Rahman Bazarov

BedRock - Get approved by US banks even after being rejeceted

BedRock verifies founders using Digital Lineage - GitHub commits, Stripe history, behavioral signals - not just passports and selfies. Banks de-risk entire countries. We help legitimate users from restricted regions form US entities, attach a Trust Score, and improve approval odds. Deepfake-resistant verification. Automated compliance. Built by founders who lived the problem.

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Rahman Bazarov
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Rahman, founder of BedRock. My father is a legitimate business owner - and still couldn’t open a US bank account because of where he was born. Banks de-risk entire countries. Not because founders are fraudulent - but because manual compliance costs more than the customer is worth. So we built BedRock. Instead of verifying people through passports and selfies (which deepfakes are breaking), we verify founders through what we call Digital Lineage: • GitHub commit history • Stripe transaction history • Business activity signals • Behavioral patterns We generate a Trust Score that founders can attach to US banking applications. In the last 18 days we’ve helped 11 founders and generated $4,600 in revenue. Fintechs and payment companies are already lining up to integrate our Trust Score API. Banking partnerships are in the works. We're starting with formation as the wedge - but the bigger vision is to become the identity, banking, and payments infrastructure for cross-border founders: from Trust Score API to our own neobank and Merchant of Record. If you’ve ever been rejected because of your passport - I’d love to hear your story. Happy to answer anything. — Rahman
Kimberly Ross

@rahman_bazarov_ Does BedRock integrate directly with banks or work through partners? How does the app assess someone’s financial profile and rejection reasons?

Rahman Bazarov

@kimberly_ross Hey Kimberly, we route founders to the specific bank will approve them, every neobank has different blacklists and we've mapped them all.

Trust Score pulls from GitHub, Stripe history, tax records, things that take years to build, not a passport scan that takes seconds to fake.

Check it out at bedrockhq.co 🙏

Jacklyn William

@rahman_bazarov_ Great job! Love the initiative behind this. I was once rejected from a US bank because I’m Canadian -_- but got accepted by another one (crazy cause I applied to both on the same day). In a situation like that however, how do I then implement BedRock?

Rahman Bazarov

@jacklyn_i Haha the fact that Canada gets rejected is wild, shows how arbitrary the whole system is 😂

That's exactly what BedRock maps, every bank has different criteria and blacklists, so what one rejects another approves. We just make that process systematic instead of a guessing game.

For you specifically, BedRock would've told you upfront which bank to apply to first based on your profile. No trial and error, no rejections on your record. Check it out at bedrockhq.co 🙏

Rahym H

What I love about this is the founder story - 19 years old, watching his father get rejected, builds the infrastructure to fix it. That's the kind of chip-on-your-shoulder energy that actually changes industries. Following closely.

Murat
💎 Pixel perfection

Love the 'chip-on-the-shoulder' energy behind this—solving a personal frustration with a data-driven solution. Verifying through GitHub and Stripe history is a much more modern approach to trust than just a passport.

#daniyar

This hits close to home. I've watched talented devs from restricted regions build real products, real revenue, real track records — and still get denied by a bank that never looked past their passport. The idea of using your actual digital work history as proof of legitimacy is long overdue. Built by founders who lived it shows — this is the kind of problem only insiders solve properly.

Rahman Bazarov

@_daniyar Thank you, this means a lot 🙏

"Only insiders solve properly" - that's exactly it. We're not building this from a whitepaper, we lived it. My father got rejected despite being a legitimate business owner. My CTO was our first customer.

The digital work history angle is what makes this defensible long term - a passport scan says nothing about who you are. Five years of GitHub commits and Stripe transactions do.

Appreciate the support 🔥

Ayman Elafifi

Amazing one, is this also available for founders who have US startup but they are outside US?

Praneeth S

Very interesting take on improving onboarding outcomes for legitimate founders who get screened out by geography. Have you considered using (without changing your core product): (1) issuing portable, signed “evidence credentials” that banks can verify and audit over time, and (2) using stablecoin rails via regulated providers for faster global fee collection/payouts when cards/ACH are painful for international founders. Both can reduce repeated KYC friction while keeping data private and consent-driven