Document work, simplified

One vault for
every document.

Build agreements, collect signatures, edit PDFs and analyse contracts in one focused workspace.

Free to start · No credit card required

For professionals

Built for the way you work

The same focused workspace adapts to how you run your work, solo, in a team, or at scale.

eIDAS · ESIGN · UETA aligned

Freelancers

Juggle several clients at once. Draft and sign a different agreement for each project, with terms of business for each. No template required.

Creative teams

Shoots, releases and licences all have their own terms. Build a bespoke contract per brief, with terms of business to match.

Agencies

Run retainers, SOWs and terms of business in parallel. Scope each project, analyse incoming contracts, and add your logo, colours and sender name.

Small businesses

Handle employment terms, NDAs, service and supplier agreements. Manage expenses, analyse incoming contracts, and personalise agreements with your branding.

A look inside

Your entire workspace, at a glance

Draft, send, sign and track, all from one calm interface.

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Dashboard

Good morning, Alex

6

Awaiting signature

47

Signed this month

3

Drafts in progress

18

Templates

Create agreement
Analyse contract
Edit a PDF
Receipts

Needs your attention

View all

Mutual NDA · Globex Ltd.

Awaiting Jane · 2h ago

Sent

Service agreement · Northwind

Viewed · 5h ago

Partially signed

Photography licence · Kite Studio

Signed · yesterday

Signed
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Built to hold up in court

Every signature, defensible by default

More evidence per signature than the legacy tools. No 47-step onboarding.

Tamper-evident audit trail

Every view, sign and event is hashed and chained. One altered record breaks the chain instantly.

Signer identity captured

Email, IP, device, timestamp and intent confirmation for every signer. Optional ID check on Business.

Certificate of completion

A tamper-sealed PDF with every signed agreement: all signers, timestamps, IPs and the document hash.

eIDAS · ESIGN · UETA aligned

Legally binding across the UK, EU and US. Disclosures shown to signers automatically.

Consent-first signing

Signers accept electronic signature disclosures before signing, recorded in the audit trail.

Governing law, set right

Drafts default to your jurisdiction. The right governing law and consumer-protection clauses, every time.

New

Don't sign blind. Analyse first.

Paste any contract or upload a PDF/DOCX. Our AI flags red flags, hidden risks and missing protections, then tells you in plain English whether it's safe to sign.

Freelance_Agreement.pdf

Analysed in 8.2s · 14 pages

Caution
Red flags

3

Good points

7

Negotiate

5

Unlimited liability clause (§7.2)

You'd be liable for indirect & consequential damages with no cap. Push for a cap at fees paid.

IP assignment is overbroad (§4.1)

Assigns all pre-existing tools you use. Carve out your background IP.

Clear payment terms (§3)

Net-14 with 1.5% monthly late fee. Strong for you.

Plain-English verdict: Safe to sign once §7.2 and §4.1 are renegotiated.

Red flags surfaced

Unlimited liability, auto-renewals, exclusivity traps, vague termination, broad IP grabs, hidden fees. Each one explained with the exact clause.

What's actually good for you

We don't just scare you. We highlight protections, fair terms and clauses that work in your favour, so you know what to keep.

Negotiation suggestions

Numbered, copy-paste ready edits and counter-offers, written in plain English. Walk into the negotiation prepared.

A safety verdict you can act on

One clear recommendation: safe, caution, or do not sign. Concise summary by default, full breakdown one click away.

Paid plans · Informational only, not legal advice

PDF Editor

Edit PDFs, layout intact.

Upload a PDF and overlay text, white-outs, and signatures on top. The original fonts, formatting and layout stay completely intact. Perfect for quick fixes before sending for signature.

  • Add or cover text without altering the original content
  • Draw white-out boxes to hide sensitive information
  • Place handwritten or typed signatures anywhere
  • Download the edited PDF or send straight to signing
Free to use
Contract_v2.pdf· 3 pages
Select Text White-out Sign
Jane Doe, Director

Signature

Signed
Annotations applied on top. Original PDF preserved
Download Save & sign

Receipts & expenses

Expenses, sorted.

Snap your receipts, drop them into a claim, and send the whole thing to your manager, accountant or finance lead in one tap. They approve or reject from a secure link. No account, no spreadsheet, no chasing.

