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I don't get what the AI agent is for - the way I know of DocuSign is to use it to legally effectively sign documents such as contracts. Those would typically be prepared by (human) legal experts. I'm wondering what niche has documents that are critical enough that they need legally effective signing but uncritical enough that you can trust an unaccountable AI agent with drafting them?

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> the way I know of DocuSign is to use it to legally effectively sign documents such as contracts.

Now imagine that, but with AI. Now you can ask an LLM to expand on the main points in the contract. The person you’re sending it to can ask an LLM to summarize that expansion. You both can arrive at a different conclusions because after all, a break in communication is eventually going to happen between any 2 parties. Might as well super charge it.

That's it? You could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side of it in a couple hours I guess. Not much going on though.

It wouldn’t be a HN post without someone sizing the work as “a couple of hours” and a “$5/month cost” after all.

Though my post is missing an /s that I didn’t think it needed.

But... that's all you're doing though? Because one could fork OpenSign and stick a RAG agent on the side in a couple hours, right?

One could literally vibe code this feature into a PR for OpenSign in like 15 minutes.

Shh, don't let the VCs know.

The last thing I want is extremely private or sensitive documents being given to some cloud service for training data.

No thanks. Just authenticate the parties and record their agreement.

You can run most of LLMs just fine with on-premises resources, nothing exotic needed.

It's to attract VC investment

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