diff --git a/src/contact-email-address.ts b/src/contact-email-address.ts
index 742aa33d0..ce885f7cd 100644
--- a/src/contact-email-address.ts
+++ b/src/contact-email-address.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import * as RTE from 'fp-ts/ReaderTaskEither'
+import type { Refinement } from 'fp-ts/Refinement'
 import type * as TE from 'fp-ts/TaskEither'
 import { flow, pipe } from 'fp-ts/function'
 import * as C from 'io-ts/Codec'
@@ -88,3 +89,7 @@ export const saveContactEmailAddress = (
   RTE.asksReaderTaskEither(
     RTE.fromTaskEitherK(({ saveContactEmailAddress }) => saveContactEmailAddress(orcid, emailAddress)),
   )
+
+export const isUnverified: Refinement<ContactEmailAddress, UnverifiedContactEmailAddress> = (
+  emailAddress: ContactEmailAddress,
+): emailAddress is UnverifiedContactEmailAddress => emailAddress.type === 'unverified'
diff --git a/src/my-details-page/verify-contact-email-address.ts b/src/my-details-page/verify-contact-email-address.ts
index d9b0308b9..5f42b39f1 100644
--- a/src/my-details-page/verify-contact-email-address.ts
+++ b/src/my-details-page/verify-contact-email-address.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { type ResponseEnded, Status, type StatusOpen } from 'hyper-ts'
 import type { OAuthEnv } from 'hyper-ts-oauth'
 import * as RM from 'hyper-ts/ReaderMiddleware'
 import { P, match } from 'ts-pattern'
-import { getContactEmailAddress, saveContactEmailAddress } from '../contact-email-address'
+import { getContactEmailAddress, isUnverified, saveContactEmailAddress } from '../contact-email-address'
 import { canChangeContactEmailAddress } from '../feature-flags'
 import { setFlashMessage } from '../flash-message'
 import { logInAndRedirect } from '../log-in'
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@ export const verifyContactEmailAddress = (verify: EmailAddress) =>
       'contactEmailAddress',
       flow(
         RM.fromReaderTaskEitherK(({ user }) => getContactEmailAddress(user.orcid)),
-        RM.filterOrElseW(
-          contactEmailAddress => contactEmailAddress.type === 'unverified',
-          () => 'already-verified' as const,
-        ),
+        RM.filterOrElseW(isUnverified, () => 'already-verified' as const),
         RM.filterOrElseW(
           contactEmailAddress => eqEmailAddress.equals(contactEmailAddress.value, verify),
           () => 'wrong-email-address' as const,