Onfido

Say a fintech needs to check a new customer's passport and selfie before opening an account. Onfido handles that step.

It is an identity verification tool that automates onboarding, checks documents and faces, and helps businesses meet global KYC and AML requirements.

Onfido positions its Real Identity Platform as an end-to-end system, and its checks use Atlas AI, which the company describes as fair, fast and accurate.

The focus is fraud: Onfido is built to catch advanced identity fraud, including deepfakes and account takeover, with several layers of detection rather than a single check.

On the practical side, developers can add verification through an SDK, while teams without engineers can build flows in Onfido Studio, a no-code workflow orchestration tool.

Automating onboarding is meant to cut the cost of acquiring customers, since fewer people need manual review.

Onfido suits finance, legal and other regulated businesses that must verify who they are dealing with.

Expect a platform sold to companies rather than a consumer app.