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Zarv ID: behavioral risk scoring for auto insurers and vehicle lenders — no prior history required

Bureau scores tell you who the customer was — not what risk they represent today. With 87% validated accuracy, Zarv ID delivers behavioral risk scoring and identity intelligence for auto insurers and vehicle lenders, even for thin-file applicants.

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Most insurers and lenders still price risk with the same data they always have: bureau score, registration history, declared information at onboarding. These sources answer a single question: who was this customer in the past?

Zarv ID answers the right question: what is the actual risk of this customer right now — even without prior history?

What is Zarv ID?

Zarv ID is Zarv's risk scoring and identity intelligence solution. It was built specifically for auto/P&C insurers and vehicle lenders — it's not generic KYC, not a bureau, not a credit score. It's a claims, fraud, and default risk score, calibrated for the realities of insurance and vehicle credit markets.

How it works

KYC and identity verification

Document verification, facial biometrics with liveness detection, deepfake and document tampering detection, synthetic identity detection, and cross-reference against high-risk profile databases.

Graph Intelligence

Each individual is analyzed in the context of their relationship network — not in isolation. The graph detects fraud clusters: if a person has ties to multiple flagged profiles, their score rises even without a personal negative history. Sophisticated fraudsters always pass individual KYC. What exposes them is the network around them.

Behavioral scoring without prior history

87% accuracy validated with clients. Works for drivers with no prior policy or credit history — eliminating the refusal or overpricing of populations treated as unknown risk.

Initial pricing recommendation

Not just a score — a premium range recommendation, integrated via API with the existing pricing engine.

Why it's not a bureau

Bureaus deliver static historical data. Zarv ID delivers behavioral and relational intelligence in real time. A customer with a clean bureau score can be a fraudster with a network of straw men. A customer with no credit history can be an excellent risk with consistent informal income. The bureau can't distinguish between them. Zarv ID can.

Validated results

  • 87% score accuracy, validated with clients
  • 85% reduction in fraud — TagPro, B2C
  • 45% reduction in premiums lost to fraud — TagPro
  • 18% reduction in fraud-related premiums — Arval / BNP Paribas
  • +3pp increase in gross margin — TagPro, year over year

Know the risk before you price it. Request a Zarv ID demo.