Identity infrastructure that explains itself.
OKIAS (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED builds identity verification for teams who have to justify their decisions to someone else — a regulator, an auditor, or the customer who was declined. We are registered in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, and we serve customers globally.
One API, four checks, one decision.
OKIAS is a verification engine you call once. Behind that call, four independent checks run and combine into a single, auditable outcome.
Document verification
OCR reads the document, then the fields are validated against the rules that govern them — ICAO 9303 MRZ check-digits on passports, per-country checksums on national IDs — with tamper analysis on every capture.
Liveness detection
The applicant takes a short live selfie in the browser. An AI model reviews several of the captured frames for signs of a printed photo, a screen replay or a mask, and uncertain results go to review.
1:1 face match
AI vision compares the liveness selfie to the portrait printed on the document and scores the match. Low-confidence matches are routed to review.
Sanctions screening (beta)
Names are checked against the OFAC, EU, UN and UK sanctions lists. A name hit alone never auto-declines a person — it routes to a human.
AI-native, with deterministic guardrails.
Two things have to be true at once: the parts that can be proven should be proven, and the parts that need judgement should be explained. Here is the order a verification runs in.
Deterministic math runs first
MRZ check-digits are recomputed under ICAO 9303 and national ID numbers are validated against their own checksum rules. This part is arithmetic: it either balances or it does not, and no model opinion can override it.
Liveness is assessed
A short live selfie is captured and reviewed by AI for presentation attacks, then the selfie is matched to the document portrait.
AI vision does the judgement work
Document imagery, portrait comparison and tamper signals are analysed by AI vision — the part of the problem where rules alone fall short.
The decision explains itself
Approve, review or decline arrives with machine-readable reason codes and a risk score, and for AI-scored checks the verification detail shows the per-stage scores and weights behind it — so a compliance reviewer can audit the outcome instead of trusting it.
Universal passport coverage comes from ICAO 9303 machine-readable zones, which every issuing country follows. On top of that we maintain deeper document specifications for the markets our customers actually onboard from.
We would rather be checkable than impressive.
Our buyer is usually a compliance engineer who will recompute the numbers we put in front of them. So we hold ourselves to claims that survive that.
- We publish the mechanism, not a black box: reason codes ship with every decision, and AI-scored checks expose their per-stage scores and weights.
- Sample data on this site is labelled as sample data, and any MRZ specimen we show carries valid ICAO 9303 check digits.
- Charged only when a verification is approved. At today’s list prices an AI KYC draws 15 credits ($0.15), a Manual KYC draws 5 credits ($0.05) and a BYOK verification draws a platform fee of 5 credits ($0.05). Declines, expired sessions and errors cost nothing, and a review costs nothing unless it ends approved.
- Capabilities that are still in beta are labelled beta; capabilities we have not built are listed as roadmap, never as features.
These are things people ask us for. They are not part of the product today, and we will not sell them as if they were.
- KYB — business verification, directors and UBO
- PEP and adverse-media screening
- Face de-duplication across accounts
Need one of these on a timeline? Tell us at sales@okias.io — customer demand is how we order the queue.
OKIAS (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED
A single-member private limited company incorporated in Pakistan. Contracts, invoices and legal correspondence are issued by this entity, and our registered office is the address below.
- Registration number
- H489372
- Incorporation number
- 0308002
Lane No 1, Bank Street, Husaini Chowk
Bahawalpur, Punjab 63100
Pakistan
Registered in Pakistan, serving customers globally — fintechs, marketplaces, exchanges and platforms that need onboarding they can defend.
You reach the people who built it.
There is no tiered support desk between you and the engine. Write to us and the reply comes from the founding team.
Founding-team-direct
Integration questions, threshold tuning and decision disputes are answered by the people who work on the verification pipeline — not a script.
Disclosure taken seriously
Security researchers can write to security@okias.io. We acknowledge reports and work them until they are closed — see the security page for scope.
Compliance paperwork ready
Terms, privacy policy, DPA, data-subject request route and AML policy are all published, not gated behind a sales call.
About the company.
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1,500 free credits after you verify your e-mail, no card required. A full AI KYC — document, liveness, face match and screening — is 15 credits ($0.15), and Manual KYC is 5 credits ($0.05), charged only when the verification is approved.