A glance at a plastic card is not a licence check.
The licence that costs a hire firm most is the one that looks fine: current photo, right name, and six points with a disqualification behind it. The only place that truth lives is the DVLA record, and KeyProof is built to check it there, before every single hire.
Live from the DVLA. Not from a photo.
KeyProof uses the DVLA's own Share Driving Licence service: the renter generates a one-time check code, so the result comes from the government record, not a photo of a card that could be borrowed, expired or fake.
Full or provisional, current or revoked, penalty points with their codes, and any disqualification, exactly what decides whether this person should be driving your car, and whether your insurance would pay out if they crash it.
The licence check is one step of the KeyProof link you drop into the Instagram or WhatsApp conversation you are already having. The renter never installs anything, and you never handle their documents.
The check result is stored against the booking alongside the verified identity, the signed agreement and the condition photos, one timestamped record if the hire is ever disputed. The result, not a copy of the licence: we hold less by design.
An unlicensed driver is an uninsured claim.
If a disqualified or unlicensed driver crashes your hire car, most policies give the insurer room to walk away, and the loss is yours. A live DVLA check before the keys move is the cheapest underwriting a small fleet can do. KeyProof is pre-launch and being built with a founding cohort of UK hire firms; the checks run through the DVLA's own service and specialist providers, with the full flow shown honestly in the demo. For how the wider handover works: how it works. For what it costs: plain per-car pricing.
Check the licence
before it checks you.
Founding spots are open to a handful of UK hire firms: locked pricing for life, and a direct hand in shaping the product.