The Startup That Will Vet You for Your Next Job

If someone commits a crime away from their home state, a screener could miss a conviction. Records might be missing, outdated, or incorrect. Both humans and machines can misread court documents, or erroneously include convictions for someone with the same name. But the pair argue that machines are better than humans at sifting through documents. Checkr has faced lawsuits under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which gives people the right to dispute inaccurate information found in background checks.