Enterprise E-Signature

Simply Sign

Enterprise e-signature without surrendering document custody. Prepare source PDFs, route recipients, collect signatures, and keep evidence trails inside your own governed platform boundary.

Simply Sign gives legal, compliance, privacy, investigations, and business teams a complete signing workflow inside Simply Discover. It supports both standalone signing and case-linked approvals, so documents, recipients, final artifacts, and audit history stay under customer control instead of being pushed into a third-party SaaS silo.

Sign as a standalone workflow or as part of a matter

Some signatures are ordinary business transactions. Others belong inside a live case, investigation, review, remediation, or approval flow. Simply Sign supports both models, so the signing process can match the evidentiary seriousness of the work behind it.

Standalone

Day-to-day agreements and approvals

Teams can create standalone envelopes for routine business signing without losing governance, auditability, or control over document location.

  • General-purpose signing workspace for agreements, approvals, and acknowledgements
  • Shared templates and team-owned workflows for repeat use
  • Recipient management, reminders, resend history, expiry, and void controls
Case-aligned

Signing that stays attached to the matter

Launch signing directly from a case and keep the document, recipients, activity, final artifacts, and audit trail attached to the matter itself.

  • Search protocol approvals and production release sign-off inside the same platform boundary
  • Policy attestations, exception approvals, and investigation closure kept with the rest of the record
  • Signed artifacts become governed matter outputs, not detached files in another system

Prepare documents quickly, without losing control

Simply Sign is built around the source PDF. Users can upload a document, preview it immediately, place fields visually, manage them from a focused field navigator, and reuse repeatable layouts with templates and anchor rules rather than rebuilding each send from scratch.

Visual field placement

Place signature, initials, date, text, checkbox, and name fields directly on the PDF or select them visually from the document.

  • Field mapping remains tied to the source document
  • Focused navigator for managing complex field layouts

Anchor text detection

Auto-position fields using anchor text for common signature lines and repeated document layouts.

  • Useful for standard forms and repeating approval packs
  • Reduces manual placement for high-volume workflows

Reusable templates

Templates preserve recipients, routing, field layouts, anchor rules, messages, expiry settings, and source document blueprints.

  • Shared workflows can be centrally administered
  • Common approval patterns stop living in individual inboxes

PDF replacement without rebuilding

Replace documents while retaining intelligent field placement so last-minute revisions do not force teams back to square one.

  • Draft iteration stays fast and operationally practical
  • Supports repeat sends from evolving document versions

A sender workspace built for real operations

The sender experience is designed for repeatable operational use, not one-off sends. Teams can build, validate, duplicate, route, track, and manage signing at scale from a single workspace.

Draft and validate

Create drafts, check readiness before send, and create new drafts from shared templates.

  • Duplicate existing envelopes to speed up repeat processes
  • Use team-owned templates instead of rebuilding every workflow

Manage routing and recipients

Control signer order, role-based routing, and sequential or routed approval paths from one place.

  • Supports multi-document envelopes and repeatable signer sequences
  • Built for legal sign-off packs and governed approvals

Run the lifecycle

Resend notifications, issue reminders, expire or void envelopes, and track delivery and recipient events as they happen.

  • Every lifecycle change is recorded in the audit trail
  • Operational teams get one place to monitor progress and exceptions

Administer at team level

Shared templates and centrally managed workflows keep common approval packs and paperwork under consistent control.

  • Supports internal governance rather than ad hoc user-managed sends
  • Case-linked visibility keeps work visible from the matter itself

A better signer experience

Recipients get a secure public signing link and complete the process in a focused signing portal without needing a platform login. The experience is guided, mobile-friendly, and constrained to exactly the actions assigned to them.

Secure external signing

Authentication supports passkeys and one-time passcodes, giving external signers strong access control without onboarding friction.

Guided completion flow

Signers review the source document, complete only their assigned fields, adopt their signature with clear consent, and move through the signing sequence step by step.

Controlled routing

Sequential signing is enforced when required, and decline paths remain available where a signer should be able to refuse execution.

Evidence-bearing interactions

Every signer interaction becomes part of the evidence record, including authentication, completion, and lifecycle milestones.

