# How the check works Source: https://mr.verifyyou.com/how-it-works Liveness and uniqueness in a few seconds, no government ID, and the honest line on what it does not do. A human check is the step you put in front of an action that confirms a real, live, unique human in seconds, and returns a simple verified or denied. It proves humanness and uniqueness. It does not prove a name or a legal identity. Here is the whole of it. ## Two questions, a few seconds Real and unique are really two questions, and the check answers both in the same moment in the browser. Is a live person present right now, and not a photo, a recording, or a deepfake. This is what stops a bot or an AI-generated respondent from clearing the door. Have you already seen and paid this person before. The new respondent is compared against the ones you have already verified, which is what catches duplicates and survey farms. A duplicate fails on uniqueness, a bot fails on liveness, and a survey farm fails both the moment the same face appears again. ## You decide what counts as unique Uniqueness is only useful if it matches the way you run studies, so it is yours to scope. Ask for uniqueness per survey, per study, or per panel, whatever bucket fits the question you are answering. Need one response per person within a single survey? Scope it there. Protecting a standing panel from the same human enrolling twice? Scope it to the panel. ## Genuine repeat respondents are not punished A real worry with any verification step is that you will add friction for your good participants. You do not. A respondent who passes carries a portable credential across your surveys, so a genuine returning participant is recognized rather than asked to prove themselves from scratch. The work happens on the first visit. After that it is continuity, not a fresh hurdle. ## Put the check right before the incentive Where you place the check matters as much as the check itself. For conversion, the placement to reach for is right before the incentive or the payout. By the time a respondent gets there they have done the survey work and want to finish, so real people push through, while the accounts that balk at putting a live, unique face on the line at that moment are usually the ones you were about to pay for nothing. Placement turns the check into a filter on who collects, not a hurdle early in the flow. ## The honest boundary A human check is additive to your quality stack, not a replacement for it. It sits alongside your attention checks, speeding detection, and geo and device signals, and answers the question most of those cannot: whether there is a real, unique, live human behind the response at all. It is not KYC and does not prove anyone's name or legal identity, on purpose. For survey work you almost never need to know who someone legally is, only that they are a real person you have not already paid. ## What we keep To recognize a returning respondent, we keep a face vector, a one-way numerical representation of facial geometry, an array of numbers rather than an image, checked against the ones already held. That number is not a picture and, on its own, is just a string with no name attached. What your dashboard sees is a verdict, verified or denied, never a face. The full detail on what is collected and how long it is kept lives in our privacy policy, which is the document to rely on for retention specifics. ## The easiest way to see it The best way to know whether the numbers hold for your audience is a free pilot with a branded share link, a check you push to a batch of your own respondents with no engineering work, so you can watch real people run through it before writing integration code. If that is useful, [book a chat with us](/meet-us). # Talk to us Source: https://mr.verifyyou.com/meet-us Book a chat with us or grab the assets. The fastest way to see whether VerifyYou fits your panels is a quick chat. Fifteen minutes is plenty for a first conversation, whether we are meeting at an event or on a call.
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## What fifteen minutes looks like No slides unless you want them. We would rather hear how you run studies, where drop-off and duplicates actually cost you, and whether a real, unique, live human at the door would help. If it looks like a fit, the next step is usually a free pilot with a branded link you push to a batch of your own respondents, so you are looking at your own numbers rather than ours. ## Take the assets with you The Human Data Premium, the longer argument for proving a real human at the door. The whole thing on a single page, easy to forward or print. How liveness and uniqueness work in a few seconds, and how to get a branded pilot link for your respondents. ## Where this goes Book a time at [sales.verifyyou.com](https://sales.verifyyou.com/), or email David Graham at [david@verifyyou.com](mailto:david@verifyyou.com). Whatever you send lands with a person, not a queue, and you will hear back. If you are reading this after the show, a call works just as well as the hallway would have. Best,
The VerifyYou team # VerifyYou for market research Source: https://mr.verifyyou.com/one-pager The whole thing on one page. Real, unique, live humans in your panel, before the incentive is paid.
**Stop paying for the same person twice, and for bots not at all.** VerifyYou confirms that each respondent is a real, unique, live human before they reach your study or your incentive, without collecting extra PII. The check takes a few seconds in the browser, needs no government ID, and what your dashboard sees is a verdict, never a face. ## The problem, in third-party numbers
\~40%
of nonprobability survey interviews in 2025 were fraudulent, on the order of two billion responses.
Insights Association
99.8%
of standard survey quality checks passed by AI agents in one proof-of-concept study.
Westwood, PNAS
51%
of all internet traffic is now automated, surpassing human traffic for the first time.
Imperva, 2025
These are industry figures from third parties, not our measurement of your account. Generative AI lowered the cost to fake a person, so the volume keeps rising, and passive detection after the fact is a race you never fully win. ## What it is Two questions answered in the same few seconds. **Liveness:** a live person is present now, not a photo, a recording, or a deepfake. **Uniqueness:** you have not already seen and paid this person, scoped to per survey, per study, or per panel, whichever fits. A duplicate fails uniqueness, a bot fails liveness, a survey farm fails both. ## What it catches * **Duplicate respondents** taking the same study under different emails or phone numbers. * **Professional survey-takers** who speed-run incentivized surveys across many panels. * **Bots and AI-assisted respondents** that clear a simple bot check and read like a thoughtful human. * **Survey farms**, one human running thousands of accounts across platforms. ## What it is not Not KYC. It does not prove a name or a legal identity, on purpose, because for survey work you almost never need to know who someone legally is, only that they are a real person you have not already paid. It sits alongside your attention checks and speeding detection, not in place of them. A face vector is kept to recognize a returning respondent, an array of numbers rather than an image, and genuine repeat participants carry a portable credential so they are not asked to prove themselves twice. ## Where it fits Put the check right before the incentive. Real people push through because they want to finish, and the accounts that balk are usually the ones you were about to pay for nothing. ## See it for yourself A free pilot with a branded link, a check you push to a batch of your own respondents with no engineering work, so you can watch real people run through it before writing integration code. **Let's talk.** Book a time at sales.verifyyou.com, or reach David Graham at [david@verifyyou.com](mailto:david@verifyyou.com). Longer version in [the white paper](/white-paper).
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# The respondent experience Source: https://mr.verifyyou.com/respondent-experience One screen at a time: the click, the scan, the pass, and the gate opening into your study. Try the real check yourself.

