Identity Verification Gates Invite Acceptance Authentication: 2-Stage User Creation After Proof

Short answer: keep an invitation in a pending state, verify the claimant's identity, and create the user record only after that proof succeeds. For a B2B SaaS product, make the same state machine own deletion: a GDPR delete must revoke every session before the account disappears. Here is the decision note I use when reviewing an invite flow. It is deliberately boring. Boring auth survives audits.…

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