Identify each worker

Advanced biometrics to recognise specific users, not just devices.

Authenticate constantly

Know with every interaction who the person you are interacting with is.

Protect

Users and the business from the impact of unauthorised workers.

Ensure you know your workforce

Gig economy companies face a trojan horse of problems caused by workers sharing accounts. Preventing them safeguarding customers and complying with regulations.

Always know your workers

Rapid Onboarding

Embedded biometric document verification, with the ability to utilise available reusable credentials to increase conversions and reduce onboarding barriers and costs.

Worker Identification

Reuse biometric verification for every trip, ensuring constant identification of workers and their credentials, eliminating unauthorised account sharing.

Shift Sharing

Allow workers to share shifts, but ensure replacements are qualified and insured to do the job according to your requirements.

Protect workers and ensure compliance

Sign for shifts

Workers and employers can commit contractually to policies or work offers directly in an app. Now you can be certain of who is working a shift and when.

Message Reciept

Getting critical messages to workers and being sure they have been seen and read by the intended recipient is crucial for safety and compliance.

Customer Authentication

Protect riders and drivers from chargeback and cancellation fraud, and ensure passenger compliance with policies.

Keep customers safe and secure

Real time background checks

Make sure you know who your driver is before every ride, even if they are an arms length contractor.

Track location and identity

Spot patterns and behaviours which might be a cause for concern.

Direct communications backed by identity

Enable secure customer support and protection backed by certainty of location and identity.

Get started with Self

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Built for developers

SDK Examples

Mobile SDKs allowing you to build secure and user-friendly applications for Android and iOS and server-side SDKs designed for robust backend integrations.

Documentation

Clear, well-documented APIs and SDKs for popular languages/frameworks, and plenty of examples, to significantly reduce development time and effort.

Our Sandbox mimics production, including APIs and authentication flows to ensure your testing reflects a real world use case. Develop integrations without concerns about production stability or conflicts, innovate and release on shorter cycles.

"The great promise of the early internet has been replaced with real risks. These risks are fundamentally a consequence of leaving a gap between humans and the technology they rely upon. As the web, and the platforms that have come to dominate the online landscape, have grown, so tiny gaps have become the attack vectors fraudsters exploit."

Dan Sutherland

Founder, Self Group

Blog

The Future of Trust

In his paper, Kim Cameron called for an identity layer for the internet. Self has spent six years researching and developing a solution to that challenge. Here, we look at what that is.

Two Decades of Neglecting the Digital Identity Crisis

Kim Cameron's work was foundational, but a lot has happened in the intervening 20 years. Now not only do we need to implement his rules, we have to solve the problems caused by doing nothing for 2 decades.

The Internet isn't a Vault

Why is it seemingly so easy to industrialise fraud and identity crime? The problem is incredibly complex and has its roots back as far as the 18th Century. Decisions taken over decades in good faith have layered one upon the other to create the mother of all unintended consequences.

FAQ

What is an identity and authentication network, and why do I need it?

It's a system that helps verify who your users are (identity) and control what they can access (authentication and authorisation). It saves development time, improves security, and can help you meet compliance requirements.

How do I integrate Self into my application?

Follow the links to try now, or head to our documentation to be taken through the process of integration. It's simple and quick with plenty of examples and code snippets to help guide you.

How does Self handle security?

- End-to-end encrypted communication between devices uses Message Layer Security (MLS) end-to-end encrypted communication between devices.
- W3C Verifiable Credentials (VCs) allow users to securely assert and demonstrate claims about themselves and others.
- Self is underpinned by a robust, tamper-evident and W3C Distributed Identifiers (DIDs) compliant Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) allowing for realtime management of keys and their revocations.
- Self Leverages a number of insudtry standard and accredited ciphers, signature schemes and cryptographic functions, such as Ed25519 (FIPS 186-5), SHA3 (FIPS 202), AES 256 (FIPS 197) and Curve25519.
- All actions are authenticated via signature, with real time key revocation to ensure you are always making up to date decisions.
- Keys are held securely in an on-device encrypted wallet. Usage of keys are gated via biometric checks.

Can I manage and customise user data?

Yes. You can store user profiles, roles, and custom fields with the user's permission. But Self is designed to protect you and users by replacing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like names and emails with a non-correlatable SelfID, with the PII distributed to the user to store in their phone. It means your dataset is safer and outside of regulation.

How does multi-factor authentication (MFA) work?

Self is already a biometric MFA solution, so you don't need to integrate or pay for external methods like TOTP, SMS or push.

What languages and frameworks are supported?

Self supports:
‍Backend: Golang, Java,
‍Mobile: iOS, Android

Quickstarts, examples including app examples for mobile and SDKs are provided for each.

Can I customise the login and sign-up experience?

Yes. We allow you to use your own UI and UX in all but a couple of screens. You can also use and customise UI elements we release as Open Source components.

What happens if the network goes down?

Self is highly available and deployed to global infrastructure, it has been designed to be resilient and reliable. You can also implement fallback strategies based on your needs.

Managing teams in the gig economy