E-signatures for startups
Document signingfor startups, and everyone else.
Send offer letters, employment agreements, contractor forms and NDAs for signature. Upload a PDF or Word file, place the fields, and send. Everyone gets the same signed PDF back.
Free sending with no monthly limit · $99 a month for your whole team · Signers never pay
An animated walkthrough of two documents, each ending with the signer signing in the browser. First, the employment agreement form is filled in for a new hire, signature and date fields are placed, it is sent, the new hire reviews and signs it, and it is sealed. Second, an uploaded services agreement gets signature and payment fields, is sent to the client, the client signs it, and it is sealed and paid through Stripe.
Where you work
Start a document from the tools you already use.
Work in the browser, ask about your files in Slack, prepare from Claude Code or Codex, or run the loop from your terminal. However a document starts, a person signs it in the browser and everyone gets the same sealed PDF.
A saved login is identity, not authority. Without an explicit mandate, the agent can open an imported file or a reviewed reusable PDF form, read cited facts, and prepare measured fields. It cannot choose a legal instrument for you. A transaction-bound authenticator ceremony authorizes each send or signature. A valid mandate can authorize the agent to complete only the exact acts it covers. OctoDoc records agent origin in either mode.
How it works
From file to signed PDF in three steps.
Upload or pick a form
Upload a PDF or Word file, or start from a reviewed form like the I-9 or W-4.
Place the fields
Put signature, date and text fields on the page. An agent can suggest them. You confirm each one.
Send it
Signers get an email and sign in their browser with a free account. Everyone receives the same sealed PDF.
A person asks OctoDoc: Send john@smith.example an offer letter for $200,000 a year, starting September 15, using our existing template and brand. OctoDoc prepares a Northwind Labs offer of employment for John Smith as Senior Product Engineer, base salary $200,000 per year, starting September 15, and shows it out for signature to john@smith.example, waiting for John Smith to sign. The film closes: It's that simple. Use your favorite Agent or CLI via OctoDoc.org.
No install · No sales call · No per-seat pricing
Startup paperwork
The paperwork your first hires need, ready to send.
Hiring
U.S.-General Employment Agreement
Enter the name, title, start date and salary once.
USCIS Form I-9
IRS Form W-4
Contractors
IRS Form W-9
IRS Form W-8BEN
For contractors outside the U.S.
Your company
IRS Form SS-4
To apply for your EIN.
Your own documents
Bring your offer letter, NDA, SAFE or customer contract as a PDF or Word file.
What it costs
One flat price. Your whole team is included.
No monthly send limit
Unlimited members
Reusable PDF forms
Signers never pay
Free
$0Per workspace / month
No subscription required
- Sending pace for a new workspace
- 5 on its first day, then 10 a day and 25 a week, until it is 14 days old with 3 sealed files
- Document retention
- At least 1 year
Team
$99Per workspace / month
Or $950 a year, a 20% discount
- Sending pace for a new workspace
- No limit
- Document retention
- 7 years
Payments after signing: 0.5% per payment, capped at $25.
Compared
Where OctoDoc differs from the typical e-signature suite.
The left column describes the category's common practice, and every line in the right column is a registered, supportable claim or a published decision.
The person signing
A place to collect a mark. Questions leave the product and go to email.
A free account, a cited answer on the page, and the sealed PDF to return to.
AI answers
A fluent paraphrase with no obligation to show where it came from.
An answer quotes the page it came from, or it is not shown as a citation.
Checking the record
A signing record that lives in the vendor's account and is shown on request.
One signature covers every byte you approved. Anyone can check it in a normal PDF reader, offline.
Documents and model training
Training permissions have arrived by terms update, mid-relationship.
Every model request requires zero-data-retention and prompt-training opt-out.
Open to every team
Nothing here is capped by company size. Larger firms use the same sending, the same seal and the same free signer accounts, and add senders as the team grows. The security posture publishes every control and its evidence so a reviewer can check without a sales call.
Quick start
Create and sign documents fast, wherever you are.
Paste this into your agent
Open https://octodoc.org/about#local-tools and set up OctoDoc for this computer. Install the CLI only with the command on that page, and do not invent another.
Do not report the install as done until octodoc auth status runs, and do not report success until OctoDoc confirms the account.
Then use OctoDoc to Prepare, Send, and Sign documents from this agent.agentoctodoc · ~/acme
Product preview
Signing stays a human browser act. Switch Agent or CLI to replay.
state: sealed
You
I reviewed the disclosures and confirm my capacity. Show the Northwind NDA, then start its exact signature for my browser approval.
Agent
Listing what is waiting, then reviewing the frozen file. Sign stops at a human browser gesture.
Bash · octodoc
waiting 1 · Mutual non-disclosure agreement · Northwind Labs
expires in 6 days · marks for you: 3
Bash · octodoc show
documentVersionId: 019fe2dc-58af-7c2e-941f-218a3e4d9b8a
partyId: 019fe2dc-5f98-7880-a74b-f00d83e1e18b
marks: 019fe2dc-6081-7f65-9c24-dc8625f04895, 019fe2dc-6380-77da-b5e4-599a7d654a4b, 019fe2dc-70c5-7a29-9f26-0824c0c437aa
Bash · octodoc sign
Authorize this signature at https://octodoc.org/transactions/019fe2dc-4d11-7a3e-8c52-6b9f01d4a7c3
state: waiting-for-human · no binding act has run
Agent
You confirmed in the browser. Sealed file is in the working directory.
./nda.sealed.pdf
sha256: 9f86d081884c7d659a2feaa0c55ad015a3bf4f1b2b0b822cd15d6c15b0f00a08
state: sealed · agent-assisted recorded · exit 0
The whitepaper
Agreements for the agent economy. Read the whitepaper about authority, exact agreements and the record both sides keep.
Proof
Built to hold up when it matters.
The seal
One signature covers every byte you approved. Change anything later and the signature breaks.
The ledger
Each event is linked to the one before it. Remove or change a step and the chain shows it.
The check
Anyone can check a sealed file with no account, and even offline.
Your documents
Every model request requires zero-data-retention and prompt-training opt-out.
Prepare. Sign. Keep.
Send your first document free.
Free sending with no monthly limit. Upgrade when your team needs the console and 7-year records.