We are building the next DocuSign

Re:We are building the next DocuSign by t_mann on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:58PM (#43499692)

I don't get what the AI agent is for - the way I know of DocuSign is to use it to legally effectively sign documents such as contracts. Those would typically be prepared by (human) legal experts. I'm wondering what niche has documents that are critical enough that they need legally effective signing but uncritical enough that you can trust an unaccountable AI agent with drafting them?

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by steveBK123 on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:26PM (#43499903)

It's to attract VC investment

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by imglorp on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:29PM (#43499926)

The last thing I want is extremely private or sensitive documents being given to some cloud service for training data.

No thanks. Just authenticate the parties and record their agreement.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by cyberax on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:04AM (#43502392)

You can run most of LLMs just fine with on-premises resources, nothing exotic needed.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by eddythompson80 on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:14AM (#43502071)

> the way I know of DocuSign is to use it to legally effectively sign documents such as contracts.

Now imagine that, but with AI. Now you can ask an LLM to expand on the main points in the contract. The person you’re sending it to can ask an LLM to summarize that expansion. You both can arrive at a different conclusions because after all, a break in communication is eventually going to happen between any 2 parties. Might as well super charge it.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by bofadeez on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:28AM (#43502166)

That's it? You could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side of it in a couple hours I guess. Not much going on though.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by eddythompson80 on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:34AM (#43502195)

It wouldn’t be a HN post without someone sizing the work as “a couple of hours” and a “$5/month cost” after all.

Though my post is missing an /s that I didn’t think it needed.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by bofadeez on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:36AM (#43502209)

But... that's all you're doing though? Because one could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side in a couple hours, right?

One could literally vibe code this feature into a PR for OpenSign in like 15 minutes.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by eddythompson80 on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:47AM (#43502287)

Sure buddy

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by bofadeez on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:57AM (#43502346)

You're building other features?

Or you don't believe how quickly it could be done?

Just use github.com/different-ai/embedbase. Full-stack RAG directly from a PDF into some javascript widget window. Ingest a PDF and chat with it in like 2 lines of code. It's almost no work at all.

Your website is (down now but) made with lovable so you're vibe coding this? Or just your landing page?

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by wk_end on Friday March 28, 2025 @09:17AM (#43505068)

Ask an LLM if, based on his comments, it seems like eddythompson80 made this or thinks it’s not a stupid idea.

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by broast on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:03AM (#43505567)

I would guess a product or features like this are never "completed". They would be iterating and improving the solution and taking user feedback so that it can evolve over time. I think that's the point of releasing it as a product

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by esaidm on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:26PM (#43507957)

Just landing, we are i validation process and stating a first version of our MVP.

But all these comments helps us, thank you!

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Re:We are building the next DocuSign by intelVISA on Friday March 28, 2025 @07:46AM (#43504167)

Shh, don't let the VCs know.

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