What GoodHire does

GoodHire is an employment background screening provider that operates a cloud-based platform offering more than 100 screening services, including criminal background checks (national, state, county-level), motor vehicle record checks, employment and education verification, and drug testing coordinated with lab partners such as Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp. The platform is built around a REST API pre-integrated with major ATS and HRIS tools, allowing employers to initiate, track, and manage background checks directly within existing HR workflows, with a central dashboard for multi-location and multi-department program management and mobile-optimized candidate experiences. The legal entity operating the brand is Inflection Risk Solutions, LLC, and GoodHire is positioned as "A Checkr Company" within the Checkr Group, Inc. corporate umbrella. GoodHire operates as a certified Consumer Reporting Agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, with documented compliance frameworks covering HIPAA, CCPA, GDPR, UK/EU standard contractual clauses, Swiss Privacy Shield, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001, supported by in-house compliance experts and state-by-state coverage of ban-the-box and fair-chance hiring laws.

GoodHire serves more than 100,000 employers across staffing, healthcare, nonprofits, transportation/logistics, retail, education, finance, and construction, addressing both small businesses (under 50 checks per year) and large organizations with higher-volume enterprise needs. Revenue is generated through a per-check, pay-as-you-go model with three tiered packages — Basic at $29.99, Essential at $59.99, and Complete at $94.99 per check — plus pass-through fees for third-party services and custom multi-year contracts for high-volume enterprise customers. The go-to-market motion is hybrid: self-serve PLG onboarding for SMBs who can begin running checks in minutes, combined with direct enterprise sales and API-led integration for large organizations. A consumer-facing Personal Background Checks sub-brand extends the funnel by allowing candidates to self-screen and share results with prospective employers. The company is headquartered at 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 2400, San Francisco, California, with additional presence in Redwood City and a mailing address in Omaha, Nebraska, and operates with a workforce of 101-250 employees.

Name

GoodHire

Legal name

Inflection Risk Solutions, LLC

Website

https://goodhire.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

GoodHire is an employment background screening platform offering 100+ screening services — criminal, MVR, drug, education, and employment verification — via a cloud-based API pre-integrated with ATS/HRIS tools. It serves 100,000+ employers across SMB and enterprise segments under FCRA-compliant operations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Employment Background Screening Services

NAICS

Investigation and Personal Background Check Services (561611), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Pre-Employment Background Checks & Screening (BPAKAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pre-Employment Screening & Aptitude Testing (BPACAMAA), Employment Verification (Work History & References) (BPACALAB), Identity Verification (ID, SSN Trace, KYC-lite) (BPACALAD), Investigations & Background Screening Services (IMAIAEAK)

Keywords

• Employee background checks
• Employment screening services
• Criminal background screening
• FCRA compliant screening
• Background check API platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Background Check Services: Per-check pricing model with tiered packages (Basic, Essential, Complete) ranging from $29.99 to $94.99 per check. Additional third-party pass-through fees apply for motor vehicle records, county court searches, verifications, and drug screens. Volume-based pricing with custom packages for businesses ordering fewer than 50 checks/year and pre-set packages for those ordering more than 50 checks/year.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

GoodHire provides a cloud-based employment background screening platform that delivers 100+ screening services to employers, including criminal background checks, motor vehicle record (MVR) checks, employment drug tests, education verification, and employment verification. The platform is API-first with pre-integrations to ATS/HRIS tools, offers tiered per-check pricing (Basic $29.99, Essential $59.99, Complete $94.99), and supports both self-serve onboarding for small businesses (under 50 checks/year) and custom enterprise packages with direct sales for large organizations (50+ checks/year).

