Checkr's Momentum Accelerates, Powering Millions of Decisions

Daniel Yanisse
January 13, 2026

Since 2014, Checkr's disruptive technology has advanced and reinvented how companies verify information and make decisions. What began as a transformative background check API quickly evolved into a powerful AI-powered data platform used by over 120,000 customers and over one hundred million people. Checkr customers are now able to leverage data and AI to verify and qualify applicants faster and more accurately than ever before. Our versatile data platform powers millions of critical decisions in people’s professional and personal lives, strengthening trust in business and society.

Every day, businesses and individuals make important decisions that are dependent on trust. Decisions like hiring someone, approving someone for a loan, allowing a visitor into a school, hiring a nanny, or going on a date. Trust is the foundation of human interaction. Real trust is based on data. Real trust requires verification of a person’s identity, background, and credentials.

With legacy tools, it’s difficult to get definitive answers quickly enough to make decisions. And trust feels increasingly precarious in business and society. AI is changing the landscape. Fraud is on the rise like never before. It's getting more complicated to assess people’s trustworthiness. It's clear that a new standard of trust is needed. Checkr is committed to building that standard.

We started this journey in the hardest place: the highly regulated, highly manual background check industry. We combined AI, automation and human expertise to solve the difficult problem of sifting through fragmented, messy data to rapidly return accurate, intuitive background check reports, helping customers make business-critical hiring decisions.

Now over 120,000 businesses of all sizes rely on Checkr’s intelligent verifications to support millions of decisions every month. In 2025, we saw our most successful year to date with our gross revenue exceeding $800 million, and our net revenue (excluding government fees) surpassing $500 million – all while delivering consistent profitability. We’re especially excited about the rapid growth of our four product lines.

Checkr's four product lines

Each of our product lines supports our customers’ decisions in a distinct context:

  • Checkr Workforce: Provides modern verifications for hiring and employment
  • Truework: Provides income and employment verification for lenders
  • Checkr Trust: Delivers instant verification and real-time risk intelligence to protect people and property
  • Checkr Personal: Empowers individuals to verify their identity and credentials, and create shareable trust profiles.

At the foundation of each of these four product lines are Checkr AI and our People Data Graph.

Checkr AI decodes messy, fragmented, hard-to-verify information about people, and delivers clear answers to support our customers' decisions.

Across all of our product lines, Checkr AI does three things:

  • Verifies a person's identity
  • Verifies accuracy of a person's background and credentials
  • Helps customers qualify and decide, with workflows and automations tailored to each customer's approaches and policies

Importantly, Checkr AI is designed for fairness, ensuring that verifications are based on accurate, comprehensive data, consistently presented, and compliant with all applicable laws.

As our platform powers millions of decisions in myriad contexts, Checkr AI builds ever-richer trust profiles composed of interconnected data elements: our People Data Graph. We’re using state-of-the-art AI to create one of the world’s most expansive, comprehensive, and accurate identity maps. We’re linking data points across hundreds of millions of real identities. Each node in our People Data Graph is a person’s trust profile.

We make it easy for anyone to create and manage a trust profile for free. For the first time, people can proactively share their verified identity, safety and credibility. When you have a trust profile, you have an edge – in your career search, when you apply for loans, when you offer your services in a marketplace, when you go on a date, and more. It's one thing to have an online professional profile, but it’s much more powerful to have a verified profile, proving you’re real, credible and trusted. Every part of your trust profile is verified with authoritative sources, and because trust profiles can’t be faked by AI or fraudsters, anyone who views your trust profile emerges with greater confidence to engage with you.

How companies are using multiple Checkr product lines

As we continue our partnership with market leaders like DoorDash, Domino's, PennyMac, and Kia, the Checkr team has recently welcomed famous brands like Avis Budget Group, Philips, Extra Space Storage, Ashley Furniture, and Invitation Homes to the Checkr platform. Our customers are already beginning to realize synergistic value by using multiple Checkr product lines.

For example, cloud-based physical security platform Verkada uses Checkr Workforce for background checks on new hires while simultaneously using Checkr Trust to enhance their physical security offering for customers. By connecting with the Checkr Trust API, Verkada enables customers to run instant safety checks on visitors, such as when someone checks in at the front desk of an elementary school. As the Verkada team uses multiple Checkr products, they are leveraging Checkr AI to foster trust and safety.

Our dedication to providing unmatched products and exceptional service is reflected in our recognition as a G2 Leader for five years in a row, and our +60 Net Promoter Score, which far exceeds the +36 B2B software industry average NPS score.

At Checkr, we help companies and consumers make better decisions. We’re proud to partner with our customers in creating a safer, fairer world – one built on trust.

About the author

Daniel Yanisse is the co-founder and CEO of Checkr. Under his leadership, Checkr has evolved from a transformative background check API to an AI-powered data platform that helps businesses and individuals make faster, fairer, and more compliant decisions in hiring, lending, safety, and beyond.

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