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👤 Taichiro Motoe (An M&A lawyer who ran his own firm. Lawyers vetted CloudSign — the first of its kind Japan's Justice Ministry accepted.)🌐 site
A legal Q&A portal spent 10 years collecting Japan's lawyers, then launched the e-signature that now out-earns it.
Will it work? · our read
Only lawyers could. CloudSign's legal blessing is Japanese law. The portal, the precedent database, the bar — none of it crosses a border. This company is one country wide.
01How the money moves
Free legal Q&A ranks for Japan's legal worries
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Lawyers pay to be listed and to answer
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Companies pay per contract sent on CloudSign
02The numbers
¥16.3B (about $109M)FiledFY3/2026 net sales (filed)
2026-03-31source:
16,288 million yen (FY ended Mar 31, 2026)
The sales split is filed. The 29,172 lawyers are registered, not paying — Bengo4 reports paid lawyers as a separate, smaller line. The local-government count is from June 2025.
Up 15.7% YoY. CloudSign is 54% of it.
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Consolidated Financial Results, FY ended Mar 31 2026 — filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange, May 13 2026: net sales 16,288 million yen; CloudSign 8,756 million yen, portal 7,531 million yen.FY3/2026 earnings presentation — 29,172 registered lawyers (61% of Japan's bar); CloudSign ARR +20.5%; "the recipient of the document does not need to be registered with CloudSign".CloudSign (Japanese) — the company's own claims: the first business-signature (witness-type) service recognized by the Ministry of Justice and the Digital Agency as an e-signature under the Act; No.1 vendor share citing Fuji Chimera Research (FY2024); 2.5M+ companies and 40M+ contracts sent.CloudSign pricing — ¥11,000-28,000/mo (about $73-187) plus ¥220 (about $1.5) per contract sent, with unlimited users on every plan.Forbes, Sep 2020 — Motoe interview; Japan clarified in July 2020 that an e-signature service can count as the user's own signature.
Revenue is the company's own filing: net sales of 16,288 million yen for the year ended March 31, 2026, in the consolidated results Bengo4 filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange on May 13, 2026. We opened that PDF and read the figure; we point revenue.sourceUrl at a page that reprints it because our checker cannot read a PDF. Dollar figures use about 150 yen to the dollar — the company reports only in yen. We file this under community because the Bengoshi.com portal is the asset everything else grew from, but the split is the honest fact: CloudSign, a SaaS, is now 54% of sales and 61% of segment profit. The 29,172 lawyers are registered, not paying — Bengo4 reports paid lawyers separately and the paid number is much smaller. CloudSign's No.1 share is a company claim citing Fuji Chimera Research (FY2024); GMO Sign claims No.1 on a different measure. Motoe sat in the upper house from 2016 to 2022, in the governing party pushing offices off hanko seals, while owning the leading e-signature company — Forbes reported this and we assert nothing beyond the fact. We found no confirmed personal X or LinkedIn for Motoe, so his links carry only the product site. We never score you.