About IntroVerify

Who I am and why I built IntroVerify
John Washam
John Washam
Founder, IntroVerify

I built IntroVerify because I'm an artist and I want to protect my fellow artists. We've all seen the DMs for buyers interested in our work, sometime promising thousands, sometimes looking for a commission, or to license our work. How can we trust them?

Commissioned artists take on new clients constantly, over DM, with almost nothing to go on. That's a strange amount of trust to extend, over and over, to strangers, and there wasn't a tool built for that moment.

I've been a software engineer for 25 years. I've worked at Amazon, AOL, and a lot of companies you've never heard of. I'm also a serial entrepreneur. This is the 6th company I've built in 35 years. But I'm no tech bro.

Anyway, all that to say, with my experience in business and software, I knew I could build the right tool to solve this problem, this scourge of scammers. It's a tremendous effort, but I think it's worth a try. Why not turn the tables on these terrible people?

IntroVerify exists to give artists a quick, honest answer before they commit their time, effort, or money. Not a lie detector, and not a background check. Just a few obvious (and invisible) checks that a scammer would rather not do.

If you're an artist and this is useful to you, or if it isn't, I'd like to hear about it. Send it here and I'll read it. Thank you for your time.

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