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Incode Technologies

Incode Technologies verifies identities and stops identity fraud for banks, fintechs and government agencies. More than 35 models built in house read the document, match the selfie to it, check liveness and look for deepfakes. GovFaceMatch checks a selfie against a state's own driver records. TrustGraph, launched in October 2026, lets institutions share fraud signals without handing over customer data. Banks design their own verification flows, set thresholds per check and send failed sessions to their own reviewers. Founded in San Francisco in 2015, Incode bought MetaMap in 2024, AuthenticID in 2025 and Identiq in 2026. Citi, Davivienda and Klar are named customers, and Experian builds Incode into its Ascend platform. Enterprise prices are quoted, and a self serve plan bills per transaction.

Last VerifiedNovember 3, 2026
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Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Website
www.incode.com
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 12 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
AA on AI CentralityThe artificial intelligence is the product. Remove the models and there is nothing left to sell.
Vendor Published

What a bank buys is the model's call on whether a face and a document are real and belong together, made by face matching, passive liveness and deepfake detection models. Orchestration through MetaMap adds deterministic steps around that judgment without replacing it.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
AA on Autonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system runs alone, what constrains it, and how a person checks it are all published: modes, thresholds, sampling or audit controls, and the route a case takes to human review.
Vendor Published

Each verification flow is built from condition nodes, and every branch ends in pass, fail, warn or manual review. Thresholds are adjustable per check, so a bank can run separate flows by region or product. Any session can be escalated to manual review. Sessions that fail automated checks open a case for the customer's own reviewers, who pass or fail it with a stated reason. Cases close with an audit trail and a tamper evident evidence export. Threshold values are the customer's to set, and no sampling of automated passes is published.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
BB on Model Risk Management and TransparencyReal transparency mechanisms are published, such as per alert explainability, confidence scoring or split testing, without the validation package or supervisory mapping behind them.
Vendor Published

Each decision returns module scores for document, liveness, face match and device, with a plain language summary of what drove it. iBeta's Level 3 presentation attack test under ISO/IEC 30107-3, announced March 2, 2026, reported zero attack and bona fide errors on iOS and Android. A Purdue University study of nine deepfake detectors is cited in Incode's favor. A 99.80 percent figure appears with no method, and model validation and drift monitoring are not published.

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

False rejections at Davivienda fell from 12 to 5 percent and fraud from 0.5 to 0.1 percent, reported by its digital channels director. Klar's chief operating officer credits a 50 percent rise in credit access for thin file users and 1.8 times more purchases. Interac is quoted on choosing Incode for TrustGraph, while the up to 53 percent fraud uplift from early access names no institution. A claim of more than 7.1 billion checks comes with no method.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
Vendor Published

Biometric identifiers may train Incode's models where law allows, with consent where required. The self serve data processing addendum lists model training as a purpose Incode controls, with end users opting in through a separate checkbox. TrustGraph, launched in October 2026, keeps each institution's records with that institution and matches fraud signals by cryptography. Age checks are kept out of training. No stated boundary keeps one bank's applicants out of models serving another.

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

A privacy notice revised July 27, 2026 covers people verified through the service and sets out when Incode acts as processor and when as controller. Transfers run under standard contractual clauses. The biometric data policy keeps biometric data no longer than three years after a person's last interaction. The self serve data processing addendum deletes customer data within 30 days of termination and offers the subprocessor list on request.

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

A SafeBase trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 and ISO/IEC 30107-3, with documents behind an access request. FedRAMP appears there at the Moderate level. Incode's November 2025 announcement describes FedRAMP Ready status after a readiness assessment, with authorization still to come. MetaMap shows its own SOC 2 and ISO 27001 marks, so whether it shares the same scope is left open.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
AA on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is stated and a formal admission process stands behind it: a register entry, an eCBSV enrollment, a payment network partner admission, or presence inside SAR or CTR filing paths.
Vendor Published

Kantara's Trust Status List shows Incode Omni approved as an identity proofing component at Identity Assurance Level 2, effective November 14, 2025 and valid to November 30, 2028. It certifies identity proofing assurance rather than any model. Incode publishes no financial license of its own, and its self serve terms say it is not a consumer reporting agency and bar using results for credit decisions.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
BB on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureAn independent demographic evaluation the vendor has submitted to, such as the NIST face evaluation class, or a governance framework with named process behind it.
Vendor Published

ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification covers the AI management system. Incode submits its face recognition to NIST's FRTE evaluations, which measure demographic differentials independently. The face recognition page claims consistent accuracy across ethnicity, age and gender but shows no figure for any group. No bias testing method of Incode's own is published.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
Vendor Published

The self serve terms provide the service as is, make no warranty on the customer's decisions and cap Incode's liability at 12 months of fees, so the institution carries the loss. Its reviewers can reopen a failed session as an incorrect rejection and pass it by hand. Verified people get access, correction and deletion rights through a webform, but no route to contest a failed face match.