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Four steps, one screen at a time. Every screen below is the real product unless it is marked otherwise. From your panel invite, or a link in your survey platform, Alchemer here, wherever you recruit. The link opens the check first, not your study. The handoff screen A few seconds in the camera with live prompts. No photo is shared with you or with your survey platform, only a yes or no. The face scan The scan ends one of two ways, and both are instant.
The scan ends
Pass Fail
Straight into your study
Screened out. Nothing to pay.

They pass

The success screen

Live and unique. They go straight on to your survey with a one-time password already filled in, then your questions. (Real product, demo partner brand.)

Survey login page pre-filled

The pass lane continues here: your survey's login page, password already in the box. With auto-submit on, they skip this page entirely. (Illustration; the real page inherits your study's theme.)

They fail

Denied screen

A duplicate face, a replay, or a bot. No password, no study, no complete, nothing to pay. They are routed to your panel's screen-out, and a new device or browser changes nothing, because the check recognizes the face. (Real product.)

The fail lane ends here, by design. There is no page after this one.

Same study: a dead end

Their face already earned its one password, and it is spent. One person, one response, permanently.

Your next study: welcome back

Recognized, less friction, and a fresh one-time password for the new study. You are never charged twice for the same human.

 ## Barely any friction for the people you want The whole point is that a genuine respondent hardly notices it. Real people clear the scan in seconds and are recognized on the way back, while the accounts you were about to pay for nothing quietly fall away at the door. It is a filter on who collects, not a hurdle for the people you want in your data.
How the check works Liveness and uniqueness under the hood, and the honest boundary. Book a chat with us Fifteen minutes on your panels, and a free pilot link if it fits.
# The problem, in third-party numbers Source: https://mr.verifyyou.com/the-problem How much of an online panel is really bots, duplicates, and survey farms, using published research rather than our own figures. It is a fair question to ask before you change anything: how much of the online data you collect is actually from real, unique people, and how much is bots, duplicates, and synthetic respondents? This is a plain look at that, using independent published research rather than our own numbers. Everything below is an industry figure from a third party, not something VerifyYou measured in your account, and we will be clear each time about whose number it is.