Mon 9:41
Acme MSA — can you sign by Friday?
Here's our standard MSA for the pilot. Let me know if anything looks off, otherwise we're good to go.
Acme_MSA.pdfDottr in mail
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Add dottr@dottr.io to any contract email. Dottr flags the risks in plain English, fixes the wording and chases the signature. You just reply.
Jane CooperAcme Corp · Procurement Re: Acme MSA
Dottr — review this before I sign, and flag anything I should push back on.
Cc dottr@dottr.io3 things before you sign
Ranked worst first, in plain English, with wording you can paste back.
HighAuto-renews for 24 monthsMediumNet-60 payment, not Net-30LowTheir state's law governsMake the changes and send it out for signature
Renewal notice down to 30 days, and push for Net-30. Leave the governing law. Then send it to Jane to sign.
Approved by youOut for signature
Both clauses redlined and sent to jane@acme.com. She signs by reply — no account. I'll chase if she goes quiet.
Awaiting signaturejane@acme.comSigned — Acme MSA
Signed by reply from her phone. No account, no portal. Filed with the audit certificate.
Jane CooperSigned
One contract shouldn’t take six tabs.
Word doc. Save as PDF. Upload to the e-sign tool. Drag the boxes. Email the link. “Check your spam.” Chase. Update the spreadsheet.
“It is 2026. Sending a PDF to someone for an electronic signature should take a couple of minutes.”
“Eventually you sign something you half-understand.”
“Requires a new account for no reason.”
“A constant juggle of ‘I didn't get it’ and ‘search your spam box’.”
“A massive pain to keep a track of.”
“Very archaic system, but this is how it's currently being done.”
Word docPDFE-sign portalSpreadsheetWhatsAppInbox
MSA_Acme.docx
How it works
Three steps. All of them in your inbox.
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1
CC Dottr.
On any email with a contract, one you're sending or one you just got, add dottr@dottr.io. Say what you want in your own words. “review” works. So does “is this safe to sign?”
Acme MSA
Tojane@acme.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
Acme MSA
Hi Jane,
Happy with this — sending it on for signature.
Acme_MSA.pdf (184K)
2
Get the answer in the thread.
Dottr replies with what matters, worst first. What each clause does, what it means for you, and what to ask for instead. Reply “fix it” and Dottr redlines it.
Re: Acme MSA
InboxYYouHi Jane, happy with this — sending it on for signature.9:38
D
Dottr<dottr@dottr.io>
to me, Jane
9:41
3 things before you sign.
HighAuto-renews for 24 monthsMediumNet-60 paymentLowTheir state's law governs
Suggested wording
“This agreement renews for successive 12-month terms unless either party gives 30 days' written notice.”
Reply “fix it” and I'll redline all three.
ReplyReply allForward
3
Tell Dottr what happens next.
Fix the first two, run it past whoever signs off, then send it out — all in one reply, in your own words. Your signer replies with their full name. No account, no app, and Dottr chases until it's done.
Re: 3 things before you sign
InboxDDottr3 things before you sign. Auto-renews for 24 months…9:41
M
You<marcus@northwind.co>
to Dottr, Jane
9:52
Fix the first two, sign it our side, then send it to Jane for signature.
- MHSignedMarcus Halemarcus@northwind.co
- JCAwaiting signatureJane Cooperjane@acme.com
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Case studies
Four teams. Four messy stacks. One CC.
What each team was doing before, and the one line that replaced it.
A fintech startupFintech15–20 B2B contracts a monthlegal teammate on leave
Legal was on leave. The contracts weren't.
Before
Their legal teammate went on leave and the founder's office picked up the contracts. Nobody covering had a legal background, so every draft went through ChatGPT to compare and DocuSign to sign.
ChatGPT
MSA_Acme.docxDocument
Attached is our MSA with Acme. Act as a contract lawyer — review it, tell me what to push back on, and rewrite the renewal clause to 30 days' notice.
Ask anything
With Dottr, it's one line
Re: contract
Tothem@company.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
review. what should we push back on?
Risky clauses ranked worst first, each explained in plain English, with wording to paste back.
A tech companyTechoffer letters and vendor contracts
One typo. Start the whole thing over.
Before
Signatures landed outside their boxes, or never showed at all. One typo in an offer letter meant starting the whole envelope again — Word, PDF, portal — while pending contracts sat in a spreadsheet.
Offer letter — S. Ruiz
Start dateNovember 30
Sign hereSam Ruiz
Void envelopeCorrectSent 2 days ago
With Dottr, it's one line
Re: contract
Tothem@company.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
change the start date to November 3 and send it to Sam to sign
One reply fixes the letter and sends it. Sam signs by replying with his name, from his phone. Every signature comes with an audit certificate.
A B2B marketing agencyAgencyclient contracts, renewals
The deal was already in email. The contract wasn't.
Before
Reviewing and negotiating happened entirely over email, with the e-signature tool only ever used at the very end. Renewal dates were typed into a Google Sheet by hand.
Contracts_FINAL_v4
ABC
1ClientRenewalStatus
2Northwind Co12 NovSent
3Globex3 Dec??
4Initech—chasing
5Acme Corp1 FebSigned
Last edited 11 days ago
With Dottr, it's one line
Re: contract
Tothem@company.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
what changed from the version they sent Tuesday?
Compare, redline, sign and set the renewal reminder, starting from the email thread the negotiation is already in.
A crypto infrastructure startupStartupcontracts that go through rounds of redlines
Every round of redlines sent them back to page one.
Before
Redlines got lost somewhere in the email chain, so every round meant reading the whole contract again to work out what had actually moved.
Acme — MSA
NameModifiedSize
Acme_MSA_v2.pdf12 Sep1.2 MB
Acme_MSA_v3_final.pdf18 Sep1.2 MB
Acme_MSA_v3_final_THEIRS.pdf24 Sep1.3 MB
Acme_MSA_v3_final_THEIRS (1).pdf24 Sep1.3 MB
4 items, none of them the current one
With Dottr, it's one line
Re: contract
Tothem@company.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
what did they change since our last version?
Any version compared with the current draft, every change labelled: Dottr suggests, They proposed, You changed. Accept or reject each, then send for signature.
What you can say
Talk to Dottr like you'd talk to a colleague.
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Flags every risky clause, worst first, in plain English
Re: contract
Tothem@company.com
Ccdottr@dottr.io
review
Or say“is this safe to sign?”“check it against our NDA playbook”
Plain words work. There's no syntax to get wrong.
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No. Reviews and flags come back to you. The other side only sees what you choose to send, like the signature request.
A typed name counts as an electronic signature under US law, the ESIGN Act and UETA. Every signature comes with an audit certificate.
Flags are ranked, not rulings. You decide what to accept. Dottr learns from every accept and reject, and you can see and edit what it has learned. For the big ones, ask for a real lawyer, at a fixed price you know upfront.
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