  • Upload multiple receipts (JPG, PNG, HEIC, PDF) into a single claim
  • Add merchant, date, amount and description per receipt
  • Send to any approver by email. They approve in one click
  • Full status tracking: draft → pending → approved or rejected
Included in any paid plan

Expense claim

Client trip, London

Pending
  • ✈

    British Airways

    Flight LHR–EDI

    £142.30

  • 🏨

    Premier Inn

    1 night, Mar 14

    £96.00

  • 🥗

    Pret A Manger

    Client lunch

    £18.45

  • 🚖

    Uber

    Airport → office

    £24.10

Total£280.85
Sent to finance@acme.co for approval

Trust & compliance

Compliant e-signatures from £0/mo

Most tools treat compliance as an enterprise upsell. We treat it as the product.

Regulations we align with

  • UK eIDAS Regulation
  • EU eIDAS (910/2014)
  • US ESIGN Act (15 U.S.C. §7001)
  • Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)
  • GDPR & UK GDPR

Evidence captured per signature

  • Cryptographic document hash (SHA-256)
  • Signer email, IP, user-agent, geolocation
  • Explicit electronic-signature consent
  • Timestamp from a trusted clock source
  • Hash-chained event log

Security & infrastructure

  • TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest
  • Per-org row-level isolation
  • SOC 2-aligned cloud infrastructure
  • Daily encrypted backups
  • MFA & SSO available on Business

Privacy & data rights

  • EU/UK data residency by default
  • Right-to-erasure honoured (GDPR Art. 17)
  • Data Processing Agreement on request
  • No selling, no sharing, no AI training on your data
  • Sub-processors disclosed publicly

SigningVault e-signatures qualify as Simple Electronic Signatures (SES) under eIDAS, the same legal class accepted by HMRC, Companies House, and the vast majority of commercial contracts. Advanced (AES) and Qualified (QES) signatures are on the Business roadmap for regulated industries.

How it works

Four steps. No legal degree required.

01

Describe it

Type what you need: 'NDA for a freelance designer doing a 3-month project'.

02

Review & tweak

We return a structured draft. Edit any clause, add your own, regenerate sections.

03

Send to sign

Add recipients. They get a private link by email and SMS to review and sign.

04

Track & store

Real-time status, automatic audit trail, completed agreements stored securely.

The signing experience

From "send" to "signed" in under a minute

Recipients get a private link by email and SMS. They tap, review, sign on any device. No account, no app, no friction.

01 Email arrives
SS

SigningVault

noreply@signingvault.app

now

Sarah sent you "Freelance Design Agreement" to sign

3-month engagement, scope and payment terms inside. Takes about 90 seconds.

Review & sign

Secure link, expires in 30 days

02 SMS backup

Messages · SigningVault

Hi Alex, your agreement from Sarah is ready to sign:sgnsm.rt/r/9k2-pd
Verification code: 482 619

Two-channel delivery. Never miss a contract

03 Tap to sign

Freelance Design Agreement

Page 4 of 4 · Signature required

Drawn signature · Alex Morgan

eIDAS & ESIGN compliant · audit trail attached

No account needed to sign Works on any device You get notified instantly Tamper-proof PDF on completion

Who it's for

Made for freelancers, creatives & small teams

Freelancers & contractors

  • Client service contracts
  • Statements of work
  • IP assignment on payment
  • Late payment interest

Photographers & videographers

  • Shoot agreements
  • Usage & licensing terms
  • Model releases
  • Deposits & cancellations

Consultants & studios

  • Consultancy agreements
  • Retainer agreements
  • Web design contracts
  • Liability caps

Agencies

  • Marketing agency MSAs
  • Social media retainers
  • Influencer agreements
  • UK GDPR processing terms

Property & lettings

  • Tenancy agreements (AST)
  • Property management
  • Room & HMO lets
  • Deposit protection wording

Trades & suppliers

  • Subcontractor agreements
  • Cleaning contracts
  • Event supplier terms
  • Equipment hire

Real stories

Don't just take ourword for it.

Unfiltered notes from freelancers, agencies and small businesses who stopped chasing and started signing.

