Background screening, engineered for busy HR teams.
Direct connections to 2,700+ digital courts. Sub-day turnaround on 89% of searches. U.S.-based, FCRA-certified specialists who pick up on the second ring. SafestHires is the enterprise screening partner hiring teams stop shopping for.
Mission discipline, applied to hiring. Founded and led by U.S. Navy veterans.
Why SafestHires
Six things hiring teams notice in the first thirty days.
We don't pad SLAs to look good on a slide. The promises below are the ones we publish on our weekly performance report — and the ones our customers measure us against.
How we workIndustry-leading turnaround
Median report time under 4 hours. 89% of searches return same business day via Insta-Clear and direct court access.
2,700+ digital courts
Direct integrations into the courts that matter — the source of truth, not a screen-scraped database guess.
Award-winning support
U.S.-based, FCRA-certified specialists. Average phone pickup under 12 seconds. No offshore queues, ever.
Compliance, by design
FCRA, GLBA, DPPA, ban-the-box, fair chance — engineered into the platform, not bolted on as a checkbox.
Candidate experience
Mobile-first eConsent, multilingual intake, transparent status. 94%+ candidate completion rate.
Veteran-owned & operated
Founded by U.S. Navy veterans. We bring mission discipline and accountability to every order.
Speed has a source
Direct connections to 2,700+ digital courts.
Most CRAs quote a national database number and hope you don't ask where the data came from. SafestHires built direct connections into 2,700+ county, state, and federal court systems — the same systems that issue the original record. The result is faster clears, fewer false positives, and a dispute rate under 0.02%.
- Insta-Clear in 48 states
- County-level depth
- Federal criminal coverage
- Civil & sex-offender registries
- Statewide repository pulls
- Automated court-fee passthrough
One platform. Every screen. Zero noise.
Order any screen, route any package, integrate any ATS, and adjudicate at scale. Built for high-volume hiring teams who refuse to choose between speed, accuracy, and compliance.
Criminal background checks
National, state, county, and federal criminal records with direct court access in 2,700+ jurisdictions.
Employment & education verification
Direct, documented verifications of employers, schools, and professional licenses — never scraped.
Drug & occ-health testing
5-, 10-, and 12-panel screens through 12,000+ collection sites, including after-hours and on-site.
MVR & DOT screening
Full FMCSA Clearinghouse, MVRs, Part 40 random pools, and driver qualification file management.
I-9 & E-Verify
Electronic I-9, integrated E-Verify, and remote-hire identity authentication built into the platform.
Continuous monitoring
Post-hire criminal monitoring, healthcare sanctions, and license-expiration tracking with adjudication.
Field reports
What hiring leaders actually say after switching.
"We cut median turnaround from nine days to under one, and our recruiters can finally make verbal offers in the same conversation as the final interview."
"The first time I called SafestHires a real person answered on the second ring and knew my account by name. That has not stopped being true in three years."
"Our compliance audit took two hours instead of two weeks. Every record had a verifier, a channel, and a timestamp. That is what defensible looks like."
Award-winning support
Real humans. Your time zone. Second ring.
Every SafestHires customer gets a dedicated U.S.-based specialist who knows your account, your role library, and your hiring cadence. No tickets. No scripts. No offshore queues. The average phone pickup is under twelve seconds — and the team that picks up is FCRA-certified.
From the desk
Field-tested writing for program owners.
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