The new “Docu-Snack” document-signing system makes contract law fun and delicious!

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The Issue:

Legal contracts are often verbose and uninteresting to read. It can also be very hard for a person to motivate themselves to read a contract and find all the parts where a signature is required.

Certain online services have made this somewhat easier (they typically jump directly to the parts the require signatures, thereby heavily incentivizing users to irresponsibly sign the contract without even reading it), but for printed contracts, it can still be hard to get motivated to do all of the signatures.

Proposal:

To make it easier to motivate people to sign contracts, we propose “Docu-Snack,” which is a new snack-integrating document signature system (Figure 1).

Fig. 1: Signing a contract on a computer (left) is usually easy. Occasionally, a physical on-paper contract is needed for some reason. Previously, there was no easy way to motivate a person to sign such a contract. Until now, that is! Right: the “Docu-snack” document has a bunch of candies taped to the contract (one candy for each “signature required” box).


This new system should motivate document signers to promptly review and sign any important contracts.

PROS: Makes signing paper contracts easier and more delicious!

CONS: People might start to randomly sign contracts just to get the snacks, which could be legally and financially irresponsible.

Originally published 2025-01-06.