Scaut partners with Trinsic, combining next-generation software platforms to protect Europe against fraud

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Stopping identity fraud at the source.

Today we are proud to announce a partnership between Scaut and Trinsic, the first identity acceptance network and one of the most advanced digital ID platforms in the world. By integrating Trinsic's identity verification capabilities into the Scaut platform, we are giving our clients a faster, stronger, and more fraud-resistant way to confirm that a subject is exactly who they claim to be –no matter the workflow.‍

Why this matters now

Recruitment fraud is no longer a fringe risk. Synthetic identities, manipulated documents, and AI-generated deepfakes have moved from theory into the recruiter's inbox. The old approach to identity, asking someone to upload a photo of a plastic ID card and hoping it holds up, was built for a different era. It was never designed to withstand tools that can fabricate a convincing document or face in seconds.

At Scaut, we have always believed that human resource security is the foundation of organizational trust, especially for the clients we serve in critical infrastructure, financial services, high-tech production and IT firms, as well as the wider enterprise sector across the EU and CEE region. A background check is only as reliable as the identity it is attached to. If you cannot trust the identity, you cannot trust anything that follows.

That is the gap thispartnership closes.‍‍

What Trinsic brings

Trinsic operates the first identity acceptanc e network, a single API that connects to a world of trusted, government-grade digital IDs. Rather than relying on a photograph of a document, Trinsic lets a person verify themselves using credentials that are already cryptographically trusted, including:

• Mobile driver's licences built to the ISO 18013-7 standard

• European eIDs and the emerging eIDAS and EUDI wallet ecosystem

• Bank IDs across multiple countries

• Government and OEM digital wallets, including Apple, Google, and Samsung Wallet

• Reusable, pre-verified digital identities

The result is identity verification that Trinsic measures at up to ten times faster, across more than fifty countries, with more than forty ID providers integrated through one connection. Just as importantly, it is built on a security and privacy posture that meets and exceeds industry benchmarks, including SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, along with zero-access encryption that means personal data cannot be read at rest. For a company like ours, operating under GDPR and the tightening expectations of NIS2, CER, and DORA, that is not a nice-to-have. It is the baseline.

‍“Trinsic exists to make digital identity acceptance practical for organizations of any scale. By partnering with Scaut, we’re helping organizations streamline identity verification and trust workflows while expanding access to interoperable digital credentials. Together, we’re making it easier for businesses to adopt modern identity solutions without having to build and maintain that infrastructure themselves.” - Riley Hughes, CEO, Trinsic

What Scaut brings

Scaut is a sovereign EU compliance platform for pre-employment background screening, business intelligence, and supply chain monitoring, purpose-built for the regulatory reality of Europe and Central Europe. Our screening products are designed for organizations that cannot afford to get a hire wrong, and our roadmap is shaped by a simple conviction: screening should be rigorous, lawful, transparent, and genuinely useful to the people making the decision.

Bringing Trinsic into the Scaut platform means identity verification is no longer a separate, fragile first step. It becomes a verified anchor for everything that follows, from criminal records and sanctions screening to directorship checks and adverse media.Every downstream result is tied to an identity that has been confirmed against a trusted, government-backed source rather than a picture that may or may not be real.‍

What it means for our clients

For the organizations we work with, the partnership delivers three things atonce:

Stronger fraud resistance. Verifying against trusted digital IDs raises the bar far beyond document photos, directly addressing impersonation and deepfake risk in hiring.

A faster candidate experience. People can verify themselves in seconds using identities they already hold on their phones, reducing drop-off and friction at the start of the screening journey.

Confidence built on compliance. Both companies treat privacy and security as a starting point, not an afterthought, so identity assurance and data protection move in the same direction.

‍Two companies looking forward, not back

We chose Trinsic because we share a worldview. Identity is shifting from physical documents to digital credentials, and the organizations that adopt that shift early will be the ones best protected against the next generation of fraud. Trinsic is building the infrastructure for that future. Scaut is putting it to work where it matters most: deciding who an organization can trust.

"Hiring fraud is getting more sophisticated, and so are we. Partnering with Trinsic means our clients are no longer verifying identities against a photo of a document. They are verifying against the most trusted digital IDs in the world. That is the standard we believe screening should be held to, and it is where the entire industry is heading. With Scaut being a robust integration friendly platform, we're always looking out for world class technology to integrate with." - Petr Moroz, CEO and co-founder, Scaut‍

This is the first step in a longer journey to make identity-first screening the norm rather than the exception. We are excited to build it alongside a team that takes digital trust as seriously as we do.