Know who is driving your car, before the keys move.
Verification is three questions answered before a stranger drives away: is this person who they say they are, are they allowed to drive, and what did the car look like when it left. KeyProof asks all three through one link in the chat the booking already happened in, and files the answers as one record per hire.
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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Three checks, one link, one record.
- The person, matched to their document
- The hirer photographs their photo ID and takes a selfie. The document is checked as genuine and the face is matched to it, so the person collecting is the person who verified, not a friend with a borrowed licence.
- The licence, checked by you on gov.uk
- Not a glance at a plastic card. The hirer generates a one-time DVLA share code, and one tap from the booking opens gov.uk with it prefilled. Status, categories, points: the government shows you, not us. How the licence check works.
- The car, photographed at both ends
- Timestamped photos at handover and again at return, on the same record as the signed agreement. “That mark was already there” stops being an argument in either direction. How condition capture works.
- Nothing changes about how you sell
- The link goes in the Instagram or WhatsApp conversation you are already having. No app for the hirer to install, no account to create, and your own agreement and your own deposit throughout.
The same everywhere, written for somewhere.
The product works identically wherever you hire from, because it lives in a chat rather than at a counter. What differs is the trouble: PCN exposure, prestige fleets, airport traffic, student turnover. Each page below is written about one place rather than find-and-replaced. London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow and East London.
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
Verify the hirer.
Then hand over the keys.
One link before they arrive, one record when it is over, and a name and a date range on every hire you run through it, kept for two years.
KeyProof is selecting UK car hire operators for its private beta, ahead of public launch in January 2027.