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LOCK IN PROOF, UNLOCK TRUST: SECURING ALL CRITICAL COMMERCE WITH PROOF

Everything from notarization to identity-assured eSign, all in one platform.
Darren Louie
June 21, 2023

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As the world goes digital, it’s becoming increasingly common that you will never
physically meet your customer in person, they could even be fraudulent or
completely fake. And as software and AI is suddenly capable of creating
life-like content, it’s never been harder to discern who created what, and if
what you hold is authentic. We’re approaching a crisis in confidence. When it’s
possible to spoof any person’s identity or easily falsify business records,
commerce and society will come to a screeching halt. The world runs on trust
and, in this digital age, trust is getting harder to come by.

These are not new issues, just today’s versions of a centuries old problem - how
do we create trust in society? 

For centuries, we’ve solved this problem with notaries who verify your identity
and create a legal record. A notarization is proof that your signature was not
forged and that you really signed it. This record becomes legally binding and
self-validating, meaning that anyone can rely on it without any further
evidence. Notarizations create trust in our world today. 

Without trusted records, county recorders would be unable to transfer land
rights when a property is sold - your home could be sold out from underneath
you. Wealth advisors would be unable to make decisions on your behalf - clients
could deny that they approved, upending the entire industry. Doctors would be
unable to trust the power of attorney granting your partner rights to make
decisions to save your life - you’d suffer waiting for the courts to decide if
you’d get the care you need. 

Put simply, society can’t function without trusted records.

This is why we pioneered the remote online notarization category and created
Notarize, giving people instant access to create trusted records. Notarize is
accessible, easy to use, and more secure than what was ever possible on paper.
The first ever mortgage to close virtually, the first online auto sale, the
first will to ever be signed online - were all performed on Notarize. We’ve
served millions of customers, and we’ve had an incredible impact. Notarize has
secured more than $185B in real estate closings and accelerated our business
customers’ operations by more than 34 million days. We’ve helped companies save
more than 15K hours per year and up to $110 per transaction.



It’s always been our mission to bring trust to every agreement. In order to do
that, society will need reliable infrastructure to emerge; a platform that
combines auditable identification with cryptographic evidence. It might not have
been obvious, but that’s exactly what we’ve been doing at Notarize for the past
8 years.

That’s why today, we’re announcing Proof, the world’s first identity-assured
transaction management platform.

With Proof we’re solving this century old problem, one that nobody else has
dared to do before. We are digitizing trust for all the critical commerce that
powers our economy.


SIGNATURES ARE NOT ENOUGH, YOU NEED PROOF



When risk is low and speed matters, get it signed. When the law dictates it, get
it notarized. When trust matters, you need Proof. 

We are introducing NIST IAL2 compliant signatures called Proof. It’s a new type
of transaction where auditable identification meets a digital signature. A
strong form of identification, combined with biometric verification, creates a
level of security that meets national security standards. 

Anybody can click on an email and sign. With Proof, signatures are backed by
strong identification which makes it harder for somebody to forge your
signature. Today you will use Proof to sign documents, tomorrow you will use
Proof to secure all interactions with your customers. Use it to collect wire
information or to approve critical account changes. This is trust in the digital
world, where every interaction can be cryptographically secured so trust cannot
be forged.

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NOTARIES UNLOCK DECENTRALIZED TRUST

Humans will always be the center of trust, not AI. Automated machine learning
and AI will have points of failure, and businesses will need to verify an
identity with humans they can trust. Notaries are trusted agents of the state
who are trained to verify identities and record transactions. For centuries they
have been trusted with this responsibility, and in the digital world it will be
no different. With Proof, our IAL2 verification can step up to real humans when
trust is at risk. We are launching a unique meeting experience that connects
your customers to the Notarize Network, so notaries can verify someone’s
identity without having to perform a notarization. Notaries will meet with your
customers live, and face to face, to perform IAL2 identity verification as a
trusted referee. 

An enterprise will never sufficiently achieve identity verification at scale
without humans in the loop. This failover to a human process has created a huge
burden on businesses. This often leads to long wait times or a backlog of
customers waiting for a business to manually review identity. We have perfected
this experience with the Notarize Network. Today customers connect with a notary
in less than a second, there are no long wait times. This requires zero
scheduling and customers can sign at their convenience because the network is
truly on demand. Because the Notarize Network is available 24/7 and 365 days a
year, notaries can provide that human in the loop at enterprise scale. The
future of decentralized trust relies on the scale and sophistication of the
Notarize Network.


FRAUD PREVENTION AT THE CORE

When you pay for something today, payment processors are monitoring every credit
card swipe for fraud and risk. Arguably the use of your signature carries even
higher risk; you could lose your home or your life savings. We believe that
every time you sign on the dotted line, your signature and identity should be
protected as well.