Evidence you can actually defend

Signing is not just about getting a name on a page. It is about proving what happened. Simply Sign creates the artifacts and event history needed for regulated workflows, legal approvals, compliance attestations, and defensible recordkeeping.

Final signed PDF

Generate the completed signed output without exporting the process into another platform.

Structured evidence package

Retain supporting event data alongside the final document rather than relying on a simple visual completion state.

Certificate-style summary

Produce a concise signing summary suitable for review, reporting, and defensible handover.

Unified audit trail

  • Document provenance and timestamps
  • Recipient actions and authentication events
  • Send, delivery, completion, and lifecycle history
  • Case-visible artifacts attached to the governed record

Built for legal, eDiscovery, privacy, and compliance

Simply Sign is especially powerful inside a platform already used for matters, cases, review, DSAR, and compliance work. Instead of approving work in one system and storing the signed outcome somewhere else, teams can keep the approval process inside the same evidentiary boundary as the underlying documents and case activity.

Particularly valuable for

  • eDiscovery scope approvals and search protocol sign-off
  • Production release approvals and review completion sign-off
  • Policy attestations and exception approvals
  • Remediation closure and investigation approvals
  • External acknowledgements tied to regulated workflows
  • Customer, partner, and internal agreements that need stronger control over data location

Why that matters

Signed protocols, acknowledgements, approvals, certifications, and exception records become first-class governed artifacts, visible from the matter itself and available alongside the rest of the record.

  • Fewer fragmented workflows across multiple tools
  • Cleaner evidence chains for reviewers, counsel, and auditors
  • Stronger continuity between the document, the approval, and the matter context

Why Simply Sign

The core differentiator is not just e-signature. It is control. Simply Sign is designed for organisations that do not want signing workflows, sensitive agreements, or evidentiary records leaving their own environment. It is operationally complete enough to run at scale while extending the platform’s existing strengths in auditability, evidentiary rigour, and customer control.

Sovereignty from the ground up

Documents stay inside the customer-controlled platform boundary, with storage, access, audit, and lifecycle governed by the same controls already trusted for the wider estate.

Operationally complete, not just visually complete

Reusable templates, envelope duplication, multi-document envelopes, role-based recipient routing, reminders, resend history, expiry and void controls, case-linked visibility, artifact downloads, and centralized management are built in.

Governed enterprise execution

Bringing signing into the same system that already handles the documents, case context, audit trail, and governance model closes evidentiary gaps and reduces dependence on external signing providers.

Simply Sign FAQs

Straight answers to the questions legal, compliance, privacy, and operations teams ask before they approve enterprise signing.

Is Simply Sign a SaaS e-signature service?

No. Simply Sign is designed for customer-hosted deployment so documents, audit data, and lifecycle controls remain inside the customer’s governed platform boundary.

Can we use Simply Sign for standalone workflows and case-linked approvals?

Yes. Teams can create standalone envelopes for day-to-day signing or launch signing directly from a case so the document, recipients, activity, artifacts, and audit trail stay attached to the matter.

Can fields be placed directly on the source PDF?

Yes. Users can upload a PDF, preview it immediately, and place signature, initials, date, text, checkbox, and name fields visually on the source document.

How do templates help repeat workflows?

Templates can preserve recipients, routing, field layouts, anchor rules, message copy, expiry settings, and source document blueprints so common workflows can be reused instead of rebuilt.

Do external signers need a platform login?

No. Recipients receive a secure public signing link and can authenticate with passkeys or one-time passcodes without needing a platform account.

What signer actions are captured?

Authentication events, recipient actions, send and delivery history, completion steps, and lifecycle changes are all recorded as part of the evidence trail.

What evidence does Simply Sign generate?

Simply Sign generates a final signed PDF, a structured evidence package, a certificate-style summary, and a unified audit trail covering provenance, timestamps, recipient actions, authentication, and completion history.

Why is Simply Sign materially different from mainstream cloud signing tools?

The key difference is control. Sensitive documents, agreements, approvals, and evidence records stay within the customer’s environment rather than being moved into a third-party SaaS signing silo.

Need governed signing without losing custody?

Book a demo to see how Simply Sign handles source-PDF preparation, external signing, case-linked approvals, and defensible evidence inside your own platform boundary.