Description
Prelude acts as a crucial trust layer, seamlessly integrating between your signups and your core business operations. It empowers businesses to onboard real users effectively while simultaneously blocking fraudulent activities. By unifying diverse signals such as device information, network data, and signup patterns, Prelude generates a single, intelligent onboarding decision.
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This comprehensive approach significantly enhances trust throughout the user lifecycle, from initial acquisition to ongoing retention. Prelude's infrastructure is designed to detect and mitigate fraud at the hardware level, preventing issues like SMS pumping and the creation of fake accounts, bots, scammers, and scalpers. This leads to a substantial reduction in fraud rates, with reported reductions of up to 99%.
The platform offers a holistic suite of five interconnected products: Verify, Auth, Watch, Intel, and Notify. Verify handles OTP verification across multiple channels like SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Voice, and Email, supporting over 230 regions with a 95% success rate. Auth provides a full authentication stack for secure sessions, including device binding and risk-based step-up authentication. Watch proactively blocks bots and fake accounts, particularly in high-risk regions. Intel offers number intelligence to check reachability and line type before sending communications. Notify ensures reliable transactional messaging.
Prelude is built with robust security and compliance in mind, holding SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, and is GDPR-ready. It is built in Europe and supports over 230 regions with more than 30 providers and 7 channels. Businesses can benefit from significant cost reductions, with reported savings of up to 30% compared to previous providers. The platform features an intuitive dashboard, zero-cost testing options, and premium support, including direct Slack access to the team for quick assistance and integration.
Prelude is ideal for a wide range of applications, including consumer apps, fintech, mobility, dating platforms, B2B software, and food tech. Its flexible pricing model is designed to scale with business growth, offering plans suitable for early-stage startups to large enterprises with millions of weekly active users. By leveraging Prelude, businesses can ensure a secure and efficient onboarding process, fostering user trust and optimizing operational costs.
- CategoryFraud Detection
- Pricing ModelScalable
- DeploymentCloud
- PlatformsWeb
Prelude's Core Features
Unifies device, network, and signup signals for onboarding decisions
Reduces fraud by up to 99% (bots, fake accounts, scammers, scalpers)
Protects against SMS pumping fraud
Achieves 95% successful verifications across multiple channels
Offers 30% cost reduction compared to previous providers
Supports 230+ regions with 30+ providers and 7 channels
Provides real-time behavioral monitoring for live protection
Enables anomaly detection and risk-based step-up authentication
Features device binding for trusted sessions
Includes OTP verification across SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, Voice, and Email
Offers pre-KYC risk scoring to block fake signups
Provides number intelligence for reachability checks
Ensures reliable transactional messaging
Intuitive dashboard for managing OTP routing and delivery insights
Offers zero-cost testing options and free credits
How to use Prelude?
Integrate: Connect Prelude's SDK or API into your application.
Configure: Set up verification rules and fraud detection parameters.
Monitor: Utilize the dashboard to track verification success and fraud rates.
Optimize: Adjust settings based on real-time insights for better conversion and cost efficiency.
Protect: Continuously leverage signals for ongoing user lifecycle trust and security.
Prelude's Use Cases
- User Verification
- Authentication
- Fraud Prevention
- Cost Optimization
- Customer Lifecycle Trust
- Transactional Messaging
