Side-by-side compare
Up to 3 solutions, scored on the same value metrics.
ROI categoryrisk compliancerisk compliance
Time-to-ValueSame day — first check in minutes (~1d)2-6 weeks (vendor: weeks, not months) (~30d)
Typical annual TCO$0/yr$0/yr
Starting price$0/yr$0/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersNo seat tiers or minimums — add team members as you grow and only pay for checks usedNo seat tiers: unlimited users on every plan; Advisor/MSP licensing is bought as Assessment-Only or Full Feature Spokes.
Implementation friction1/53/5
Friction meter
Best forHigh-volume hiring teams that need criminal and identity checks completed in minutes rather than days; Employers screening candidates in multiple countries through one platform covering all 195 countries; Staffing, retail, hospitality, construction and manufacturing businesses that want pay-per-check pricing with no setup fees or minimums; Talent teams already on Greenhouse, Lever or Workday that want screening embedded in the existing hiring workflowGovernment agencies and regulators needing sovereign data residency and AI that runs inside their own boundary.; Defense contractors and critical infrastructure operators with air-gapped, segmented or OT environments.; Complex multi-entity enterprises running many frameworks across distributed business units.; Advisors, MSPs and vCISO providers delivering white-label GRC services to many clients from one hub.; Security, risk and compliance teams that must keep ISO 27001, NIST CSF, DORA, SOC 2, Essential Eight or IRAP obligations audit-ready.
Not forOrganizations that require an on-premise or self-hosted screening deployment; Buyers who need fixed USD price certainty — published per-check pricing is in Canadian dollars and pass-through access fees may apply; Teams expecting AI to make adverse hiring decisions — Certn states it keeps human oversight and does not use AI for automated decisionsStartups and small businesses looking for a cheap self-serve checklist tool.; Teams that only need a single framework and have no multi-entity or sovereign requirements.; Organizations unwilling to run structured onboarding and Hub & Spoke configuration.; Buyers who need a published self-checkout list price before talking to sales.
Stack fit matrix
SalesforceNot supportedNot supported
AWSNot supportedNot supported
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedNot supported
Google WorkspaceNot supportedNot supported
Microsoft 365Not supportedNot supported
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackNot supportedNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)Not supportedNot supported
Compliance
SOC 2 Listed Not listed
ISO 27001 Listed Listed
GDPR Listed Not listed
HIPAA Not listed Not listed
FedRAMP Not listed Not listed
CMMC Not listed Not listed
ISO 42001 Not listed Listed
IAPP AIGPnamed staff Not listed Not listed
Company & support
Who is behind each solution, and how you reach support. “Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention a channel, not that it is unavailable.
FoundedNot recordedNot recorded
HeadquartersNot recordedNot recorded
PhoneNot listedNot listed
EmailNot listedNot listed
Live chatNot listedNot listed
Support portal / ticketsNot listedPlan not stated
Community forumNot listedAll plans
Help centre / docsAll plansAll plans
Dedicated account managerNot listedAll plans
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hoursNot recordedNot recorded
Response timeNot statedNot stated
AI & MCP readiness
Whether each solution can join your AI stack, and what it asks of you to do so.
MCP connectionreaches AI clientsNot supportedNot supported
AI featuresCopilot / assistant; Anomaly detectionCopilot / assistant; Document processing; NLP automation; Agentic workflows; AI governance tooling
Built around AI?AI added to an existing productAI added to an existing product
Trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendorNever trains on your data
Runs onNot recordedNot recorded
AI pricingNot recordedIncluded in the plan
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditNot recordedNot recorded
Quadrant view
Where the 2 selected solutions land on the same value plane. Toggle axes to compare on cost, speed, friction, or buyer score.
Quadrant view
Implementation friction × Value-Position score (estimate)
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
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