Know who is driving your van, before the keys move.
Verification is three questions answered before a stranger drives away: is this person who they say they are, are they entitled to drive this van, and what did it 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 mate with a borrowed licence doing the moving run.
- The licence, checked by you on gov.uk
- Not a glance at a plastic card. The hirer generates a one-time code on the government’s own Share Driving Licence service, and one tap from the booking opens gov.uk with it ready to paste: status, categories, points, shown to you by the government and not by us. For a van the categories line matters most, because it says whether the licence covers what you are handing over. How the licence check works.
- The van, photographed at both ends
- Timestamped photos at handover and again at return, on the same record as the signed agreement, and on a working van that means the load area and the interior as well as the panels. “That scrape 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 flow does not care what is on the number plate.
KeyProof was built for independent UK hire operators who take bookings in DMs, and van fleets live in exactly that economy: weekend moves, trades, one-off jobs, booked over Instagram and WhatsApp and handed over on trust. The checks are identical whether your fleet is cars, vans or both on the same account, because the questions are identical: who is this, can they drive it, what state did it leave in. How it fits your day: how it works, or walk the whole hirer flow yourself in the demo.
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 van.
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.