About

Why Plico

Plico is the answer to the question: “Is there a simple app to sign PDF documents?”

The key to that answer lies in the word “simple”: in this context, it takes on different shades of meaning depending on who needs to sign a document. Simple means “Easy to use”, Simple means “I don’t want to create yet another account on yet another online service that fills my inbox with spam”, Simple means “Free”, Simple means “My data is mine, and I want it to stay that way”, Simple means “I don’t want to turn on the printer that can’t print anyway because it’s out of magenta”.

Plico is for everyone like us. We want the app to do just two things, but do them well. In short, a simple, fast way to sign PDFs.

Who we are

Massimiliano Pippi is an Engineering Lead with over twenty years of international experience in tech, from early-stage startups to public companies like Datadog and Elastic. A Python expert and active open-source contributor, he currently leads a team at Elastic focused on AI workload evaluation in Observability. He lives and works in Umbria. He doesn’t own a printer.

Luigi Gubello is a Senior Security Engineer at n8n. A cybersecurity expert focused on web application security, open-source supply-chain security, and IoT systems, he has worked at several European startups. An active advocate for open-source software, he lives and works in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. He doesn’t own a printer either.