# Make the code the credential.

Passwordless login drops the password entirely: the user proves they hold a phone number or email by entering a one-time code, and that's the credential. With Bird Verify it's the same send-then-check flow — no password to store, reset, or breach, and silent network authentication on the roadmap to remove even the typing.

## The code isn't a second factor here. It's the only one.

Passwordless is the Bird Verify API used as the login itself: create a verification for the address the user signs in with, then check the code they enter — verified means logged in. There's no password row to protect and no verification id to store, and which channel each user gets is configurable per country. Keep a password in front instead and the same calls power two-factor authentication.

## What passwordless gets you.

Less to store, less to steal.

## How passwordless login works

## Sign in with a code, not a password.

Send the code to the address the user enters, then check it. A verified result is the login — there's no password to compare against.

## Drop the password. Keep the API simple.

Bird Verify is the login itself when you go passwordless — SMS and email now, with silent network auth designed in for later.