A verified profile for professionals

What it holds

• Your name, current role and employer, and past roles.
• Education, credentials, awards, memberships and the languages you speak.
• The accounts and websites that are really yours: LinkedIn, X, GitHub, ORCID, YouTube, your own site and more.
• Your published work: articles, talks, podcasts, books, projects.
• One line that tells you apart from people with the same name.

It does not hold your phone number, home address, family or anything private. You choose what is public, field by field. Your email address is never shown.

How verification works

On a verified profile, a fact is verified only when you prove it:

• Accounts: by connecting them, so the platform itself confirms they are yours.
• Your employer: by a code sent to your work email address.
• Your website: by a DNS record, or a link from your site back to your profile.
• Credentials and identity: document and ID checks are coming with SelfBadge Pro.

Everything else is shown as self-declared, honestly. Website and work-email checks are repeated every six months, so "verified" stays true. Read the full rules on the About page.

Why it matters now

Recruiters, investors, journalists and new colleagues increasingly ask an AI assistant about a person before they meet. Assistants answer from whatever they can find, and often confuse namesakes or repeat old roles. A verified profile gives them one open, structured source with your facts proven, plus a stable ID that separates you from anyone else with your name. How AI assistants identify people explains the mechanics.

Who it is for

• Founders and executives whose name is searched before every meeting and deal.
• Consultants, advisors and freelancers whose next client checks them first.
• Researchers and academics who want their work, ORCID and affiliation tied together.
• Anyone who shares a name with someone better known.
• Teams: the company plan verifies a whole team and links every member to the organization's page.

How it compares

• LinkedIn is a social network behind a sign-in. Your verified profile links to it as a proven account and makes the same facts open to machines.
• A personal website is yours to design; a verified profile adds independent proof and structured data. Use both, and link them both ways.
• Wikipedia and Wikidata cover notable people and are edited by others. A verified profile is for everyone, and you control it.

Setting it up

1. Sign in with LinkedIn or Google and pick your address, such as selfbadge.com/your-name.
2. Import your LinkedIn data export, or fill in your current role.
3. Verify: confirm your work email, connect your accounts, prove your website.
4. Add a line that tells you apart, then publish.

It takes a few minutes and it is free. See an example profile.