.

How you check it: our terms state a refusal is intended behaviour, not a service defect.
03

Your document stays with you

Where a licensed provider must apply the signature, we send only a cryptographic hash. The contract itself never transits a third party — not its contents, not its metadata.

How you check it: a SHA‑256 hash is one-way. Your security team can verify it can't reconstruct the file.
The mechanism

The sequence isn't a workflow preference. It's a legal requirement.

In several markets, stamping a document after it has been signed invalidates the signature. Any platform that treats compliance as a step you bolt on afterwards has already got the order wrong — and there's no configuration setting that fixes it.

Docsliy runs the four stages in the order the law requires, on every agreement, with the destination jurisdiction resolved before a single clause is drafted.

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  1. 01

    Resolve the jurisdiction

    Which law governs, which formalities attach, and whether this instrument can be signed electronically at all.

  2. 02

    Assemble the draft

    Clauses pulled from the reviewed library for that jurisdiction and your own approved playbook — each one citing its source.

  3. 03

    Apply the formalities

    Stamp duty, registration and language requirements settled before signature, because afterwards is too late.

  4. 04

    Execute at the right tier

    SES, AES or QES, matched to what that market requires — with identity verified through Docsliy Verify.

How we compare

Better than DocuSign and Adobe Sign at the thing they were never built to do.

Credit where it's due: DocuSign, Adobe Sign and Zoho Sign collect signatures reliably, at enormous scale, and they're good at it. But a signature is where they stop — and it's where the jurisdictional work starts.

What they answer

“Did the right person sign this file?”

A question about a person. Solved well, and largely solved industry-wide.

What Docsliy answers

“Does this document survive the law where it was signed?”

A question about a document. Nobody else is accountable for it.

Capability Docsliy DocuSign Adobe Sign Zoho Sign
Legally binding e-signature
SES, AES and QES signature tiers Limited
Centralized, searchable repository Limited Limited
Drafts the contract under the destination country's law
Clause libraries reviewed by local counsel
Refuses instruments the local law excludes
Stamp duty computed, remitted and passed through at cost
Document never transits the signing provider
Live in-document negotiation
Built-in risk playbook enforcement

Comparison reflects each platform's core positioning based on publicly available product information and is provided for illustrative purposes — individual plans and features vary and change over time. DocuSign, Adobe Sign and Zoho Sign are trademarks of their respective owners.

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Proof, not adjectives

Four things you can verify before you talk to us

No demo needed for any of them — each is something you can check from the outside.

The legality guide is free and ungated

Governing statute, recognised signature types, exclusions and local formalities for all 27 markets. No signup, whether or not you ever buy anything. If our jurisdictional research were thin, publishing it would be the last thing we'd do.

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The price is on the page

Plans are published, start at $39/month, include unlimited signers, and need no credit card to trial. Enterprise CLM suites route you through procurement before you see a number.

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The architecture is auditable

Hardened infrastructure, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, an immutable audit trail on every edit and signature — and a hash-only signing path your security team can interrogate directly.

Read the security page

Stamp duty is not our revenue

Duties and registration fees are computed, remitted and passed through to you at cost without markup. They're written into our terms as not our fees — so there's no incentive for us to be generous with your money.

Read the terms
What we don't claim

A product that refuses things should be honest about its own limits too.

If the rest of this page is going to argue that silently producing a bad document is the real failure, it would be strange to oversell what we do.

We are not your lawyer

Docsliy is a drafting aid, not legal advice, and no solicitor-client or attorney-client relationship arises from using it. High-stakes agreements should be reviewed by qualified counsel before they're relied on.

We don't warrant enforceability

No platform can promise a court will uphold a specific agreement. What we can do is remove the failure modes that are knowable in advance — the wrong tier, a missed formality, an excluded instrument, a clause that doesn't survive locally.

Law changes faster than software

We maintain our clause libraries and jurisdictional data with care, but we don't claim they reflect every amendment in force at the moment you use them. Where a market moves, the legality guide is updated in public where you can see it.

Detection isn't a guarantee

Risk scoring and exclusion checks catch what they're built to catch. They reduce the surface for error substantially; they don't reduce it to zero, and we don't describe them as if they did.

Bring a contract you actually send

Not a demo template. We'll draft it, apply the formalities and sign it live, in your jurisdiction, in about twenty minutes. If it turns out we'd refuse to execute it, you'll find that out in the call rather than in a dispute.

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