Don’t waste money on numbers that will never convert. SAFr Pulse filters out bad data before it reaches your onboarding, CRM or marketing systems – cutting wasted spend on messages, verification steps, and call attempts.
KNOW THE NUMBER BEFORE YOU TRUST IT
Every business relies on mobile numbers. They sit at the heart of onboarding, authentication, payments, messaging and customer engagement. But a number alone tells you very little about the person or risk behind it.
Some are disposable. Some have been recycled, breached, ported or recently activated. Others may show unusual usage patterns or other characteristics that should make you think twice before spending money or allowing an interaction to continue.
SAFr Pulse from XConnect brings together up to 18 network, behavioural and risk characteristics to give you an instant Confidence Score for any mobile number.
Before you send an SMS OTP, begin KYC or AML checks, approve a transaction or invest in acquiring a customer, take the pulse first. It gives you an early trust layer that helps reduce fraud, avoid unnecessary downstream checks and make better decisions sooner.
THE TRUST LAYER BEFORE YOU ACT
SAFr Pulse is like taking the pulse of a mobile number - a fast, intelligent assessment of whether it can be trusted before you spend more time or money checking it.
It brings together up to 18 characteristics from multiple data sources, including network intelligence, number history, usage patterns and unique XConnect data, like frequency, diversity and recency, then applies our heuristic processing to produce a clear Confidence Score.
That gives you an early indication of risk before onboarding, authentication, messaging or other higher-cost checks begin. Suspicious, disposable, invalid or higher-risk numbers can be identified sooner, while legitimate customers move through with less friction.
The result is better decisions earlier in the journey, fewer unnecessary checks, lower operational costs and greater confidence in the mobile number behind every interaction.
Network Status
Assesses whether the number is correctly structured, active and associated with a functioning mobile network, helping establish whether it represents a genuine, contactable mobile identity before further checks or interactions take place.
Number History
Looks at signals around the age, lifecycle and recent history of the number, including changes that may indicate instability, reassignment or other activity worth considering when assessing overall trust and risk.
Usage and activity
Evaluates patterns that help indicate whether a number behaves like an established, actively used mobile number, adding valuable context when distinguishing genuine customers from numbers created or used for less legitimate purposes.
Digital footprint
Examines broader digital and social signals associated with the number to understand whether it has the kind of established footprint you would expect from a genuine person or long-standing mobile identity.
Risk and exposure
Identifies signals that may suggest previous exposure to suspicious, compromised or higher-risk activity, helping organisations recognise numbers that warrant additional scrutiny before onboarding, authentication, payment or customer engagement.
Number quality
Detects characteristics commonly associated with temporary, disposable, unreachable or otherwise low-quality numbers, helping remove bad data earlier and reduce unnecessary spend on messaging, verification and downstream customer checks.
Why every number you contact should be real, reachable and worth your time.
Cost control
Fraud reduction
Identify disposable and fraudulent numbers. SAFr Pulse prevents account takeovers, bonus abuse, and synthetic identities. Platforms can detect 'Borrow My Number' numbers designed to circumvent 2FA codes that users rely on for safety.
Compliance confidence
Performing pre-checks aligns with emerging regulatory expectations for due diligence in digital onboarding and payments. SAFr Pulse helps demonstrate a proactive, responsible approach to verification.
Data hygiene and accuracy
Cleaner databases mean better analytics, higher conversion rates, and improved customer communication. With SAFr Pulse, your outreach efforts always start with verified, active numbers.
Banking and Financial Services
Banks spend millions each year on KYC, AML and customer verification – often on numbers that turn out to be fake or inactive. SAFr Pulse acts as a gatekeeper, ensuring every mobile number used for onboarding or transaction authentication is real, active and trustworthy. That means fewer failed verifications, lower fraud risk, and more efficient use of onboarding budgets.
Fintech and Digital Payments
Every payment request or OTP depends on a working mobile number. SAFr Pulse helps fintechs confirm that a number belongs to a legitimate, reachable customer before any authentication attempt, preventing losses from failed OTPs and avoiding regulatory penalties linked to incomplete verification.
iGaming and Digital Entertainment
Fraudulent sign-ups, bonus abuse and synthetic accounts are constant challenges. SAFr Pulse helps iGaming platforms verify new players instantly, filtering out fake numbers before costly KYC, AML and document checks are triggered – protecting both margins and the integrity of player databases.
Telecoms, CPaaS and Messaging Providers
Marketing teams waste vast sums contacting dead, invalid or recycled numbers. SAFr Pulse keeps contact databases clean and accurate, improving right-party contact rates and campaign ROI. It’s not just about cost efficiency – it’s about communicating with real customers, not empty endpoints.
Dating and Social Platforms
Safety depends on authenticity. SAFr Pulse protects dating platforms and social apps from users registering through “borrow-my-number” or disposable services, ensuring every profile is tied to a verified, reachable person. The result is a safer community, stronger trust, and genuine connections for users and advertisers alike.
