CONTROL. SECURITY. TRUST.

Your digital identity, actually yours.

An encrypted vault you hold, and a way for organisations to verify what they need without ever storing it. Essence facilitates verification and never holds your data.

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AES-256-GCM · keys held on your device only

What we do

You share fields, not files.

Your documents are structured, so a bank that needs three details never sees the other eleven. Verify once, reuse everywhere, and revoke the moment you want to.

Encrypted on device

A vault even we cannot read

Encryption happens on your device. Essence holds ciphertext it cannot open, and your keys never leave your hands.

Field-level consent

3 of 14 fields, not the document

Every share names the fields, the recipient, the mode and the duration. Read-only, 90 days, revocable at any time.

Sovereign by design

Your vault stays in your country

Vault content, consent records and activity stay in the country's own instance. Sign-in accounts are held centrally.

Where your data lives

For individuals

Your data isn't a product

Stop proving the same facts to everyone you deal with. Hold your verified life in one vault, share the fields an organisation actually needs, and see every share in one place.

No tracking · no mining · never sold

For organisations

Verification without the liability

Rely on a fact another regulated organisation has already verified, under the person's consent. Faster onboarding, and no sensitive copies sitting on your systems waiting to be breached.

Verify · never hold

Industry solutions

Built for real-world checks.

The same mechanic, applied where re-proving costs the most.

Banking and finance

Faster onboarding, stronger compliance

Onboarding is designed to be faster for the customer, while you meet your KYC and AML obligations with verified data, without the data-storage burden.

Faster onboarding — designed so the customer shares the fields you need in place of forms

Continuous compliance — you are told when a document expires or changes

Reduced data liability — verify without holding sensitive personal data

Audit-ready trails — a complete verification record for the regulator

Fields, not formsOnboarding designed around fields the customer already holds

Patient-controlledEach provider sees only the records the patient grants

Healthcare

Records that move with the patient

Identity and record portability across providers, without loosening medical privacy obligations anywhere along the way.

Instant verification — no repeat paperwork at every new provider

Controlled sharing — the patient decides which records each provider sees

Emergency protocols — critical information available when it matters

Mapped against UK and EU GDPR — a starting point for your own assessment

Government services

Citizen services without centralising the data

Modern digital services without a central database of citizen documents to defend. Essence complements the national identity anchor rather than replacing it.

Eligibility checks — confirm entitlement without storing copies

Across departments — the citizen shares a verified fact once

Benefits processing — applicants share the fields a service asks for, with a record of their consent

Less fraud — document authenticity is cryptographically provable

In-country, in-lawA sovereign instance per jurisdiction, no central store to breach

At the paymentSupplier status checked before money moves

Supply chain

Supplier compliance, current rather than annual

Credentials, certifications and insurance checked as they stand today — with supplier onboarding designed to move faster than an annual review.

Automated checks — certifications monitored, not re-collected

Expiry alerts — notice before a credential lapses, not after

Simpler audits — the compliance history is already assembled

Multi-tier visibility — the same check across the supply network

How it works

Four steps, then it stays current.

Create your vault

Set up your vault and unlock it with biometrics. The keys are generated on your device.

Add your documents

Each document is read into fields — a passport becomes 14 of them, each verifiable on its own.

Share with control

Grant the fields an organisation needs, for as long as they need them. Revoke in one action.

Stay in sync

Update a field once and everyone you have authorised sees the current version.

Get in touch

Ready to learn more?

Whether you're an organisation looking to verify without holding, or an individual who wants their data back, we'd like to hear from you.

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hello@essence.digital

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Registered office

71–75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom

Latest insights

When an AI agent asks for your data: delegation with limitsAn AI agent acting for a person should hold a narrow, expiring, countable slice of their consent, never their credentials. Delegated capabilities on Essence are built that way.One set of sharing terms, many councilsCouncils on the same service write similar data-sharing agreements again and again. On Essence, the terms such an agreement sets are configuration, so one set written once can be applied by many organisations.Over State Pension age, not a date of birth: proportionate sharing in practiceA service that needs to know someone is over State Pension age rarely needs their date of birth. Essence passes the answer, not the record: only the fields asked for, or only a signed answer.

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