2025 was a year of challenge, transformation, and steady progress for KDAN.
Over the past year, we completed a fundamental shift in our product foundation. Our offerings evolved from a collection of standalone tools into integrated workflows designed to address real enterprise needs in a practical and sustainable way. Throughout this transition, we listened closely to enterprises and developers, placing security, compliance, and flexibility at the core of our product design. These priorities guided comprehensive upgrades across our technical architecture, product workflows, and collaboration models. At the same time, KDAN officially activated its global partner-led growth engine, while continuing to deepen the overall value we deliver to enterprise customers.
Looking Back at 2025: Advancing AI-Driven Document Solutions and Platform Integration
In 2025, KDAN completed critical platform integrations and architectural upgrades, marking a move toward greater scalability, intelligence, and long-term enterprise readiness. We moved beyond simply responding to market demand and began building capabilities that help define how document solutions are delivered and used at scale.
For enterprises, value does not come from adding more tools. It comes from workflows that operate reliably over time and solve real operational challenges. With this in mind, KDAN focused on transforming accumulated AI capabilities into automation experiences that can be deployed in practice. We made document processing and data handling more intuitive, while consolidating core capabilities into developer-friendly toolkits that are easier to integrate and extend. This approach enables enterprises to build flexible, scalable document solutions that fit their own environments.
Throughout the year, we worked closely with enterprise IT teams, developers, and business units. These conversations consistently pointed to three essential requirements across PDF, eSignature, and document workflows: security, compliance, and flexibility. Guided by these insights, KDAN continued to strengthen LynxPDF, ComPDF, and DottedSign—enhancing deployment options, extensibility, and cost efficiency—so enterprises can build adaptable document systems without increasing operational burden.
DottedSign: Laying the Groundwork for the Next Stage of Growth
During this period, DottedSign faced a distinct set of challenges. Adjustments to licensing models, the transition toward partner-led renewals, the parallel execution of multiple collaboration initiatives, and the rollout of key capabilities such as Mobile ID (MID) and Mobile Citizen Digital Certificates increased both operational and product complexity. While these changes required significant coordination, they also established a solid foundation for broader market expansion in 2026.
Global Expansion Begins: Partners as a Growth Catalyst
In international markets, KDAN’s global growth engine officially took shape in 2025. We redesigned our partner model and deepened collaboration across Japan, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Through co-selling initiatives, product integrations, and experimentation with diverse commercial approaches, our global expansion became more structured and more responsive to local market needs.
One lesson became increasingly clear throughout the year: global growth is strongest when built together with partners who deeply understand their markets. Collaboration, rather than replication, proved to be the key to sustainable international expansion.
From Tools to Workflows: A Strategic Shift in Role and Mindset
From a technology perspective, 2025 marked a shift in how KDAN positions itself. We moved from a tool-centric mindset toward becoming a provider of intelligent workflows that support enterprise operations end to end. This evolution reflects not only a product upgrade, but also a broader role for KDAN in helping enterprises shape how work is automated, secured, and scaled in the future.
Looking Ahead to 2026: Openness, AI, and a Partner-Driven Ecosystem
Entering 2026, KDAN’s strategic direction has become clearer.
Across the document services landscape, many small and midsize enterprises remain underserved. These organizations place the same importance on security, compliance, and flexibility as large enterprises, yet are often constrained by high-cost or closed platforms. KDAN will continue to support these businesses through open APIs, flexible deployment options, and comprehensive document capabilities—allowing teams to build systems on their own terms.
Partnerships will remain central to our global growth. We will further strengthen collaboration with system integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs), and strategic channels to build a scalable and repeatable partner ecosystem. By combining KDAN’s AI-powered document technologies with local market expertise, partners can deliver solutions that align closely with regional requirements while building on shared foundations.
At the same time, the eSignature market is entering a new phase of accelerated growth as regulatory frameworks mature and demand for digital trust continues to rise. DottedSign will translate the groundwork laid in 2025 into tangible market outcomes, delivering improvements in efficiency and usability that enterprises can experience in their day-to-day operations.
AI will remain a core driver across KDAN’s products. We will continue integrating intelligence more deeply into document processing and workflow automation—enhancing usability, improving efficiency, and providing developers with stable, reliable tools that support long-term innovation.
Moving Forward Together: Defining the Next Growth Curve
Looking back, 2025 challenged KDAN — and strengthened us.
It was a year of laying foundations, adjusting direction, and making deliberate progress. As we move into 2026, KDAN will continue building on open technologies, a stronger partner ecosystem, and thoughtfully designed document workflows to deliver secure, compliant, and flexible solutions for enterprises worldwide.
Together with our partners and customers, we are ready to move forward and define the next chapter of KDAN’s growth.