Zyphe

What Zyphe is

Zyphe is an identity assurance vendor. It sells verification checks to platforms that must confirm who a user is or how old they are, and AI compliance agents that prepare review work for regulated firms. The company is Zyphe Inc., and its own pages place the team in New York, London and Milan. For a site operator the relevant product is the age-verification flow the vendor markets as KYC for adult, which its page describes as built for adult content platforms and age-gated services. Its about page says the company was built for regulated institutions, payment institutions and crypto platforms, so adult sites are one use among several.

What it sells an operator

The adult product is a verification flow. The page lists the methods the vendor supports: an NFC chip read of an identity document, biometric liveness with deepfake detection, open banking attestation, mobile network operator data, credit card verification and the EU Digital Identity Wallet. The vendor then returns a cryptographic proof that the user is over a threshold such as 18 or 21, without passing on the date of birth, name or document image. The platform receives a yes or no with an attestation, and it chooses which methods it accepts for each jurisdiction in the dashboard. A user who has verified once can reuse that proof on other integrated platforms without re-uploading; a credential that expires means a fresh check, and one tied to a document reported lost or stolen is revoked.

Performers are handled as a separate workflow. The adult page says creators on a platform with user-generated content go through full KYC plus the 18 USC 2257 record-keeping requirement, with the records sharded across a threshold-encrypted vault where the custodian of record, not the platform, holds the decryption quorum. Creator-side checks run on a continuing KYC cadence that includes sanctions and adverse media screening, which the page says visitor checks do not need.

For integration, the developers page describes a backend flow: the platform creates a verification request with its secret key, opens a hosted URL for the user and handles a signed webhook. Webhooks carry statuses, scores, extracted fields and the platform's own customData. The page says document images are left out of webhooks and are available only through a separate export API, enabled per organization.

Pricing is metered per check. In October 2026 the pricing page lists 500 free identity verifications each month, covering ID verification, liveness and face match, and $0.33 per verification above that. AML screening, KYB and the other checks in its rate table are separate paid services. KYB is priced per jurisdiction because registers charge differently by country, and ownership discovery through parent companies and trusts is metered behind a cost preview with a budget the customer sets.

Agent plans and the compliance side

The compliance work is sold as agent tasks. The agent price list read in October 2026 sets Pay as you go at per completed task rates with no monthly minimum, with a sanctions or PEP screening alert review at $2 per completed task. The Growth plan carries a monthly agent spend minimum of $5,000, which the page says is credited against agent usage and is not a platform fee. Enterprise is quoted after a scope review and covers SSO, deployment requirements and agreed service levels.

The terms that decide the choice

The pages contain no adult content policy for the operator's own material. The terms bar use of the services for any unlawful purpose and for fraudulent or deceptive activity, and they let the company suspend or end access without prior notice where it finds a violation, a security or legal risk, or a legal requirement. The adult page does not describe an approval step before an adult platform connects.

The terms page, read in October 2026 and dated February 2025, caps total liability at the greater of $1,000 or the amounts the customer paid for the services in the preceding 12 months. It excludes indirect losses, including loss of data, profits and reputation, and unauthorized access to personal data. The services are offered as is and as available, with no guarantee of uninterrupted access. Disputes go to the courts of Delaware, and EU users keep their mandatory consumer rights.

Data handling is the vendor's central claim. The terms say personal data sits under the control of the end user and that the company does not keep personal information in a centralized database. The adult page adds that source documents are sharded across decentralized storage nodes with a 29-of-100 threshold scheme, and the FAQ says each user receives a Storage Vault Key that controls the documents in a personal vault. These are the vendor's own design statements.

Refunds and a cancellation term are not described.

The adult page also sets out the vendor's reading of the UK Online Safety Act's highly effective standard, the EU Digital Services Act and US state age-verification laws, and describes each check as a signed, timestamped attestation that a regulator can review. The about page states that the company provides no legal advice.

Getting started and support

Signup is self-service. The operator creates an account, switches the dashboard to sandbox and generates keys from the API keys page. Sandbox uses the same host with sandbox=true on each call and a sandbox path on the hosted UI, and verifying yourself or a colleague on your company email domain costs no credits. A public link needs no code: the platform shares a hosted flow URL and receives results in the dashboard or by webhook.

For a backend integration, the developers page describes one POST to create a session, a URL to open and one webhook handler. The handler verifies the signature on the exact bytes received, rejects stale timestamps, returns a success response promptly and treats repeat deliveries as idempotent, because failed deliveries are retried. The page says any language that can send HTTPS works and the npm packages are optional. The FAQ says integration can often be done in minutes, which is the vendor's own claim, and a go-live checklist covers the move from sandbox to production.

Support channels named on the pages are a demo booking, sales contact and a contact form. The pages do not state support hours or response times for the verification product.

Company and track record

Zyphe Inc. is the company name in the terms. The about page places the company in New York, London and Milan, and describes its team as compliance operators who have worked queues, alerts and audits. The pricing page cites Azimut, and reports that agent deployment there saved 1,000 hours of first and second line analyst time over 6 months. That is the vendor's account of a customer result. The pages do not give a founding year, named certifications or staff numbers.

Who it suits

The age-verification product fits an adult platform or paysite that wants age checks without holding identity documents, and that can build against a sandbox. The main draw is the separation between the age proof and the stored document, which the vendor puts at the center of the adult product. Per-check pricing suits a site that stays near the free allowance or grows at a steady volume. The pricing page sends volumes above 5,000 verifications a month, and custom integrations, to an agreed quote. The adult pages do not publish a per-site price for adult platforms.

For adult lawyers and compliance, the fit is the performer vault: a producer or platform that has to keep 2257 records can hold them with a custodian of record outside the platform. The agent products fit a company that runs KYB reviews, sanctions and PEP alert review and enhanced due diligence cases. The vendor's agents prepare evidence, findings and a recommendation, and the company keeps approval and escalation. The SAR and STR packages are drafts, and filing stays with the company's authorized officer. It does not fit a small team that needs a flat price with no quote, or one that wants published service levels without an Enterprise conversation.

The caveats are the low liability cap, the absence of an adult policy in the terms, Delaware governing law, and KYB pricing that varies by country. The vendor's case is strongest where a verification flow leaves the identity document with the user.