Automated Affidavits

Automate the entire affidavit process.

Column handles affidavit verification, signing, notarization, and delivery. No more chasing paperwork, or mailing affidavits by hand.

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Trusted by 1,600+ newspapers across the U.S.

“We literally don’t touch affidavits at all. Column handles the entire process, end-to-end. We haven’t looked back.”

What We Solve

Affidavits shouldn’t be full-time job.

Affidavits are incredibly important, and have also been one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in public notice.

Here are the pain points we hear from publishers every week.

Affidavits are incredibly important, and have also been one of the biggest operational bottlenecks in public notice.

Here are the pain points we hear from publishers every week.

For teams placing tens, hundreds, or thousands of notices across multiple jurisdictions, every notice brings a new set of details to manage: the right newspaper, the right deadline, the right publication date, the right invoice, the right proof, and the right affidavit.

These are the pain points we hear every week:

“We have someone spending hours on affidavits.”

Affidavits can require dedicated staff time across preparation, signing, notarization, mailing, and follow-up.

“We need every affidavit to be accurate and compliant.”

Affidavits are legal documents, and manual workflows create room for inconsistency.

“The process is too manual.”

Paper files, wet signatures, PDFs, postage, and handoffs make affidavit work slower than it should be.

“Customers keep asking where their affidavit is.”

Delayed affidavits create more customer follow-up for your team.

“We have someone spending hours on affidavits.”

Affidavits can require dedicated staff time across preparation, signing, notarization, mailing, and follow-up.

“The process is too manual.”

Paper files, wet signatures, PDFs, postage, and handoffs make affidavit work slower than it should be.

“We need every affidavit to be accurate and compliant.”

Affidavits are legal documents, and manual workflows create room for inconsistency.

“Customers keep asking where their affidavit is.”

Delayed affidavits create more customer follow-up for your team.

Too much paperwork.

Specialized work.

Manual handoffs.

Compliance risk.

Why Automated Affidavits

Move From Chasing Affidavits to Trusting They’re Done.

Automate one of the most tedious parts of public notice operations.

0% manual work

Column automates the entire process: preparation, verification, signing, notarization, and delivery.

0% manual work

Column automates the entire process: preparation, verification, signing, notarization, and delivery.

0% manual work

Column automates the entire process: preparation, verification, signing, notarization, and delivery.

4 days or less, always

Completed affidavits are accurate, usable, and ready for legal requirements.

4 days or less, always

Completed affidavits are accurate, usable, and ready for legal requirements.

4 days or less, always

Completed affidavits are accurate, usable, and ready for legal requirements.

Reduce customer follow-up

Customers get documents more consistently, with fewer status requests.

Reduce customer follow-up

Customers get documents more consistently, with fewer status requests.

Reduce customer follow-up

Customers get documents more consistently, with fewer status requests.

Free up staff capacity by 100%

Move your team away from repetitive paperwork and toward higher-value work.

Free up staff capacity by 100%

Move your team away from repetitive paperwork and toward higher-value work.

Free up staff capacity by 100%

Move your team away from repetitive paperwork and toward higher-value work.

Standardize affidavit workflows

Create one consistent process across notices, customers, and jurisdictions.

Standardize affidavit workflows

Create one consistent process across notices, customers, and jurisdictions.

Standardize affidavit workflows

Create one consistent process across notices, customers, and jurisdictions.

Automate your affidavit process today.

Join thousands of newspapers streamlining their public notice workflow.

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Product Overview

We handle the entire affidavit workflow.

What Column handles

Notice verification

Affidavit preparation

Signing and notarization

Remote online notarization support

Compliance workflows

Court-ready delivery

Customer access

Digital storage and tracking

What your team gets

Less manual paperwork

Faster turnaround

A consistent workflow

Fewer customer status requests

Better payment and invoice workflows

More staff time

Confidence affidavits are handled correctly

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How It Works

Supported every step of the way.

Column learns your current process

We review your affidavit workflow, requirements, and jurisdictions.

Column configures the workflow

We set up the right verification, signing, notarization, and delivery process.

Column verifies each notice

Column confirms publication details against your e-edition or publication record.

Column completes the affidavit

We prepare, sign, notarize, and deliver the finished document.

Your team stays out of the paperwork

Affidavits are tracked, stored, and accessible without manual follow-up.

By the Numbers

The #1 processor of legal notice affidavits in the United States.

21,000+ affidavits a month

2-day affidavit turnaround time

50 state compliance

2,000,000+ website
visitors a year

We process more public notices and affidavits than any other company in the country. That scale gives us the data, experience, and operational foundation to build faster, more reliable automation for every customer we serve.

Affidavit Resources

How Automated Affidavits Work Behind the Scenes

Learn how Column verifies, generates, notarizes, and delivers compliant affidavits.

How Column guarantees legally compliant affidavits for publishers

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How Column and Proof built the largest legal notice affidavit system in the U.S. for newspapers

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How a Colorado newspaper outsourced notary work to Column

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Meet Your Team

Our team becomes your team

This industry has always been rooted in relationships, and always will be. We are real people dedicated to providing world-class support and a community you can trust.

