When John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, contracts were drafted by hand and signed by hand. Today, over 200 years later, lawyers draft contracts on computers and print them out to sign. They may use spell-check and cut and paste from templates, but the process is archaic given how far technology has come. The lawyer is creating a digital contract but still signing a paper version.

One of our goals is to change this. Creating and signing contracts is a necessary if painful task for any business and bringing them online makes it easier, faster and, most important, safer.

The contracts associated with incorporating one’s business are often the first contracts an entrepreneur will encounter. On Seravia, the contract generation and signing process is easy:

1. You provide us with information about your company
2. Seravia dynamically generates the required contracts
3. You digitally sign the contracts
4. Seravia files the contracts with the Secretary of State

That’s it. Simple for the user. Seravia takes care of all the details. Automated validations prevent human error, and the service is available 24/7. No expensive lawyer, no wasted paper, and fewer dead trees. Documents are stored securely on our servers so the user can never lose or misplace them. Digital signatures are also much more secure than hand written signatures.

Additionally, our contracts are dynamically generated from LaTeX, a document markup language based on the typesetting system TeX, created by famed computer scientist Don Knuth after he was fed up with the inadequacies of existing typesetting systems. So a side benefit is that our system generates beautifully typeset contracts if you ever, for some antiquated reason, want to print them out on paper.