Verif-ID
Identity assurance for the AI age.
Verify the person. Verify the interaction. Verify the action.
A forensic-analysis and human-biometric attestation platform that issues tamper-evident certificates for digital media. Built first for fintech KYC.
US fintechs run ~500M KYC verifications a year — and most stop at onboarding.
500M
KYC verifications run by US fintechs each year.
After onboarding
The person behind later logins, sensitive actions, and recoveries goes unchecked.
0
Top KYC vendors bind a verified person to a signed, re-verifiable certificate.
Synthetic media and account takeover defeat one-time verification. The gap is not better detection alone — it is verifiable, continuous proof tying a real person to each action.
Forensics + liveness + tamper-evident certificates in one workflow.
Forensic analysis
Multi-modal AI-generated detection across text, image, audio, and video.
Liveness check
Webcam confirmation of a real, present person — not a replay or print.
Tamper-evident certificate
SHA-256-anchored, QR-verifiable proof issued per check.
Public verification
Any third party re-confirms a certificate by URL or hash.
One beachhead: embedded in fintech KYC workflows.
We prove product-market fit in one category before claiming five. Fintech KYC is the beachhead; the same trust layer extends to adjacent markets next.
Fintech & KYC
~500M verifications/yr × $0.004 = ~$2M/yr beachhead TAM at unit price.
Banks & neobanks
Same identity-trust failure, same integration path — addressed after beachhead proof.
Crypto platforms
Same identity-trust failure, same integration path — addressed after beachhead proof.
Marketplaces
Same identity-trust failure, same integration path — addressed after beachhead proof.
Detection vendors detect. Verif-ID attests.
| Capability | Verif-ID | Sensity | Hive | Reality Defender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-generated image / video detection | ||||
| AI-generated text detection | ||||
| Liveness verification (webcam) | ||||
| Tamper-evident certificate per check | ||||
| Public third-party verification by URL / hash | ||||
| Issuer-side attestation (binds a person to an action) |
Capability comparison as of October 2026. Public precision/recall benchmarks against a shared dataset are in progress and will be published here when validated.
Usage-based API: $0.004 per image.
Per image
$0.004
billed on usage
Minimum pilot
50k
images / month
Month-12 target
10M
images / month
Unit economics: a 50,000-image pilot is $200/mo of recurring API revenue; the 10M-image/month target is $40,000/mo at the same unit price. Margin scales with detection throughput on shared infrastructure — not per-customer headcount.
A pilot with a start date and success metrics — not a conversation.
Week 1–2
Integrate the analyze and verify endpoints against a sample of a partner's live KYC queue.
Success metric
95%+ precision and 90%+ recall on labeled AI-generated and human samples, under 3s per analysis.
Exit
A signed LOI or paid contract tied to a per-image price and minimum monthly volume.
Before this round closes: a signed design-partner agreement or LOI from one named beachhead buyer, with a pilot start date and the metrics above — replacing open-ended "design-partner conversations."
Solo founder. Shipping to customers, not to self.
Today
One technical founder who built and shipped the product. Customer conversations and design-partner pilots are underway.
Before this round closes
Hire or co-found a sales / partnerships lead — the work the founder has not yet learned — so evidence of market fit, not time to learn sales, is what this round buys.
$300K — with the full cost of evidence modeled.
~37% of the round goes to non-headcount operating expenses — the cloud, benchmarking, compliance, and pilot work the evidence depends on. Not two salaries and nothing else.
Two hires
Forensics/ML engineer + partnerships/sales lead (12 mo, fully loaded)
$180K
Cloud compute & scaling
Benchmarking throughput, detection pipeline, storage for pilot volume
$45K
Benchmark validation
Shared-dataset precision/recall study vs Sensity, Hive, Reality Defender
$30K
Compliance & legal
SOC 2 readiness, data-processing agreements, pilot contracts
$25K
Pilot support
Design-partner onboarding, integration engineering, evidence capture
$20K
Total raise
$300K