What Endorsed does

Endorsed (legal entity: Showspace Inc.) is a San Francisco-based AI software company founded in 2024 that builds candidate fraud detection and AI-powered applicant review tools for corporate recruiting and security teams. The company was founded by engineers and leaders from Y Combinator, LinkedIn, Apple, and Life360, and operates from 1150 Union St #904 in San Francisco.

The platform consists of three core products: an AI Resume Fraud Detector (a purpose-built model trained on 8+ million applicants that evaluates 350+ identity, device, and behavioral signals and claims 94%+ fraud-detection accuracy on paid tiers), the FraudShield Chrome Extension (which surfaces fraud checks inside ATS platforms and LinkedIn), and the AI Applicant Reviewer (a generative-AI screening system that ranks candidates against plain-English criteria and explains its reasoning). The model is validated through monthly third-party bias audits by Warden AI (sample of 1,536,195 evaluations, Clear on sex, race/ethnicity, and intersectional bias as of April 2026) and carries SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, and NYC Local Law 144 compliance. It integrates bi-directionally with Greenhouse and Workday ATS systems.

Endorsed operates a product-led growth motion with three pricing tiers: a free trial (85%+ accuracy, 300+ signals, Chrome Extension), a Growth tier at $159 per user per month billed annually with a 3-seat minimum (94%+ accuracy, 350+ signals, AI Applicant Review add-on, SOC 2, bi-directional ATS sync), and a custom-priced Enterprise tier for 1,000+ employee companies with unlimited volume, white-glove onboarding, audit logs, and dedicated customer success. Customers span Fortune 500 banks and corporations to growth-stage startups across cybersecurity, HR tech, logistics, consumer, government contracting, and financial services, with named logos including Life360, Yahoo, Korn Ferry, Huntress, Unanet, Branch, Arrive Logistics, Astranis, True Classic, Bloomerang, GPTZero, Curai, Aleph, Fella Health, and Prokeep.

Name

Endorsed

Legal name

Showspace Inc.

Website

https://endorsed.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Endorsed (Showspace Inc.) is a San Francisco-based AI software company, founded in 2024, that builds purpose-built fraud-detection and AI applicant-review tools for corporate recruiting and security teams, integrating with Greenhouse and Workday ATS and selling via freemium, $159/user/month Growth, and custom Enterprise tiers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Recruiting Fraud Detection Software

NAICS

Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Regulatory Readiness & Audit Automation (e.g., EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) (HDAAAMAE), AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Audit, Explainability & Accountability Tooling (traceability, reporting) (HDAAAKAL), Safety & Alignment Evaluation (red-teaming, harmful capability testing) (HDAAAMAL)

Keywords

• AI recruiting software
• Candidate fraud detection
• AI applicant screening
• ATS-integrated hiring tools
• Insider threat prevention

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Free Trial Tier: Free tier with 85%+ fraud detection accuracy, 300+ signals evaluated, FraudShield Chrome Extension, GDPR & CCPA compliance. Designed to convert users to paid Growth tier.
2. Subscription - Growth Tier: $159 per user per month (billed annually), 3 seat minimum. Includes 94%+ fraud detection accuracy, 350+ signals, fraud analytics, AI applicant review add-on, company data enrichment, SOC 2 Type II, team collaboration, bi-directional ATS sync. Target: up to 1,000 employee companies.
3. Subscription - Enterprise Tier: Custom pricing for 1,000+ employee companies. Unlimited recruiting volume, write fraud risk scores to ATS, custom contracts, dedicated customer success, white-glove onboarding, feature prioritization, module-based pricing, audit logs.
4. Add-On Modules (Growth Tier): AI Applicant Review, template criteria, company data enrichment, bulk advance/reject, and applicant email automations available as add-ons on the Growth plan.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Endorsed sells a B2B AI software platform that plugs into recruiters' ATS systems (Greenhouse, Workday) and a Chrome Extension to score every job applicant against 350+ identity signals using a purpose-built AI model trained on 8+ million applicants, flagging fake candidates, stolen identities, proxy interviewers, and sanctioned-state IT workers at the application stage. The company also offers a generative-AI Applicant Reviewer that ranks and screens resumes against plain-English criteria, with monthly third-party bias audits (Warden AI) for NYC Law 144, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliance.

Product overview

Endorsed is an AI-powered recruiting platform built to detect candidate fraud and improve hiring quality. The platform consists of three core products: (1) AI Resume Fraud Detector - purpose-built AI model using hundreds of identity signals to detect fake candidates with 94%+ accuracy; (2) FraudShield Chrome Extension - lightweight browser extension for fraud detection in ATS and LinkedIn; and (3) AI Applicant Reviewer - generative AI system that screens resumes, evaluates candidates against custom criteria, and ranks applicants. The platform integrates with major ATS systems including Workday and Greenhouse, and operates on a tiered pricing model (Free, Growth at $159/user/month, and Enterprise) with optional add-ons including Fraud Analytics, Company Data Enrichment, and the FraudShield Agent. Features span from top-of-funnel fraud detection to AI-powered candidate evaluation and ranking, all with built-in bias auditing and compliance controls.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FraudShield: AI-powered candidate fraud detection product that analyzes resumes, social profiles, phones, emails, external databases, and more to spot fake candidates. Includes Chrome extension and risk scoring capabilities.
• AI Applicant Reviewer
• FraudShield Agent

