Documents & e-signature
Tenacap generates the paperwork your equity records imply — grant notices, SAFE agreements, RSPAs — and signs them natively. The signer gets a private link, no account needed, and you get back a sealed PDF with a completion certificate that records exactly who signed, when, and how.
A cap table is full of agreements waiting to happen: every option grant has a notice, every SAFE has a contract, every founder’s restricted stock has a purchase agreement. Tenacap draws each of these straight from the records you already keep, sends them for signature in the same window, and stores the executed result with a durable evidence trail. There’s no separate e-signature account and no copy-paste between tools.
Documents you can generate
Tenacap produces three kinds of agreement today, each merged from the underlying record so the numbers always match your cap table:
- Notice of Stock Option Grant — a one-page summary of an option grant: grantee, plan, type, shares, strike, dates, and the vesting summary.
- YC post-money SAFE agreement — the official Y Combinator form with your terms filled in. Recording and generating SAFEs is covered in SAFEs & convertibles.
- Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement (RSPA) — the founder purchase agreement that accompanies a restricted stock issuance.
Send for signature
From the document, choose Request signature. Tenacap hashes the exact PDF being presented — that hash is the anchor that proves nothing changed afterward — creates a signature request, and emails the signer a single-use link. If no email is on file, you can copy the link and share it yourself. The request inside Tenacap is the system of record, so a delivery hiccup never loses it.
What the signer sees
The signer opens the link and lands on a clean public page — no Tenacap account, no password. They see the document itself in the page, can open it in a new tab, and then complete two small steps:
- Consent — they check a box agreeing to do business electronically (E-SIGN / UETA) and confirming they are the named signer.
- Sign — they type their full name and click Sign.
Once signed, the page confirms it and they can close the tab. Each link is single-use and expires, so a stale or already-signed link shows a friendly message instead of letting anyone sign twice.
The evidence recorded
Signing isn’t just a typed name — it’s a record built for the E-SIGN and UETA standards. With each signature Tenacap captures:
- the typed signature and the signer’s name and email;
- the moment consent was given and the moment the document was signed;
- a privacy-preserving hash of the signer’s IP address, plus their browser details;
- the document hash, binding every event to the exact PDF that was presented.
Each of these events is appended to Tenacap’s tamper-evident audit chain, so the evidence holds together as a sequence that can’t be quietly edited after the fact.
Sealed PDF & certificate
When everyone has signed, Tenacap seals the result: the signed document and a completion certificate are merged into a single PDF. The certificate lists the signers, their timestamps, consent, typed signatures, IP hash, browser, and the document hash — the whole evidence trail on one page. From the cap table you can download the signed PDF and the certificate any time after completion.