Welcome to
The Hive
At The Hive, we bring together a dynamic community of HR leaders, compliance experts, technologists, and thinkers who care about getting identity, hiring, and trust right.
Expect practical insights, bold ideas, and real-world stories from across the employment and identity landscape. Not just from ZipID, but from people like you. Because when we swarm together, we build smarter.
Valuing Humans: The Core of Entrepreneurship
Even as technology evolves, humans matter.
ZipID's core belief is that the only way to be a valuable business is to provide true value to people. AI may be transformative. ZipID's innovation may be transformative. But why? Because they serve humans. At the heart of every meaningful technological breakthrough is a commitment to benefiting people.
To be a valuable business, you must value humans—honoring what makes us uniquely powerful: trust, confidence, respect, and dignity.
Even as technology (including ZipID) augments daily activities, humans remain the essential linchpin of economies. Our intelligence is multidimensional—encompassing social and emotional depth that AI lacks. Our values shape the way we work and connect. That’s why valuing humans isn’t just fundamental; it’s the most important foundation of success.
Transforming Compliance, Elevating Trust
ZipID is building a truly transformative compliance solution—one that every employer in the U.S. should use to ensure their new hires are legally authorized to work and are who they say they are.
With ZipIDapp.com, HR professionals can establish trust from day one, allowing them to focus on the human relationships that drive thriving workplaces. Technology supports efficiency, but it’s people who make organizations flourish.
That’s why, even as we push forward as a cutting edge tech solution, we embrace old-school values as the cultural cornerstone of ZipID. We believe that trust, integrity, and respect will be our superpower as we scale to success.
Frequently Asked Questions
ZipID is an I-9 compliance and identity verification platform that combines facial recognition, OCR document capture, and fraud detection to verify new hire identities and complete Form I-9 in under 8 minutes — with a legally compliant audit trail built in. It is the only I-9 platform built by the person who helped write the federal identity doctrine behind the law.
Yes. ZipID is designed to satisfy all five federal electronic I-9 system requirements under 8 CFR § 274a.2, including compliant audit trails, electronic signature protocols, and secure storage standards — including the March 2026 ICE reclassification of substantive violations.
It is completely the employer's choice. Facial authentication can assure that a new hire is who they say they are, and the ID they present matches their live self.
This is especially important for remote workers, or industries subject to immigration fraud or economic espionage from foreign adversaries who may pose as Americans for access to proprietary information.
ZipID uses NIST-validated biometric facial recognition at 99.998% accuracy to match a live selfie to the photo on the new hire's government-issued ID. OCR extracts and autofills document data, and fraud detection checks for tampered, synthetic, or spoofed documents.
ZipID completes the entire Form I-9 process — including identity verification, document capture, and E-Verify — in under 8 minutes, for both remote and in-person new hires.
As of January 2, 2025, I-9 paperwork violations carry fines of $288 to $2,861 per form under 8 CFR § 274a.10(b)(2). Knowingly hiring unauthorized workers carries fines up to $28,619 per worker for repeat offenses. ICE audit rates in 2025 ran at least ten times higher than in 2024.
ZipID plans to become a certified E-Verify third-party agent by August 2026. E-Verify completion is currently part of the I-9 workflow after the employer signs the form, with ZipID toggling to E-Verify, and then data from the E-Verify case is autofilled into the Additional Information box on the I-9 form, for preservation and audit purposes.
ZipID was founded by Janice Kephart, former counsel to the 9/11 Commission and a national security identity expert with 25 years of federal and private sector experience, as a lawyer and policy and technology identity expert. Kephart authored the federal identity doctrine and biometric entry-exit recommendations that underlie today's I-9 compliance framework. She has testified before Congress 19 times on identity-related issues, and is an I-9 expert.