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Electronic signatures, without the myths

Guides for people who have to get documents signed. We start with the question that comes up first: does that scan in your inbox count as a signature?

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FeaturedLegal & trust

What Guinean law actually says about electronic signature

Two articles of the Code civil carry the whole rule, and one of them ends with six words most summaries drop. What articles 1002 and 1003 say, what a rebuttable presumption really shifts, and why it matters that the presumption slept for years.

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

7 min read

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Legal & trust

The security audit obligation, and the November 2027 deadline

Décret D/2026/0159/PRG/SGG requires a security audit every three years from anyone running electronic transactions in Guinea, including providers established abroad. Existing operators have eighteen months. Here is the scope, the cadence, the money, and what ARPT has not published yet.

  • legal
  • compliance

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Legal & trust

What the August 2026 decree changes, and what is still unclear

A decree implementing article 1003 of the Code civil was read on national television on 19 August 2026. It has no published number and no official text. Here is what press accounts say it contains, what that would mean, and why none of it is quotable yet.

  • legal
  • decree

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Basics

A scanned signature is not an electronic signature

Print, sign, scan, email. It is how most contracts still move, and it produces a document that proves almost nothing. Here is exactly what is missing, and what replaces it.

  • basics
  • evidence

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Legal & trust

What to ask an e-signature provider before you sign up

A buyer's checklist for a market the big vendors did not design for. Fifteen questions, grouped by what they protect you from, including the ones nobody puts on a comparison table.

  • legal
  • buying

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Legal & trust

Can someone refuse a document you signed electronically?

Two questions that get mixed up: whether you can be made to sign electronically, and whether the other side can reject a document you already signed that way. The answers are different.

  • legal
  • objections

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Legal & trust

The company stamp, and what replaces it online

In much of West Africa a document without a cachet is not taken seriously. Here is what the stamp really does, what it never did, and what carries that weight when the document is electronic.

  • legal
  • stamp

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Guides

Moving your organisation off paper: a thirty-day plan

Not a transformation programme. Four weeks, one document type at a time, with the measurements to take before you start so you can tell afterwards whether it worked.

  • guide
  • adoption

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Basics

Nine things people get wrong about electronic signature

The objections that come up in every first meeting, and what is actually true. Some of the myths are wrong, some are half right, and one of them is right more often than vendors admit.

  • basics
  • myths

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Basics

How much proof does your document need?

Not every document deserves the same level of identity checking. A practical ladder, from a link in an inbox to a verified identity document, and how to decide where each of your documents sits.

  • basics
  • identity

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Guides

Signing on a phone, on a connection that comes and goes

Most signers here are on a handset, on mobile data, somewhere with two bars. What that means for the signer, for the person sending the document, and for how you should test any tool before buying it.

  • guide
  • mobile

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Guides

Send your first document for signature, step by step

A practical walkthrough for the person doing this for the first time: preparing the file, placing fields, choosing how signers prove who they are, and what to do when someone does not sign.

  • guide
  • getting-started

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

Basics

How an electronic signature actually works

Not a picture of your name pasted onto a PDF. Here is what happens between the moment you open a link and the moment a signed document exists.

  • basics
  • how-it-works

Lamine Diallo

Founder, CEO & CTO

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