Stake Ventures

I’m happy to report that Tractis has now launched into beta. Tractis is a Spanish startup that I have been helping out a bit. Early on I was advising them on a few things like rails vs java. Lately I have also been helping them out more hands with a bit of coding.

Tractis is a platform for negotiating and signing contracts electronically. Yes these are legally valid digitally signed contracts. I have been and will continue to be working on the digital signature part. We are trying to make it fully legal within European Union legal context but at the same time work outside as well.

Currently lead developer Manuel Santos and CEO David Blanco have been able to digitally sign contracts with their official Spanish digital DNI (Identity Card). These are smart card based and will as far as I understand be rolled out in Spain shortly. It should work with most other signing smart cards as well, such as Estonia. You will also be able to use other certificates such as Thawte email certificates. I have personally used my Danish state issued digital certificate for signing contracts.

Technically speaking Tractis is rails based. It is also highly localized into various languages. If you understand Spanish their Negonation Blog is pretty good reading.

Otherwise I would like to say that it has been fun being part of the team. I have never been in a project with as many SVN commits per hour before as they do.

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