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How to Protect Your Business in a New Era of Employer Liability
In today's business environment, the financial and legal risks of managing a workforce have never been higher. Landmark court rulings and aggressive regulatory enforcement have created a minefield of liability for employers. Relying on contracts, assumptions, or outdated processes is no longer enough. The solution is to move from a reactive defense to a proactive strategy built on verifiable proof.
🆕 Vyrfi Connect Sessions: AI-Guided Workforce Interviews
AI-guided, customizable, worker-facing interview flows that can be scheduled or triggered on-demand. Sessions can be tied to SiteID visual ID and geofenced location confirmations, collect worker-uploaded photos and documents, and produce concise, manager-ready summaries.
For employers, this means onboarding, classification attestations, incident capture, safety profiles and return-to-work updates can all be collected through structured, tamper-evident conversations—replacing ambiguity with verifiable, defensible records.
The Misclassification Minefield: The Landmark "ABC Test"
The legal ground has fundamentally shifted on worker classification, placing the entire burden of proof squarely on the employer.
The Legal Reality
In the landmark case Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court established the strict "ABC test," which presumes a worker is an employee unless the employer can prove all three of its stringent conditions.
The Reality: A simple "independent contractor agreement" is no longer a reliable defense, and the penalties for misclassification—including back wages, taxes, and fines—can be crippling.
How Vyrfi Provides the Proof Courts Require
In a world where paper contracts are questioned and the legal burden of proof is on you, Vyrfi provides the kind of verifiable, real-time evidence that courts and regulators now demand. By establishing a clear, time-stamped, and visually-confirmed record of who is on your site, for which projects, and under what capacity, you build a powerful, defensible audit trail.
Onboarding and Classification with Connect Sessions:
AI-led interviews capture role details, subcontractor relationships, and worker attestations aligned to tests like ABC—with visual ID and location confirmation at the time of submission.
The Ultimate Liability: Workplace Safety and Negligent Hiring
Every employer has a fundamental obligation under OSHA's General Duty Clause to provide a workplace "free from recognized hazards." But what happens when the hazard is a person you let onto your site?
Real Case: $7 Billion Verdict
A jury ordered Charter Communications to pay over $7 billion in damages after one of its technicians with a history of misconduct murdered a customer. The lawsuit alleged the company was negligent in its hiring and failed to act on warning signs. This case serves as the ultimate cautionary tale: you are responsible for who you allow to represent your company and access your sites.
How Vyrfi Mitigates This Risk
Vyrfi acts as your digital gatekeeper. By requiring every individual to be pre-authorized and perform a visual, geofenced check-in, you ensure that only vetted, approved personnel can access a worksite. This process creates a crucial first line of defense, preventing unauthorized access and creating a definitive record of who was present.
Incident Interviews with Connect Sessions:
Immediately following a workplace incident, an AI-led Connect Session can guide employees to record what happened, upload scene photos, and confirm their identity and location. This creates a time-stamped, media-rich incident record that is automatically preserved in AuditTrail.
Key Protection Features
Digital Gatekeeper: Only pre-authorized personnel can access worksites
Visual Verification: Biometric confirmation for every check-in
Geofenced Access: Location-based confirmation of authorized presence
Incident Documentation: Immediate, structured capture of workplace events
From Reactive Surveillance to Proactive Claim Management
The insurance industry faces an unprecedented fraud crisis requiring advanced, technology-driven solutions that move beyond traditional reactive methods.
The Fraud Crisis: By the Numbers
The $34 Billion Business Burden
Workers' compensation fraud costs businesses $34 billion annually, directly inflating your premiums and operational costs. Every fraudulent claim means higher rates for legitimate employers, putting you at a competitive disadvantage against companies that better manage their workforce risk.
Traditional Detection Failing
Modern fraud schemes evolve faster than rule-based detection systems can adapt, leaving insurers vulnerable to sophisticated patterns that traditional methods can't catch.
How Vyrfi Delivers Proactive Fraud Prevention
The Technology-Driven Trust Broker Solution
The convergence of computer vision, machine learning, and real-time monitoring capabilities represents a paradigm shift from reactive fraud investigation to proactive risk mitigation.
The technology-driven trust broker model, built upon continuous behavioral observation, direct AI-claimant engagement and analytics, offers insurance companies an unprecedented opportunity to fundamentally restructure their approach to loss prevention.
Deter Origination Fraud
Automated SiteID visual location-based check-ins make it nearly impossible to file a credible claim for an injury that occurred off-site.
Management by Exception
Claims managers can program a claimant's expected locations and schedule required visual ID check-ins. The system runs quietly in the background, alerting managers only when check-ins are missed or occur from unapproved locations.
Instant Fraud Detection
This automated process can instantly flag if an individual is working another job while collecting benefits, replacing the high cost and logistical hassle of physical surveillance with an efficient, data-driven solution.
