Company
Building the identity foundation for infrastructure.
VerID is the company behind UMIP, the Unified Modular Infrastructure Platform, and the organization advancing Persistent Infrastructure Identity across the built environment.
Through PIID™, GIIS™, UMIP Registry™, enterprise products, research, intellectual property, and industry collaboration, VerID is building the infrastructure required for physical structures to maintain persistent identity across systems, sectors, organizations, and time.
UMIP by VerID.
Our Story
The problem was hiding in plain sight.
The built environment generates enormous amounts of information.
- Property records
- Permits
- Insurance policies
- Loans
- Inspections
- Construction records
- Risk data
- Geospatial information
- Maintenance records
- Ownership history
Yet the physical structure at the center of all that information has historically lacked a persistent identity of its own.
Addresses
identify locations.
Parcels
identify land.
Organizations
create their own identifiers.
But when information moves between systems, organizations, industries, and time, there has been no persistent reference designed specifically for the physical structure itself.
VerID was founded around the belief that this missing identity layer is a foundational infrastructure problem.
The solution begins with a simple principle:
Give the physical structure an identity that persists.
From that principle came Persistent Infrastructure Identity, PIID™, the UMIP platform, the UMIP Registry™, Lifecycle™, GIIS™, and the broader architecture being developed around persistent structure identity.
The Founder
Trevor Vick
Founder and Architect of Persistent Infrastructure Identity
Trevor Vick is the founder of VerID and UMIP and the architect behind Persistent Infrastructure Identity. His entrepreneurial background across construction, real estate, property operations, and other operating businesses exposed a recurring problem across the built environment: every industry had sophisticated data about physical assets, but no common persistent identity for the structure itself. That insight became the foundation for PIID™, UMIP, and the infrastructure identity category VerID is building today.
From Operator to Category Creator
The idea came from operating in the physical world.
Trevor Vick's background was not rooted solely in software or data.
It was built through operating companies and working around physical assets, property, construction, transactions, customers, records, and the systems that support them.
That operating perspective exposed a recurring pattern.
The same building could appear differently depending on who was looking at it.
A contractor
saw a project.
A property system
saw an address.
A county
saw a parcel.
An insurer
saw a risk and policy.
A lender
saw collateral.
A facility operator
saw an asset.
A data platform
saw coordinates, geometry, or another proprietary identifier.
The physical structure was the constant.
The references surrounding it were not.
That disconnect became the starting point for Persistent Infrastructure Identity.
The Founding Insight
The structure should be the constant.
Most infrastructure information is organized around references that can change or references designed for another purpose.
VerID takes a different approach.
The physical structure becomes the persistent reference point.
PIID™
identifies it.
Lifecycle™
creates continuity around it.
UMIP Registry™
maintains its persistent identity and supported registry context.
GIIS™
establishes the governance framework.
UMIP
operationalizes the identity layer through products and enterprise infrastructure.
Identity first. Everything else connects around it.
Founder's Vision
Infrastructure should be able to identify itself consistently everywhere it appears.
The long term vision is a built environment in which the same physical structure can be recognized consistently across the systems that insure it, finance it, regulate it, operate it, analyze it, improve it, and eventually interact with it through artificial intelligence.
- Those systems do not need to become one system.
- Their data does not need to become one database.
- Their identifiers do not need to disappear.
They need a persistent reference to the same physical asset.
That is the role VerID is building PIID™ to serve.
What We Are Building
Infrastructure for the infrastructure economy.
VerID is not being built around a single report or application.
The company is developing a broader identity infrastructure capable of supporting existing and future systems across:
- Insurance
- Mortgage and lending
- Government
- Defense Infrastructure
- Utilities
- Energy
- Construction
- Commercial real estate
- Residential Real Estate
- Facilities management
- Asset Management and CMMS
- Telecommunications
- Capital markets
- Enterprise technology
- Artificial intelligence
- Smart Cities
- GIS, Mapping and Geospatial Intelligence
- Architecture, Engineering and Surveying
- CAD, BIM and Digital Delivery
- Digital Twins and Simulation
- Manufacturing & Industrial
- Data Centers and Semiconductor Facilities
- Healthcare and Life Sciences Infrastructure
- Higher Education and Campus Infrastructure
- Airport and Aviation Infrastructure
- Ports, Rail and Logistics Infrastructure
The common denominator across these sectors is the physical asset.
PIID™ gives them a common way to reference it.
Our Responsibility
Category creation requires stewardship.
Establishing persistent infrastructure identity requires more than introducing technology.
It requires disciplined governance.
- Technical standards
- Registry continuity
- Intellectual property protection
- Enterprise implementation
- Industry collaboration
- Research
- Institutional trust
- Long term stewardship
VerID is being built to carry that responsibility as Persistent Infrastructure Identity develops from an idea into infrastructure used across organizations and industries.
Platform Architecture
Identity before data.
VerID began with a foundational question: How can infrastructure become truly interoperable if the physical asset itself does not have persistent identity?
That question shaped the architecture that followed.
PIID™
Persistent identity for the physical structure.
Lifecycle™
Continuity around that identity through time.
UMIP Registry™
The system of record for persistent infrastructure identity.
GIIS™
The governance framework supporting consistency and interoperability.
UMIP
The platform that operationalizes the identity layer.
VerID
The company responsible for advancing the vision, intellectual property, platform, standards, partnerships, and category.
Intellectual Property
Protecting the identity layer.
Intellectual property protecting Persistent Infrastructure Identity and the platform that carries it.
The program protects Persistent Infrastructure Identity (PIID™), Identity Resolution™, Identity Resolution API™, and related infrastructure-identity inventions.
The strategy aligns patents, trademarks, and standards participation so GIIS™, PIID™, and Registry capabilities can remain interoperable and institutionally credible.
Detailed patent status is provided through approved institutional diligence materials. Public surfaces do not invent filing numbers or prosecution statuses.
The Long Term Mission
Make persistent identity foundational to the built world.
The ambition is straightforward.
- A future in which every qualifying physical structure can maintain a persistent identity.
- A future in which organizations can reference that structure consistently regardless of which system they use.
- A future in which records and lifecycle context can remain connected through decades of change.
- A future in which machines and artificial intelligence can reason about physical infrastructure using persistent asset context.
- And a future in which the built environment becomes more interoperable because its physical assets can finally be referenced consistently.
The built world has operated without a persistent identity layer.
VerID is building it.
The built world has operated without a persistent identity layer.
VerID is building it.