About Kizuna

Smarter. Faster. Safer.

When a record appears on a background check, the question isn't what happened — it's what does this mean for my business? Kizuna turns complex screening data into relevant signals, helping you make fast, confident, defensible decisions.

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The gap we solve

Same review. Better decisions.

Background check teams are stuck between speed, compliance, and judgment. Kizuna turns record data into structured, policy-ready signals that make adjudication faster and easier to defend.

Queue

Today

Review queues grow

Hiring demand exceeds adjudication capacity, creating delays and candidate drop-off.

Signals

With Kizuna

Signals surface what matters

Role-relevant exposures rise to the top so reviewers act faster and with more confidence.

relevance: high
role-match recency

Policy

Today

Rules drift constantly

Manual policy maintenance struggles to keep pace with regulatory change.

Policy

With Kizuna

Policy stays current

Decision logic adapts to regulatory changes without manual rule rewrites across every workflow.

policy version current

Risk

Today

Edge cases create exposure

One unclear judgment can lead to missed talent, inconsistency, or legal risk.

Trace

With Kizuna

Decisions stay traceable

Rationale, policy path, and audit history remain attached to each outcome.

rationale logged
policy path attached
outcome defensible

How it works

A Three-Part Solution, for Complete Evaluation

Kizuna combines policy automation, science-based risk analysis, and compliance tooling to deliver a more complete and defensible evaluation of candidate risk.

Policy Nexus

Smarter Rules. Better Decisions.

Kizuna turns your hiring standards into automated, configurable policies reducing unnecessary flags, speeding approvals, and ensuring decisions are applied consistently at scale.

The result

  • Fewer unnecessary flags
  • Faster approvals
  • More time for thoughtful review
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Time Lens

Context for confidence.

For flagged cases, Time Lens applies research-backed risk factors to assess what a record means today, enabling faster, more confident decisions grounded in evidence, not assumptions.

The result

  • Faster, more confident decisions
  • Assessments grounded in evidence
  • Less reliance on guesswork
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Compliance Tooling

FCRA and local compliance without the disruption

Kizuna provides regulatory policy templates, mobile-friendly candidate communication, and defensible audit trails so teams meet FCRA and local requirements while moving faster and standing behind every hire.

The result

  • Smoother candidate communication
  • Fewer compliance delays
  • Decisions you can defend
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Delivered as an embeddable layer

Designed to fit the systems you already use

Delivered as an embeddable API layer, Kizuna integrates into your current background-check provider or ATS system, so you can apply consistent, compliant evaluations at scale without switching systems or adding disruption for recruiters and adjudicators.

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const decision = await kizuna.evaluate({
  report: screeningProviderReport,
  policy: "finance-ops",
  workflow: "pre-adverse-review",
});

decision.status      // meets_criteria | review
decision.timeLens    // contextual factors
decision.auditTrail  // defensible history
decision.candidateComms // compliant outreach

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