# Verificaa.com

> 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.

Founder, architecture, data pipeline, AI

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

## 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](https://carlosarias.co/projects/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.

### [Crawller](https://carlosarias.co/projects/crawllr/)

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.

### [Medellin.co](https://carlosarias.co/projects/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.

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Source: https://carlosarias.co/projects/verificaa/