About Verifyfed
Verifyfed exists because federal contractor identity verification has been an unsolved compliance problem for too long. HR teams at defense subcontractors and federal IT services firms rely on commercial onboarding tools that were designed for consumer identity checks, not for DCSA personnel security submissions, CMMC Level 2 documentation requirements, or FedRAMP boundary constraints. The result is a recurring pattern: verified-enough for the HR team, not verified-enough for the auditor. Verifyfed is the purpose-built alternative: a FedRAMP Moderate-authorized identity verification platform that makes compliant onboarding the default path, not the hard path. Every verification record we produce is audit-ready from the moment of collection.
How Verifyfed Came to Be
Gabriel Faulkner spent seven years as a contracts and compliance manager at an Arlington-based defense subcontractor managing CMMC and DCSA compliance programs for cleared facilities. In 2022, he spent three weeks reconstructing a documentation package for a DCSA audit after discovering that a prior HR coordinator had stored scanned identity documents in a personal Google Drive folder outside the company's FedRAMP-authorized boundary — a finding that delayed a $2.4M task order start by 38 days and required a corrective action plan submission.
The root cause was not negligence. Workday and Greenhouse were not authorized for that data, so coordinators defaulted to whatever file-sharing tool was convenient. The fix was not a policy update but a workflow tool that made the compliant path the default path.
Gabriel co-founded Verifyfed with Yewande Adeyemi (ex-Onfido identity verification engineering) and Patrick Nguyen (ex-AWS GovCloud solutions architecture) to build a purpose-built identity verification and onboarding orchestration platform designed exclusively for federal contractors.
Our Mission
Make FedRAMP-compliant identity verification the path of least resistance for federal contractor onboarding teams.
What We Stand For
- Compliant by default, not by policy
- Audit-ready on day one, not audit-week
- Coordinators should not be compliance engineers
- FedRAMP boundary is non-negotiable
- Due process over auto-rejection
Who We Serve
Mid-size federal contractors and defense subcontractors onboarding 50–500 cleared or clearance-eligible employees per year under FedRAMP, CMMC, or ITAR compliance programs. We are not built for large defense primes with dedicated in-house PERSEC systems, nor for commercial employers with no federal contracting obligations.
Where we are today
Verifyfed is a seed-stage company based in Arlington, Virginia, purpose-built for the federal contractor market. We serve mid-size defense subcontractors and prime contractor teams that need FedRAMP-compliant identity verification without the cost and complexity of enterprise PERSEC platforms. Our platform is operational and processing verified onboarding packages for early customers operating under CMMC Level 2 and ITAR registration requirements. We are not building for large defense primes with in-house PERSEC organizations or dedicated compliance engineering teams. We are building for the program manager at a 150-person federal IT services firm who needs cleared contractor onboarding to be fast, compliant, and auditable without hiring a FedRAMP boundary architect.
What we believe about compliance
- Compliant by default, not by policy. Compliance is built into the architecture — every record is FedRAMP-authorized from the moment it is created, not retroactively migrated.
- Audit-ready on day one, not audit-week. Every verification generates a complete, exportable audit record at the moment it happens. No manual reconstruction before an assessment.
- Coordinators should not be compliance engineers. The platform handles the technical compliance requirements so your HR team focuses on onboarding people, not managing documentation systems.
- FedRAMP boundary is non-negotiable. Identity records never leave the authorized boundary at any point in the collection, processing, or retention lifecycle.
- Due process over auto-rejection. Edge cases — unusual documents, liveness anomalies — route to human adjudicators, not into a reject queue that creates its own compliance liability.
Ready to close the documentation gap?
See how Verifyfed delivers FedRAMP-authorized identity verification for federal contractor onboarding programs at mid-market scale.