Identity verification API
Document capture, liveness, face match, mDL, and jurisdictional age-tier resolution. Signed webhook returns an eligibility signal.
Capabilities
Verify identity across documents, biometrics, and credentials
Document verification
OCR plus barcode cross-reference and MRZ parsing across 200+ jurisdictions. Fraud signals from face match against the document portrait, hologram check, and mobile-app-vs-paste detection. The merchant receives a normalized identity assertion, not raw extraction output.
Onboarding flows
One SDK covers customer KYC, business-representative verification, employee onboarding, and high-trust marketplace registration. The merchant configures which evidence is required — document, selfie, address proof, employer verification — without integrating separate vendors.
Drop-in, not piecemeal
One signed webhook, one session API, one set of retention semantics. No stitching together a document-scan vendor with a separate liveness vendor with a separate fraud vendor — and no reconciling four different audit logs when something goes wrong.
How it works
Three steps from session start to compliant signal
1. Capture
2. Verify
3. Signal
Identity verification is the broad case — KYC onboarding, marketplace registration, business-representative checks, employee verification. Age verification is the narrow case (just the age tier). The same SDK handles both with different rulesets. Related coverage:
Age verification — narrow case for alcohol, gambling, adult content, and other age-gated commerce.
Regulated commerce — KYC plus age verification across alcohol DTC, gambling, adult content, and cannabis.
Logistics — driver onboarding, vendor due-diligence, and freight-broker fraud reduction.
Automotive — buyer and seller identity for high-value marketplace and financing flows.
US state coverage — which state laws cover identity verification, KYC, and biometric handling, and how Stile satisfies each one.
FAQ
Identity verification, the parts buyers ask about
Identity verification is one component of a KYC program — it confirms the user is who they claim to be and that the document is genuine. KYC adds the customer-due-diligence layer on top: sanctions screening, PEP screening, source-of-funds inquiry, and ongoing monitoring. Stile ships identity verification today and exposes the assertion shape (name, date of birth, document number, jurisdiction) that downstream KYC tooling consumes.
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Walk us through the onboarding flow you're building, the credentials you accept, and the jurisdictions you operate in. Configuration recommendation back same-week.
Bring identity verification to your stack
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