Built for the IT Director or compliance officer who is onboarding contractors, students, or partner staff by emailing scans of identity documents to a shared mailbox and then storing them somewhere nobody can fully account for. This managed service will eliminate the collection and storage of identity document copies and cut onboarding verification time from days to minutes.

Who this is for

Organisations that repeatedly verify people they do not employ: universities issuing student and alumni credentials, health systems onboarding locum and agency clinicians, professional bodies attesting membership, and enterprises onboarding large contractor populations. The IT Director builds it; the compliance officer buys it, because the current process almost always involves holding copies of passports and driving licences that create a data protection liability nobody wants.

What we deliver

Credential design workshops producing the verifiable credential schemas your organisation will issue, with the claim set deliberately minimised so each credential proves exactly what it needs to and nothing more.
Issuance and verification flows built and operated: the issuance experience your users see, the verification endpoints your relying applications call, and the rules that govern acceptance.
Trust registry and decentralised identifier operation, including DID document hosting, key rotation on a documented schedule, and revocation handling so a withdrawn credential stops verifying immediately.
Integration into your existing onboarding process, whether that is Microsoft Entra entitlement management, a HR system, a student information system, or a partner portal, plus operational monitoring and a monthly service review.

Outcomes our customers see

A university issuing 14,000 student credentials cut identity verification at service desks from 3 days to under 4 minutes. One health system eliminated storage of 100 percent of locum identity document scans, closing a data protection finding that had been open for 400 days. Contractor onboarding at a 6,000-seat enterprise fell from an average of 11 days to 2 days after credential-based verification replaced manual document checks.

How this compares

Very few partners operate Verified ID as a run service rather than delivering a proof of concept and leaving. The operational parts, meaning key rotation, revocation, trust registry availability, and schema versioning as your credentials evolve, are exactly where pilots die. This service takes those on contractually. The privacy argument is the commercial one: you stop holding identity documents at all, which removes a liability rather than securing it.

Architecture and Microsoft alignment

Microsoft Entra Verified ID runs in your tenant as the issuer, with a decentralised identifier anchored to your verified domain and credential schemas held under your control. Issuance is triggered from your onboarding source of truth through the Verified ID request service API. Verification is performed by relying applications through the same API, with acceptance rules evaluated against your trust registry. Microsoft Entra ID supplies the administrative identity plane, and Microsoft Authenticator is the default holder wallet. Simplicity IT operates the service through delegated, logged administrative access. Aligned to the Microsoft solution plays Data Security and Secure AI Productivity.

Plans

Verified ID Foundation, $3,200 per month
Verified ID Scale, From $7,500 per month, scoped on credential volume
Design and build, From $32,000 one time

Full scope per plan is on the Plans tab of this listing.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2, a verified custom domain for the decentralised identifier, an Azure subscription for the supporting key vault and API resources, and Global Administrator consent. A named business owner is required for each credential type.

Limitations

Holder wallets other than Microsoft Authenticator are supported only where they conform to the same standards profile, and interoperability is confirmed during scoping rather than assumed. This service does not perform identity proofing itself: where a credential requires document or biometric verification at issuance, that is delivered by an integrated third-party proofing provider under a separate agreement. Cross-organisation trust frameworks require agreement from the other parties and cannot be delivered unilaterally.

Next step

Contact me to scope your environment and confirm the fixed price before any commitment.

Managed Microsoft Entra Verified ID: Data Security for Credential Issuance and Verification at Scale

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