Every check you add is a reason to go elsewhere.
Operators who skip checks are the easier target. Every check you add moves a fraudster on to somebody else’s fleet.
Private beta applications open, public launch January 2027The hirer pays their own £4.99 verification feeSet up with you by a founder
No firm has signed yet. KeyProof is choosing up to five UK hire firms for its private beta, set up and walked through their first real hire by a founder: request beta access.
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Four ways firms get taken. One layer answers all four.
- The borrowed identity
- A real person’s documents, a different person collecting the car. KeyProof matches the photo ID to a selfie of the person actually booking, and at pickup you confirm the collector against that verified face. “Booking for a friend” stops at the kerb.
- The disqualified driver
- The licence card looks fine; the DVLA record behind it says revoked. A DVLA share code from the hirer, checked by you on gov.uk before every hire, catches what a glance at plastic never will, and may support your insurance position at the same time.
- The crash-and-run
- The car comes back wrecked, or does not come back at all, and the hirer stops answering. With a verified identity, a signed agreement and a deposit already held, you are not chasing a ghost. You are opening a case file.
- The chargeback
- “I never authorised that charge.” A signed agreement bound to a verified identity, with timestamped condition photos at both ends, is the kind of evidence that supports a chargeback dispute, sitting in one record instead of scattered across a DM thread.
Prevention is posture. Evidence is the backstop.
No tool makes fraud impossible, and anyone promising that is selling you something. What verification does is change your posture: the serious checks happen before the keys move, the opportunists self-select out when they see them, and if someone still gets through, you hold the evidence that turns a loss into a claim. KeyProof's private beta opens in November with a founding cohort of UK hire firms, and the whole flow is shown honestly in the demo. How it fits your day: how it works.
What every hire leaves behind
IdentityPhoto ID matched to a selfie
LicenceDVLA share code, for your own check on gov.uk
ConditionTimestamped photos, both ends
AgreementE-signed, sealed with a hash
DepositLogged, traceable to the hirer
Be the fleet
fraudsters skip.
A verified hirer, a DVLA share code ready for your check and a documented car, on every hire, in the chat you already sell in.
KeyProof is selecting UK car hire operators for its private beta, ahead of public launch in January 2027.