Smarter Age Verification With the Highest Standard of Assurance

For too long, age verification has been treated as a compliance checkbox — a necessary step to satisfy regulation, but not much more. At Incode, we take a different approach. We believe age assurance should deliver the highest standard of protection for minors, while still making the process seamless for legitimate users.

Why Levels of Assurance Matter

Not all age verification is created equal. Different approaches rely on different data, and the level of protection varies widely. Some providers do the bare minimum, while others stop short of blocking more sophisticated fraud. To make sense of the differences, it helps to think in terms of levels of assurance.

The Four Levels of Age Assurance

Most vendors operate at Level 1 or 2, and a handful reach Level 3. Incode is unique in delivering Deepsight-Powered Age Assurance, where multiple verification methods are reinforced by contextual risk signals and reusability. This creates the highest level of assurance available today.

What is Deepsight?

Deepsight is Incode’s advanced fraud analytics layer. It goes beyond biometrics, analyzing behavioral patterns, device integrity, and network signals to detect anomalies before a user ever uploads an ID. By integrating these signals early in the process, DeepSight blocks sophisticated attacks like synthetic identities, replay attempts, and AI-generated deepfakes — without slowing down legitimate users.

The result is a system that feels fast and intuitive for real users but is uncompromising in protecting minors and stopping fraud.

Why the Highest Standard Matters

Deepsight-Powered Age Assurance brings all of this together:

• Legitimate users pass quickly through guided capture flows, with instant recognition on return sessions.
• Fraudsters are stopped early thanks to Deepsight’s multi-layer defenses against synthetic IDs, injection attempts, and deepfakes.
• Minors are protected through conservative thresholds and multiple lines of defense, validated by independent benchmarks.
• Global compliance is exceeded through NIST testing, regulator validation, and bias audits across demographics.

Backed by Data and Scale

We do not just claim the highest standard; we measure it.

• Ranked top 3 globally in NIST’s Challenge 25, the toughest test for child safety (ages 13–16).
• Achieved 2.7 mean absolute error (MAE) in Child Online Safety benchmarks, making our models among the most accurate at detecting minors.
• Processed over 80 million liveness checks in the past year, which translates to nearly 100 million age estimations.
• Delivered the fastest response time among leading IDV providers at 230 ms.
• Performed continuous bias audits across gender, ethnicity, and skin tone, ensuring fairness in every market.
• Achieved 99% accuracy in identifying minors (ages 6–17) in internal testing.

These results demonstrate that Incode operates at scale, but also at a proven level of accuracy and resilience.

How Incode Stacks Up

Here’s how our approach compares to traditional vendors:

This is the difference between simply “doing age verification” and adopting the highest standard of age assurance.

The Business and Safety Impact

When businesses review the cost of age assurance, the question isn’t just “are we compliant?” — it’s “what measurable value are we getting?” . Deepsight-Powered Age Assurance, organizations get measurable outcomes:

• Safer environments for minors through multiple independent checks and conservative thresholds.
• Stronger fraud prevention by detecting synthetic IDs, injections, and deepfakes before they succeed.
• Higher trust and conversion as genuine users are guided through a seamless, fair process.
• Regulatory resilience with data-driven validation and audit-ready results.

Age verification should not be the lowest bar to clear. With Incode, it becomes the highest standard to subscribe to: protecting minors, building trust, and enabling growth.