The company is currently working with "several firms" that willuse its technology to complete online loans for commercial realestate, says DocuTouch spokeswoman Katherine Ord. To make sure it'son the right track, the company has on its board of directors KurtJohnson, the Seattle-area president of Trammel Crow Co. "He'shelping us understand the commercial real estate marketplace," saysOrd.

DocuTouch provides for secure, online business-to-businesstransactions using legally binding digital signature services. Thecompany has some 700 users in vertical markets including realestate, mortgage, finance, insurance and in corporate procurementarenas. The timing is good. Congress recently passed - andPresident Clinton signed - a law with respect to digitalsignatures. The law requires user consent, permanency, privacy,audit trails and digital authentication when using digitalsignatures to create online contracts -- a process DocuTouch hashad in place since last year.