The $32M fine coming for your platform
A global regulatory wave is about to make age-gating mandatory and expensive. This is the developer-first API to solve the compliance nightmare before it costs you millions.
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⚡ The Signal
The open internet is getting sectioned off. Over the past week, a coordinated global regulatory push to gate online content for minors has hit critical mass. It's not a test run. With countries like Australia proposing fines up to $32 million for non-compliance, age verification is quickly becoming a test case for the future of platform liability.
🚧 The Problem
For years, "Are you over 18?" was a checkbox and a pinky promise. That's over. The new reality is a patchwork of complex, country-specific regulations that are expensive to ignore and a nightmare to implement.
Every gaming, social media, or e-commerce platform now faces a choice: build a dedicated, in-house compliance team to track and implement dozens of legal frameworks, or risk eye-watering fines. This is a classic "distraction vs. delegation" problem. Focusing engineers on legal compliance pulls them away from the core product, while the risk of getting it wrong is existential.
🚀 The Solution
Enter Aetas. We're building the Stripe for age verification. Aetas is a developer-first API that handles the entire global age-gating and compliance process.
Instead of building a dozen different workflows for a dozen different laws, developers integrate a single API. Aetas orchestrates the right verification method—from selfie analysis to document scans—based on the user's jurisdiction and the platform's risk profile. We abstract away the entire compliance headache, turning a multi-million dollar problem into a few lines of code.