"I'd been chasing a brewery client for £4,200 for nearly five months. Three rounds of "the accounts person is on holiday". I finally sent them a SigningVault contract for the *next* phase with a proper late-payment clause baked in, and quietly mentioned the audit trail on the previous job was already timestamped. They paid the old invoice within 48 hours. I genuinely cried at my desk.
HM
Hannah M.
Brand designer · Bristol, UK
Freelance · Personal plan
"We're a 4-person dev shop and used to lose a full day every week wrangling DocuSign + lawyer back-and-forth on MSAs. The AI drafted our standard MSA in about 90 seconds, and I tweaked maybe two clauses. Closed a £28k retainer with a Berlin client on a Sunday evening from my phone. The client commented on how clean the signing page looked.
TR
Tomás R.
Co-founder, dev agency · Manchester → remote
Business plan · 4 seats
"Honestly I signed up at 11pm because a tenant was moving in the next morning and I'd lost the AST template my old letting agent used. Drafted a compliant tenancy with deposit prescribed info in under 10 minutes, signed on both sides before breakfast. The deposit scheme accepted the audit certificate without a single question.
PS
Priya S.
Accidental landlord · Leeds, UK
Personal plan
"I run a small catering company and a corporate client tried to claw back a £6k deposit two weeks before the event, citing a clause that wasn't even in the signed contract. I pulled up the audit trail, IP, timestamp, the lot, and forwarded it to their legal. Got a one-line apology and the event went ahead. Paid for SigningVault for the next decade in one afternoon.
MO
Marcus O.
Owner, events catering · Birmingham, UK
Professional plan
"I was quoted £450 by a high-street solicitor for a single contractor agreement that needed IR35 wording. Drafted it here, sent it to my accountant to sanity-check, she changed two words. The contractor signed from a building site in Aberdeen on his phone. Felt slightly criminal how easy it was.
EW
Eleanor W.
Operations lead, construction SME · Edinburgh, UK
Business plan
"What sold me was the analyse feature, not the drafting. A US client sent me a 14-page MSA with a sneaky perpetual IP assignment buried in section 9.3. SigningVault flagged it in red within seconds with a plain-English explanation. I pushed back, got it changed to a project-scoped licence. That single negotiation was worth maybe £15k in residual rights.
JL
Jordan L.
Freelance illustrator · London → New York clients
Professional plan
4.9 / 5 average rating 12,000+ contracts signed this month eIDAS · ESIGN · UETA compliant

Compliance for everyone

Draft for free. Sign on a paid plan.

Explore drafting at no cost. Upgrade when you're ready to send and collect legally binding signatures with a tamper-evident audit trail.

Personal

Free forever

£0/ month

Draft and explore. Upgrade to send for signature.

  • Unlimited drafting & editing
  • Jurisdiction-aware clauses
  • Save and version drafts privately
  • Watermarked PDF preview
  • Sending & e-signature available on paid plans
Most popular

Professional

For freelancers & landlords

£9.99/ month

Daily-use compliance for solo professionals.

  • Everything in Personal
  • Unlimited signed documents
  • Email + SMS delivery to signers
  • Certificate of completion (PDF)
  • Clean PDFs, no SigningVault footer
  • Saved templates library
  • Custom signature & jurisdiction defaults
  • Automatic 2-day & 5-day reminders
  • Priority email support

Business

Advanced compliance

£29/ month

+ £6.99 / extra seat · 2 seats included

For regulated teams and high-stakes deals.

  • Everything in Professional
  • Signer ID verification (photo ID + selfie)
  • Hash-chained audit trail (export-ready)
  • Custom branding (logo, colours, sender name)
  • Role-based access & team workspaces
  • Shared template library
  • SSO & MFA enforcement
  • Data Processing Agreement (DPA) on request
  • EU/UK data residency
  • Priority chat support & onboarding

Need regulated-industry features (Qualified Electronic Signatures, custom retention, on-prem)? Talk to us about Enterprise.

FAQ

Common questions

Are SigningVault e-signatures legally binding?

Yes. Signatures qualify as Simple Electronic Signatures (SES) under UK & EU eIDAS, the US ESIGN Act, and UETA, the same legal class accepted by HMRC, Companies House, and most commercial counterparties. Each signature is captured with timestamp, IP, device, explicit consent and a hash of the document, all recorded in a tamper-evident audit trail.

How is SigningVault different from DocuSign?

Three things: (1) we draft the agreement for you, DocuSign starts from a blank template. (2) Compliance is included on every plan, not gated behind enterprise tiers. (3) The signing experience for recipients takes seconds, with no account or app required.

What's included on the free Personal plan?

Unlimited drafting and editing of agreements, jurisdiction-aware clauses, and private versioned drafts you can export as a watermarked preview. Sending for signature and legally binding e-signatures are available on Professional and Business plans.

Where is my data stored, and what about GDPR?

EU and UK data stays in-region by default. We honour GDPR right-to-erasure (Art. 17), never sell or share your data, and never train AI models on your documents. A DPA is available to Business customers on request.

Can recipients sign without an account?

Yes, recipients receive a private signing link by email (and SMS on Professional+). They click, review, accept the e-signature disclosure, and sign in-browser. No account, no app.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Cancel from Settings, you keep your plan benefits until the end of the billing period, then drop back to Personal. Documents you've already signed remain yours forever and stay accessible.

Compliance you can prove, in minutes.

Draft, send, and collect legally binding signatures with a tamper-evident audit trail, on any plan.

No credit card required