Twala

Twala is a Philippine legal technology company offering a document management platform that combines AI-powered contract generation and review, electronic signature, electronic notarization, digital identity and secure document storage in a single workflow. The platform is used to execute, notarize, verify and manage contracts, agreements and other legally binding documents, and is built on blockchain and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Its blockchain-based signing product is branded Twala Sign.

Platform capabilities described by the company include signing envelopes with assigned roles and signature fields on PDFs, reusable templates and bulk send, real-time status tracking with automated reminders, remote online and in-person notarization with signer and notary identity authentication and tamper-evident notarial records, semantic search across document libraries, structured data extraction from PDFs and scans, automatic document classification, tagging, annotation and version history, Kanban task boards, real-time collaboration, AI document generation and chat with cited answers, and exportable workspace reports. An AI legal assistant is described as trained on Philippine laws, jurisprudence, memos and circulars. Tamper-proofing is marketed under the name HashProof.

Twala is an accredited Electronic Notarization Facility (ENF) of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and states compliance with the Philippines' Electronic Commerce Act (RA 8792), the Rules on Electronic Evidence (A.M. No. 01-7-01-SC) and the rules on electronic notarization under A.M. No. 24-10-14-SC. It also maintains a developer hub documenting Twala Sign APIs, authentication and an API dashboard, with Postman collections and OpenAPI/Markdown resources.

Founding story

Twala was co-founded by Engr. Jeffrey Reyes and Atty. Third Bagro, who have publicly discussed the company's startup journey and its blockchain-based signing platform, Twala Sign.

Business model

Twala sells subscription access to its document platform through published per-seat monthly tiers, alongside a custom-priced enterprise offering and API access for developer integration.

Tiered SaaS subscriptions priced in Philippine pesos per user per month: Professional at PHP 950 for one user (aimed at solo electronic notaries public wanting document management and AI tools alongside notarization), Business at PHP 4,700 for three users (adding contract lifecycle management and multi-user accounts), Business Plus at PHP 13,000 for six users (full feature set), and an Enterprise plan with custom pricing.

Traction

The company reports more than 1.3 million individual users and over 600 companies served. Named customers and institutional relationships include the Supreme Court of the Philippines (accredited ENF), the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (official partner), the Department of Science and Technology (grant recipient), the Cloud Signature Consortium (official member) and Power Mac Center, whose CIO provides a testimonial about automating its digital signature process. A co-founder cited a government agency proof of concept in which close to a thousand signatures were processed within a week. The company also advertises outcomes of about 40% savings in time and materials per agreement and 80% faster turnaround.

Latest developments

Company posts report that the Supreme Court accredited Twala as an Electronic Notarization Facility, marking the start of eNotarization in the Philippines, and that the Integrated Bar of the Philippines partnered with Twala on blockchain and AI-powered e-signature and e-notarization technologies. A related post notes the Land Registration Authority preparing for e-notarization with blockchain, AI and GIS technology in land registration. The company markets its platform as document management for the AI era, with contract generation, review, eSignature, eNotary and storage in one product.