[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 8460-8461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING BLUEINK TECHNOLOGIES

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                      HON. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM

                             of new mexico

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 24, 2017

  Ms. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I rise today 
to recognize a dynamic and promising New Mexico company, BlueInk 
Technologies.
  Just over two years ago, Faze Sharif and Zach Lovelady founded 
Bluelnk with the aim to modernize the authenticity of eSignatures. 
Before computers, documents had to be signed in blue ink to signify 
authenticity. However, things are not so simple anymore. Sharif and 
Lovelady understood that the way we execute documents needed to evolve 
to keep up with the fast-paced business world in which fraud, 
misunderstanding, and mistakes cost businesses and consumers billions 
each year. Bluelnk's innovative software ensures that documents are 
reviewed and executed in a fully customizable and transparent manner.
  BlueInk's document review system can be configured to give 
signatories either a quick overview or detailed step-by-step review of 
a document's terms in any language and on any device. This guarantees 
that documents are reviewed according to a signatory's preferences in a 
manner most convenient to that

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individual. Additionally, BlueInk provides powerful fraud prevention 
and security measures that create a detailed audit trail of every event 
throughout the review and signing and uses cutting edge technologies to 
verify a signer's identity. These technologies include GPS and IP based 
geo-location, photo identification, SMS text codes and driver's license 
scans--all of which are memorialized after execution in a stand-alone 
document called the BlueInk Certificate of Evidence. The Certificate of 
Evidence creates almost irrefutable proof of execution to prevent 
contract disputes before they begin. This technology has helped a wide 
range of industries including real estate, multi-family housing; 
professional services; automotive; business-to-business; human 
resources, local, state and federal entities; and financial or lending 
institutions.
  BlueInk is currently being used by companies and consumers across the 
United States and this fast growing, innovative company has offices in 
New Mexico and Arizona. On May 3, 2017, their technology was approved 
by the U.S. Patent Office. I applaud the ingenuity, tenacity and 
forward thinking of the founders and their staff members, and I look 
forward to seeing how this next generation eSignature software will 
change the face of business.

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