Borrowed documents
A real ID, used by someone else. Document OCR reads the ID, then the live facial scan has to match the person holding the phone — not just the photo on the card.
Identity verification
Captured on their phone. Gone within a day.
RentKey's tenant ID verification reads the applicant's government ID, matches it to a live facial scan, and checks for tampering, replay and deepfakes — in about three minutes, on their own phone. The scan itself is deleted within a day.
- About three minutes, on the applicant's own phone
- Face match with 478-landmark liveness
- Biometric scans deleted within a day
The animation shows the full run — six stages in about twenty seconds. Click any stage to jump to it.
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Stage 1 of 6
Read, not photographedFront and back are read edge to edge. The machine-readable zone is checked against the printed fields and the document is scored for tampering.
Why identity first
Every other check depends on knowing who you're checking.
A fake ID on a rental application undermines every check that follows it — credit files, sanctions hits and eviction records are only as good as the identity behind them. RentKey verifies the person first.
Synthetic identities
A document that doesn't correspond to a real, verifiable person. The scan tracks 478 facial landmarks and their blendshapes, and ties the match to the person holding the phone, not just a name and a birthdate.
Screen & photo replay
A photo of a photo, or a video played back at a camera. Liveness detection and tamper and replay checks catch flat images and screens before a match is even attempted.
The liveness check
One live face, one document. One decision: is this the same person.
The document is read and cross-checked, then the live face is matched to its portrait while a liveness prompt is tracked on 478 facial landmarks and blendshapes, with an anti-spoof check and a deepfake check on the same frames.
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Document read
Front and back are read edge to edge: name, date of birth, document number, expiry.
02
Barcode and MRZ cross-check
The printed fields are checked against the barcode or machine-readable zone on the same document.
03
Name agreement
The printed name, the encoded name and the name on the application have to agree.
04
Tamper score
The document is scored for alteration; a low genuineness score fails the scan outright.
05
Face found and sized
A face has to be found in both the portrait and the live frames, large enough to compare.
06
Face match
The live face is compared to the document portrait and given a confidence score, not a guess.
07
Liveness prompt
A prompt chosen at random, blink, turn, nod or smile, tracked on 478 facial landmarks and their blendshapes across at least ten frames.
08
Anti-spoof
A photo, a screen or a printed mask held up to the camera is detected and rejected.
09
Deepfake check
Synthetic or swapped faces are flagged on the same frames.
The process
Four steps, about three minutes, no app to download.
The whole verification runs in the applicant's phone browser — nothing to install.
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Upload or scan ID
The applicant photographs or scans their government-issued ID directly in the browser.
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Live facial scan
A short guided scan captures a live video of their face. A still photo isn't accepted here.
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478-landmark face analysis
The live face is matched to the ID photo, with a liveness prompt tracked on 478 facial landmarks, anti-spoof and deepfake checks.
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Signed result returned
A verification result and signed hash are sent to the landlord's report. The biometric data is deleted within a day.
About three minutes in total. No app download. Works in any modern phone browser.
What is kept, what isn't
Biometric verification privacy: the scan does its job, then it's gone.
Biometric data is used to make the match and deleted within a day. Only the result is kept.
Kept
Verification result
Signed verification hash
Document type & country
Timestamp
Discarded
Facial scan frames
ID image
Biometric templates
Accepted documents
One of these, from the applicant's own country.
Acceptance varies by issuer. Some older or non-standard documents may not read cleanly, and the applicant will be asked for another.
Passport
Driver's licence
Provincial photo card
PR card
Green card
US state ID
Early access
Verify the person before you check anything else.
Request early access, or see what identity verification costs as part of a report.