Insurance and Consumer Lending
Loan and policy applications often begin with a mobile number. SAFr Pulse verifies those numbers before credit or document checks, preventing fraudsters from using untraceable or short-term SIMs to secure credit or evade detection. That reduces identity fraud, streamlines underwriting, and safeguards customer trust.
Customer Support and Call Centres
Every minute counts when agents are chasing unreachable numbers. SAFr Pulse validates customer contact lists in real time, ensuring resources are focused only on live, verified numbers. That means faster resolutions, reduced call-handling costs, and happier customers.
Retailers and eCommerce
SAFr Pulse helps retailers and eCommerce platforms verify that every number in their CRM or loyalty database is genuine and active before engaging. The result? Fewer failed SMS promotions, higher conversion rates, and more accurate customer insight across campaigns and fulfilment.
Crypto and Digital Asset Platforms
SAFr Pulse helps exchanges and wallets confirm that the mobile number linked to each account is real, active and tied to a genuine user – not a burner SIM or bot. That prevents duplicate sign-ups, shields onboarding from synthetic IDs, and strengthens compliance with AML and KYC rules without slowing user growth.
Onboarding dropout rates in digital channels for younger demographics, (Federal Trade Commission)
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Up to 30% of mobile phone numbers in customer databases are either inactive or incorrect (CFCA)
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Increase in customer churn when businesses fail to correctly verify mobile numbers (Federal Trade Commission)
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THE SOLUTION | TRUST IN A FRAGMENTED MOBILE WORLD
Customers expect instant access, while businesses need confidence that the people behind every interaction are genuine. Somewhere between the two, unnecessary friction, poor data and fraud are costing organisations time, money and conversions.
Mobile numbers are constantly changing. They’re recycled, ported, replaced, exposed and sometimes created purely to bypass verification. Static data or a single check can only tell you so much about whether a number should be trusted.
SAFr Pulse looks across multiple network, behavioural and risk characteristics to build a real-time picture of a number and generate a clear Confidence Score. It gives you an early trust layer, helping you understand risk before committing to more expensive checks or interactions.
Use Pulse before onboarding, verification, messaging or customer engagement to identify higher-risk numbers earlier, reduce unnecessary checks and let legitimate customers move forward with less friction.
TRUST THE INTELLIGENCE BEHIND THE SCORE
A Confidence Score is only as good as the intelligence behind it. SAFr Pulse combines live network data, proprietary XConnect intelligence and sophisticated heuristic analysis to give you a real-time view of the trust and risk associated with a mobile number.
Real-time intelligence
Pulse assesses the signals available around a number in real time, giving you an immediate indication of trust before you spend money on verification, onboarding, messaging or other downstream processes.
Intelligence, not a single check
No individual signal tells the whole story. Pulse brings multiple characteristics together and applies intelligent heuristic analysis to identify patterns, anomalies and combinations that would be difficult to see in isolation.
Built on network-level insight
XConnect operates at the heart of the global communications ecosystem. That gives Pulse access to authoritative network intelligence and a depth of number-level understanding that conventional data sources simply cannot provide.
A broader view of risk
From network status and number history to usage, digital footprint, exposure and number quality, Pulse builds a multidimensional picture of each number rather than relying on a simple valid-or-invalid result.
Intelligence unique to XConnect
Pulse is strengthened by proprietary XConnect datasets and insights developed through years of working with numbering, routing, identity and fraud intelligence. Some of the most valuable signals behind the score simply aren’t available from ordinary data providers.
Built for enterprise decisions
XConnect intelligence is already trusted across communications, financial services and other high-volume environments. SAFr Pulse brings that expertise together in one simple Confidence Score, giving you the evidence to make faster, better-informed decisions before you act.
Ready to implement?
Integration is fast, lightweight and proven. SAFr Pulse is API-ready and deploys in days, not months – with XConnect guiding every step from discovery to live rollout.
Whether you’re testing in one market or scaling globally, the setup is seamless and impact immediate.
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Identify onboarding, marketing or authentication journeys where number trust matters most.
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Integrate the SAFr Pulse API into your existing risk, ID&V or CRM systems.
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Test and calibrate thresholds to align with your trust and tolerance levels.
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Launch a live pilot with one operator or partner region.
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Scale confidently across all channels and customer journeys.
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Optionally combine with SIM Swap Check, Call Forward Check and APP Fraud Check for complete, network-level assurance.
How can I try SAFr Pulse?
Very easily. We can give you a sandbox environment to see SAFr Pulse in action and test how it performs with your data.
Our customer, partner and delivery teams are experts in mobile identity, onboarding and fraud prevention – guiding you through setup, POC and live deployment. You’ll know exactly what the service can do, how it integrates, and what it can save before you switch on.
There’s nothing to lose and everything to gain – cleaner data, safer onboarding and a better customer experience from the very first interaction.
Ready to take the pulse of your customer data?
