Arkova is a compliance audit automation platform in early access, built on top of a production-grade, cryptographically-anchored evidence layer. The audit-automation product — scorecard, gap detection, remediation, regulatory-change alerts, PDF export — is being built and refined with pilot customers.

How much faster is an audit with Arkova going to be vs. the manual process?

Typical compliance audits take weeks: compiling evidence across many tools, mapping it to controls, and producing a report. Arkova is designed to map evidence to the rules in your operating regimes automatically, rank gaps by severity and penalty risk, and produce an audit-ready export. Our pilot target is collapsing weeks of audit prep into hours.

Which regulations are on the roadmap?

US federal (FERPA, HIPAA, SOX, FCRA, GLBA, ADA, FLSA, GINA), EU/UK GDPR, Kenya DPA, Australia APP, Canada PIPEDA, Singapore PDPA, Japan APPI, India DPDP, South Africa POPIA, Nigeria NDPR, Colombia Law 1581, Thailand PDPA, and Malaysia PDPA. Prioritized by pilot-customer footprint.

What will the scorecard show?

A per-jurisdiction posture score and breakdown, a severity-ranked gap list, a prioritized remediation plan, a regulatory-change feed, and an audit-ready export. Designed for GRC leads, CISOs, internal audit, and outside counsel.

Is the evidence chain auditor-grade?

The evidence layer is cryptographic and independently verifiable: every anchor is a SHA-256 fingerprint committed to a public network, and lifecycle events are in an append-only audit log. Our own SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 work is in progress.

Is my data safe? Do you see our documents?

No. Documents never leave your device. Fingerprinting is client-side. Only PII-stripped metadata flows to our systems. Even if we were breached, your documents remain private because we never had them.

Join the waitlist on arkova.ai. We reach out to scope pilots — the best fits right now are compliance teams operating across multiple jurisdictions who are tired of the quarterly audit fire drill.

Compliance · ESIGN Act

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ESIGN-compliant signing with audit trails that outlast the platform.

ESIGN gives electronic signatures the same legal effect as wet ink for most US federal commerce. The hard part is not signing — it is producing the integrity-of-record evidence years later when the e-signature platform may not be the one you used at signing. Arkova anchors that integrity evidence to a public ledger.

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What it is

ESIGN Act in plain English.

The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000 (ESIGN, 15 U.S.C. §7001 et seq.) is the federal law that gives e-signatures the same legal effect as handwritten signatures for transactions affecting interstate or foreign commerce. It is paired with state-level UETA, which has been adopted by 49 states (New York handles e-signatures via separate state law).

ESIGN does not specify a particular signing technology. It requires four conditions for an electronic record to satisfy a legal "writing" requirement: intent to sign, consent to do business electronically, association of the signature with the record, and record retention sufficient for later reference. The fourth condition is where most evidence disputes arise.

Certain transactions are explicitly excluded from ESIGN: wills, codicils, testamentary trusts, family law matters (divorce, adoption), court orders, certain notices (utility cancellation, foreclosure, eviction). These still require traditional execution.

Key requirements

What ESIGN Act actually asks of you.

Intent to sign

The signer must intend the act to constitute a signature. UI design matters — an unintentional click should not constitute a binding signature.

Consent to electronic records

For consumer transactions, the signer must affirmatively consent to receive the record electronically and acknowledge they're able to access it. The consent itself must also be retained.

Association of signature with record

The signature must be logically associated with the record being signed. Tampering with the record after signing must be detectable.

Record retention

Electronic records must be capable of being accurately reproduced for later reference. Retention timelines depend on the underlying transaction type — federal regs may impose specific minimums.

Audit trail

Not strictly required by ESIGN but expected in practice — courts evaluating contested e-signatures look for a clear trail showing who signed, when, with what intent, and that the record is unchanged since.

How Arkova fits

Where Arkova adds an independent layer.

Most ESIGN evidence disputes turn on the integrity-of-record requirement years after signing. The original e-signature platform may have been acquired, sunset a feature, changed export formats, or no longer offers access at a price you want to pay. Arkova anchors a SHA-256 fingerprint of the signed record to a public ledger at the moment of signing. Anyone with the original record can recompute the hash and verify it against the ledger entry — no dependency on the signing platform still existing.

Combined with the platform's own audit trail (intent, consent, association), the public-ledger anchor provides the integrity-of-record proof courts look for when an electronic signature is challenged. The proof is independent of every vendor in the chain.

Layer cryptographic evidence on top of your ESIGN Act program.

If you execute a meaningful volume of contracts under ESIGN and want integrity evidence that survives your e-signature vendor changing, we'd like to discuss an early-access pilot.

Arkova is in private beta. Features described on this page are being built and refined with pilot customers right now. Some controls and integrations are live today; others are in active development. Talk to us about the parts most relevant to your workload.

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