Trust and safety verification data, shaped for review queues
Trust and safety verification data is only useful in the shape your queue consumes. A registry lookup that returns a wall of text helps an analyst; a normalized record with entity status, jurisdiction, and a match result helps an entire risk engine. Recordpipe builds the second kind.
The pattern: your platform submits the counterparties you need verified — sellers, providers, merchants, hosts — and gets back structured public-record signals matched to each one. Business registration status. License standing for regulated categories. Corporate officers and registered agents as filed. Every response carries a capture timestamp and a match result your rules can branch on, so approvals, holds, and escalations happen in the engine, and analysts only see the cases that genuinely need eyes. It is verification data as infrastructure, not as a research task your team performs one seller at a time.
Business registry and license verification at onboarding
The highest-value moment for verification is before the first transaction. At onboarding, the question is simple: does this seller exist as a registered business, and is this provider actually licensed for the category they want to sell in?
Recordpipe answers from the public record. A point-of-onboarding check matches the applicant's claimed business identity against registry data — entity name, status, jurisdiction, formation details — and, for regulated categories, against public licensing data normalized for automated comparison. Clean matches flow through. Mismatches, lapsed registrations, and unlicensed applicants route to review with the specific discrepancy attached, so the analyst starts from evidence instead of a blank search bar.
Scope grows with you: platforms typically start with a single high-risk category as a pilot and extend to the full marketplace once the feed proves out. The $500 scoping tells you which registries and license types are feasible before anything is built.
Change detection: the check that doesn't expire
A verification performed at onboarding is a snapshot, and snapshots age. The seller who was a registered business at approval can dissolve the entity, let a license lapse, or change status entirely — and the platform that only checks once will not know.
Change-detection feeds close that gap. Recordpipe re-checks your verified population against refreshed public records on a contracted cadence and pushes a webhook when something material moves: a registration goes inactive, a license status changes, an officer listing is amended. Your queue receives the delta — what changed, from what, to what, captured when — not a request to re-review everyone. The same infrastructure that runs our own products processes over one million public records nightly, so reconciliation of a large seller base is a scheduling decision, not a scaling project. Most platforms pair both patterns: API checks at the front door, batch re-verification behind it.
Public-record signals for investigations
Beyond the queue, T&S investigation teams use public-records data to see structure that individual account reviews miss. Corporate filings connect entities: a banned seller's registered agent, mailing address, or officer names reappearing behind a fresh storefront is a signal an account-level review never surfaces.
Recordpipe can deliver investigation-ready corpora — registrations, filing histories, and status records across the jurisdictions your marketplace touches — structured so your fraud and abuse tooling can join them against internal account data. The boundaries stay firm: public records only, owner names and mailing addresses as published in public filings, no scraped private contact data, and enrichment is your call. This is raw public data, not consumer reports — Recordpipe is not a consumer reporting agency, and use cases that touch eligibility decisions get a compliance review at intake.
What a delivery looks like
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| submitted_entity | The seller or provider identity your platform submitted for verification |
| registry_match | Match result against public registry data, with the matched legal entity name as filed |
| entity_status | Current registration status (active, inactive, dissolved, delinquent) as published |
| jurisdiction | State or registry jurisdiction of the matched entity |
| formation_date | Entity formation date as published in the public record |
| registered_agent | Registered agent name and address as filed — useful for cross-account linkage |
| license_status | License type and standing for regulated categories, normalized for automated rules |
| change_flag | What changed since the last check: status, license, officers, or nothing |
| capture_ts | Timestamp of the underlying record capture — the freshness your risk engine reasons about |