As AI-Generated Fraud Industrializes, Numeracle Releases Corporate KYCaaS: The Only Managed KYC/KYB Platform Built to Tell Real Businesses From Fake Ones

McLean,VA - September 2, 2026 - Numeracle™ Inc. (Numeracle), the pioneer of Entity Identity Management™, today announced the general availability of corporate KYCaaS (Know Your Customer as a Service), a fully managed business identity verification, Know Your Business (KYB) platform purpose-built to determine whether a business is real, legitimate, and fit to operate, not just whether it exists on paper. Numeracle’s KYCaaS platform serves any organization that needs to verify the identities of the businesses it works with, from initial engagement through the full business lifecycle. KYCaaS is built on the same rigorous identity vetting and verification platform Numeracle has relied on internally for eight years, establishing verified identities for more than 4,000 businesses and enabling the trusted outcomes that follow.

Fraudsters are no longer operating manually. AI has industrialized identity fraud, enabling bad actors to generate synthetic business and individual identities, fabricate documentation, and pass static verification checks at a speed and scale that traditional point-in-time vetting was never designed to catch. Synthetic identity fraud is growing at roughly 16% annually, driven by low-cost access to fabricated data and increasingly efficient fraud operations, and AI-facilitated fraud losses in the United States alone are projected to reach $40 billion by 2027. The organizations most exposed are those still relying on one-time KYB checks that confirm a business exists, without ever assessing whether it is actually operating as a legitimate entity or who is operating the entity. Illicit proceeds from these gaps are used to fund organized criminal enterprises, including human trafficking networks.

“AI allows businesses to create false fronts,” said Rebekah Johnson, Founder and CEO, Numeracle. “Bad actors can hide in the open. They will show you whatever they think you need to see, and traditional verification tools will confirm it. A business can check every box on a static form while operating nothing like what it claims. That is exactly what Numeracle has seen over years of real-world vetting, and it is what drove us to build Business Liveness™ into our KYCaaS platform. Removing human bias from that evaluation, replacing subjective review with consistent, policy-driven analysis, is how you get decisions you can actually stand behind.”

At the center of Numeracle’s KYCaaS is Business Liveness, Numeracle’s proprietary verification framework that moves KYB assessment beyond whether a business exists to whether it is actively operating in a manner consistent with its claims. Business Liveness analyzes behavioral signals, people behind the business, operational consistency, and suitability to access a platform or service overtime, treating corporate identity as a living profile rather than a point-in-time record. That analysis is powered by AI Agent Assist, Numeracle's AI-driven methodology that processes multiple data sources simultaneously to increase the certainty and integrity of every decision, reducing analysis time and human error without increasing headcount.

“Numeracle’s corporate KYCaaS was built to comprehensively vet a business across authoritative and non-authoritative data sources, industry specific data attributes, and brand presence with behavioral indicators, synthesized into a single holistic analysis rather than a stack of reports someone has to reconcile manually,” said Anis Jaffer, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Numeracle. "We see the need for this layer across every channel where businesses interact at scale. Voice is where the regulatory urgency is most immediate right now, but the same gap in identity analysis exists in messaging and RCS, and anywhere a business needs to establish that the entity it is dealing with is real, active, and operating as it claims. As more enterprises adopt AI and deploy AI-agents, we see the identity gap widening even more. Verifying an entity holistically at scale becomes even more critical."

The threat of synthetic identity fraud is acute across industries, but nowhere more immediate than in the voice network, where regulatory momentum is already in motion.

"Most carriers treat data collection as KYC — collect the information, check a box, and consider the obligation met. And for those that go a step further and validate some of what was collected, it still falls short," said Brett Nemeroff, Vice President, Voice Engineering, Numeracle. "That gap is the root cause of fraud on the voice network, and AI has made it urgent. New rulemaking at the federal level is pointing toward a clear standard: ongoing, risk-based verification that traces accountability back to the originator. That is exactly what we built KYCaaS to deliver. Not passive data collection. Not a point-in-time check assigned an arbitrary reputation score. A living, corporate identity assessment that your team can stand behind when regulators ask. Telecom providers need a vetting partner that keeps up with the speed and sophistication of emerging threats and requirements, so they don't have to."

Since its inception, the voice network has operated without a fundamental requirement: that the businesses placing calls on it prove who they are. STIR/SHAKEN, the call authentication framework mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with implementation required by June 2021, confirmed which carrier placed a call on the network and what that carrier asserted about its customer, but it imposed no requirement to verify who that customer actually was. On April 30, 2026, the FCC adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) on provider KYC obligations. On May 20, it adopted a second FNPRM on Know Your Upstream Provider (KYUP) requirements, expanding the obligation to require that providers verify the upstream entities whose traffic they carry. Regulators are now asking carriers to answer a question the industry has never had a purpose-built tool to answer: not just who placed a call, but who is actually behind it. KYCaaS fills that gap with a dedicated telecom module designed for communications-specific vetting requirements, including traffic profiles, FCC enforcement history, corporate authorization to use brand assets in outbound voice and messaging, and more.

"Every platform, marketplace, and service that does business with other businesses faces the same foundational question: who is actually on the other side of this relationship?" added Johnson. "Identity is the layer that everything else depends on. Numeracle’s KYCaaS is the result of what we've learned vetting and investigating business identities ourselves since 2018 — the bad actors evolved, and we evolved with them. When identity is incorrect or absent, fraud gets in, trust erodes, and the consequences extend far beyond any single transaction. KYCaaS exists because that foundation has been missing, and the cost of getting it wrong has never been higher."

Availability

KYCaaS is now generally available to organizations that require ongoing KYB or corporate business identity verification. Communications platforms and originating service providers face the most immediate regulatory urgency given the FCC’s emerging rulemaking. Availability is currently focused on the United States, with international expansion beginning with Canada, the United Kingdom, and select regions within the European Union planned for the year ahead. Existing Numeracle customers may contact their account representative to discuss corporate KYCaaS as an addition to their current engagement. Organizations may request additional information at numeracle.com/product/kycaas.