Built for Indian legal practice.

Why a separate page for India

Most generic e-signature and document-sharing tools were built for US and EU workflows. They were retrofitted for India later. The retrofit shows: eStamp prompts are missing, DSC support is bolted on, DPDPA notices are awkward translations of GDPR copy, and counsel review of high-risk documents is treated as an afterthought.

We are building Arkin Vault for India workflows from the start — not as the default market, but as a first-class one. If you practice Indian law, this is what you can expect.

Signature methods we support

• India eSign providers — Leegality, Digio, eMudhra, NSDL eSign. The completion event from any of these can satisfy the release condition.
• DSC (Digital Signature Certificate) — for agreements where DSC is required (regulatory filings, board resolutions, certain commercial contracts), we support DSC-signed PDFs as the executed agreement.
• Aadhaar eSign OTP — standard CCA-recognized e-signature flow, integrated through our eSign provider partners.
• Wet signature — for matters that still require physical signature (real estate, certain stamp-duty agreements), upload the wet-signed copy, mark it for admin review, get approval, and proceed. The evidence pack clearly labels the completion mode.

eStamp and stamp-duty awareness

We do not generate eStamps. We are not a stamp-duty service. What we do:

• Surface a prompt when the agreement type typically requires stamping — conveyance, leave-and-license, certain commercial contracts.
• Recommend stamp-duty review by counsel before the release is opened, for high-risk document types.
• Store the eStamp certificate alongside the executed agreement when uploaded, so the evidence pack shows the stamping in context.

Important caveat: we provide workflow tools, not legal advice. Stamp-duty rates, exemptions, and registration requirements vary by state and matter type. Local counsel reviews every high-risk document.

DPDPA privacy posture

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 introduces specific obligations:

• Consent notice — recipients see a clear notice describing what is logged (name, email, IP, page views, signature events) before they begin. No covert collection.
• Purpose limitation — data captured for the workflow is used for that workflow, not for marketing or model training.
• Retention defaults — aligned with DPDPA principles. Audit trail kept for the legally relevant window, no longer.
• Data residency option — the India deployment runs in ap-south-1 (Mumbai) so customer data does not leave India when that matters.
• Breach notification workflow — if an incident affects you, we notify within the statutory window with the information you need to file your own notice.

Workflows we focus on

The Indian professional-services landscape has a few archetypes we are designing around first:

• Law firms — client confidentiality, vendor onboarding, M&A due diligence, dispute exchanges, opinion delivery.
• In-house counsel and General Counsel — vendor NDAs, partner agreements, employee confidentiality, IP disclosures.
• CA / CS practice with legal-overlap — engagement letters, tax-record confidentiality, audit-firm document handling, retainer NDAs.
• Real estate firms — deal-room confidentiality, lender exchanges, conveyance documentation.

Pricing for Indian firms

We are still in active validation, so pricing is not yet public. We are anchoring on INR-friendly tiers — a solo practitioner should not pay enterprise rates, a 50-person firm should not subsidize global SaaS overhead. If you want a sense of where pricing is heading, ask on the call.

What we are not yet ready to claim

India compliance is jurisdictional and complex. We will not pretend:

• That Arkin Vault is "legally valid" in every Indian court — that depends on the specific agreement, the signature method, the jurisdiction, and counsel review.
• That eSign through our providers is sufficient for every agreement type — certain documents require DSC, wet signature, or registration regardless.
• That we replace your counsel. We replace the workflow tooling around the agreement, not the legal judgment that goes into it.

Honest scope is part of the product. We would rather earn trust through what we deliver than over-promise on the homepage.