Recovery with Connect Sessions
Scheduled or randomized Connect Sessions collect claimant status updates, therapy confirmations, and readiness-for-duty attestations—creating a transparent, defensible history of recovery.
Complete Documentation & Audit Trail
Incident Interviews and Recovery Sessions
- • Incident Capture: Immediate AI-led sessions record what happened, upload scene photos, confirm identity and location
- • Recovery Progress: Scheduled and randomized sessions collect status updates, therapy confirmations, activity attestations
- • Management by Exception 2.0: AI-generated summaries with alerts for deviations from expected parameters
Comprehensive Documentation
All interactions create a clear, time-stamped, media-rich record that slots directly into the AuditTrail, paired with visual and geofenced check-ins to create a tamper-evident, searchable history.
Designed for Compliance: Privacy and Control
Adopting new technology raises valid questions about employee privacy and legal compliance. Vyrfi was designed from the ground up to respect these boundaries, giving you control without overreach.
The Risk: Privacy Violations
Continuous, 24/7 background location tracking can lead to significant legal trouble. In the case ofArias v. Intermex, a company faced a lawsuit because the app it required employees to use tracked their location even during their private, off-duty hours, leading to claims of invasion of privacy.
The Vyrfi Difference: You Are in Control
Check-In, Not a Tracker: Vyrfi only captures location data at the precise moment a user chooses to perform a check-in
Consent-Driven AI Conversations: Connect Sessions are initiated with clear purpose and consent language
You Own Your Data: We do not sell data or engage in advertising. The data generated belongs to you
Based on Agreement: Use of check-ins or sessions in post-claim settings would be based on clear agreements with the claimant
The Vyrfi Advantage: Turning Risk into Assurance
Businesses that rely on paperwork and assumptions are exposed. Vyrfi transforms your risk management from a reactive defense to a proactive, data-driven strategy.
Drastically Reduce Liability
Defend against misclassification claims and demonstrate due diligence in hiring and site safety.
Prevent Fraudulent Claims
Eliminate ambiguity with automated, visual, and location-based verification of all personnel and claimants.
Win Disputes
Arm your business with the real-time, court-ready documentation needed to successfully defend against claims and audits.
Lower Insurance Costs
Demonstrate best-in-class risk management to your insurer to potentially achieve lower premiums.
Gain Operational Control
Achieve a clear, unified view of your entire workforce—employees and contractors—across all job sites.
Strengthen Compliance with AI Conversations
Use Connect Sessions for onboarding, safety attestations, incident interviews, and recovery tracking—all integrated into a verifiable AuditTrail.
Foundational Control: Who Is On Your Site and When
Before you can manage complex liabilities, you must first establish a single source of truth for your active workforce. Don't have operational blind spots.
How Vyrfi Provides Total Control
Vyrfi replaces guesswork with certainty. You can program a highly specific verification schedule for any worker. For example, schedule a fixed check-in for the start of a shift (e.g., from 40 minutes before to 15 minutes after start time at a specific location), add multiple, randomized check-ins during the day, and another at the end of the shift.
The system operates autonomously, and you are only alerted if a scheduled check-in or required session is missed, allowing you to manage your workforce by exception and with minimal effort.
Connect Sessions for Ongoing Compliance
Safety compliance attestations
Equipment use confirmations
Shift log collections
Automated manager summaries
Exception-based alerts for missed check-ins
Minimal effort, maximum oversight
At-a-Glance: New Capabilities Added
Core Features:
- • Vyrfi Connect Sessions: AI-guided, customizable, worker-facing interview flows for onboarding, safety attestations, incident capture
- • Incident Recording: Structured capture with photos, timestamps, visual ID, and geolocation verification
- • Progress and Compliance: Scheduled/randomized sessions for recovery updates and safety attestations
Management Benefits:
- • Manager Summaries: Automatic, concise reports for management-by-exception
- • Court-Ready Documentation: One-click enterprise reports with electronic chain of custody
- • Privacy by Design: Discrete, user-initiated sessions with consent and role-based access
A Tool for Compliance, Not a Substitute for Diligence
The legal and regulatory landscape is unforgiving. Vyrfi provides a powerful, data-driven tool to help your company execute its risk & compliance strategy with precision. However, it is essential to understand that Vyrfi is a tool to assist your compliance program, not a substitute for it.
Using Vyrfi alone does not constitute compliance with state or federal laws. The responsibility for building and maintaining a comprehensive compliance program, including legal counsel and operational protocols, remains entirely with your organization. Vyrfi and its parent company, Altavine Technologies, LLC, do not accept any liability for legal, financial, or other outcomes resulting from the use of the Vyrfi platform. You own your data, you own your processes, and you own your compliance. Vyrfi provides the verifiable proof to help you win.
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