Product overview

GoodHire is an employment background screening platform that offers a comprehensive suite of over 100 screening services through a unified cloud-based platform. The core offering is the GoodHire Background Check Platform, complemented by tiered service packages (Basic at $29.99, Essential at $59.99, and Complete at $94.99 per check). Specialized screening modules include Criminal Background Checks, MVR Checks, Employment Drug Tests, Education Verification, and Employment Verification. The company also offers Personal Background Checks for individual candidates. The platform features a modern API pre-integrated with ATS/HRIS tools and supports customizable screening packages by job role or client.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• GoodHire Background Check Platform Cloud-based, API-first employment screening platform that delivers at-a-glance results and status updates, lets employers design custom screening packages by job role or client, and manages checks across multiple locations, departments, divisions, or clients from a central dashboard. Used by more than 100,000 employers of all sizes, from small businesses ordering under 50 checks/year to large enterprises with 50+ checks/year.
• Criminal Background Checks

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% of nationwide criminal checks delivered in <1 minute
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments11 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ATS/HRIS Integration PartnerscoreTechnology or IntegrationGoodHire has pre-integrated with ATS/HRIS tools that employers already use, enabling seamless workflow automation without custom development. The company positions its API as the most modern in the industry.
• Lab Partners (Quest Diagnostics, Labcorp)coreTechnology or IntegrationGoodHire partners with major laboratory providers including Quest Diagnostics and Labcorp for drug screening services. Status page shows integrations with these lab partners for scheduling and results processing.
• Public Records Data ProviderscoreTechnology or IntegrationGoodHire collects public records and other information from reliable third-party sources to assemble background check reports, including verification against authoritative government databases.
• Checkr Group, Inc. (Parent Company)coreTechnology or IntegrationGoodHire is a subsidiary of Checkr Group, Inc. and operates as a brand under Inflection Risk Solutions, LLC. Data may be shared with parent company and affiliates and stored on their servers.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Certn: Certn is a Canadian background- and identity-screening platform offering criminal, credit, education, and employment checks with API-first developer tooling. Emerging player with overlapping product surface and developer-first GTM.
• Veremark: Veremark is an international background-check and verification provider offering employment, education, criminal, and ID checks via an API and direct platform. Comparable product set to GoodHire with a focus on global and emerging-market coverage.

Direct peers

• Accurate Background: Accurate is a U.S. employment background-screening company offering criminal checks, verifications, drug testing, and ATS/HRIS-integrated workflows targeted at mid-market and enterprise employers. Closely aligned product surface, customer profile, and API/ATS GTM.
• Asurint: Asurint provides employment background screening (criminal, MVR, drug, verifications) with API-first HRIS/ATS integrations for mid-market employers. Comparable technology-led approach and SMB/mid-market customer mix.
• PeopleG2: PeopleG2 is a U.S. background-screening provider offering criminal, employment, education, and drug screening with risk-management analytics. Operates in the same SMB/mid-market segment with a similar screening service menu.
• Checkr: Checkr is GoodHire's parent company and primary direct competitor in the U.S. employment background-check market, offering an API-first screening platform for enterprise and gig-economy customers. Highly comparable product, buyer, and delivery mechanism; the parent–sub-brand structure makes it the most overlapping peer.
• Pre-employ.com (JDP): Pre-employ.com provides employment background checks, verifications, and drug screening via ATS/HRIS integrations for SMB and mid-market employers. Comparable product surface and customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Sterling (Sterling Talent Solutions): Sterling is a major U.S. background-screening and identity-verification provider serving enterprise HR via API, ATS, and HRIS integrations. Directly comparable service bundle (criminal, MVR, drug, verifications) with an enterprise-led GTM motion.
• HireRight: HireRight is one of the largest global employment background-screening providers, offering criminal, identity, MVR, drug, and verification services with enterprise integrations. It is a broad incumbent operating across the same screening services as GoodHire but at much larger enterprise scale.
• Pinkerton (Corporate Risk): Pinkerton is a broad corporate-risk and investigations firm that includes pre-employment background screening as part of a wider portfolio of security and due-diligence services. Provides overlapping screening capabilities but within a much broader security and investigations practice.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/GoodHire
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/goodhire

Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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