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About Bind Verify

We built this because the current system is broken

Tenant screening still runs on documents that anyone can fake. We’re building the infrastructure to replace them.

85% of property managers have seen fabricated income documents. Fake pay stubs cost the industry billions in bad approvals, evictions, and legal exposure. And the people who suffer most are honest applicants — forced to hand over sensitive financial data that gets stored on servers they’ll never audit, to prove income they genuinely earn.

The problem isn’t that property managers aren’t trying. It’s that the tools they have — document uploads, manual review, employer phone calls — were designed for a world before Photoshop. The entire verification model is built on trust in artifacts that no longer deserve it.

Bind replaces documents with source-verified data. We pull income and employment information directly from payroll providers and banking institutions, apply screening criteria through a policy engine, and return a cryptographically verifiable result. No documents to forge. No PII to store. No fraud to catch after the fact.

We built the platform in Alaska and are focused on the residential housing market — public housing authorities, private landlords, and property management companies that need verification they can trust and compliance documentation that writes itself.

Team

Who’s building this

Jason Child

Co-Founder

AI strategy and service delivery at Resource Data for enterprise and government clients across Alaska. Background spans IoT, blockchain, cloud infrastructure, and ML. Previously led engineering orgs as CTO of a prop-tech company, at a government services firm, Director of Engineering for a B2C blockchain company with 2M MAU, and built anomaly detection pipelines. Designed Bind’s verification architecture, policy engine, and zero-knowledge proof implementation.

Michael Kerr

Co-Founder

15 years across product and technology leadership at ID.me, Capital One, Magic Leap, Uber, and SRI International. Built identity and authentication products at scale and watched the data custody problem compound across every sector. Sr. Privacy Architect at Uber, founding member of Magic Leap’s Privacy Council. Brings deep expertise in verification architecture, privacy-by-design, and regulated platform compliance to Bind.

Company

The basics

Alaska

Built in Alaska for a national market.

Housing First

Focused on residential screening — PHAs, landlords, and property managers.

gBETA Accelerator

Alumni of gBETA Anchorage, a nationally ranked startup accelerator.

Want to learn more

We’d love to hear from you

Whether you’re a housing authority, a property manager, or just curious about what we’re building — reach out.