DocuSign, Ironclad and HelloSign rent the envelope and the audit trail. Documenso's community edition is AGPL-3.0 and includes core signing on a host the client runs. That is a document workflow. It is not a ruling on whether a signature is enforceable in a given jurisdiction.
What do we refuse to say?
That a self-hosted signer is legally identical to DocuSign. Enforceability is a question for counsel in the place the contract is signed. We deploy the software. We do not practice law.
What does the client own if they host it?
The document, the event log, and the ability to keep signing if the vendor's cloud is not in the deal. Ironclad's contract repository and playbooks are a different product. Do not buy a signer and expect a legal ops suite.
When should e-sign stay rented?
When customers, banks, or courts already expect a named vendor's certificate and will not accept another. Own an archive of every executed PDF regardless. The envelope should not be the only copy.
What do we hand over?
We select the system, deploy it on infrastructure you control, connect it to the tools you keep, and write the runbook so your own team can operate it. Support after handover is optional. The rest of the map is in software you can stop renting; the engagement behind it is open-source business systems.
Name one process that still needs a person. We will tell you what a one-time build takes.
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