---
title: "Verificaa.com — Carlos Arias"
description: "ID verification and fraud prevention for Latin America. It exists because verifying who you are about to do business with is genuinely hard there, and that costs people real money."
url: "https://carlosarias.com/projects/verificaa"
---

# Verificaa.com

Built because fraud in Latin America is common, and foreigners had no way to check who they were dealing with.

Founder, architecture, data pipeline, AI

- **Category**:  SaaS
- **Released**:  2021

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## The problem

Fraud is common across Latin America, and foreigners doing business there have almost no way to check who they are dealing with. The data exists — police records, attorney general filings, business registries — but it is scattered, inconsistently formatted, and effectively unsearchable.

## What it does

Verificaa normalises that data and puts a single lookup in front of it. Enter a person or a business, get back what the public record actually says.

An AI layer sits on top to flag patterns a human would miss: identities that appear across unrelated filings, businesses registered days before a transaction, documents that do not reconcile.

## Engineering notes

- Data-mining pipeline that crawls open Colombian and LATAM data and normalises it
- Integrations with police, attorney general, and business databases
- REST API with key management for developer access
- Custom PHP dashboard with a complex user management system
- LLM-driven fraud detection infrastructure

## Result

Users have reported the platform helping in two cases where someone's safety was at risk, alongside a steady stream of prevented financial loss.

## Skills applied

### Engineering

- REST API design
- API key management
- Custom PHP dashboard

### Data

- Data mining
- Crawling
- Normalisation pipelines

### AI

- LLM fraud detection
- Pattern analysis

## Built with

- PHP
- REST API
- LLM
- Data mining
- Stripe

## More work

  [Nova 2026 to present The platform this site runs on. Nova is a team of AI agents that handles the repetitive work behind digital marketing, rank tracking, local SEO, citations, competitor research, content, QA, small site fixes, so that the hours I spend go to strategy instead. It runs my own projects and client websites in production. Agentic Tools Websites](/projects/nova)[Crawller April 2026 to present A crawler I built because the existing ones were not good enough for what I needed, large-scale collection, knowledge extraction, and indexing that AI can actually use. Tools Agentic](/projects/crawllr)[Medellin.co 2022 to present A city platform for travelers, expats and local businesses. It is where I learned RAG and autonomous content generation properly, at a scale where getting it wrong was visible. Websites SaaS Agentic](/projects/medellin-co)

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