Overview
NineID addresses the operational complexity that arises when large facilities need to manage access for contractors, visitors, and employees across multiple sites and security zones. The platform handles credentialing, access permissions, compliance checks, and audit trails in a single system.
The company is part of the Entourage portfolio, which has backed several Belgian B2B software companies including Tekst. Industrial environments with many contractors, such as manufacturing plants, logistics hubs, and construction sites, represent the primary target market.
Key people
In the news
- Retail, entertainment, and travel automated their front desks years ago. Yet most enterprise gatehouses still lose ~12 minutes per check-in on manual paperwork. The gatehouse is the last counter that hasn't flipped. Until today. ⤵️ #9ID #AISecurityAgent #GatehouseAutomation #ContractorCompliance
- Manual contractor compliance doesn't just waste time. It buries your team in administrative noise. 💀 9ID’s AI Security Agent automates document collection, credential verification, and gate approvals in the background so your site team doesn't have to lift a finger.
- 35% of Belgian companies checked during social inspections are flagged for compliance offences. With Flemish chain liability active since 1 July 2026, legal liability extends to your entire subcontractor chain: 👉 Every company in the chain 👉 Every worker they send Together with PwC Legal Belgium, we built a 3-level blueprint to structure your due diligence: ✅ Level 01 | Site Access: Identity verification & safety inductions ✅ Level 02 | Social Compliance: Dimona/Limosa, A1 certs & work permits ✅ Level 03 | Corporate Vetting:
- The Flemish grace period for chain liability (ketenaansprakelijkheid) ended on July 1st. 👀 You now need active, timestamped proof of due diligence for every contractor and subcontractor on your site. 👷🏽 Does chain liability apply to your company? It applies to any facility commissioning cleaning, construction, or logistics services—including chemical plants, hospitals, data centers... To exclude liability under the new rules, your workflow must handle 5 steps: 👉 Collect pre-arrival evidence: Request IDs, work authorisations,
- Legacy OCR fails at the perimeter. ➡️ Agentic document processing fixes it. A contractor arrives at the gate, scans their ID, and gets hard-blocked because of a minor name mismatch or glare on the scan. The result? Gate queues build up, workers get frustrated, and security guards end up playing manual paper-checker instead of overseeing site safety. Legacy OCR is deterministic: “If it doesn’t match the template, fail.” 🔥 We built Agentic Document Processing to fix this. Instead of static canvas scans, the 9ID AI agent actively
- EXCITING FEATURE UPDATEOur 9ID AI Security Agent now runs automated, real-time security checks against international sanctions and official government watchlists (including EU, UN, Interpol, and Belgian AIGIS port bans) for both companies and all external people entering your site. To check these manually in real time for every entrant is physically impossible. Official watchlists change daily, but traditional gate security still relies on manual ID checks and paper clipboards. This leaves critical infrastructure: like
- Gatehouse security processes haven't fundamentally changed in decades. Spreadsheets replaced clipboards, but the manual admin work remained. Until now! 🪄 Meet the new face of automated perimeter security: The 9ID AI Security Agent. We’ve sharpened our focus to reflect the true value our platform delivers every day. 9ID acts as an automated security layer that continuously runs multi-tier compliance checks, document verifications, and tracks entry data for contractors, truckers, and visitors before they ever reach your
- In a complex industrial facility where hundreds of external contractors enter daily, do you truly know WHO'S ON YOUR SITE? And more importantly: Do you know if they are qualified to be there? 🤨 We sat down with Stefaan Verhelst, Safety Advisor at Envalior, to discuss how this global engineering materials leader closed their site visibility blindspot and transformed emergency management using 9ID. As Stefaan puts it: “9ID gives us a better overview of who is present and what qualifications each person has.” By shifting from
Backers
Pitchdrive
Pitchdrive is a venture capital fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage startups, with four funds raised totaling €250K-2M in first-check investments, and a portfolio of over 70 companies backed globally.
Related profiles
Something wrong or missing? Send an update. Fixed within 24 hours.