ABOUT

Who we are

VeriBureau is a review verification protocol developed by two Ukrainian companies — AIST Telecommunications and SmartMisto Innovations. Both are based in the Odesa region, Ukraine.

The idea has been evolving since 2017 — starting as a question about whether it is possible to build a review system where every entry is provably tied to a real transaction. It took years of thinking, multiple iterations, and a lot of infrastructure experience before the approach crystallized into a working protocol.

Founder

Leonid Bashkatov
Founder and Lead Developer

Founder of AIST Telecommunications (1999) and SmartMisto Innovations. 27 years in telecommunications infrastructure — fiber-optic networks, routing, cloud platforms, enterprise systems. Conceived and directed the GTVS protocol architecture, audit chain design, and scoring methodology. Personally responsible for every technical decision in this project.

Why a telecom company built a trust protocol

Telecommunications is infrastructure. It is invisible when it works and unforgivable when it fails. For 27 years, we have operated under a principle: reliability is demonstrated, not declared.

We applied the same thinking to reviews. VeriBureau replaces procedural moderation with structural verification. A review cannot exist without a cryptographic Proof Token. A record cannot be removed because the audit chain would break. A score is computed from verified history, not adjusted by hand.

We did not build a review platform. We built a verification protocol.

Tested by reality

AIST infrastructure has operated through wartime conditions since 2022 — power outages, network disruptions, and systemic challenges. The network continued to serve businesses and infrastructure clients throughout.

Resilience was not a marketing feature. It was a design requirement, built over years of redundancy planning and validated under conditions no one would choose as a test.

We bring this same engineering discipline to VeriBureau. Every system has backups. Every record has verification. Every claim is provable.

Where we are honestly

We are at the beginning. The protocol works. The API is live. The audit chain is public and verifiable. But we serve a small number of businesses, and we have a long way to go.

Our numbers are displayed live on the home page — fetched directly from the API, not written by hand. We do not inflate numbers. We do not claim to be something we are not — yet.

Verify our claims

We say every technical claim is verifiable. Here is how you can check:

Audit chain — verify every record in real time
Protocol specification — full technical documentation of GTVS
Scoring methodology — how Trust Scores are computed
System status — live health of all services
API documentation — test the protocol yourself

Security and data

All data is hosted on AIST Telecommunications infrastructure in the Odesa region, Ukraine. Reviewer emails are hashed immediately after verification and never stored in plain text.

The platform follows GDPR principles — data minimization, purpose limitation, transparency. Full details in our privacy policy and terms of service.

ISO 27001 implementation in progress (AIST Telecommunications)
Independent security audit planned for 2026
Ed25519 cryptographic signatures on all audit records
DNS anchoring across three independent domains
Merkle tree proofs with RFC 3161 trusted timestamps

Legal entities

Infrastructure
CompanyLLC “AIST-Telecommunication”EDRPOU30635430Founded1999Address23v Odeska St, Ovidiopol, Odesa region, 67801RoleHosting, network infrastructure, server operationsWebsiteaistnet.com
Development
CompanyLLC “SmartMisto Innovations”EDRPOU45600221Address19b Odeska St, Ovidiopol, Odesa region, 67801RoleProtocol design, software development, cryptographic architecture

EDRPOU is the Ukrainian state business registry number. Both entities can be verified at usr.minjust.gov.ua.

What comes next

2026Independent security audit
2026Witness network — independent verification nodes
2026GTVS Protocol whitepaper
2027Blockchain anchoring, multi-language support, EU data residency

These are goals, not guarantees. We update this page as things change.

Contact

Supportsupport@veribureau.comSecuritysecurity@veribureau.comPrivacyprivacy@veribureau.comLocationOvidiopol, Odesa region, Ukraine

Every word on this website is true. Every number is real. Every technical claim is verifiable — and we give you the tools to check.

If something is planned but not built — we mark it as a goal. If our numbers are small — we show them anyway.

This is a protocol built on proof. It starts with us.