Johnny Ayers

Two big announcements from the Socure team! Today, Fravity AI joins Socure and is being released as RiskOS_Agents, our new agent-building and financial crime ontology layer, wired into the nucleus of RiskOS and built natively on top of our proprietary data and models. It completes the loop needed to maximize decisioning accuracy and cost efficiency at scale. We're also announcing a new strategic investment led by Summit Partners at a $5.2Bn valuation, along with a completed tender offer for our employees. Grateful for the support of Andrew Collins, Matthew Hamilton, and their entire team, alongside new strategic investors from Goldman Sachs, Docusign and continued support from Wells Fargo and others. The market opportunity ahead of us is almost limitless as we can no longer trust what we see with our own eyes. We're innovating and hiring quickly to match the demand and pace of change coming from AI-powered fraud. We have already hired >100 engineers year-to-date so if building AI-native trust infrastructure to stop synthetic identity fraud, deepfake injection attacks, and money laundering at internet scale sounds like your kind of problem, come join us!

Today, Socure turns 14. We incorporated on August 24, 2012, on a bet that digital onboarding would accelerate faster than anyone believed, and that web and social identities, graph databases, and machine learning could verify more people on the internet than the credit bureaus could. It didn't work exactly as planned. In October 2014, the social networks cut off our data access and wiped out nearly every variable in our models. We spent all of 2015 rebuilding every service from scratch. No selling, no POCs. Just heads down in the data inventing what would come next. Grit ensued. What we found: the variables we'd built across email, phone, IP, geolocation, and device data were some of the most predictive signals for fraud and third-party identity theft that existed. Combined with bureau, carrier, and tax data, we could immediately beat every incumbent on fraud capture, false positives, and KYC approval rates. So we relaunched the modern version of Socure in May 2016, and we've kept inventing every day since. Where that's gotten us 10 years in: 50B+ known outcomes, 1B+ SocureIDs, and the industry's largest identity graph. 3,000+ customers across 190+ countries and 40+ verticals, 50+ patents granted with 25 more filed, 40+ products shipped supporting 100s of distinct use cases throughout the entire customer lifecycle, 6 first-party AI agents with more coming soon, and one RiskOS platform tying it together. None of this happens without the 600+ Socureans who show up to build it every day, and the customers and partners who trust us to keep their platforms fast and frictionless for real users and closed to bad actors. We're in the middle of the biggest technology shift of our lifetime, and we're grateful for the opportunity to have Socure's AI-Native Trust Infrastructure sitting at the epicenter of all of it. Happy birthday, Socure! The best is certainly yet to come.

Last week we announced $364M in Total ARR, up 63% year-over-year, and profitable. That number is the scoreboard. Here's the game underneath it. AI has made committing fraud cheap, fast, and easy. Anyone can generate a synthetic identity, a fake ID, a cloned voice, an aged face or fake resume in seconds. The old fraud stack with its static rules engines, 47 different point solutions, human review queues bolted together after the fact, was never built for this. It's already losing, and the losses are accelerating. That's why the market is pulling hard toward a small number of real platforms with proprietary data and solutions, and away from everyone else. The market now requires an AI-native layered defense silently working in concert with an AI on offense that analyzes and acts proactively on our customers' behalf. Defense: >> Stolen identities: Sigma ID v4.5, the industry's first transformer-based fraud model, catches up to 90% of third-party stolen identities at a 1:1 false-positive rate, already live at a top-3 bank. >> Fake documents: Predictive DocV 2.0 replaced a stack of narrow models with one engine scoring 2,400+ features per decision, catching 98.1% of fraud including injection attacks, more than 30% better than the next closest competitor. >> Sanctions risk: Watchlist AI cut false positives on sanctions screening by 89.5% while running sub-150ms. >> Device and behavioral biometrics fraud: our Digital Intelligence solution now processes 1B+ devices a month and is the only device solution in the industry connected to an identity graph (and SocureIDs) at this scale, free with RiskOS >> Local graph: a real-time velocity and rules engine to stop repeat internal attacks connecting any/every part of a user's identity to past and present activities, also free with RiskOS Offense: a fraud investigator historically spends 15-20 minutes per alert just assembling evidence before the investigation even starts. That's roughly $100B a year in compliance labor spent on work where a human's judgment adds nothing. We're building the AI agents that do that work instead, inside RiskOS. And when a customer's risk profile changes and we see it across our global graph, we push a notification automatically and let you deploy a strategy against it in real time. Socure is clearly one of the most interesting places to build in AI right now: our core products are themselves AI, they're what stops AI fraud, and now we're shipping AI agents to automate the decisioning and investigation end to end, on top of the best decisioning platform and largest identity graph in the world. If you want to work at that edge, we're hiring an intensely creative, competitive, and smart group of people to do exactly that, with close to 300 roles open across the business in H2. More on our agentic roadmap coming soon. Come join us! Link in comments.

