What is background verification (BGV)?

Background verification (BGV) is the process of independently confirming a job candidate's identity, employment history, education credentials and criminal record before or after hiring. It protects organizations from fraud, misrepresentation and compliance risk.

What is the KYE Score?

KYE Score stands for Know Your Employee Score. It is Werif.ai's proprietary single, weighted trust score that aggregates the results of all background checks — identity, employment, education and criminal — into one comparable, explainable number between 0 and 100.

How long does a background check take on Werif.ai?

Werif.ai's average turnaround time is 1.8 days. Simple identity checks can be completed in minutes; comprehensive full-screen checks including criminal records typically complete in 1–3 business days.

What types of background checks does Werif.ai support?

Werif.ai supports identity verification (Aadhaar, PAN, Passport, biometric liveness), employment history verification, education credential verification, criminal record and global watchlist checks, address verification, and continuous employee monitoring.

Is Werif.ai compliant with Indian data protection laws?

Yes. Werif.ai is SOC 2 Type II certified, ISO 27001 certified, GDPR ready and DPDP (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, India) ready. Candidate consent is collected at the start of every verification workflow.

Can Werif.ai be white-labelled for our brand?

Yes. The candidate-facing verification flow is fully white-label — you can apply your own logo and brand colors. The platform also supports custom workflows, role-based access and isolated tenant workspaces.

Does Werif.ai offer an API for background checks?

Yes. Werif.ai provides a REST API for programmatic background check initiation and result retrieval, plus webhooks for real-time status updates. Enterprise plans include SSO and SCIM provisioning.

What is the difference between BGV and KYC?

KYC (Know Your Customer) verifies the identity of financial service customers. BGV (Background Verification) or KYE (Know Your Employee) goes further — it also verifies employment history, education credentials and criminal records specifically for hiring decisions.

KYE Know Your Employee

Know exactly who
you're hiring.

Werif.ai is the multi-tenant background verification platform that gives every organization a genuine, real-time trust score for every employee — across identity, employment, education and records.

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SOC 2ISO 27001GDPR ready

No setup fees · Live in days

Identity matched

Continuous monitoring on

AS Abhishek Sharma
Senior Engineer · Offer stage

Verified

0SCORE

Verified clean 4

In review 1

Not requested 1

Identity checkCleared

Employment historyCleared

EducationCleared

Criminal recordsIn review

Trusted by people & risk teams at

Northwind Tessellate Meridian Halcyon Brightpath Cobalt Vantage Northwind Tessellate Meridian Halcyon Brightpath Cobalt Vantage

What we verify

Every check you need to trust a hire.

Run a single check or a full background screen. Werif.ai orchestrates the sources, chases the responses and rolls everything into one genuine score.

Identity

Government ID, biometric face-match and liveness, plus address and right-to-work confirmation.

Aadhaar · PAN · Passport · Liveness

Employment history

Direct employer outreach to confirm titles, tenure, exit reasons and rehire eligibility.

Tenure · Title · Exit · Rehire

Education

Degree, institution and graduation verification straight from universities and registries.

Degree · Institution · Year

Criminal records

Court, police and global watchlist searches across the jurisdictions a candidate has lived in.

Court · Police · Global watchlists

Custom workflows

Build the screening process your way.

Drag the checks you need into a workflow, set the order and rules, and Werif.ai runs it automatically for every candidate — with consent collected up front.

Invite

Candidate gets a branded link and gives consent.

Collect

Documents & details captured securely.

Verify

AI runs checks across every source in parallel.

Score

Results roll up into one genuine KYE score.

Report

Shareable, audit-ready report delivered.

Multi-tenant by design

One platform, every organization in its own secure workspace.

Isolated tenants

Each client's data, branding, roles and workflows are fully segregated.

Role-based access

Granular permissions for recruiters, compliance and admins.

White-label candidate flow

Your logo, your colors — a trustworthy experience for applicants.

N Northwind HR
1,204 checks this month 86% cleared

T Tessellate
642 checks this month 73% cleared

M Meridian Talent
389 checks this month 91% cleared

AK Arjun Kapoor
Finance Lead

KYE 88

0SCORE

Document authenticity A

Source confidence High

Data freshness 2d

Records match 100%

The KYE Score

One genuine score that's actually comparable.

Instead of a stack of separate reports, Werif.ai distills every check into a single, weighted KYE score — so two candidates, two teams, or two tenants are measured on the same honest scale.

Weighted & explainable

Every point is traceable to the underlying evidence — no black box.

Relative benchmarking

See how a score compares within a role, team or industry.

Always current

Continuous monitoring re-scores employees as new information surfaces.

One dashboard

Every check, every tenant, one view.

Track volumes, turnaround times and clearance rates in real time — and drill into any candidate in two clicks.

app.werif.ai/northwind/dashboard

Checks this month

2,235

▲ 12% vs last

Avg. turnaround

1.8d

▲ 0.4d faster

Clearance rate

87%

stable

Avg. KYE score

▲ 3 pts

CandidateWorkflowStageScore

Priya SharmaEngineering — FullCleared92

Arjun KapoorFinance — StandardCleared88

Neha VermaSales — StandardIn review—

Rohan MehtaOps — FullCleared79

Pricing

Pricing that scales with your hiring.

Pay per verified check. No setup fees, no lock-in.

Starter

For small teams running occasional checks.

₹10K/mo

+ pay per check · billed monthly

Start free

Up to 25 checks / month
Identity & education checks
Standard KYE score
Email support

Ready to know your employees?

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