May 2025 Product Updates

Dear Cerebrum Community,

I'm thrilled to share our latest product improvements and innovations from this past month. Our team has been working tirelessly to enhance your experience and deliver powerful new capabilities that make identity verification faster, more accurate, and more secure than ever before.

🚀 Major Product Enhancements

Introducing Retina: Next-Generation ID Detection

We're excited to announce the production release of Retina, our cutting-edge ID detection model. This advanced technology represents a significant leap forward in document recognition accuracy and processing speed. Early results show:

• 2x faster processing on Android devices
• Dramatically improved detection accuracy across all ID types
• Optimized performance even on lower-end devices

Enhanced vID Platform Capabilities

Our vID platform received several powerful updates this month:

• Dynamic ID Type Configuration: Organizations can now customize which ID types their applicants can submit, streamlining the verification process for specific use cases
• Smart Name Matching: Implemented advanced Levenshtein algorithm for intelligent name comparison, reducing false alerts from minor variations while maintaining security
• Improved Hispanic Name Support: Enhanced our system to better handle long Hispanic names, ensuring more inclusive verification
• Military ID Support: Added specialized handling for Military IDs and international documents

Performance & Reliability Improvements

We've made significant strides in system performance:

• Reduced glare detection memory footprint from ~6MB to near zero
• Achieved 2x performance improvement in image processing
• Enhanced camera frame resolution compatibility across Android devices
• Streamlined our infrastructure with Kubernetes EKS v1.32

📊 User Experience Enhancements

Smarter Notifications & Alerts

• Support for multiple email addresses for order notifications
• Improved alert sorting to surface the most relevant information
• Enhanced package information visibility in order details

Mobile Experience Upgrades

• Enabled font scaling for accessibility - vID now adapts to user-defined font sizes
• Improved auto-capture functionality to reduce manual capture errors
• Better date field handling with intuitive modal interfaces

Report Generation Improvements

• Complete redesign of vID report PDFs for better clarity
• Dynamic report regeneration when order scores are updated
• Configurable biometric inclusion based on package settings

🔧 Developer & Integration Updates

API Enhancements

• New capability to include selfie URLs in REST API responses
• Improved webhook reliability with endpoint validation
• Enhanced API key generation for programmatic reporting

Infrastructure & Security

• Implemented OpenZiti for enhanced internal networking security
• Upgraded to latest Ubuntu Noble Playwright image
• Strengthened our compliance posture with multiple security improvements

🎯 What's Next

As we look ahead to July and beyond, we're focused on:

• Expanding our remote ID capture capabilities to further improve success rates
• Enhancing our automation capabilities for faster processing
• Continuing to refine our AI models for even better accuracy

🙏 Thank You

Your feedback and partnership continue to drive our innovation. The overwhelmingly positive response from our recent partner conferences has energized our team to push even harder on delivering world-class identity verification solutions.

We're particularly proud that leading organizations across various industries have chosen Cerebrum for their hiring and verification needs this month. Your trust motivates us to keep raising the bar.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates in July!

Best regards,

Sebastian Mellen
CEO, Cerebrum

Have questions or feedback? Reach out to our support team (support@cerebrum.com) or your account manager. We're here to help you succeed.