VendorVet
A pre-contract check for freelancers and solo consultants — paste in a client company's name or domain and get a 60-second dossier on whether they're a real paying business before you sign the engagement letter.
Freelancers and solo consultants about to sign a new client engagement
- Business registration + age of company + jurisdiction lookup from one name field
- Funding signals (recent raises, public grants) — useful for spotting flush clients
- Complaint and lawsuit search across court records, BBB, Glassdoor reviews
- Public-domain red-flag scan: same registered address as known shell entities, recent address change, hidden owners
Freelancers increasingly share the verification load that used to sit with accounts teams; TrueBiz's success shows this exact need has B2B legs, and solo operators can pay for a lighter consumer-priced version.
Pain is real — an indie hacker found 50+ freelance devs with bad-client stories and uniform 'no way to vet' answers, but a commenter warns 'most freelancers would rather take the risk than slow down the sales process', capping true willingness.3 weeks validating a client vetting tool for freelancers — here's what I've learned ↗10 common scams targeting freelancers (and how to avoid them) ↗
Not wide-open — Keynition is actively validating this exact product and Beryxa is named as a competing name; no shipped competitor surfaced, but at least two indie builders are converging on the same wedge.3 weeks validating a client vetting tool for freelancers — here's what I've learned ↗TrueBiz - Merchant Risk Made Simple ↗
No consumer-priced pricing benchmark exists for this exact wedge; TrueBiz is enterprise KYB (B2B) and freelancers are notoriously price-sensitive, with the sales-cycle concern suggesting weak conversion to paid.TrueBiz - Merchant Risk Made Simple ↗3 weeks validating a client vetting tool for freelancers — here's what I've learned ↗
KYB demand is structurally rising with shell-company fraud growth; freelancer-side fraud is a persistent cross-platform problem (Fiverr, Upwork, Freelancer.com all publish scam warnings).The Rise of Company Verification APIs in 2025 ↗Fiverr Scam Alert: How Scammers Are Targeting New Freelancers ↗
Mechanically simple — aggregate public sources (state filings, web/domain age, social, review history) + LLM dossier; KYB data plumbing is proven by TrueBiz, but a freelancer-priced wrapper requires custom data sourcing and prompt design.TrueBiz - Merchant Risk Made Simple ↗Y Combinator: TrueBiz Reduce Dropout During KYB ↗