We’re Steve and Eric, the founders of Berbix (https://www.berbix.com). We make it easy to instantly verify photo IDs. Our goal is to empower platforms to accurately identify their users while being responsible stewards of sensitive information. Today, we’re launching our self-service ID checks (https://www.berbix.com/pricing) to organizations of any size that need to answer the question: Are you who you say you are? We’re taking a privacy-first approach to identity verification. Your government-issued photo ID is one of the most sensitive pieces of information you own, and sharing it with a company online can be terrifying. We’ve invested significant effort up front to try to do this the right way by punching above our weight from a security perspective, ensuring all images that ever leave our system are aggressively watermarked, and enforcing short retention policies to automatically purge data. We aren’t currently—nor do we ever intend to be—in the business of selling personal data. Unless you’re a credit card processor, everyone knows that you’d be crazy to collect credit card numbers directly without using a system like Stripe because of PCI compliance. But there’s no equivalent standard for identity documents. It’s still the wild west when it comes to best practices around this extremely sensitive data. Companies inevitably will need to collect this data, whether to comply with regulations to verify age, confirm the identity of a GDPR or CCPA request, or deter fraud on a marketplace. It may come across as self serving, but we’d rather have a privacy-oriented company collect that data on their behalf. Much of our perspective in this space was informed by our past experience. We were the product and engineering leaders of the Trust & Safety team at Airbnb for several years where we were tasked with stopping all bad things from happening on Airbnb—both online and offline. This was a challenging problem as it included your typical online fraud like chargebacks, account takeovers, and wire scams in addition to much more novel offline risks like property damage and personal safety issues. We delineate between “premeditated” bad actors who come to a platform with the intent to cause harm and “opportunistic” bad actors who would swipe a $20 bill on a nightstand, as an example. Certain techniques may work well against one group, but not the other. One effective means to fight both groups of bad actors is to check a government-issued photo ID. Premeditated bad actors will often find another platform with fewer protections, and the opportunistic bad actors will think twice before doing something malicious in the moment if they know their ID has been checked. Historically, checking IDs online has been hard. It required a 5-figure contract with a legacy ID verification provider, would take minutes or more, and the quality of the data returned left a lot to be desired. We knew there had to be a better way, and so we started Berbix. Our product returns a result in 2 seconds or less and leverages the machine- and human-readable components of a photo ID to maximize accuracy. We’ve designed Berbix in a way that we, as developers, would want to use it (https://docs.berbix.com), with backend API libraries that make an integration simple and intuitive. We offer client-side SDKs for a number of platforms including React, iOS, Android and more (https://github.com/berbix). We make integration simple enough to be completed in a matter of minutes, while also providing flexibility to offer custom configurations if desired. Using our API, you can request the information you need to verify your users, while isolating your servers from ever handling the sensitive user-submitted ID images directly. We’d love feedback from the maker community. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Hi there. Congrats on the launch. Just curious, as we are looking at options for a software solution for this problem right at this moment: What makes Berbix more competitive than other options? Is there anything about Berbix specifically that makes it even more accurate?

Cool. I want to use Berbix to verify my personal trainers’ identities some day

Looks awesome! Nice work!

How do you do the passport verification? Does it check with a global passport database?

I like this. Lots of nice features and and I’m curious as to how did the name come about?

I like this too. Does it support countries and ID not in the US? Eg Aus, UK, NZ etc?

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