Hide Check benchmark
Identity discovery benchmark
This public benchmark reruns labeled synthetic search results through the identity gate used by Hide. A candidate needs a current or former name plus an independently matching location, organization, address, email or phone clue before a person is asked to review it.
Current test result
- Identity gate
- hide-discovery-match-v3
- Query plan
- hide-discovery-query-v3
- Labeled cases
- 33
- Expected decisions
- 33 of 33
- Wrong-person candidates
- 0
- Missed expected candidates
- 0
- Alias challenges
- 9
- Exact-clue challenges
- 8
Sources covered
Hide uses a contracted public-search index to run separate, Germany-focused passes. This is not direct or exhaustive access to every register, directory, archive or document. An unavailable pass remains a visible coverage gap; it is never reported as no exposure.
Current or former name, City or former city when supplied, Company, organization or public role when supplied.
Exact address, Email address, Phone number. These are never used as provider search queries.
Every candidate needs independent corroboration and the person's confirmation.
The personal details you can see on that exact page
You provide the exact URL
You open and confirm the match.
Indexed references to company roles, company links and published service addresses
Separate German public-index pass for each named register; not a private register feed or direct register integration
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to current or former company roles and business contact records
Separate German public-index pass for each named directory, including the service to which Firmenwissen now redirects
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Names, public roles, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers mentioned by the index
German public-search index
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 76 out of 100.
Profiles and contact details mentioned on public pages
German public-search index with known directories excluded
Full name plus corroborating context and a score of at least 78 out of 100.
Indexed references to names, direct contact details, signatures and document metadata
Separate public-index passes by file family; files behind logins or outside the index are not accessed
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 80 out of 100.
Older public pages and details that may no longer appear on the live site
German public-search index; not exhaustive archive crawling
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 80 out of 100.
Indexed references to directory listings, phone numbers and postal addresses
Separate German public-index pass for each named service
Full name plus city or company context and a score of at least 76 out of 100.
Names, public roles, postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers mentioned by the index
Austrian public-search index
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 76 out of 100.
Indexed references to current or former company roles and business contact records republished from the Austrian Firmenbuch
Austrian public-index pass for the named directory
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to directory listings, phone numbers and postal addresses
Austrian public-index pass for the named service
Full name plus city or company context and a score of at least 76 out of 100.
Indexed references to company officer roles and, for some filings, published service or historical addresses
UK public-index pass for the named register
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to directory listings, phone numbers and postal addresses
UK public-index pass for the named service
Full name plus city or company context and a score of at least 76 out of 100.
Indexed references to company roles and published business addresses
French public-index pass for the named register
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to current or former company roles and business contact records republished from the French RCS
French public-index pass for the named directory
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to company roles and published business addresses
Spanish public-index pass for the named register
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to current or former company roles and business contact records republished from the Spanish Registro Mercantil
Spanish public-index pass for the named directory
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to company roles and published business addresses
Swiss public-index pass for the named register
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to current or former company roles and business contact records republished from Zefix
Swiss public-index pass for the named directory
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 72 out of 100.
Indexed references to compiled personal profiles, addresses and phone numbers
US public-index pass across the named data-broker sites, rotated across recurring-discovery cycles so the full list is covered over time rather than in a single pass
Full name plus city or company context and a score of at least 80 out of 100.
A business listing's displayed name and formatted address
Structured Places API text search on name plus supplied city or company; not a general web search and not Apple Maps
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 74 out of 100.
A business listing's displayed name and formatted address
Structured Apple Maps Server API text search on name plus supplied city or company; not a general web search and not Google Maps
Full name plus supplied city or company and a score of at least 74 out of 100.
What Hide deliberately does not search
- Private accounts, paywalled records or data obtained by bypassing access controls
- Purchased criminal-market, credential or dark-web datasets
- Face recognition, voice matching or location inference
- Removal from a statutory register when publication remains legally required
Source-specific search passes
A discovery does not rely on one broad query. With both city and company context, the current plan runs 30 bounded public-index passes. Named registers, directories and people-search services are queried separately; documents are separated into PDF, Word and spreadsheet families.
| Source | Focused passes |
|---|---|
| german registers | 4 |
| company directories | 6 |
| impressum pages | 4 |
| public web | 2 |
| exposed documents | 6 |
| web archives | 2 |
| people search | 6 |
Test cases
The cases cover German register and directory results, Impressum pages, public websites, indexed documents, web archives and people-search services. They also test former names, former cities and employers, exact address, email and phone corroboration, and the rule that aliases or shared contact clues never identify a person by themselves. Negative cases include common names without corroboration, conflicting cities, longer names that merely share a prefix, city and company substrings, phone-number suffixes, partial addresses, surnames belonging to another person, mislabeled source hosts, private URLs and pages that only match a company.
| Source | Cases |
|---|---|
| german registers | 3 |
| company directories | 7 |
| impressum pages | 2 |
| public web | 13 |
| exposed documents | 2 |
| web archives | 2 |
| people search | 4 |
Benchmark limitations
The set is a maintained regression test, not an independent certification. Live search precision and recall are not published because synthetic search snippets cannot establish live index coverage or real-world identity prevalence. Real candidates still require the person's confirmation, and Hide separately measures the false identity-match rate from reviewed product outcomes.