eSign and OBT partner to turn signed documents into AI-powered business insight

As organisations move beyond experimenting with AI and focus on delivering measurable business value, eSign has announced a partnership with AI solutions provider OBT to help customers unlock the insight held within their agreements, contracts and signed documents.

Digital signatures have made it quicker to get documents agreed, but what happens afterwards is often still manual. Key terms, dates, obligations and approvals sit inside completed documents that are filed away, rarely reviewed and only revisited when something goes wrong.

By combining eSign's expertise in secure digital signature and document workflows with OBT's rapid AI development capabilities, the partnership will help organisations turn that information into real-time insight, without replacing the systems and processes they already rely on.

How it works

Together, the companies identify the document-heavy processes that consume the most time and resource, then design and deploy bespoke AI solutions that automate repetitive tasks, surface insight as documents are signed and deliver measurable improvements in weeks rather than months or years.

Early use cases include:

• Legal / Professional services: automatically extracting key terms, renewal dates and obligations from signed contracts, so teams can act before deadlines are missed
• HR / Public sector: checking completed forms and agreements for missing or inconsistent information as they are signed, reducing rework and chasing
• Finance / Property: analysing large volumes of signed documents in seconds rather than days, giving leaders a live view of commitments, risk and performance

What people are saying

Getting a document signed shouldn't be the end of the story. Our customers want to know what's in their agreements and what needs to happen next, and OBT helps us deliver that next step without changing the tools and processes they already use.

Luke Garrett, Chief Operating Officer, eSign

Organisations already hold the information they need to make better decisions; it's just sitting in signed documents that nobody has time to read. With our eSign partnership, we can help customers get to the useful bits faster using AI and give teams something they can act on.

Paul Shannon, CEO, OBT