Field notes from the trust layer.
Engineering deep-dives, research write-ups, product updates, and the customer stories that drove them.
- 11 min readEngineering·
Engineering the trust layer: a year in review
What we shipped, what we removed, and what we learned operating in regulated industries through 2025.
- 16 min readResearch·
Verifying AI-generated images at scale
A technical deep-dive into how we detect synthetic media without breaking on adversarial inputs.
- 9 min readCompliance·
Compliance without snapshots
How we replaced the auditor-screenshot ritual with continuous structured evidence.
- 7 min readProduct·
Designing for the operator, not just the analyst
A redesign of the case-review surface, told through screenshots and shipped principles.
- 13 min readResearch·
Why we built our own perceptual hash
pHash and dHash break on AI-upscaled images. Here is the algorithm we ship instead.
- 8 min readCustomer Stories·
Inside our newsroom integration with Reuters
A walkthrough of the workflow we built with the Reuters verification desk — and the trade-offs we accepted.
- 12 min readIndustry Insights·
The synthetic-ID economy: what we’re seeing in 2026
Field data from a quarter of synthetic-identity attempts across our banking and fintech customers.
- 10 min readProduct·
Webhooks at Verify: every event we emit, and why
A reference guide to our webhook taxonomy, retry policy, and delivery guarantees.
- 14 min readCompliance·
How chain-of-custody actually works
A non-marketing walkthrough of how Verify produces evidence that survives cross-examination.
- 15 min readSecurity·
A threat model for liveness attacks in 2026
The attacks our red team rehearses, the ones we’ve seen in the wild, and the ones we expect next.
- 11 min readResearch·
C2PA in production: what worked, what didn’t
One year of deploying Content Credentials at scale across newsrooms, banks, and government agencies.
- 13 min readEngineering·
Migrating from a single-tenant to a workspace model
A four-month engineering story about restructuring our data model around organisations and roles.
- 10 min readResearch·
Document verification beyond OCR
Why optical character recognition is the easy half of document fraud detection, and what the hard half looks like.
- 9 min readIndustry Insights·
The economics of false positives in KYC
A model for the true cost of false positives — and why the right threshold isn’t the obvious one.