KYC or government identity verification
Typically validates a person or legal entity using government-issued identity, regulated records or formal due-diligence processes.
Professional identity vs legal identity
Corporate professional identity verification is not KYC
CardIQ answers a company-representation question: is this professional identity or communication channel currently recognized within a company-controlled scope? KYC answers a different legal-identity question.
Two different verification goals
Both can support trust, but they validate different relationships and should not be treated as interchangeable.
CardIQ professional identity verification
Validates company-managed professional identity signals, current employee authorization and recognized communication channels within a selected organization.
Why the distinction matters
A person can be legally who they claim to be without currently being authorized to represent a company, and the reverse verification problem requires company-scoped lifecycle data.
What CardIQ can verify
CardIQ focuses on current corporate representation, not universal legal identity. Verification is company-scoped with no reverse lookup of employee identities or contact owners.
Current employee status
Company-managed employee identities can be activated, updated and deactivated as employment status changes.
Company-scoped communication channels
Verification Hub can check submitted email, mobile, WhatsApp, landline and trusted-domain values against the selected company without providing reverse lookup.
Controlled public professional identity
Public profiles, digital cards and related identity assets can reflect company-approved information, current active status and a company-controlled profile photo for visual comparison.
Visual comparison is not biometric proof
A profile photo may help a viewer compare appearance, but CardIQ Identity does not perform biometric face matching or independently prove that the physical person is the profile owner.
CardIQ Identity does not claim government-ID verification, biometric verification or facial verification, AML screening, regulated KYC, or legal-entity due diligence unless a specific supported process is explicitly provided.
Use the right trust layer for the question
KYC and professional identity verification can be complementary when a workflow needs both legal identity and current corporate authorization.
Need legal identity?
Use an appropriate regulated identity or KYC provider for that requirement.
Need company representation verification?
Use CardIQ to evaluate current company-controlled professional identity and communication-verification signals.
Control how employees represent your company externally
Explore the CardIQ Identity platform or review the workflow from verification through identity deactivation.
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