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.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
15 of 15 axes rated · 11 graded A or B
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.
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.
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 Decisions are called explainable, but accuracy figures, model documentation and an evaluation method are unpublished.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Pricing
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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.
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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.