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Legalesign

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by Legalesign Ltd · legalesign.com

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The Legal Counsel v1.0 · The HR Operations Lead v1.0 · The Revenue Operations Lead v1.0 · The Integration Engineer v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v2 · evaluated 3 Nov 2026

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Legalesign at a glance

Vendor: Legalesign Ltd
Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Panel verdict: The AI panel rates Legalesign 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Legalesign is an e-signature platform from Legalesign Limited, registered in Scotland, United Kingdom. how scores are made
As of: Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Legal Counsel

Weighted verdict

Decides which contracts may be signed electronically and at which level. Wants SES, AdES and QES named per plan and country, the qualified trust service provider linked to the EU Trust List, and an audit trail with timestamps that still validates when the contract is disputed in eight years.

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Panel median The Legal Counsel This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.

Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion	Panel median	The Legal Counsel
eIDAS levels & trust services	2.5 of 5	2.5 of 5
Signer identification	1 of 5	1 of 5
Signing workflow & signer experience	3.5 of 5	3.5 of 5
Evidence, validation & retention	3.5 of 5	3.5 of 5
Integrations & API	4 of 5	3.5 of 5
European sovereignty	1 of 5	1 of 5

eIDAS levels & trust services

How this is scored

Which signature levels the platform offers — simple, advanced, qualified, and qualified seals — through which qualified trust service provider on the EU Trust List, for which countries and legal regimes (eIDAS, ZertES), and on which plans.

0 — Not an electronic signature service: a PDF annotation or form tool that places a drawn or typed signature image without any eIDAS signature behind it.

3 — Electronic signatures at the simple level (SES) described as compliant with eIDAS; advanced and qualified levels and the trust service provider are basic or not described.

5 — Simple and advanced or qualified signatures (SES with AdES or QES) offered and named as eIDAS levels, with the plans or add-ons that include them and which documents need which level explained for Germany or the EU.

8 — SES, AdES and QES all documented with the plans and countries they are available in, the qualified trust service provider named with its entry on the EU Trust List linked, QES under eIDAS (and ZertES where relevant) stated, qualified electronic seals for company documents, and the signature level shown in the signed document and audit trail.

10 — Levels are an explicit product decision: the provider is or contracts a named QTSP with its conformity assessment published, level selection per document type or template, remote QES without a separate account, EUDI wallet support stated with a date, and the legal effect per level documented for the main EU markets.

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The Legal Counsel

Qualified electronic signatures via Digidentity and advanced signatures under eIDAS are both named and documented, including how one document may mix levels before and after a qualified signature. But we found no public information on which plans include qualified signing, in which countries it is available, the provider's EU Trust List entry, or qualified seals and ZertES. 4 5 11

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Signer identification

How this is scored

How the signer is identified for each level: email and SMS codes, video ident, eID card (Online-Ausweis), bank ident or EUDI wallet — who performs it, in which countries it works, and what happens to the ID data afterwards.

0 — No signer authentication offered: by the vendor's own description anyone holding the link can sign.

3 — Signers authenticated by an email link with an access code or SMS code; identification for advanced and qualified signatures is basic or not described.

5 — Email, SMS or access-code authentication, plus identification methods for AdES or QES listed by name (for example video ident, eID card, bank ident), with the countries or ID documents they accept stated.

8 — Methods documented per level and country with the identification provider named, automated and agent-based ident distinguished, reuse of an identification for later signatures explained, retention and deletion of ID data stated, and the ident provider listed as subprocessor.

10 — Identification is transparent end to end: every method with its countries, assurance level and completion guidance, EUDI wallet and national eID supported, ID data minimisation and retention committed, and the signer-facing privacy notice published.

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The Legal Counsel

Qualified signing presumes the signer already holds a valid Digidentity credential, so identification happens upstream of the platform and we found no public information describing it — no access codes, SMS, video, eID-card or bank identification methods, no countries or accepted ID documents, and nothing on what happens to ID data afterwards. The open Link module points the other way: anyone can sign, with email confirmation optional. 4 5 13

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Signing workflow & signer experience

How this is scored

Getting a document out and back signed: templates and form fields, signing order and roles, bulk sending, reminders and delegation, signing without an account or app, mobile signing, and accessibility for signers.

0 — Not a signing workflow: the product signs a document locally for the user and sends nothing out to other signers.

3 — Documents sent to one or more signers by email with fields placed on the PDF; templates, signing order and reminders are basic or not described.

5 — Templates with field placement, several signers with a signing order, automatic reminders, signing in the browser on mobile without an account, and a status overview for the sender.

8 — Roles and conditional fields, parallel and sequential order, bulk sending, delegation and substitute signers, team and approval workflows, a branded signer experience, signer languages listed, and signer accessibility addressed.

10 — The workflow is complete and documented: web forms and self-service signing links, mixed signature levels within one process, in-person and remote signing, a published accessibility conformance statement, and team administration with shared templates and audit of sender actions.

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The Legal Counsel

The workflow evidence is deep: templates with per-participant fields, sequential and simultaneous routing, Signer, Approver and Witness roles, bulk sending personalised from a CSV, reassignment and rejection, automatic reminders, and account-free signing through self-service links and a signer Inbox. What holds it below the top band is that we found no public information on a branded signer experience, the languages offered to signers, or accessibility conformance. 1 8 9 11 12 13

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Evidence, validation & retention

How this is scored

What proves a signature years later: the audit trail and certificate of completion, qualified timestamps, long-term validation (PAdES-LTV), validation reports, and how long signed documents and evidence are kept — and whether they can leave the platform.

0 — No evidence produced: by the vendor's own description the result is a flattened PDF with a signature image and no audit trail or certificate.

