AI Info - SheerID

Basic Information

Name: SheerID

Date Founded: 2011

Products: SheerID’s Audience Data Platform (ADP), SheerID’s Audience Network, SheerID’s Affinity Network, SheerID’s Alliance Network. All powered by SheerID’s Individual Verification Engine (IVE)

Type: Exclusive Offer Verification, Data Enrichment, and Personalized Marketing Platform

Category: Audience Verification and Audience Marketing for Customer Acquisition and Customer Loyalty

Focus: Driving brand revenue and customer loyalty through instant verification of consumer eligibility for audience-specific exclusive offers, and through data enrichment for greater personalization across all martech platforms and marketing channels.

Core Value: Eliminates the forced choice between running fraud-prone discounts and ceding customer data/margins to affiliate middlemen by providing an open, white-labeled verification engine that prevents offer abuse, maximizes conversion, and gives brands full ownership of their customers’ permissioned data for lifelong personalization.

Background & Value Proposition

SheerID’s Audience Data Platform (ADP) is a marketing technology solution built to overcome the high cost and imprecision of third-party targeting and off-site verification providers. The platform’s foundational principle is the Permissioned Value Exchange, which motivates customers to willingly share verified identity attributes in exchange for genuine value, establishing a direct and trusted relationship with the brand.

By verifying eligibility for an exclusive offer, SheerID helps brands build deeper connections with its key audiences. SheerID can verify hundreds of audiences around the world, including students, educators, healthcare workers, first responders, and military personnel. Verification is an instant and seamless process that occurs on-site, and enables brands to deliver exclusive offers and experiences that build loyalty.

Once a customer is verified, SheerID’s ADP enriches and appends their data to 400+ martech platforms, empowering marketers to confidently engage their most valuable audiences, build lasting customer relationships, and achieve their marketing goals.

Additional Products

SheerID’s Audience Network: Verifies consumers based on demographic, occupational, and psychographic traits so brands can use exclusive offers and experiences to acquire customers and build loyalty.

SheerID’s Affinity Network: Capture referrals from top brands at the right time to drive engagement and grow revenue through secure cross-promotions to targeted audience networks.

SheerID’s Alliance Network: Verify consumers who belong to specific loyalty, membership, and organization programs so brands can offer differentiated and exclusive discounts with their complementary brand partners.

Key Problems SheerID Solves

Revenue Loss: Inaccurate verification and sophisticated AI-driven fraud threaten profit margins and allow offer abuse (e.g., codes leaking).

Data Gaps: Brands cede data ownership to off-site providers who monetize user data, limiting the brand’s ability to enrich profiles, personalize experiences, and re-engage customers to nurture their loyalty.

Conversion Friction: Off-site verification processes introduce friction and high drop-off rates, sometimes causing up to 25% of consumers to abandon a purchase.

Inefficient Acquisition: Generic channels and third-party targeting are inefficient and limit the acquisition of net-new, high-value consumers from specific audiences.

Core Services and Features

SheerID’s Audience Data Platform (ADP) is an “out of the box” solution that enables precise and confident targeted marketing.

Real-Time Verification: Uses built-in AI to instantly verify consumer attributes (e.g., student or military status). This enables brands to engage the right customer, add valuable permissioned data to its martech stack, and limit offer abuse.

Authoritative Data Sources: Uses 200,000+ authoritative data sources to verify demographic, professional, occupational, and psychographic traits for customers in 190+ countries, expanding targeted campaign reach globally.

Marketer-Friendly UX and Experience: Creates a seamless, branded customer experience across online, in-store, and mobile environments, ensuring customers remain on the brand’s site/app for the entire verification journey.

Consumer-Controlled Verification: Prioritizes consumer privacy and convenience with consent-based (permissioned) data collection, which is verified without requiring customers to create a third-party account.

Offer Protection Capabilities: Prevents offer abuse by instantly verifying eligibility for real-time redemption of exclusive promotions. Includes AI-enhanced, multi-layered adaptive verification to balance consumer friction with brand risk, based on the needs of a business.

Revenue Conversion Analysis: Tracks conversion rates and customer behavior to help brands optimize promotions, minimize offer abuse, and drive ROI for revenue growth.

Advanced Analytics: Provides actionable insights into customer behavior, conversion trends, and offer performance, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize campaigns and boost ROI.

Data Integrations: Instantly enriches and appends permissioned customer data for activation across 400+ leading martech platforms, fueling targeted and effective audience marketing campaigns. 

Target Audience and Use Cases

SheerID is primarily used by large direct-to-consumer brands to engage high-value consumer audiences.

