Send your client one secure link. FirmGuard verifies who they are, screens them against that day's sanctions and PEP lists, and files the dated, inspection-ready record — for £99 a month + VAT flat, not £5–£40 a check. Every fee earner, one price.
Per-check pricing exists because most CDD tools resell licensed data. We built the engine instead: the sanctions and PEP lists are published by HM Treasury (OFSI), the FCDO, OFAC and the UN — we ingest them daily into our own screening infrastructure, and the biometric face-match runs on our own servers. It's already live in production, screening property-sector clients under the money-laundering regulations. So we can charge you a flat rate.
Add the client's name and email — they get a secure verification link that works on any phone. No app to install.
The client photographs their ID and takes a short selfie — a few minutes on any phone.
Biometric match between document and selfie, plus sanctions & PEP screening against that day's lists. Anything doubtful is flagged for your review — never silently cleared.
A dated audit pack per client: the document, the match result, the screening outcome and the list versions used. Download it or leave it on file.
Matters move fast, so the client flow is built to finish in one sitting — and if a client stalls, you can see exactly where they stopped.
Reading the cryptographic chip embedded in a passport or biometric ID card is the strongest form of document verification available — the chip data is signed by the issuing authority and can't be forged the way a photo of a document page can.
On an iPhone, the client's verification link launches the everyGuard App Clip straight in Safari and reads the NFC chip in their passport or biometric ID — no app to install, no App Store detour.
On Android or any browser without App Clip support, the same link runs our standard document-photo-plus-live-selfie verification instead — so every client can be verified, on whichever phone they carry.
Chip data can't be edited the way an image can, which is why it's the standard banks and the SRA recognise as best practice for verifying the highest-risk clients.
Document capture with a server-side face match against a live selfie. Stronger evidence than a database ping — you hold the document and the match, not just a reference number.
Every client screened against the OFSI consolidated list, FCDO, OFAC and UN lists as they stood that day — with the list versions recorded in the evidence, and doubtful matches escalated for review.
Set re-screening per client — monthly, quarterly or annually. Every run is logged whether or not anything changed, so your Regulation 28(11) ongoing-monitoring evidence writes itself. Status changes alert you the same morning.
A running file per client, and a dated audit pack you can hand to an inspector: what was checked, against which lists, with what result — stored under a 5-year retention lock.
For corporate clients: the ownership chain is walked from Companies House and every beneficial owner screened individually — the April 2025 LSAG update's hardest new ask, handled. The register alone isn't enough (reg 28(9) says so). See the LSAG mapping →
Every fee earner and support-staff member on one account, one price. No per-user charges — who runs the check should never be a licensing decision.
FirmGuard doesn't have to be another island your team logs into separately. Push completed checks straight into your own systems, or connect it to thousands of apps with no code.
Signed, real-time cdd.check_completed events pushed to your own systems the moment a check finishes. Read the developer docs →
Connect FirmGuard to 6,000+ apps with no code — send a completed check to a spreadsheet, a Slack channel, or your practice-management system's inbox.
Start a check from your Clio contacts, attach it to the matter, and the completed verdict is filed back into the matter as a note — automatically. Plus a "Run CDD check" link right inside Clio.
Case-management connector — the completed check lands on the matter automatically.
Case-management connector — the completed check lands on the matter automatically.
Across the profession, electronic CDD is typically advertised at £5–£40 per check — plus platform fees, plus per-user seats, often plus a separate training subscription. A small conveyancing team doing 30–50 matters a month spends £200–£600 on checks alone.
FirmGuard Verify is £99 a month + VAT with 50 checks included — under £2 a check with biometrics included, at typical volumes. Past 50, checks are £1.50 + VAT each; we never block a check mid-matter, the counter simply keeps honest score.
Your first month is free — all 50 checks, no card. There's a live counter in the corner of the screen, so you always know exactly where you stand. If it isn't obviously better value than your per-check bill, close the account in one click.
FirmGuard supports your judgement; it never replaces it. Client due diligence decisions — including enhanced due diligence and anything a screening result flags for review — remain the responsibility of your firm's COLP/MLRO. We give you the evidence and the audit trail; the call is yours.
Our verification is document + biometric + screening. We verify the client's identity document, biometrically match it to a live selfie, and screen against the sanctions and PEP lists. We do not currently run credit-bureau electronic-footprint checks or a source-of-funds workflow — if you need those today, we'll say so rather than sell around it. Source-of-funds support is on the roadmap. Chip-read passport verification is live on iPhone via the everyGuard App Clip; every other phone uses the standard document-plus-selfie flow above.
We are independent. FirmGuard is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the SRA or the Law Society. The screening lists we use are the official published UK, US and UN lists, refreshed daily, and every check records which list versions it ran against.
The LSAG mapping, section by section. The guidance's own Technology principles ask you to document any electronic ID&V tool you use — its role and its data sources. We wrote that document for you: how a FirmGuard check maps to the April 2025 LSAG guidance, section by section, including what stays your firm's judgement. Read the LSAG mapping →
Set-up takes a few minutes — your firm's details are usually already in our register data. Send your first verification link today and see the audit pack it produces.
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