Signing Documents Shouldn't Cost $25 a Month

Why We Built This

The founding idea is simple: DocuSign charges $25 to $50 a month for what is fundamentally a solved problem. Most people — freelancers, property managers, consultants, small business owners — just need to sign a PDF. They don't need workflow automation, Salesforce connectors, or enterprise audit dashboards.

So we stripped e-signatures back to what matters. SignBolt processes a signed PDF server-side using pdf-lib in under 3 seconds. The signed file is cryptographically tamper-evident. The audit trail captures timestamps, IP addresses, and signer details. It's everything you actually need — without the $25/month price tag.

The Operating Entity

SignBolt is operated by SeaQae Group, a software business based in Perth, Western Australia. We're a small, focused team. No VC money, no growth targets that force us to bloat the product, no incentive to charge you more than the service is worth.

Being based in Australia means we take privacy seriously. The Australian Privacy Act shapes how we think about user data by default — not as an afterthought. We don't sell your data. We don't run retargeting ads. We run a SaaS business: you pay for a plan, you get the service.

The Brand

Our logo is a blue centipede — fast, precise, and built for getting things done. The centipede moves with purpose. It doesn't stop to ask for your credit card, it doesn't make you sit through an onboarding wizard, and it doesn't lock your signed documents behind a paywall. It just signs documents and gets out of the way.

The blue is deliberate too — trust, reliability, and the kind of calm confidence that comes from knowing the tech underneath actually works.

How It's Built

SignBolt is built on Next.js (App Router) and deployed on Vercel. PDF processing runs server-side with pdf-lib. Client-side PDF preview uses pdfjs-dist. Payments are handled by Stripe (live, PCI-compliant). Email delivery uses Resend.

We believe in technical transparency. If you want to inspect how signatures are embedded, how audit trails are generated, or how our REST API works, the developer documentation is public. No walls.

Security Without the Marketing Fluff

Every signed document produced by SignBolt includes:

• HTTPS/TLS transport — encrypted transmission for documents sent to the signing endpoint.
• SHA-256 audit trail — every signing event is hashed and logged. The audit certificate is downloadable and independently verifiable.
• Tamper-evident PDFs — once signed, the PDF is sealed. Any modification to the document invalidates the signature record.
• IP and timestamp logging— every sign event records the signer's IP address, user agent, and UTC timestamp for evidentiary support.

SignBolt is designed to support common electronic-signature workflows under the ESIGN Act (US), UETA (US states), eIDAS (EU), and the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Australia). Validity depends on the document, signer authority, consent, and any witnessing or filing rules.