AML, KYC & Financial Crime
B

Baselayer

Baselayer verifies American businesses rather than consumers, combining secretary of state filings, court records, registries, lien data and taxpayer identification number checks with website, social and review signals to confirm that a company, its owners and its signers are real and legitimate, and adds credit, lien and litigation data for underwriting. Its identity network links business application activity across participating institutions to surface loan stacking, application velocity and synthetic business identities, and it is distributed through a strategic partnership with FIS Decision Solutions and ChexSystems. Agent products include Risk Co.Pilot for underwriting and a Know Your Agent service.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2023
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Website
baselayer.com
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk, credit-decisioning
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 11 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
BB on AI CentralityThe models are the engine of a core capability, layered on a product that would still function without them as a rules or workflow system.
Vendor Published

Machine learning clusters identity anomalies, spots velocity patterns and fraud rings across the network and drives agents such as Risk Co.Pilot. Underneath sits data aggregation and deterministic matching over public filings, a business verification service that would sell on its own.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
Vendor Published

Low risk applications pass automatically, while high risk cases reach a person with explainable risk signals showing why. Review queue design, threshold settings and sampling of automated approvals are not described.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
Vendor Published

Match rates and auto approval rates measure how often the system says yes, not how often an approved business proves fraudulent. Decisions are called explainable, but accuracy figures, model documentation and an evaluation method are unpublished.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
AA on Operational and Outcome EvidenceNamed customers with hard performance figures and enough method to test them.
Vendor Published

Nuvei raised match rates to 98 percent from about 60, LoanPro cut manual reviews by 60 percent, and Breakout Finance reports 98 percent lien matching accuracy. The figures come through the vendor with no baseline period.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
BB on AI Safety and Data StewardshipA categorical stewardship commitment is published without the retention schedule or the engineering detail behind it.
Vendor Published

Onward training is ruled out in writing: no platform may use Baselayer data to train its models, and activity linked across institutions is anonymized. Inquiry patterns still reveal which businesses an institution is evaluating, and what anonymized means in practice, whether participation is optional and how long contributed data stays are all undefined.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
Vendor Published

Officers, beneficial owners and signers are covered directly in a privacy policy issued by Osiris Ratings, Inc., doing business as Baselayer, which lists what is kept about the people connected to a looked up business. Retention lasts only as long as records stay useful, and no hosting provider is named.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
BB on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA recognized certification named in the vendor’s own material without the artifact, or with a scope or renewal question the buyer has to raise.
Vendor Published

SOC 2 Type II compliance under the AICPA framework is stated on the homepage. Trust portal, report request route and audit period are not offered.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
BB on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is clearly stated and appropriate to the product, with part of the verification left to the buyer.
Vendor Published

A plain position on the Fair Credit Reporting Act appears in the privacy policy: Baselayer is not a consumer reporting agency. Military Lending Act and death master file checks sit on the pricing page, and the scope maps to customer identification and beneficial ownership duties for business accounts.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
CC on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureResponsible artificial intelligence committed to in policy language with no evaluation behind it, on a product whose bias surface is modest.
Vendor Published

Online presence feeds credit risk scoring, so websites, social media and reviews shape a business's access to capital. Thin online footprints track owner age, rural location and immigrant ownership more than creditworthiness, and no demographic analysis or error rate is published.

AI Liability and Recourse
DD on AI Liability and RecourseNothing published on who bears the loss when the system is wrong.
Vendor Published

Flags such as synthetic or high risk can cost a business an account or loan, and network signals follow it to the next institution it applies to. Baselayer publishes nothing on who bears a wrong judgment and describes no audit trail, flag reason or route for the business to contest, though decisions are called explainable.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
BB on Model Supply Chain DisclosureSubstantial partial disclosure, or a chain that is structurally short: an explicit in house build, on premise deployment, per customer instances, or zero retention at the model layer.
Vendor Published