“If I ever have any questions or issues, Deona always helps me out with her top-notch customer service!”
—Roshelle Chavez, Sanitation Agency, El Dorado, CA
“The process made my legal notice very easy to submit. Samantha Pryor was very helpful.”
—Rick Corbin, Lincoln, Nebraska
“Very convenient, and the Office Staff is also very thorough and helpful. Allison, I believe.”
—Lee Collins, City of Denton, Texas
“Samantha, your staff and your system have won me over to “automated” yet not robotic, with concierge service!”

—Heidi Cothard, Legals, Chicago, Illinois
“Saawi is a keeper! Very professional and proficient.”
—Dru Sanchez, Phoenix, Arizona
“Becky, thank you for being a person that knows how to help people. Even when they don’t know what type of help they need.”
—Cecily Coney, Allentown, Pennsylvania
“Amber is amazing. Human contact is still a desired trait, yet the ways of the world are diminishing it too greatly. Amber chose to give her best and succeeded. She is a beautiful person.”

Alison Farmwald

Column Support

Alex Lutz

Sales

Amber Finneseth

Column Reps

Alvin James Atienza

Affidavits Team

Samantha Pryor

Column Reps

Ankit Sachdeva

Affidavits Team

Ahmie Medrano

Placement Team

Darwin De Quina

Placement Team

Meet Your Team

Our team becomes your team

This industry has always been rooted in relationships, and always will be. We are real people dedicated to providing world-class support and a community you can trust.

“If I ever have any questions or issues, Deona always helps me out with her top-notch customer service!”
—Roshelle Chavez, Sanitation Agency, El Dorado, CA
“The process made my legal notice very easy to submit. Samantha Pryor was very helpful.”
—Rick Corbin, Lincoln, Nebraska
“Very convenient, and the Office Staff is also very thorough and helpful. Allison, I believe.”
—Lee Collins, City of Denton, Texas
“Samantha, your staff and your system have won me over to “automated” yet not robotic, with concierge service!”

—Heidi Cothard, Legals, Chicago, Illinois
“Saawi is a keeper! Very professional and proficient.”
—Dru Sanchez, Phoenix, Arizona
“Becky, thank you for being a person that knows how to help people. Even when they don’t know what type of help they need.”
—Cecily Coney, Allentown, Pennsylvania
“Amber is amazing. Human contact is still a desired trait, yet the ways of the world are diminishing it too greatly. Amber chose to give her best and succeeded. She is a beautiful person.”

Alison Farmwald

Column Support

Alex Lutz

Sales

Amber Finneseth

Column Reps

Alvin James Atienza

Affidavits Team

Samantha Pryor

Column Reps

Ankit Sachdeva

Affidavits Team

Ahmie Medrano

Placement Team

Darwin De Quina

Placement Team

Meet Our Team

Our team becomes your team

This industry has always been rooted in relationships, and always will be. We are real people dedicated to providing world-class support and a community you can trust.

“If I ever have any questions or issues, Deona always helps me out with her top-notch customer service!”
—Roshelle Chavez, Sanitation Agency, El Dorado, CA
“The process made my legal notice very easy to submit. Samantha Pryor was very helpful.”
—Rick Corbin, Lincoln, Nebraska
“Very convenient, and the Office Staff is also very thorough and helpful. Allison, I believe.”
—Lee Collins, City of Denton, Texas
“Samantha, your staff and your system have won me over to “automated” yet not robotic, with concierge service!”

—Heidi Cothard, Legals, Chicago, Illinois
“Saawi is a keeper! Very professional and proficient.”
—Dru Sanchez, Phoenix, Arizona
“Becky, thank you for being a person that knows how to help people. Even when they don’t know what type of help they need.”
—Cecily Coney, Allentown, Pennsylvania
“Amber is amazing. Human contact is still a desired trait, yet the ways of the world are diminishing it too greatly. Amber chose to give her best and succeeded. She is a beautiful person.”

Alison Farmwald

Column Support

Alex Lutz

Sales

Amber Finneseth

Column Reps

Alvin James Atienza

Affidavits Team

Samantha Pryor

Column Reps

Ankit Sachdeva

Affidavits Team

Ahmie Medrano

Placement Team

Darwin De Quina

Placement Team

1,300+

Publisher Partners

All 50

States Covered

98.6%

Customer Satisfaction

30K+

Governments & Law Firms

21K

Affidavits/Month

2 Days

Affidavit Turnaround

1:1

Dedicated Human Support

100%

Legally Compliant Affidavits

Customer Story

Restoration NewsMedia eliminated a full-time affidavit workload with Column.

Before Column, Restoration NewsMedia had a full-time team member dedicated to managing affidavits by hand.

“Column allowed us to move our full-time public notice person to a different position. Now, we literally don’t touch affidavits at all. Column handles everything, end-to-end.”

The impact:

Full-time affidavit workload eliminated
Staff member redeployed to higher-value work
Less manual paperwork and follow-up
A more consistent affidavit process
Lower operational burden across public notice workflows

Read the Case Study

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Frequently Asked Questions

Need answers? We’ve got you covered.

We’ve collected some of the most common questions people ask us. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, feel free to reach out!

What are automated affidavits?

What part of the process does Column handle?

Does our newspaper staff still need to sign affidavits?

Are Column affidavits legally compliant?

How does Column verify that a notice ran?

How are completed affidavits delivered?

Can Column handle affidavits across multiple states?

How does this affect advertisers?

Is this only for large publishers?

What is the first step?