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

More than 35 detection models are built in house, which Incode says lets it retrain against a new attack in days. Identiq, acquired in June 2026, supplies the cryptography behind TrustGraph. The subprocessor list is available only on request, so whether an outside model provider touches biometric data cannot be confirmed.

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

Experian embeds Incode natively in its Ascend platform, Equifax is a named partner, and GovFaceMatch matches selfies against Georgia's driver records. The integrations marketplace lists Salesforce, ServiceNow and Okta. Mambu, Temenos, FIS, nCino, Apiture and Sopra appear in the developer hub as planned integrations, not live ones.

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

An unnamed major cloud provider hosts the service with a four hour recovery time objective and a one hour recovery point objective. No hosting region is named. The FAQ mentions regional storage options and possible on premises setups, but commits to neither and asks buyers to confirm both with Incode. GovFaceMatch runs Incode's models inside the state DMV's environment, and age checks can run on the user's phone.

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

Enterprise contracts are quoted, and no rate or tier is published. A self serve Basic Plan has its own published terms, dated April 21, 2026. It bills per transaction at a unit price set in the checkout order form, paid once a year in advance for a 12 month term. A transaction counts once any identity check runs in a session, whether or not onboarding finishes. The plan renews on its own, and the unit price then rises by 6 percent or the urban consumer price index increase, whichever is greater.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
Vendor Published

Financial services, fintech and neobanks, and crypto each have their own pages, beside government, telecom and other industries. The financial pages work through KYC, the Bank Secrecy Act and FinCEN customer identification rules. Incode says it serves eight of the top ten US banks and four of the top five in Latin America, and offers kiosk and in branch channels beside web and mobile. MetaMap adds government database checks across Latin America and Africa.

Tracked Since Listing

Product updates

Material product, regulatory, evidence and commercial changes at Incode Technologies, 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.

Oct 26, 2026Security / compliance

Incode achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its AI management system, issued by Sensiba LLP, an ANAB accredited certification body, after an independent audit. The certificate covers the AI systems behind the Incode Omni identity platform across design and development, training and evaluation, deployment and monitoring. It was issued in October 2026, is valid through October 2029, and is viewable in the Incode Trust Center.

Bears on: Security Certifications and Trust CenterSource
Oct 19, 2026Product / capability

Incode made TrustGraph available in production on 19 October as a module that can be added to Flows and Workflows. It checks whether identity data from a session has appeared before, in the customer's own history or across Incode's network, returns signals in real time during the session, and links connected sessions in a Fraud Ring Explorer.

Bears on: AI CentralitySource
Sep 21, 2026Integration / interoperability

Incode's platform release, in production from 21 September, adds a GovDataMatch provider for US driver license verification against AAMVA's updated DLDV 3.0 service, with fuzzy name and address matching, AKA names, driving privilege status and indefinite expiration handling, plus two new result fields in the API. As a breaking change in the same release, the capture endpoints now reject uploaded images unless a flow explicitly allows manual ID upload or the new selfie upload from gallery setting, which is off by default and carries a fraud risk warning.

Bears on: Core Systems and Integration DepthSource
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Compared With

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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
Not published as a figure. The self serve Basic Plan is charged per transaction at a unit price set at checkout, paid yearly in advance.
Enterprise contracts are quoted after a sales conversation. The self serve Basic Plan runs for 12 months on a volume of transactions bought at checkout, at a per transaction unit price stated in the order form. A transaction counts once any identity check runs in a session, even if onboarding is not completed. When the volume runs out, access pauses until more is bought. The plan renews automatically for another 12 months at the same volume, and the unit price rises by 6 percent or the urban consumer price index increase, whichever is greater. Not tiered. The Basic Plan has its own data processing addendum, and the subprocessor list is available on request. No implementation fee is published. Basic Plan fees are paid once a year in advance and are not refundable. Support is by email only, with no service level or uptime commitment. Vendor Published

Terms come from Incode's own Basic Plan terms and data processing addendum, both dated April 21, 2026. The unit price itself appears only at checkout, and enterprise prices are not published.

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