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Doorkeep
Hosted ID checks and a review desk for small regulated software teams
- Score
- 39
- confidence 38
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 45 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 2012
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Compliance staff work through review desks with complex data and audit trails, requiring sustained desk time. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
New check
Ready to send- CustomerAmara Okoye
About this appAI proposal
Doorkeep gives small fintech, crypto, e-commerce and health software teams a ready-made identity check. Send customers a hosted link, they scan a document and take a selfie, and the result lands in a review desk your compliance person can work through.
It connects to a document-checking provider you choose, so you do not build document reading or face matching yourself. Doorkeep adds the parts teams usually hand-build around an API: rules per country, a manual review queue, notes and an exportable audit trail.
It is made for the person who answers to the regulator, not only the developer who wires up the API. Start with a link on day one, move to the API when you are ready.
- Tagline
- Know who came through the door, and prove it later.
- Voice
- CalmPrecisePlain
- Why this name
- A doorkeeper decides who enters and keeps a record. The name says what the product does in two plain words.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Hosted check link
Send a link by email or text. Customers capture a document and selfie on their phone, with no app to install.
No member yet
Rules by country
Choose which documents you accept per country and which checks run, such as document, selfie match or address proof.
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Review desk
Unclear results go to a queue. Approve, reject or ask for a new upload, with a reason saved on every decision.
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Audit trail export
Every step is logged with time and reviewer. Export a case file as PDF or CSV for auditors.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test; provider check fees would need to be passed through or bundled once costs are known.
Starter
$49 a month
- Hosted check link
- Up to 100 checks a month
- 1 reviewer
- Audit trail export
Team
$299 a month
- Up to 1,000 checks a month
- 5 reviewers
- Rules by country
- API and webhooks
- Retention timers
Business
Contact us
- Custom volume
- Single sign-on
- Private cloud or on-premise option
- Support agreement
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
What products in this market make
- $71.5K Per Month SaaS Business in the Business NicheVerified$71,533 a month, worth about $1,389,000 at that multiple · Empire Flippers
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Each check link opens a Doorkeep-hosted page that the end customer completes. It carries the client's brand with a small 'checked with Doorkeep' note, and customers see it at every sign-up.
- Do they become customers?
- End customers rarely buy KYC tools, but staff at other regulated firms may see the note. Test whether any click through and ask for a demo, or whether the loop only gives exposure.
- First customers
- Compliance leads and founders at crypto and fintech startups with 5 to 50 staff that run manual ID checks by email or spreadsheet today.
- Where to reach them
- Founder and compliance communities: Join startup compliance forums and Slack groups; share a free guide to setting up country rules and review steps.
- Direct outreach: Message compliance and operations leads at small crypto and fintech firms with an offer to run a free pilot on 20 checks.
- Integration partners: Offer the hosted link to agencies and integrators who build fintech apps for clients.
- First milestone
- Five paying startups in one vertical, each running at least 50 real checks a month through Doorkeep.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedA business in this market listed for sale on Empire Flippers averages $71,533 a month in revenue ($52,358 net profit, $50,444 recurring), figures vetted by the broker
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Document check providerThird-party document and face match APIReading documents from many countries and matching faces is too large to build first; Doorkeep wraps it.
- This app · Encrypted file storagePrivate object storage with per-region keysID images need encryption, short-lived access and scheduled deletion.
RisksAI inference
- RegulatoryHandling ID images and biometrics triggers privacy and data-residency rules, and buyers may ask for certifications such as ISO 27001 that a small team does not yet hold.
- PlatformDoorkeep depends on an upstream document-check provider. Its pricing, coverage or terms could change, or forbid reselling in this form.
- CommercialEstablished API platforms already serve this market. Buyers may prefer one vendor and see a review desk as a feature, not a product.
- TechnicalPhone camera capture in a browser varies by device. Poor photos could raise failure rates compared with native SDKs.
- DataStoring identity data makes Doorkeep a breach target. Security review and incident handling must be ready before the first paying customer.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.