Products and services

• AI Resume Fraud Detector (Candidate Fraud Detection Platform) Purpose-built AI software product that detects fake candidates, stolen identities, proxy interviewers, and sanctioned-state IT workers at the application stage by evaluating 350+ identity signals (resume metadata, social profiles, phone, email, IP/device, VPN, behavioral, and the proprietary Endorsed Network) and writing risk scores directly into the customer's ATS. Targets recruiting and security teams at companies from Fortune 500 banks to growth-stage startups.
• FraudShield Chrome Extension Lightweight Chrome Web Store extension (5-star rated) that surfaces candidate fraud signals directly inside recruiters' ATS workflows and LinkedIn profile pages, enabling free or paid fraud checks without leaving the recruiter's browser. Free to try and used as Endorsed's product-led growth acquisition channel.
• AI Applicant Reviewer Generative-AI product that screens up to 1,000 resumes in 20 seconds, evaluates each candidate against recruiter-defined criteria expressed in plain English, and produces an overall score with clear AI reasoning explanations to surface top applicants and reduce unconscious bias. Designed for recruiting and HR/People Ops teams to scale applicant review.
• FraudShield Agent AI agent add-on product for automated fraud detection workflows, made available to Growth-tier customers on Pro plans to extend the FraudShield Chrome Extension with autonomous review capabilities.
• Fraud Detection API Programmatic Fraud Detection API offered to enterprise customers for direct integration of Endorsed's 350+ signal fraud detection into custom workflows, referenced as a product interest option in the demo request flow.

Quantifiable outcome

• 94%+ fraud detection accuracy
• +12 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability6 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• GreenhousecoreTechnology or IntegrationGreenhouse is a supported ATS platform with standard bi-directional integration available to Endorsed customers. Huntress deployed Endorsed using Greenhouse integration with standard setup requiring no custom development. Integration allows fraud risk scores to be written directly to Greenhouse and fraud detection to operate within the Greenhouse workflow.
• WorkdaycoreTechnology or IntegrationWorkday is a supported ATS platform with Endorsed integration available. The Workday logo appears in the ATS integration section of the website, indicating active partnership for fraud detection deployment within Workday ATS.
• Warden AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationWarden AI provides third-party independent assurance over Endorsed's AI Applicant Reviewer system. The partnership includes continuous bias auditing, post-market monitoring, transparent reporting, and NYC Local Law 144 compliance audits. Audit results show Clear on all bias categories across 1,536,195 sample evaluations.
• PeopleTech PartnerscoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPeopleTech Partners is a community of 600+ People leaders. Founder & Managing Partner Cara Brennan Allamano is featured on Endorsed's homepage stating 'We chose Endorsed because it directly addresses that reality' of hiring as a security risk. This represents a strong community/GTM partnership.

Scale indicators20 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Checkr: Checkr is a background check and identity verification platform focused on hiring use cases. It is the most direct peer to Endorsed in the candidate screening and fraud-prevention category, with overlap in employer-side applicant verification workflows.
• HireRight: HireRight provides employment background screening, identity, and compliance services to employers. It competes for the same recruiter and talent acquisition budget as Endorsed, addressing candidate authenticity and risk screening at the application and hire stages.
• Sterling: Sterling offers background checks, identity verification, and workforce risk management for employers. Its candidate authenticity and screening offerings overlap with Endorsed's fraud detection wedge into the recruiting stack.
• Persona: Persona provides an identity verification platform used to verify individuals across industries including employment. It is comparable to Endorsed on the identity and authenticity verification layer that underlies candidate fraud detection.
• Veriff: Veriff offers AI-powered identity verification used for KYC, age verification, and applicant screening. It is comparable as an AI-based identity proofing engine that competes for the fraud-detection budget within recruiting workflows.

Broad incumbents

• iCIMS: iCIMS is a large enterprise talent acquisition platform. It is a broad incumbent that addresses the same recruiting buyers Endorsed serves, with potential to bundle native fraud or screening features that overlap with Endorsed's offering.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI is an enterprise AI talent intelligence platform spanning sourcing, screening, and matching. It competes with Endorsed's AI Applicant Reviewer at the candidate ranking and screening layer of the recruiting stack.

Emerging players

• Modern Hire (Outmatch / Modern Hire): Modern Hire delivers AI-powered pre-hire assessments and interview intelligence. It overlaps with Endorsed on AI-assisted candidate evaluation and structured screening, particularly for enterprise volume hiring.
• Harver: Harver provides AI-driven hiring assessments and candidate matching for volume hiring. It is an emerging player overlapping with Endorsed's AI applicant review and ranking functionality at the top of the recruiting funnel.
• Pymetrics: Pymetrics applies AI-based behavioral assessment to hiring. It is comparable as an emerging AI-recruiting player addressing bias-aware candidate evaluation, an adjacent wedge to Endorsed's AI Applicant Reviewer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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