Aidan McCarty: The Signup Form Is Dying. Here's What Replaces It. | Ep 1312
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What problem does Verified aim to solve by eliminating traditional signup forms?
Welcome to Corizont Technologies, home of the Digital Executive Podcast. Do you work in emerging tech, working on something innovative, maybe an entrepreneur? Apply to be a guest at www.corizant.com forward slash brand. Welcome to the Digital Executive. Today's guest is Aiden McCarty. Aiden McCarty is the co-founder and co-CEO of Verified, the identity infrastructure company. Killing the signup form. Verified turns a phone number into a completed application. A user enters their number, verifies it, and their real information fills itself in in about nine seconds, instead of the five minutes and sixteen clicks a typical fintech signup takes today. A Forbes thirty under thirty honoree and a Stanford dropout, Aiden walked away from the pre-med track after realizing some.
Software could scale to billions of people in a way practicing medicine rarely can. He has been building with his brother Liam since 2016. Well, good afternoon, Aiden. Welcome to the show.
Thanks, Brian. Thanks for having me. 10 minute podcast, nine second sign up. I think we're going to get along just fine.
I appreciate your time. Really do if you don't mind. I know you're healing out of Boston. I'm in Kansas City. So I always want to acknowledge that that people do take the time out of their day to navigate time zone. So thank you. And Aiden, let's jump in. You described verified as a stripe for identity. Unpack that analogy for us. What does Stripe Playbook actually teach you about building identity infrastructure? And what does it mean to be the layer every company plugs? into rather than a standalone product people have to think about. Stripe
didn't make payments better. Stripe made payments disappear. Across thousands of companies that you go to, they use Stripe for their payments. And your payment info is automatically autofilled for you. You click, it's done. You don't even think about it. That's what Verified is doing for signup. Stripe describes themselves as payments infrastructure for the web. We describe ourselves as identity infrastructure for the web. The best infrastructure is the kind that you never see, you never have to think about, it just works. More than anything, what Stripe taught us is that great infrastructure is all about speed and reliability. So we've made verified insanely fast for everyone involved. The product managers can buy it in days, the developers can
integrate in hours and the users, most importantly, can sign up in seconds. So the Stripe analogy goes quite deep here. And it's all about building super reliable, super fast infrastructure that just works. And it's quite deep. As I note, it's not only
Because we're two Irish brothers as well. That's awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that. And the people do get some things right, but you know, it's that that security piece, right? And we'll talk a little bit more about that. I'm just glad there's someone out there that is focused on the the the part that's most important. Efficiency and convenience are great, but that doesn't get it when we don't know who you're who's applied online, et cetera. So I appreciate that product that you're offering today. So let's jump into your next question. Aiden, here's the part that sounds almost too good to be true. A user enters a phone number, verifies it, and their real information, name, address, date of birth, even their health insurance appears ready in the form, ready for them to confirm.
You have measured signups at 9.3 seconds. And at a 31% lift in conversion, one customer, the prediction market, Calci, so over 60%. Walk us through what that actually feels like on the user's end. And then the harder question, when you're removing people's most sensitive information that fast, how is that more secure than the way we do it today rather than less? Yeah.
A typical fintech signup flow is about 161 seconds. We actually just finished an onboarding report where we measured it across 280 companies. It's that's coming out soon. It's 161 seconds to sign up. Dozen fields plus takes a long time. About 40% of users quit halfway.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What problem does Verified aim to solve by eliminating traditional signup forms?
0:08–5:13
2
How does the Stripe analogy illustrate Verified’s approach to identity infrastructure?
5:13–9:17
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Why is Verified’s 9.3‑second, phone‑number‑only flow faster and more secure than typical fintech onboarding?
9:17–13:03
4
What regulatory approvals support autofill as a compliant onboarding method?
13:03–14:42
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