Features
One report. No feature gates.
Criminal search, identity verification, address history, API access, and the tools to manage every candidate you screen — none of it is locked behind a higher tier.
Four things every screening plan needs.
One price covers all of them.
Most vendors sell these as add-ons. They're part of the $5.
National Criminal Check
$5 per report
Every $5 report pulls from county, state, and federal court records, the sex offender registry in all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, OFAC sanctions, and global watchlists — searched in parallel, not sequentially. If a county record can't be verified to FCRA standards, we say so and issue a refund instead of guessing.
- Court searches run at the county, state, and federal level
- Every U.S. state's sex offender registry gets checked
- Cross-referenced against FBI and OFAC watchlists
- Results come formatted to FCRA reporting standards
Employment History Verification
Free. Always.
Candidates attach a paystub or offer letter for each employer, and we take it from there: OCR pulls the details, an HR-email magic link confirms the employer, LinkedIn gets cross-checked, and a manager reference rounds it out. Every signal that lines up feeds one confidence score — not a lonely, misleading checkmark.
- Documents matched automatically, no manual review needed
- Employer confirmed via a magic link sent to their HR email
- Cross-checked against the LinkedIn profile candidates provide
- Runs before you spend a single criminal-check credit
NLP Interface
Included at no extra cost
Skip the form entirely. Type or say something like "run a check on Michael Chen, born March 4, 1988, last address in Tucson," and the request is parsed, submitted, and tracked from there — including flagging when a result requires an adverse action notice.
- Describe who to screen in a normal sentence
- Results come back explained, not just listed
- Drafts the adverse action notice when one's needed
- Reachable from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or our API
API & Webhook
Included at no extra cost
Fully documented REST API and webhook support, built to sit inside your ATS or HRIS rather than next to it. Every check draws down the same credit balance whether it's kicked off from the dashboard, a mobile browser, or a single API call.
# Run a check via API
POST /v1/checks
{
"first_name": "Michael",
"last_name": "Chen",
"dob": "1988-03-04",
"state": "AZ"
}Identity Verification
A clean record only matters if it belongs to your candidate.
Names and Social Security numbers can be borrowed, mistyped, or shared across the wrong person's file. Every PreHireBadge report closes that gap with a live selfie matched against a government photo ID, then cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history already pulled for the search — so the “clear” result is tied to a verified person, not just a name on a form.
Biometric facial match
A live liveness selfie — proof a real person is present, not a photo.
Government photo ID
The selfie is matched face-to-face against their official ID document.
SSN + address triangulation
Identity cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history on the report.
The identity-proofing standard financial institutions rely on, bundled into a $5 report instead of sold as a separate product.
No Subscription Required
The $5 covers the check. Everything else is just the platform.
Tracking candidates, staying audit-ready, and knowing who's cleared shouldn't cost extra on top of the screen itself — so it doesn't. Every account gets the full toolset, unlimited seats, at no separate charge.
Candidate Pipeline Tracking
Log every candidate by requisition and hiring stage. Know exactly who's screened, pending, or cleared to start.
Tracks candidates across every req
Audit-Ready Compliance Reports
One-click PDF and CSV exports auditors and leadership actually ask for — screening completion rates, turnaround times, adverse-action logs. Branded with your company's name and logo.
Export to PDF & CSV
Compliance Status Board
Every screened candidate and employee sits on one board, color-coded by status — cleared, expiring soon, or lapsed — so a question like "is anyone starting Monday still pending?" is a glance, not a spreadsheet search.
Status at a glance
Automated Re-screening Alerts
Configurable re-screening intervals with alerts at 30 and 7 days before expiration — built for roles that require annual or periodic re-checks. One-click re-run reuses the candidate's existing profile.
Alerts before anything lapses
AI Offer & Policy Assistant
Powered by Claude. Drafts offer letters, background-check policies, and adverse-action correspondence using your real PreHireBadge data. No PII ever sent to the model.
Powered by Claude AI
Portable Badge for Candidates
Candidates can get screened once and carry a verified PreHireBadge for 90 days — shareable with multiple employers. Fewer redundant checks, faster time-to-hire.
One check, many employers
$0
/month included free
∞
admin users, always free
90
days a portable badge stays valid
$5
the only thing you ever pay for
Plain-Language Requests
Type a sentence. Skip the form.
A background check request doesn't need a multi-field form behind it. Describe who you're screening — in the dashboard, or through an AI assistant you already use — and the request gets parsed, submitted, and tracked without touching a dropdown.
When a result crosses into adverse-action territory under the FCRA, the notice is drafted automatically. You review it and send it — the compliance sequencing isn't left to memory.
PreHireBadge · NLP Interface
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Your next candidate is one $5 report away.
No credit card to sign up, no expiration on what you buy. Run one report for $5, or stock up with the 10-pack for $45 and use them whenever hiring picks up.