For all the things you sign, Proof is the only platform that helps prevent your
signature from being forged. Whether a document requires a basic signature or a
notarization, Proof monitors the risk for fraud in every transaction. When a
signature looks suspicious the transaction is flagged for review. With Proof,
businesses will have fraud signals and enriched identity data on every
transaction. This is how forgery is prevented in the digital world. Once we go
digital, nobody is going to go back to trusting pen and paper.


LOCK IN PROOF, UNLOCK TRUST



It’s not enough to have a document with a signature, it needs to be backed by
auditable identification and cryptographic evidence. We’re excited to announce
that Enhanced Signer Identification will be available across the entire platform
for every transaction including notarizations. This additional evidence provides
an audit log about the identity, not just the transaction. It will include
evidence of the signer’s location, device fingerprint, public records and scan
of their ID and data about that person in public records. 

That auditable identification is then fused to the document via heavily guarded
cryptographic keys. This creates a cryptographic digital signature on every
document which can’t be forged or tampered with. Now you know who signed the
document not just by looking at what’s printed on the face of the document, but
by looking at the unique set of bytes. Your identity could be cryptographically
bound to any medium in the future: a web form, user generated content, or even
just a transmission of data. The same application of PKI (public key
infrastructure) is how computers trust each other on the internet. We’re taking
that same concept to make it possible for humans to trust each other online.


A SMART TRUST PLATFORM

If a contract isn’t properly signed and legally binding, can it be trusted at
all? Businesses do not need AI to understand the contents of an agreement that
was generated by their own system. Instead, they need to understand all the
rules which are governed by state/federal law, regulatory requirements, industry
acceptance and the risk in critical agreements. In short, they need to be
certain that they can trust the person signing and that it was legally executed.
Every agreement has different rules for how it should be signed. In most states
a deed to a property requires a notarization; but in FL, a notarization with an
additional witness is required.  , Having businesses try to understand all these
rules becomes a huge burden.

Our Smart Execution Engine already understands how to perform a notarial act in
every state we support. In real estate, our platform takes into consideration
the state law, county recording rules and underwriting policies to make
recommendations on how to execute the document so that it’ll be legally accepted
by all parties. 

More broadly, our platform today can recognize certain documents and recommend
that the user provide a secondary form of ID, route documents to notaries in
specific states or prompt for signatures from additional witnesses. In the
future our Smart Execution Engine will take company risk and compliance policies
as another input into the decision. Businesses will be able to decide when to
use basic eSign, notarization or a Proof all on one platform. 

Customers have told us loud and clear, they don’t want to hire an entire legal
team to manage the product and technology, and with Proof we’re delivering on
that promise.


BUILT TO THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF TRUST AND SECURITY



Society already has reliable infrastructure and systems to transfer money. These
systems were built with the highest grade of security and reliability. The
infrastructure that you use to sign critical agreements in life should be held
to the same high standards. 

Coming soon, we will achieve NIST IAL2 certification for our identity
verification technology. This allows Proof to serve transactions that have
specific regulatory requirements around identity verification. The National
Highway Traffic and Safety Association requires the use of NIST IAL2
verification in order to electronically sign odometer disclosures. To help stop
the opioid crisis, the DEA has mandated IAL2 verification for any clinicians
that are prescribing controlled substances. We have seen more industries (from
real estate to financial services) gravitate towards the NIST standards because
developing their own identity standards is fraught with problems..  

Later this year we will be issuing AATL compliant digital certificates for all
notaries on our platform. This alleviates notaries from having to procure their
own certificate that is used to cryptographically seal every notarization. An
agreement notarized on Proof will be self-verifying and secure. You can trust
that the signature has not been tampered with when you see that green checkmark
in Adobe Reader. No other platform will perform notarizations to this level of
security. It requires FIPS 140 Level 2 compliant hardware and a certified
WebTrust audit, but we’ve always chosen to do things with the highest level of
integrity. This is how we put society’s trust in our signatures.


THE FUTURE WITH PROOF

We are excited to announce a ton of new innovation with Proof, but we have
aspirations to go beyond what we have delivered today. 

In the future, every consumer will have a Proof verified identity. Any time a
person sells a home, buys a car, applies for a loan, or signs an important
agreement in life, they will do it all with Proof. Because of that, it’s
possible that we already know your customer before they get to your business. We
will tell you if you can trust this signature or if it looks like fraud. With
trust you can establish relationships quicker, without asking for all the same
information again which introduces friction. We will use biometrics to unlock an
identity and cryptographically sign everything from documents to data. And
ultimately we will make it easier for customers to do business with you because
trust will be instantaneous. This is the future of trust in the digital world. 

Welcome to the start of an exciting new journey. Over the next several weeks we
will be sharing more stories from our customers and the technology that we’re
building. 

For more immediate information please visit the following resources or reach out
to our team.

 * A Note from Our Founder
 * A Letter to the Notary Community
 * Click-through Demonstrations (Business | Title | Lender | Signer)
 * Proof transactional pricing

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learn more

Darren Louie
VP, Product

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