Business contracts signed by someone entitled to sign
An operator onboarding business customers, where a contract signed by the wrong person meant an unenforceable agreement.
The situation
An operator onboarding business customers. A B2B contract is only worth what its signature is worth, and the signature has to come from someone entitled to bind the company.
Signatory authority was checked only when a contract was disputed. Company details were taken from the customer’s own letterhead, and an unenforceable contract was discovered at collection time, when it mattered most.
The rule Ceertia applies
The person signing the contract must appear as an authorized officer in the business registry extract for that company.
How it runs
The case arrives from whoever sends it, with the B2B contracts, company registration, signatory authority, identity proof, bank mandates and service orders. Anything missing is flagged on receipt.
Each rule returns a verdict with its evidence: what Ceertia saw, where, and why it concluded. Every verdict is stored with its rule version, source excerpt and timestamp. A use case for business onboarding that cross-checks the signatory against the business registry extract for that company, and verifies the registered name and number on the contract against the same source.
Your team keeps the decision, on sourced evidence, with a full audit log.
What changes in the work
- Signatory authority was checked only when a contract was disputed.
- Company details on the contract were taken from the customer’s own letterhead.
- Unenforceable contracts were discovered at collection time.
- The signatory is cross-checked against the official business registry.
- Company name and registration number are verified, not assumed.
- Every contract carries the evidence that supports its enforceability.
Your team keeps the decision, on sourced evidence, with a full audit log.
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