Record-required evidence for risk and fraud teams.

GeoClear returns deterministic address-velocity, unit-anomaly, vacancy, and deliverability signals with a customer-held operational evidence record, so the fraud rule and the chargeback adjudicator look at the same evidence.

The decision problem

A high-velocity order from a known good-historic email lands at a new shipping address. The fraud rule fires and either approves or holds. Six weeks later the chargeback comes back. The merchant has logs; the bank has its own records. The two sets disagree.

Why unverified location creates risk

If the location signal changes between the order-time check and the chargeback review, the address gets revalidated, the unit-anomaly flag updates, the deliverability score shifts, the merchant cannot verify what the rule actually saw at decision time. Vendor logs are mutable. Screenshots aren't enforceable.

Signals GeoClear returns

• Address velocity (orders per address per window)
• Unit / apartment anomaly (multiple unrelated names)
• Vacancy + abandonment signal
• Deliverability score (RDI + DPV)
• Address risk + fraud composite
• ZIP+4 + rooftop precision

Verdict example

{ "address": "456 Main St #4B, NY", "velocity_30d": 8, "unit_anomaly": true, "deliverable": false, "risk_score": 0.71, "recommended_action": "hold" }

The operational evidence record, your verifiable record

The order's operational evidence record becomes the merchant's durable record of what the fraud system saw at decision time. When the chargeback adjudicator reviews the case, the record is verifiable evidence, not the merchant's logs, not a vendor support ticket. Tampering is detectable; the verification fails if a single byte of the recorded payload has been modified.

🛡 customer-held operational evidence record industry frameworks SOC 2 Type I, Q3 2026

Business value

Reduces chargeback win-rate uncertainty by giving merchants a tamper-evident decision artifact. Enables agent-driven fraud rules where the agent acts on the result and the merchant retains the record for audit. Simplifies dispute resolution between merchant + acquirer + issuing bank.

Updated 2026-04-28 ·