(00)Document management for organisations

Every document has a journey, and most of them get lost along the way.

Obscura keeps each document on one path, from its first draft until someone finds it, understands it and acts on it. It runs on your own servers, so your documents stay with you.

(01)The long way round

A single vendor agreement can take 11 steps across 6 different places before it is done.

  • 11steps
  • 6places
  • 4download and upload cycles
  • 2manual logs

This is an illustrative example, not a benchmark.

The draft is written in email, the approval is chased over chat, and the signature happens in a separate app. Afterwards, the signed file goes into a shared folder while someone updates a spreadsheet so that the team can keep track of it.

(02)The price

Each of those detours costs time, even though nobody ever sends you an invoice for it.

21.3% of productivity is lost to document problems IDC, 2012

19%

of the workweek goes to searching for and gathering information

McKinsey Global Institute, 2012

The IDC figure is a baseline from a study, so it is not a claim about your organisation.

Estimate the cost for your organisation

Because the cost is spread across many people and many small delays, it never shows up as a single line in the budget, but you still pay it every year.

(03)Obscura

Meet Obscura.

Obscura is one application for a document's whole journey. Your team creates, approves, signs and stores each document in one place, and can still find it and understand it years later.

You can run it on your own servers, in a private cloud or on a closed network.

(04)In Obscura

In Obscura, each document follows one path from draft to archive.

Because every step happens in the same application, nobody has to download a file, send it on and upload it again.

  1. 01

    Create

    Start from an approved template, and edit Word, Excel or PowerPoint files directly in the browser.

    Obscura's document editor running in the browser, with a sample vendor services agreement open for editing.
  2. 02

    Approve

    The approval follows the route set for each position, with deadlines, escalation and a note for every decision.

    Obscura's workflow builder, where an approval step is assigned to the positions that must approve it.
  3. 03

    Sign

    Certified e-signatures and e-Meterai are applied to the same document, so there is nothing to print.

    A signature is being placed directly on a sample document page in Obscura.
  4. 04

    Keep

    The document is numbered, classified and kept for its retention period, and its full history is one click away.

    A sample document record in Obscura, which shows its number, its status and its activity history.

The work moves faster, and at the same time you keep tighter control over it.

Certified signing and e-Meterai connect through external providers.

(05)Ask

In Obscura, the journey continues after a document is stored.

  1. 01Create
  2. 02Approve
  3. 03Sign
  4. 04Keep
  5. 05Ask
  6. 06Connect
05

Ask

You can search by meaning rather than exact words, and you can ask a question about one document or a set of folders. Every answer links to the sources it came from, so you can open them and check.

When is the first payment due?

Vendor Agreement · p. 4

Illustration with sample data
The Ask the Archive screen in Obscura, where you can type a question or pick one of the example questions about the archive.
Ask the Archive in Obscura · Sample data

AI only uses documents that the person asking is allowed to see. You can run a local model, use an approved provider, or turn AI off entirely.

(06)Contract & Project Intelligence

In Obscura, every document is connected to the project and the contract that it belongs to.

See how every document in a project connects to the others.

Obscura lays out a project's contracts, amendments, purchase orders, invoices and acceptance records in one graph. AI suggests new connections and shows the quote that supports each one, but nothing is linked until someone on your team accepts it.

Contract Intelligence
Follow an agreement through its amendments, its delivery records and the invoices that bill against it.
Project Intelligence
See a whole project on one map, from requirements and proposals to contracts, invoices and proof of delivery.

Project

Head-office Backup Refresh

Client
PT Contoh Nusantara
Project status
Active
Linked documents
8
Suggestions
3

Open project

Document

REQ-001 · Requirements brief

Type
Requirements
Status
Final

Open document

Document

SOW-001 · Statement of work

Type
Statement of work
Status
Final

Open document

Document

PRP-002 · Proposal revision 2

Type
Proposal
Status
Final

Open document

Document

PRP-001 · Proposal revision 1

Type
Proposal
Status
Superseded

Open document

Document

PO-001 · Purchase order

Type
Purchase order
Status
Final

Open document

Contract

AGR-001 · Backup services agreement

Type
Contract
Status
Final

Open contract

Document

AMD-001 · Reporting addendum

Type
Amendment
Status
Final

Open document

Document

INV-001 · October service invoice

Type
Invoice
Status
Received

Open document

Document

BAST-001 · October service acceptance

Type
Acceptance
Status
Final

Open document

Project

Head-office Backup Refresh

Client
PT Contoh Nusantara
Linked documents
8
Suggestions
32
  1. AGR-001ContractBelongs to projectProject
  2. AMD-001AmendmentAmendsAGR-001
  3. BAST-001AcceptanceEvidence forAGR-001
  4. INV-001InvoiceBills forPO-001

AI suggestion

Bills for

Bills October 2026 services against the cited purchase order.

Supporting quote

“…this invoice refers to PO‑001…” p. 1

AcceptReject

Solid line: recorded connectionDashed line: AI suggestion

Access to a project does not open documents that are restricted.

Illustration with sample data

(07)SharePoint

Does your document's path end once it is stored? Then replace SharePoint with Obscura for your document work.

When SharePoint is only where files are stored, the work around them, such as drafting, approving, signing and finding answers, still happens somewhere else. Obscura becomes the system of record for your business documents, while Teams and Outlook can stay in place for communication.

During implementation planning, we can assess your existing files and their permissions.

SharePoint includes basic approvals, but anything more involved needs Power Automate, and on-premises SharePoint Server is limited to older workflows. Microsoft's own e-signature for SharePoint is not available in Indonesia and does not offer certified Indonesian signatures (TTE) or e-Meterai, which Obscura connects through Indonesian providers.

See the full comparison

(08)Inside Obscura

Each document has one record that brings its content, versions, access and activity together.

A sample procurement policy open in Obscura, with its status, versions, access, signatures, workflow and an AI summary beside it.
Sample data
Deployment
Your own serversPrivate cloudClosed networkSee deployment options
Standards
ISO/IEC 27001: the information security management system of PT Virtue Digital Indonesia is certified Built following ISO 16175 Aligned with ISO 15489

Capabilities depend on the modules you choose.

(09)

Pick one document, and we will follow its journey through Obscura together.

It could be an employment contract or a vendor agreement. We will measure how long the process takes today and how long it takes in Obscura.

If the price still feels too high once you have seen the numbers, that is fine, because you will at least know exactly what your current way of working costs.