Sources are named in the privacy policy: secretary of state filings, court and lien records and sanctions lists, combined with proprietary and partner data. Providers for the clustering, scoring and agent components are undisclosed.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
Vendor Published

Delivery runs through a public API documented at docs.baselayer.com, an embeddable console and an MCP server for agents, with Exa and Nevermined as agent partners. Embedding in FIS Decision Solutions and ChexSystems reaches institutions through a core processor's portfolio, though it names no core banking or origination system integration.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud only with nothing stated, which is the category norm.
Vendor Published

Application and inquiry records from thousands of institutions sit in one shared layer. Hosting provider, region and data location are undisclosed for this domestic cloud service.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
BB on Commercial TransparencyA published plan ladder, billing dimensions, or a stated commitment such as no fees, so a buyer can size the cost before making contact.
Vendor Published

Plans are priced openly: Startup from $150 a month for 500 credits and Growth from $750 for 3,000, with no contract and a quoted Enterprise tier. Credits consumed per check are not listed, so a rate per verification cannot be worked out.

Institution and Segment Coverage
BB on Institution and Segment CoverageNamed segments with dedicated material behind part of the coverage.
Vendor Published

Banks and credit unions, fintechs and small business lenders head a segment list that also reaches marketplaces and the agentic economy. Coverage is domestic, verifying American entities only, with insurers and capital markets unaddressed.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Baselayer, each verified against a live source and tagged to the capability axis it bears on. Funding rounds and awards are not product changes and are not logged.

Sep 24, 2026Product / capability

Baselayer replaced GET /autocomplete with a session based Autocomplete API: the backend mints a short lived session with POST /autocomplete/sessions and the browser calls GET /autocomplete/businesses on each keystroke, so the API key never reaches the client. Each suggestion now describes a canonical business with its officers, registered agents, addresses and liens, and carries a token valid for 15 minutes that is redeemed as business_token on POST /searches. A JavaScript/TypeScript SDK with a ready made typeahead component handles session refresh and retries, and the old route was set to stop working on 25 September.

Bears on: Core Systems and Integration DepthSource
Sep 22, 2026Product / capabilityPartially verified

Baselayer launched its Agentic Identity Suite, extending its business verification and risk infrastructure to AI agents that transact on behalf of people and businesses. The suite groups Know Your Agent (verifying which platform runs an agent, which person or business delegated it, and whether that delegation can be proven), Counterparty Verification, and a Trusted Registry of verified businesses and authorized agents, alongside the MCP released on 8 September.

Bears on: Autonomy and Oversight ModelSource
Our read on these updates →Tracked since Sep 2026
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Commercial

Pricing

Vendor-published figures are labeled as such. Figures labeled “Estimated” are derived from third-party sources and have not been confirmed by the vendor.

Entry Price Pricing Basis Data Protection Terms Implementation Source
From $150 a month on the Startup plan with 500 credits a month. Growth from $750 a month with 3,000 credits. Enterprise is quoted.
Credit based monthly plans, with one credit wallet across every Baselayer product. Startup starts at $150 a month for 500 credits and three API keys; Growth starts at $750 a month for 3,000 credits, five API keys and priority support. Every plan includes business verification, lien, litigation and bankruptcy search, sanctions checks, taxpayer identification number verification, online presence review, industry prediction, business prefill and Military Lending Act, servicemember and death master file checks, with API and console access. Enterprise is custom priced and adds unlimited API keys, lien filing, portfolio monitoring, a dedicated account manager and a support service level; the page says typical enterprise customers save 30 to 50 percent against Growth pricing. Overage credits are available at higher rates. The number of credits each check consumes is not stated on the pricing page. Not tiered on the pricing page. No implementation or setup fee is published. Startup and Growth need no contract and can be paid monthly, upgraded or canceled at any time. Vendor Published

Taken from Baselayer's own pricing page on 2 October 2026. Plans are priced in credits, so the cost of a given verification depends on credits per check, which the page does not list.

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