New Identity Verification Platform Aims to Simplify Global ID Checks for Developers
A pair of identical twins from Barcelona have launched a comprehensive identity verification platform designed to address the fragmented nature of global identity services. The founders, who experienced identity confusion throughout their lives, recognized that existing solutions force engineering teams to piece together multiple providers for different verification needs.
Currently, companies must integrate separate services for various identity verification tasks: one for U.S. driver’s licenses, another for European NFC chip extraction, additional providers for anti-money laundering screening, government database validation in different countries, liveness detection across device types, and biometric authentication. This complex orchestration becomes even more challenging when adapting to regional regulations like GDPR or CCPA.
The existing enterprise solutions in this space often require lengthy sales processes just to access basic documentation. Pricing remains hidden behind contact forms, and many products are legacy systems with poor performance and accuracy rates. These tools frequently work well only on the latest iOS devices, performing poorly on mid-range or older Android devices that represent a significant portion of the global market.
Vertical Integration Approach
Rather than simply aggregating existing APIs, the company chose to build its own identity verification and biometric AI models from the ground up. This includes developing classification systems, fraud detection capabilities, and optical character recognition models supporting multiple languages. The vertical integration approach allows for end-to-end control of sensitive user data, eliminating the need to pass information through multiple third-party systems.
The platform emphasizes data minimization, allowing businesses to verify specific attributes like age verification without requiring access to full identity documents. This approach aims to move the industry away from data collection practices toward zero-knowledge or minimal-knowledge verification methods.
Technical Performance and Features
The system is designed to increase user onboarding rates while reducing identity verification costs. The automated verification process can reduce manual review requirements by up to 90%, while detecting sophisticated deepfakes and spoofing attempts that standard vision models might miss. The software development kit is optimized for low-bandwidth connections, ensuring functionality on unreliable 3G networks where legacy providers typically fail.
Key technical capabilities include real-time verification processing with inference times under two seconds, analysis of over 200 fraud signals including IP analysis and device fingerprinting, and global document coverage across multiple countries. The platform supports various verification methods including NFC chip verification and provides workflow orchestration for complex identity flows.
Developer-Focused Approach
The platform follows a developer-first philosophy with transparent, usage-based pricing and immediate access to sandbox environments. Companies can begin implementing verifications programmatically without requiring user interface integration, with setup processes designed to take just minutes rather than weeks.
The system includes a case management interface for support teams to manually review cases, approve or decline verifications, and override automated decisions when necessary. This addresses situations where human judgment is needed, such as accommodating high-value clients or handling false negatives due to medical conditions.
Privacy and Data Protection
The platform offers an identity wallet feature where users maintain control over their verification data. Rather than storing raw biometric data or documents, the system retains only derived attributes such as estimated age, human verification status, or face embeddings used for matching purposes. Users can revoke connections or delete their data at any time.
For businesses requiring data retention, the platform provides granular control over which specific fields to retain while automatically purging sensitive assets like identity document photos immediately after verification. This approach ensures only the minimum necessary data remains in the system.
Competitive Positioning
While established payment processors offer identity verification services, this new platform positions itself as standalone identity infrastructure that works across any platform. The company claims advantages in fraud detection capabilities, processing speed, global coverage, and pricing structure compared to existing solutions that may have limited document support or lack advanced workflow orchestration features.
The platform represents a shift toward reusable identity verification, where users verify their identity once and can then share minimal proofs across multiple services without repeatedly submitting full documentation to each provider.