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Trust at every step of hiring.

Veref is the trust layer for remote hiring. Verify who is on camera, that their answers are their own, and that their references are real. One platform. Three modules. Zero guesswork.

No credit card required. 14-day pilot. GDPR and UK GDPR ready.

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Senior Backend Engineer, Round 2

Integrity 94 / 100
ID match
99.1%
Voice authenticity
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Response latency
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Trusted by talent teams hiring remotely at scale

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The remote hiring trust gap

Three lies have broken remote hiring.

Remote interviews rest on three assumptions that no longer hold. Veref closes all three.

Deepfake interviews are now trivial.

Free, consumer-grade tools overlay someone else's face and voice onto a webcam in real time. The person on screen may not be the person you're hiring.

50%

of businesses have encountered deepfake hiring fraud. Source: Gartner, 2024.

AI co-pilots answer the questions.

Candidates run ChatGPT, Claude, or purpose-built interview assistants in a second window. The face is real. Every answer is machine-generated.

17%

of HR managers have directly encountered a deepfake in an interview. Source: Resume Genius, 2024.

References are email addresses, not people.

Every incumbent reference tool takes a candidate-supplied email at face value. It could be a friend, the candidate themselves, or an AI persona.

$15,000

average cost of a bad hire from unverified credentials. Source: U.S. Department of Labor, 2023.

One platform. Three modules. Shared trust layer.

The stack a video call and a reference tool can’t give you.

Each module stands alone. Together, they form a verified candidate graph that gets more useful with every hire your team and network make.

Veref Interview

The interview room built for integrity.

Browser-native video interviews with pre-interview ID verification, continuous face match, deepfake and voice-clone detection, AI co-pilot signals, and a live integrity score the recruiter can act on.

  • Government ID + selfie liveness pre-interview
  • Virtual camera detection at the system level
  • Real-time transcript with AI-shape flagging
  • Evidence clips auto-captured at anomalies
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Veref Passport

Verify once. Trusted everywhere.

Every verified candidate earns a portable, candidate-owned profile. They skip re-verification at every other employer on the Veref network. The candidate controls who sees it, and can revoke access at any time.

  • Persistent, candidate-owned identity record
  • Consent-based sharing, revocable per employer
  • Interview history hashes, not raw footage
  • Free for candidates, forever
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Veref References

The first references you can actually trust.

Every referee goes through the same identity verification as the candidate. No more email-based reference checks. Relationships are cross-matched against LinkedIn and employer records before a single question is asked.

  • Identity-verified referees, not email addresses
  • LinkedIn + employer record cross-match
  • Structured templates and rating scales
  • References travel with the candidate's Passport
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The cost of doing nothing

The numbers are not getting better on their own.

Hiring fraud has moved from edge case to baseline. Every quarter without verification is measurable risk, on your P&L and on your security posture.

0%

Businesses that have encountered deepfake hiring fraud

Gartner, 2024

0%

HR managers who have directly seen a deepfake in an interview

Resume Genius, 2024

$0

Average cost of a single bad hire

U.S. Department of Labor, 2023

0 in 4

Candidate profiles projected to be fake by 2028

Gartner, 2024

Enterprise security, candidate-positive by design

Verification the compliance team can sign off on.

Privacy-first, human-in-the-loop, fully auditable. Candidates own their data and can export or delete it at any time.

  • GDPR and UK GDPR

    Lawful basis, DPA on request, EU and UK data residency options.

  • EU AI Act ready

    Human-in-the-loop by default. No automatic candidate rejection, ever.

  • Biometric best practice

    Templates stored, not raw images. Deleted on candidate request.

  • SOC 2 Type II planned

    Audit engagement planned for our first year of operation. Progress tracked publicly in the changelog.

  • ISO 27001 planned

    Controls framework mapped to ISO 27001 Annex A. Certification planned after SOC 2.

  • Bias-tested

    Models evaluated across demographic cohorts before release and on every update.

Security policies

Org: Northwind · 214 seats

  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • SSO / SAML 2.0
  • IP allowlisting
  • Session recording encryption
  • Automatic key rotation
  • Audit log export (SIEM)

Threat blocked · 14:17

Virtual camera driver detected on candidate device. Session halted before join. Evidence saved.

Answers for heads of Talent, People, and Security

Frequently asked questions.

No. Veref sits next to your ATS. You keep Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or Workday. We integrate at the interview and reference stages and push verified outcomes back into the ATS of record.

No. Veref Interview runs in Chrome and Edge on desktop. Candidates click a link, pass a quick identity check, and join. No plugins, no extensions, no installs.

Candidates benefit from Veref. They verify once and carry that verification across every employer on the network, skipping re-verification everywhere else. Their Passport is portable and candidate-owned. We do not auto-reject anyone; every flag is evidence for a human recruiter.

We combine identity verification at entry, continuous face match against the verified ID, voice authenticity analysis, virtual camera driver detection at the system level, gaze and latency signals, and active challenges the recruiter can trigger. Signals are weighted into a live integrity score.

We store the minimum needed: biometric templates (not raw images), session recordings with configurable retention, and evidence clips linked to flagged events. Candidates can export or request deletion of their Passport data at any time.

Yes. Veref is human-in-the-loop by design. We never auto-reject a candidate. Every risk signal is presented as evidence alongside the raw clip, transcript, and timestamp, so the recruiter makes the hiring decision.

Most teams are interviewing inside a single afternoon. Enterprise rollouts with SSO, SCIM, and ATS integrations typically land in two to three weeks.

Pricing is a platform fee plus a per-candidate fee. Starter is $499 per month plus $20 per candidate. Growth is $1,999 per month plus $15 per candidate. Enterprise is custom. Candidates and referees never pay.

See Veref in a live interview. 25 minutes.

A demo interview with our team. We will show identity verification, deepfake detection, and a reference check end-to-end on your real-world candidate flow.

14-day pilot. No credit card. Data residency in UK, EU, or US.