Verifast AI

Verifast AI is a browser-based identity checking service that cross-matches documents, faces, and sanction lists in under a minute.

How to use Verifast AI

1. Visit the Verifast AI dashboard and create an account with your work email.
2. Add an application from the home screen and copy the API key shown.
3. Drop the low-code widget into your sign-up form or call the REST endpoint directly from your back-end.
4. Ask your client to upload a passport, driving licence, or national ID and take a selfie through the widget.
5. Watch the verification status appear in real time; green means approved, amber signals manual review, red blocks access.
6. Download the audit PDF for compliance files or push the result to your CRM through the Zapier connector.

What I Learned While Trialling Verifast AI

Advantages

• Quick set-up: I linked the API to a test project in ten minutes without extra help.
• Clear interface: the dashboard shows pass, review, and fail buckets with colour-coded charts that even non-tech colleagues understood.
• Smart document reading: it recognised slightly blurred passports and still pulled name, date of birth, and issuing country correctly.
• Face match confidence score is simple; anything above ninety per cent rarely produced an error during my checks.
• Flexible billing: pay-as-you-go credits worked well for our small pilot, and unused credits rolled over to the next month.
• GDPR tools built-in: data retention rules are editable, so I could purge images after thirty days automatically.

Drawbacks

• False positives: two legitimate applicants were flagged as politically exposed even though neither appeared on open sanctions lists.
• Slow support chat: a weekday ticket took almost twenty hours for a first response, which felt long during a live launch.
• Limited language set: French and Spanish OCR worked, yet Polish IDs required manual review every time.
• No mobile SDK yet, so adding verification inside a native iOS app needs a webview, which hurts the look and feel.
• API documentation skips edge cases; I had to test multiple error codes to learn the correct retry logic.

Wrap-up

Verifast AI trimmed onboarding time for my test users and kept compliance officers happy thanks to automated audit files. Occasional false alerts and the missing mobile kit mean it is not a perfect fit for every use case, yet the speed and clarity delivered during most checks outweighed those snags for our team. I will keep it in my toolbox for projects where quick document and selfie matching are more important than deep localisation or instant support.