Hire with absolute confidence — decide with speed, without giving up certainty.
Kavuka Background Check is the structured investigation of people and companies: lawsuits, criminal records, registry validation, financial restrictions, sanctions, ownership ties and adverse media — consolidated into an auditable dossier with a risk score, in minutes and in batch.
- < 4 min
- per dossier
- 450+
- public sources scanned
- 100%
- of hires with audit trail
- Up to 70%
- faster onboarding
Verification engine in production checking candidates, contractors and suppliers for large operations — thousands of dossiers per day, with full audit trail.
Every day your operation approves people and companies without knowing the real risk it is taking on.
Manual verification stalls onboarding
Manual checking takes days, with no standard across HR, Facilities and Registration — the candidate gives up, the contractor sits idle and the operation cannot scale.
What slips through becomes a liability
The wrong hire or activation turns into labor liability, internal fraud, contractor incidents and reputational damage — after the person is already inside.
No trail, no proportionality
No traceability or audit trail; disproportionate verification and data-protection processing without a mapped legal basis expose Compliance, Legal and the DPO.
Cost The cost of a wrong hire or activation reaches 30–200% of the role’s annual salary — not counting contractor incidents, labor liabilities and reputational damage. How much of that walked through an unverified onboarding?
From the tax ID to the risk dossier, in one pipeline.
- 01
Upload
Upload CPFs and CNPJs in batch by spreadsheet or connect your ATS and systems via API/SDK — without changing your flow.
- 02
Scan
The engine scans over 450 public sources — courts across the country, criminal records, the federal registry, restrictive lists and adverse media.
- 03
Classify
Each dossier returns in under 4 minutes, with a profile proportional to the type of hire and a risk score for automatic decision.
- 04
Decide and archive
Zero manual review on clean cases; the analyst handles only exceptions, and every decision is kept with rationale, source and date for audit.
The engine behind every hire
A single query cross-references hundreds of public sources and legally permitted bases and returns a structured, auditable dossier, ready to automate the decision.
Lawsuits
Courts nationwide — civil, criminal and labor
Criminal records
Lookup within legally legitimate scenarios
Registry validation
CPF and CNPJ checked against the federal registry
Financial restrictions
Protests, debts and credit flags
Lists and sanctions
National and global restrictive lists
Ownership ties
Ownership structure and links between people and companies
Adverse media
News and digital reputation
Decision engine
Proportional profiles and configurable score
Who decides with Kavuka Background Check
HR & Recruiting
Candidate screening and admission with a single standard across teams and documented proportionality — a natural bridge to KYE/KYA.
Facilities & Contractors
Verification of contractors and third parties before access to facilities, data and customers — the base of the supplier program (KYS).
Procurement & Registration
Due diligence of corporate suppliers and their partners, with ownership ties and sanctions, before approval — evolving into KYS/KYB.
Risk & Compliance
Background investigation when onboarding higher-risk customers and partners — the engine that supports KYC and KYP.
The legal shield your Compliance team requires
Kavuka Background Check was designed for the proportionality required by labor courts and handled for data-protection law from the very first record. Compliance is not a report at the end — it is how the engine operates.
- Legal basis mapped by purpose and proportionality: each type of hire gets the appropriate verification scope, without excess.
- Only public or legally permitted sources — criminal records consulted only in legitimate scenarios.
- Data Processing Agreement available for enterprise clients.
- Per-dossier audit trail: every decision with rationale, source and date, traceable at any time.
- Encryption in transit and at rest, with role-based access control.
Verification that took days dropped to minutes; onboarding became about 70% faster and standardized across teams.
The last audit found a complete trail for 100% of hires and contractors. Zero findings.
We stopped choosing between speed and safety. The clean profile gets in fast; the sensitive case goes to review on its own, fully documented.
Ready to verify 100% of your hires in minutes?
In 15 minutes you see the full verification pipeline running on your scenario, with your volume.
- For businesses only. No purchase commitment.
- Data used solely for commercial contact.
- Enterprise leads answered within 1 business day.
What background check is and how to automate it
Background check is the structured investigation of information about individuals and companies, drawn from public sources and legally permitted bases. Instead of an improvised, scattered check, the process consolidates into a single auditable dossier the lawsuits (civil, criminal and labor), the criminal records within legitimate scenarios, the registry validation against the federal database, the financial restrictions, the restrictive and sanctions lists, the ownership ties and the adverse media — all classified with a risk score proportional to the decision at hand.
In Brazil, background check is not just good risk-management practice — it must be proportional. Labor courts have consolidated the understanding that verifying a candidate’s record is only legitimate when there is reasonable justification tied to the nature of the role: requiring criminal records for every single position, without criteria, creates liability. Data-protection law, in turn, demands a mapped legal basis, a defined purpose and data minimization. Doing background check right means applying the appropriate verification scope to each type of hire — and recording why that scope was applied.
Automating background check means turning that investigation into a single pipeline: uploading CPFs and CNPJs in batch by spreadsheet or connecting the ATS and systems via API, scanning hundreds of public sources in parallel, returning each dossier with a score in minutes and archiving the evidence. The engine does the heavy lifting; the analyst handles only the exceptions. The result is onboarding up to 70% faster, a single standard across HR, Facilities, Procurement and Compliance, and documented evidence for any audit — from sampling to 100% with a trail, from legal improvisation to documented proportionality.
More than a one-off lookup, background check is the verification infrastructure on which entire risk programs are built. The same engine that verifies a candidate verifies a contractor, a supplier, a partner or a customer — and that is precisely what connects background check to the Know Your family on the Kavuka platform: KYC applies this engine to customers, KYB to companies, KYE and KYA to employees and candidates, KYS to suppliers and KYP to partners. Whoever starts by verifying a hire gains, within the same contract, the base to continuously monitor suppliers, partners and relationships — without switching platforms.
What is background check and why does my company need it?
Background check is the structured investigation of the records of people and companies — lawsuits, registry validation, financial restrictions, sanctions, ownership ties and adverse media — consolidated into a dossier with a risk score. It protects the company from wrong hires and activations, internal fraud and liabilities, before the risk enters the operation.
Is candidate background check allowed under labor law?
Yes, provided it is proportional. Labor courts require reasonable justification tied to the nature of the role: verification must match the function, without excess. The platform applies the appropriate scope to each type of hire and records the legal basis and proportionality of each dossier.
Does background check slow down hiring?
When manual, yes — it takes days and stalls onboarding. Automated, each dossier returns in under 4 minutes, automatically approving clean profiles. The typical result is onboarding up to 70% faster, not friction.
Which sources does Kavuka background check consult?
Over 450 public sources and legally permitted bases: courts across the country (civil, criminal and labor), criminal records within legitimate scenarios, the federal registry, financial restrictions, restrictive and sanctions lists, ownership ties and adverse media.
Is Kavuka background check compliant with data-protection law?
Yes. Processing relies on a legal basis mapped by purpose and proportionality, uses only public or legally permitted sources and keeps a per-dossier audit trail, with encryption in transit and at rest. DPA available for enterprise clients.
How does background check integrate with my HR and my systems?
By batch via spreadsheet for one-off checks and existing portfolios, or via a documented REST API and SDKs to connect your ATS and registration systems. Typical implementation takes a few days, with dedicated Customer Success.
What is the difference between Background Check, KYC and KYE?
Background Check is the structured background-investigation engine — used for candidates, contractors and suppliers. KYC applies that engine to the continuous customer pipeline (identity + risk + AML/CFT). KYE applies it to the employee life cycle, with continuous monitoring. The solutions complement each other and share the same engine on the Kavuka platform.
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