3 — An audit trail or completion certificate with the signed PDF; its contents, timestamps and the retention period are basic or not described.

5 — An audit trail or certificate of completion recording signer events, time and authentication method, attached to or embedded in the signed PDF, timestamps applied, and signed documents downloadable.

8 — PAdES signatures with long-term validation, qualified timestamps from a named provider, a validation tool or report, retention period stated and configurable with automatic deletion, and bulk export of documents with their evidence.

10 — Evidence outlives the subscription: LTV and archive timestamps documented, validation verifiable with independent tools such as the EU DSS validator, export to a DMS or archive with evidence intact, and post-termination access and deletion committed in the terms.

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The Legal Counsel

This is what I look for before a dispute: long-term validation with the timestamp from an external trusted source, an audit log of every action appended within the signed PDF, Adobe Reader displaying the Certified mark, and retention set per document type for up to 99 years with logged permanent deletion of files and field data. The timestamping is attributed only to an unnamed external trusted source, and we found no public information on a dedicated validation report or post-termination access commitments in the terms. 5 10 11 13

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

Signing from inside the systems where contracts are made: a documented API with webhooks and a sandbox, embedded signing, and connectors for Microsoft 365, CRM, HR, DMS and ERP systems.

0 — A closed web app by the vendor's own description: no API and no integrations offered.

3 — A few named integrations or a Zapier or Make connector; a documented API is basic or not described.

5 — A documented REST API with webhooks, plus named integrations with Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and at least one CRM, HR or storage system.

8 — A sandbox, embedded signing in the customer's own application, API access to every signature level, versioned API with rate limits published, SDKs, and connectors for named DMS, ERP or HR systems with their scope.

10 — Integration is a product: white-label and embedded flows documented, API parity with the web app, a status page with incident history, deprecation policy, and a marketplace of integrations with stated maintainers.

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The Legal Counsel

An API-first offering: REST and GraphQL behind an OpenAPI specification, SDKs for five languages under open licences, sandboxed keys with a published throttle, webhooks with signature and HMAC verification plus a WebSocket feed, embedded signing components, and connectors including Salesforce, Zapier and a Microsoft Power Automate-to-SharePoint flow. We found no public information on API access to qualified signing, production rate limits, or the scope of each connector. 1 3 6 7 12 13

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity, the trust service provider and their owners are, where documents, audit trails and ID data are stored and processed, and who the subprocessors are. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline.

0 — Proven non-EU on every dimension the evidence covers: non-EU contracting entity and non-EU storage of documents and signer data, with no EU option stated.

3 — One European element proven: an EU contracting entity or EU representative, EU data storage stated, an EU qualified trust service provider, or a published DPA, with the rest of the chain unstated.

5 — EU contracting entity or EU representative and EU storage of documents stated as standard or selectable, with a DPA offered; the hosting, identification or trust service chain is unstated or partly non-EU.

8 — EU entity, documents, audit trails and ID data stored in named EU data centres, an EU qualified trust service provider, subprocessor list with locations published, and certifications (ISO 27001, ETSI conformity) published.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, EU entity and EU QTSP, every processing location and subprocessor European, customer-selectable data residency, and certifications with their scope published.

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The Legal Counsel

The contracting party is fully identifiable — Legalesign Limited, company number SC425013, registered office in Glasgow, Cambridge operating address — and the platform markets itself as UK-based with ISO 27001, but the United Kingdom is not an EU jurisdiction and none of the EU elements I test is proven. We found no public information on where documents, audit trails and signer data are stored or processed, on a data processing agreement, or on subprocessors and their locations. 1 2 11

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the cost of their signing volume from public pages alone — plan prices, envelope or document limits, the per-signature price of AdES and QES, identification fees, API pricing and overage.

0 — No public prices at all; every plan is a sales conversation.

3 — A public "from" price or one priced plan, per user or flat.

5 — Plan prices public for the main plans with the billing period stated and the envelope or document limits and main features per plan listed.

8 — Every plan and limit priced publicly, AdES and QES priced per signature, identification fees and overage stated, API pricing published, and contract term and notice period given.

10 — Complete cost computability: the cost of a given monthly volume per signature level derivable from public pages, volume tiers published, and every add-on and price-change term on a public page.

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The Legal Counsel

The captured pages state a 14-day free trial with all features and no credit card, and the site navigation links a Pricing page, but no plan price, envelope or document limit, per-signature cost for advanced or qualified signing, identification fee, API price or contract term appears with a figure on the pages we read. A buyer cannot begin to compute the cost of their signing volume from this material. 1 2 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Legal entity	Not determined ⚠ unverified	—	uncited Report an error
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Open source	Not determined	—	uncited Report an error
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Questions about Legalesign

Is Legalesign European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Legalesign is based.

Where does Legalesign store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does Legalesign have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Legalesign?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates sproof sign (3.5/5), MOXIS (3.5/5) and Signicat Sign (3/5) highest among the other 22 E-Signature products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is sproof sign (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Legalesign alternatives.

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 3 Nov 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Legal entity. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
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What we left out

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14 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
4 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
2 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us

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Sources (13)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

1 Vendor page legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
2 Terms of service — found from the homepage legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
3 Code repository (open-source licence) — found from the homepage github.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
4 EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
5 EIDAS levels & trust services — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
6 Signer identification — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
7 Signer identification — found from sitemap legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
8 Signing workflow & signer experience — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
9 Signing workflow & signer experience — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
10 Evidence, validation & retention — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
11 Evidence, validation & retention — found from sitemap legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
12 Integrations & API — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
13 Integrations & API — found from sitemap docs.legalesign.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →