Great to see innovation in this space!

If I could make one giant request, it's around giving (properly authorized) humans the ability to override the system when needed. When you make a simple API, it's all too common for a company integrating the solution to rely entirely on the identity service's yes-no outcome. But all too commonly, there's no way to override a decision, or bypass the need for identification.

In the travel space, I've seen situations, especially with luxury and celebrity clients, where there's human levels of trust across the board, all parties are agreed at senior levels that they'd like to fulfill with a one-off exception to identity verification... but the technology refuses to let them proceed without going through the full verification flow, and if they're integrated in the simplest way, there's no "escape hatch" on the integration's side.

And similarly, if a person happens to trigger false negatives on video matches (say, due to medical reasons) giving support teams an ability to build exceptions is key. Having a way to tell the system "for this transaction/account ID, when they get to this node in the flow, let them through as if checks proceeded, or treat them as pre-authorized" would set you apart.

(Obviously, for things involving KYC, there's a lot of considerations around permissioning - but for many use cases, you want to empower senior support teams.)

This is really cool (especially considering that the pricing is way better than Persona/Stripe Identity)!

That being said, what security measures does Didit take, and has it gone through e.g. auditing or SOC 2?

Congrats on the launch! Hard to judge from just demo videos but the flow seems much nicer than those I’ve encountered in many apps.

A couple questions:

1. Given that one of your offerings is a wallet for identity, how do you handle storing user biometric data and documents

2. I’m surprised AI age detection based on faces is accurate enough to be used for account decisions. Is there any specific standard your models are held too and why would someone prefer it over an ID document proving age?

Love the focus on KYC. I've always wondered why there isn't a centralized identity verification process that makes it easy for beneficial owner reporting for companies. Every financial institution collects this and it's still a manual process that requires inputting the same info over and over again.

I like that it lets you specify the types of accepted docs. The biggest issue i have with Stripe identity verification product right now. And biometric re-log in is also great. Will check it out.

There are a bunch of competing companies in that space but it's true that transparent pricing and self-service is rare. Good idea to focus on that.

with all this talk about persona/discord sending identities to the dhs and everything, what steps do you guys take to keep identity information private?

Suerte! Unrelated, growing up in Spain it always baffled me that identification was based on a photo on your DNI. Stories of siblings or even friends that had a passing resemblance to each other sharing DNIs was a common story.

Any plans for B2B verification?

Stripe has a pretty good identity system already. What do you think of it?

Who would you say is your primary competitor (besides Stripe) and how are you better than them today?

“Stripe for XXXX” is an odd description when Stripe does the XXXX feature.

What do you guys do different?

(Stripe identity customer)

Here's a better idea: Eradicate requirement of the most personal details of someone to do basic tasks...such as using a web application.

Unless it's a government organisation, no private provider should have the ability to use or process people's identities. It's too much power in one entity's hands. I wish someone would actually solve this instead of yet another ID solutions. We all saw how a literal job seeking app (LinkedIn) abused this.

Nice to see a Spanish startup in YC :) Good luck!

Didit?

I certainly didn't do it.