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Prove

Prove verifies people through the phone rather than through a document and a selfie. Its premise is that a mobile number held in someone's name for years, tied to a SIM in a device they physically possess, is harder to forge than an image, and its chief executive describes the approach as deterministic identity, arguing that a model can fabricate a face or clone a voice but cannot replicate a decade of real behavior.

Underneath sits the Prove Identity Graph, which the company puts at more than a billion privacy preserving identity tokens covering about 90 percent of digitally active adults across more than 200 countries and regions, fed by telecom signals, bank and public records and over a decade of proprietary data. Signals are orchestrated by the Prove Global Fraud Policy, an internal defense engine, not an insurance policy, that combines possession, ownership, SIM and device trust, identity matching, address intelligence and mobile network analysis into a single pass or fail outcome.

The financial lines are separate products: Pre Fill populates an application from verified data and bundles sanctions, watchlist and politically exposed person screening at no additional charge; Account Opening activates an account from a name and phone number; Unified Authentication replaces one time passcode flows; Know Your Payee verifies a payment recipient before funds move; and an agentic suite verifies AI agents and binds signed consent into a token that travels with each agent action. Healthcare, gaming and marketplace lines run on the same graph and are not covered in this profile.

Prove names Bank of America, Citibank, Synchrony, FNBO and Bilt Mastercard among its customers, states it serves 19 of the top 20 United States banks, and distributes through AWS Marketplace, the Temenos Exchange, Jack Henry, Backbase, Alloy and FICO. The company is Prove Identity, Inc. of New York, founded in 2008 as Payfone by Rodger Desai and Brad Rosenfeld.

Last VerifiedOctober 2, 2026
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Founded
2008
Headquarters
New York, United States
Website
www.prove.com
Categories
aml-kyc-financial-crime, fraud-and-transaction-risk, payments-intelligence
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 5 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
CC on AI CentralityArtificial intelligence is present but peripheral: a feature layer on a product whose value stands without it.
Vendor Published

Deterministic identity is how the chief executive frames it, and the load bearing assets bear that out: a registry of identity tokens, cryptographic proof of device possession and telecom facts on number tenure and SIM changes. Learned components sit at the edge, in behavioral signals and the newer agentic suite, so possession checks and the registry would survive without models.

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

A determination goes back to the institution and Prove stops there, opening no account and generating no filing, while the agentic suite verifies agents rather than acting as one. The Prove Global Fraud Policy resolves signals into a single pass or fail that invites straight through wiring, with no override path or manual review route published.

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

Fraud reduction is stated as 75 percent relative to attack rate, acknowledging a baseline, alongside an 87 percent instant verification success rate. False positive and false negative rates, recall on a known fraud set and model documentation for a bank's identification program 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

Brandt Smallwood, president of Bilt Rewards, reports the Bilt Mastercard reaching a 90 percent pass rate on card applications with implementation in 48 hours. A Visa partnership claims onboarding up to 79 percent faster, and the bank and brand counts vary across its pages.

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

Signed consent bound into an identity token travels with every agent action, so authorization can be checked from the token rather than a vendor log. Whether verification outcomes or behavioral history train models for other customers is not stated, though Prove says its foundation compounds with every interaction.

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

Identities are held as tokens and verified fields return only after explicit consumer consent, backed by a privacy notice, a data rights portal and a do not sell route under Californian law. Nothing describes the legal basis for carrier data reaching Prove or what consumers were told, and the Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) is not addressed.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
Vendor Published

Seven unlabeled badge images sit in the footer, and bank grade security is claimed, but no framework, certification or trust center is named in text. Large bank customers will have reviewed its controls, though that review is not published.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
Vendor Published

Customer identification and taxpayer identification rules, stablecoin legislation and deposit insurance guidance appear in its material, and no financial authorization is claimed, as expected for a supplier. It never addresses whether it acts as a consumer reporting agency when telecom and public record signals inform account decisions.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
DD on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureNothing published on a product where the bias risk is concrete, such as credit decisioning or underwriting with no fair lending, disparate impact or adverse action disclosure.
Vendor Published

The model rewards a long tenured mobile account in a person's own name, so young people, prepaid users and those on a family plan in someone else's name are likely to fail more often, a group that overlaps with people underserved by banks. Pass rates by tenure, line type or age go unpublished, and its financial inclusion writing addresses access in general, not its own checks.

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

Terms of service are published, but no warranty, indemnity, liability cap or service level credit is published for a verification. Its Global Fraud Policy is an internal decision engine and transfers no risk to Prove, whatever the name suggests.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
Vendor Published

Inputs are described by category, from SIM and device trust to bank and public records, and credential exchange partners such as Aeropay and Checkr are named. No carrier or aggregator behind the telecom signal is named, nor any model provider for the agentic suite.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
AA on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed integrations with the systems of record, core banking, policy administration, custodial or contact center platforms, verifiable in marketplace listings or public API documentation.
Vendor Published

Full API documentation at developer.prove.com, client and server SDKs and a public code repository sit beside listings on AWS Marketplace and the Temenos Exchange. Jack Henry, Backbase and Alloy are named partners, and older interfaces received fraud policy output without integration changes.

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

Hosting region, tenancy and end of contract handling for tokens and verification history go unstated, though the registry holds tokenized records for a very large share of United States adults. Research presences in Europe are not residency commitments.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
Vendor Published

Rates, units and contract terms go unpublished, though sanctions and politically exposed person screening is included at no extra cost and developers can open a free account before any sales contact. At its volumes, whether charges follow verification events, active users or modules decides the cost.

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

Nineteen of the top 20 United States banks are served, Bank of America and Synchrony among them, with separate lines for banking, fintech and lending, crypto and insurance, and material on stablecoins and payee verification. Presences in the United Kingdom and Brazil extend reach, while healthcare and gaming lines run on the same graph.

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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. No price, tier, unit or contract term is shown; a free developer account is available.
Quoted per customer. Nothing published states whether the basis is verification events, monthly active users, seats, product modules or a platform fee, or whether Pre Fill, Account Opening, Unified Authentication, Know Your Payee and the agentic suite are licensed together. Sanctions, watchlist and politically exposed person screening is included at no additional cost within the onboarding products. The entry path is a sales conversation, with a free developer account for technical evaluation. Not tiered on any published pricing. Prove publishes a privacy notice, full terms of service, a data subject rights portal and a do not sell or share route, and holds identities as tokens with the SIM as a proxy. No data processing agreement, sub processor list, retention schedule, hosting region or model training commitment is published. No implementation, onboarding or professional services fee is published. Prove states five minutes to deploy core API functionality and quotes Bilt Mastercard completing implementation in 48 hours, offers client and server software development kits and a free developer account, and extended its fraud policy output to older interfaces without migration work. Distribution through the Temenos Exchange, Jack Henry, Backbase and Alloy may place deployment cost with those partners. Vendor Published

Prove publishes no price or billing unit as of 2 October 2026. Two of the three things a buyer usually wants are public even though the number is not: the scope of what is included, through the stated bundling of sanctions, watchlist and politically exposed person screening at no additional charge, and the integration effort, through public documentation and a free developer account. The AWS Marketplace listing adds a procurement route that can carry privately negotiated terms. Nothing indicates whether charges follow verification events, monthly active users, seats or modules.

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