The Age Layer team brings together deep expertise in compliance, privacy, and high-risk online sectors. We’ve worked behind the scenes of the internet’s most sensitive platforms — and now we’re building tools those platforms can trust.
To make age and identity verification:
We believe platforms in regulated or adult-adjacent spaces deserve tools that don’t make trade-offs between compliance and user trust.
Our goal: deliver robust human-verified assurance for any platform that needs to know who’s old enough or who’s real — and do it in a way that respects the user at every step.
Age Layer is the evolution of AgeSmart, a privacy-first verification company founded in Portugal and built to serve the adult entertainment industry. From that foundation, we’ve grown to support other compliance-critical spaces like:
| Typical Providers | Age Layer |
|---|---|
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AI-driven, black-box decisions |
Human-reviewed with full audit trail |
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Forces full ID uploads with no user control |
Supports redacted IDs and minimal data |
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Avoids “taboo” industries |
Built with them in mind |
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Compliance theatre |
Real systems that pass scrutiny |
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Privacy as an afterthought |
Privacy as the first principle |
We’re not reinventing the wheel — we’re just making it safer, fairer, and ready for real-world use cases.
Our leadership includes technologists and operators with backgrounds in:
We’ve built what we wished existed when we were on the other side.
If you’re building in a space where trust, compliance, and user discretion actually matter — we’d love to work with you.
