IDENTITY DOCUMENTS
Every driver’s license, now machine-verifiable.
Polymark replaces the eyeball method with smartphone verification for driver's licenses, ID cards, passports, and visas. A non-cloneable polymer film added at personalization and Polycode QR printed alongside allows verification by any smartphone, anywhere.
$250B
Annual U.S. cost of fake driver's licenses (Source: Document Security Alliance)
239M
Driver's licenses in circulation, U.S.
$0.02
Added per-card cost at scale
~5B
Smartphones — your verification fleet
HOW IT WORKS
Physical card. Digital proof. Universal reader.
Polymark Film
A 2–3 mm nanolayer polymer film integrated into the driver's license polycarbonate body. Unique per card, non-cloneable, reads transparent or reflective. Process stability to 230°C; laminates at ~160°C.
Polycode QR
A GS1-standard QR code generated at personalization, cryptographically bound to the film's spectral signature and an image of the card. Printed directly on the card. No new hardware required.
Cirrus
Cloud System binds the film to the card at issuance and verifies it at every scan. No PII storage required. APIs for DMV issuance systems, verifier organizations, and mDL integration.
Deployment
Designed to drop into existing card production.
1 - Issuance: Film added at card construction
A 2 mm polymer film that is physically unique at the molecular scale — like a fingerprint, not a serial number. Integrated into the same sticker form factors you supply today; application workflow is unchanged.
2 - Personalization:Polycode printed at personalization
At the moment of authentication, the Cirrus System reads the film and binds it to the specific item — this card, this jersey, this COA, this figure. A Polycode QR is printed on the sticker encoding the binding.
3 - Verification: Smartphone verification in the field
Any verifier bank, retailer, casino, nightclub, airline, law enforcement can scans the Polycode with a standard smartphone. No app required for the consumer flow; an authenticated app is available for enrolled organizations.
BEST VALUE
How Polymark stacks up against today’s options.
Unique, non-cloneable identification & authentication for physical things at low cost, high security, and flexibility.
BUSINESS MODEL
The party that benefits from security is the party that pays.
Polymark's business model inverts today's structure. The DMV pays almost nothing extra at issuance. Verifying organizations - the banks, retailers, airlines, and insurers that benefit from stopping fraud - pay small per-verification fees, scaled to the value of the verification.
GET STARTED
Bring Polymark to your jurisdiction.
We are actively engaging with DMVs, identity-document manufacturers, and AAMVA working groups. A 30-minute technical briefing comes with a live demonstration using a sample card, smartphone reader app, and Cirrus System in AWS.