Our story
Order and accountability for how visuals are used online.
We’re a tight-knit team with a clear mission: to bring order and accountability back to how visuals are used online. The internet is a free-for-all for visuals. Images are shared without consent, reused without credit and manipulated beyond recognition. With AI accelerating the chaos, protecting content has never been more critical and complex.
At Verify, we’re fixing that. Our tools connect visuals to the contracts and permissions behind them: automating consent, enforcing IP and giving businesses real control over their content.
If that resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you.
We believe your visuals should stay protected, wherever they go.
At Verify, you’ll tackle real-world challenges with real impact. From AI-powered fingerprinting to automated consent and compliance, everything we build helps solve the growing problem of content misuse and ownership in the digital age.
Working at Verify
01Technology that matters
At Verify, you work on real, high-impact challenges. From AI fingerprinting to smart consent tracking and compliance automation: everything we build solves tangible problems in content ownership and misuse.
02A team that delivers
Work with experienced, no-nonsense professionals who value speed, clarity and real collaboration. No egos, just results.
03Real benefits
- Competitive salary
- A say in what we build (and how)
- Freedom, trust and zero micromanagement
- The chance to grow with a company that’s scaling fast and doing it differently
Meet the founders
The people behind Verify
Niels Bouwman
CEO · Founder and former CEO of Lytho
Niels is the founder of the SaaS success story Lytho.com. He exited in 2021 to Level Equity and holds several advisory roles. He previously worked for Ricoh in various sales and strategic roles.
Niels is a firm believer in an informal leadership style and values giving team members plenty of freedom and responsibility. His goal is to build something with meaningful impact that will change the way we verify content.
Hugo Smits
CTO · Development lead on Nintendo DS games
Hugo Smits is a seasoned technical leader with deep expertise in graphics, media formats and image compression. He led development teams on more than a dozen Nintendo DS and 3DS titles, built award-winning mobile games and authored nativeWebP, a high-performance encoder for Google’s WebP format written entirely in Go.
His experience in compression, rendering and low-level media systems forms the foundation of Verify’s AI models and fingerprinting technology, powering the next generation of content protection and digital rights enforcement.
Our values
What we stand for
01Think big
We dream beyond boundaries, challenging broken systems to create real change and redefine what trust looks like in the digital age.
02Own it
We don’t pass the buck. We take ownership of our work, our decisions and our impact, because trust starts with accountability.
03Integrity is our guiding light
We build technology to make the internet more honest, so we hold ourselves to the same standard. From product decisions to partnerships, we act with honesty, transparency and respect for the rights of others.
04Innovation fuels our essence
Passionate about technology, we’re revolutionizing digital integrity with AI-driven solutions, always staying ahead of the curve.