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Client agreements, consultant agreements, and design approvals — signed on-site or in the office.
Architects sign client services agreements, consultant sub-agreements, fee proposals, design-stage approvals, and construction documents. SignBolt gives architecture practices a $8-24/month e-signature tool that handles all of this with full audit trail.
The specific contracts, agreements, and forms SignBolt handles for this use case.
AIA or Australian Institute of Architects-style agreement covering scope, stages, fees, and IP. The foundation document of every engagement.
Stage-by-stage fee proposals and variation requests for scope changes. Each signed proposal becomes a binding addendum.
Engineering, services, and specialist consultant engagements run under the primary architect's direction.
Client sign-off at each design stage (schematic design, design development, contract documents) protects against later scope disputes.
Architect's instructions, extension-of-time claims, practical completion certificates — all signed with full audit trail.
Signed release authorising transfer of drawings to contractor, engineer, or council with defined usage rights.
At a client meeting on-site, get the fee variation signed immediately on your tablet. No 'I'll send it through tomorrow' — done before you leave.
A signed sign-off at each design stage (with embedded drawings) is your evidence that the client approved the design as presented. Essential for managing scope and revision limits.
When multiple consultants need to acknowledge an overall package, SignBolt's multi-party signing captures each one's sign-off with individual audit trail.
$24/month Business plan covers unlimited users across your practice. DocuSign's per-user pricing for a 5-architect practice would be 10x more — SignBolt lets you give access to every architect, coordinator, and admin without per-seat cost.
Architecture practices live in document flow — proposals, variations, design approvals, consultant packages, CA instructions. Most of this paperwork is handled by email today, with the occasional DocuSign for bigger documents. SignBolt at $8-24/month lets you electronically sign everything — consistently, with audit trail, at a price that doesn't punish practice growth.
Upload your standard CSA — either the AIA form customised or your practice's own template — to SignBolt.
At SD, DD, and CD stages, send a sign-off document (with the relevant drawings embedded) to the client. Client sign-off is your evidence that the design at that stage was approved.
When scope changes, send a variation proposal with new fee and scope. Client's signature makes the variation binding — and prevents disputes later.
For each consultant engaged under your practice's agreement, a signed sub-agreement specifies their scope, fee, and reporting obligations to you as the primary.
Architect's instructions, EOT decisions, practical completion certificates — all signed with full audit trail, supporting your role as contract administrator.
Yes. Under the Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cth) and the building contract forms in general use (GC21, AS 4000), architect's instructions issued via signed electronic document are valid. Check your specific building contract for any required formalities, but electronic issuance is widely accepted and increasingly standard.
Yes. Client sign-off on a design stage is a contractual acknowledgement that the stage is approved. Electronically signed sign-offs are legally binding under ETA 1999. The signed PDF with embedded drawings becomes your primary evidence if the client later disputes the design direction.
Yes. Each signer — architect, engineer, services consultant, principal — has their own signing field. SignBolt captures each signature independently with its own timestamp and IP address.
You can embed drawings (as PDFs or images) in the document before sending for signature. When the client signs, the signed PDF includes both the drawings and the signature — so the approval is specifically of the attached drawings.
Yes. The Business plan covers unlimited documents across unlimited users — meaning every architect, coordinator, and admin in your practice can send signing requests at no per-user cost. For larger practices (20+ architects), Enterprise plan adds specific enterprise features.
Native integrations with architecture-specific PM software (Archicad, Deltek) are not currently offered. Via the Business plan API, custom integrations can be built. Most practices using SignBolt download signed PDFs and file them in the project folder of their PM system.
No — SignBolt handles both client-facing and consultant-facing agreements with the same workflow. Upload the sub-agreement PDF, specify signature fields for your practice and the consultant, send, sign. Same audit trail as client agreements.