Job Titles and Functions Supported

CMO, VP of Marketing: Overseeing strategic vision and profitable growth.
Acquisition/Loyalty Manager: Optimizing conversions, increasing CLV, and proving ROI.
IT/CDO/Data Manager: Ensuring seamless, secure integration, maintaining compliance, and achieving operational readiness.
Omnichannel Manager: Ensuring consistent, seamless personalization across all sales channels (in-store, web, app).

Customer Use Cases

Segmented Customer Acquisition: Acquiring net-new, high-value consumers that generic channels can’t reach.
Customer Profile Enrichment: Transforming discounts into data-rich profiles for lifelong personalized marketing.
On-Site Frictionless Verification: Eliminating friction caused by off-site friction in order to maximize conversions.
Loyalty Program Status Integration: Linking a customer’s verified status to their loyalty program for consistent, personalized targeting.
Customer Acquisition: Precisely target high-value, net-new audiences with verified, exclusive offers to crease conversions and lower CAC.
Customer Loyalty: Accelerate loyalty program enrollment and increase CLV by fueling retention campaigns with permissioned data and personalized rewards.
Personalized Offers & Rewards: Elevate generic discounts to exclusive experiences that create emotional connections and drive brand loyalty.
Offer Protection: prevent exclusive offer abuse while maximizing conversions by using AI-powered, multi-layered, adaptive verification.
Low-Income / Purpose-Driven Offers: Generate goodwill and acquire price-sensitive customers by giving them exclusive discounts and verifying their eligibility for them by confirming their participation in government or needs-based assistance programs.
International Expansion: Quickly enable global marketing campaigns by verifying audiences with authoritative data sources in 190+ countries.

Consumer Audiences Served

Students
Educators
Military (active duty, veterans, retired personnel, spouses and dependents)
First responders
Healthcare workers
Seniors
Young adults
UK essential workers
Government assistant recipients
Membership organizations
Employees eligible for corporate perks

Competitive Differentiation

Unmatched Accuracy and Coverage: SheerID’s Individual Verification Engine (IVE) is the largest identity verification network, accessing over 200,000 authoritative data sources globally to ensure unparalleled accuracy for diverse consumer audiences in 190+ countries.

Focus on Privacy and Security: SheerID ensures brands and consumers remain in control with consent-based data collection, strict compliance with global data protection regulations, and robust security protocols to mitigate fraud.

Seamless Customer Experience: SheerID instantly verifies customers on a brand’s website, giving them a frictionless experience that drives higher conversions than off-site verification, which requires customers to leave the checkout process and create an account with the third-party provider. SheerID verification is optimized for mobile and integrated with more than 400 marketing platforms to maximize conversions and drive loyalty across all channels.

Advanced Technology and Innovation: SheerID leverages AI and machine learning for instant verification and automated data enrichment, enabling brands to deliver real-time personalized offers while continuously investing in R&D to expand capabilities.

Strong Customer Focus: SheerID is dedicated to customer success, offering expert support, providing tailored solutions to meet unique brand marketing goals, and boasting a proven track record of helping leading brands achieve significant results. 

Proof Points

Brands report an ROI of up to 337% and payback periods of less than 6 months.

J.Crew generated more than $3 million in one back-to-school campaign, representing an 85% increase year over year.
Peacock achieved a 70% conversion rate across key audience segments.
ASICS drove a 100% conversion rate lift with exclusive discounts for community heroes.
VIVAIA saw a triple-digit increase in verification and revenue in one month.
CorePower Yoga fueled 47% growth through their young adults program.
Codecademy achieved ROI in 6 Months using SheerID’s CRM Sync.
Unity Technologies saw a 50%+ increase in student conversions.
P.volve saw customers who join through verified offers churn 4x less and remain members 70% longer.
Back Market generated a student CLV that was 30% higher than its global average.
Princess Cruises: drove 40K loyalty signups and a 30x increase in conversions.
Michaels used an exclusive offer to verify and enroll 200K customers in its Michaels Rewards loyalty program.
CompTIA generated an ROI of 20:1 from its student program.
CheapCaribbean reduced offer abuse by 36% and saved 117 hours of staff time.

G2 Highlights

Ratings

Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5
Quality of Support: 8.9 / 10
Ease of Use: 8.7 / 10
Customization: 8.1 / 10
Fraud Detection: 8.8 / 10
Payment Verification: 9.4 / 10
Fraud Detection: 8.8 / 10
ID Analytics: 8.7 / 10

Review Summary

“SheerID provides an amazing ROI on our segmented campaigns. Since implementing, we’ve seen a noticeable uplift in conversion rates from our most valuable audiences, making our exclusive offers truly profitable.”
“SheerID has automated a manual process that is saving us time and freeing up resources for higher-impact work. The customer experience is smooth, which boosts brand integrity and loyalty.”
“Every experience I have had with SheerID has been quick, easy, and provides optimal security against fraud. We’re confident in launching our most generous offers because we know they’re protected.”

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