The internet is starting to card everyone, and Inc. Magazine just wrote about who's building the infrastructure for it. Socure led the piece. Worth reading in full — link below. Age verification is one of the fastest-growing parts of our business, on top of the rapidly scaling finserv, fintech, gaming, AI, crypto, marketplaces, and government work we already do. Not many jobs let you build things that touch and positively impact almost everyone who's ever gone online. We're hiring across the entire team if this is the kind of problem you want to come work on!

Everyone's falling in love with Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) right now but Socure and I fell in love with our version of the role almost a decade ago. We call them Solution Consultants. It might be the single most important team we have. Here's why: we don't sell software. We sell decisions, and the most accurate ones in the industry at that. Identity and fraud decisions that are dynamic, personal, bespoke to the customer, the channel, even the season or a singular marketing event. Someone has to own the accuracy and the logic behind every one of those decisions running through RiskOS, tuned in partnership with that customer's specific risk or growth appetite. That's the full-time job of our Solution Consultants. Part product manager. Part data scientist. Part fraud ops. Part growth hacker. Part compliance officer. Part artist. We just crossed $350M/posted another 60%+ growth in Total ARR, and are profitable. And we're scaling this team hard and fast because of it, both leaders and ICs. We run a solution-centric, hands-on problem solving GTM motion across 40+ verticals, in 190+ countries, solving hundreds of distinct use cases, each with its own regulatory, fraud exposure and technical realities. The SCs have been our secret weapon to helping our customers succeed across all of them since we started rapidly scaling a decade ago. And I've said this internally more than once: if I weren't running the company, I'd want to be an SC at Socure. I refer to myself internally all the time as an honorary SC. It's the seat with the clearest view of where our product actually meets the customer's problem, where product strategies are implemented and the performance is actually realized across all of our 30+ products and the 100s of capabilities our RiskOS platform offers. Management consultants, product builders, systems thinkers, extraverted engineers and data scientists, ex-founders — this role was built for you. If you love getting in the room and on the road with customers, really want to know and learn how every product works down to the metal, and want to build at pre-IPO hypergrowth scale: slide into my DMs or apply below. Or do both. And if the SC role isn't the right fit but Socure is where you want to do your best work, we're adding 300+ new headcount in 2026. See every open role at Socure in the comments -

Proud to share that Socure and Xcelerate Solutions have been awarded a five-year, $163 million contract to bring modern identity intelligence to Login.gov, the single trusted account that gives Americans secure, private access to participating federal agencies. The GAO estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion and $521 billion a year to fraud. That's not an abstract number, it's money stolen from programs American citizens rely on, and it's a problem that gets harder every year as fraud rings and nation-state actors get faster and more sophisticated. This is what getting government identity right looks like: a digital-first experience that's secure without being a burden, and private without sacrificing trust. When it works, most citizens never think about it. That's the point. Incredibly proud of the Socure team for this one. We keep leading from the front, building ahead of where fraud is headed, not just where it's been, and this contract is another proof point that Socure is the identity and risk platform the internet runs on. Link in comments -