From Report to Decision: Taking the Guesswork Out of Background Check Review

Ordering a background check is easy. Deciding what to do with the results is where most hiring teams get stuck. For many companies, that still means manual review, complex spreadsheets, and judgment calls that vary from one reviewer to the next.

Join Data Facts and Kizuna to see how an integrated decisioning layer turns your screening policy into clear, consistent outcomes, right inside the Data Facts workflow you already use. We'll show how employers are cutting manual review time, keeping pace with evolving requirements, and making individual assessments faster and more defensible.

Key Points/Takeaways:

1. Focus Your Team’s Time Where it Matters: Every background check is instantly evaluated against your screening policy, clearing irrelevant cases automatically and only flagging the things that matter to you.
2. Take the Guesswork Out of Background Check Review: Flagged cases are equipped with clear record summaries, individualized assessment factors, and candidate context giving your team everything it needs to act on a report quickly and confidently.
3. Make Compliance Practical and Scalable: Regulatory tracking, in-product compliance alerts, and analytics help you maintain program oversight and keep pace with changing laws, with audit trails to back every decision.
4. Build a Screening Program That Gets Smarter Over Time: A continuous feedback loop between your screening policies and hiring outcomes shows what's working, and configurable rules make it easy to put those insights into practice.

Panelist | Megan Goddard, Co-Founder & CEO of Kizuna

Having worked on Product Compliance at Checkr and provided advisory services to enterprises on background screening, Megan combines deep industry knowledge with real-world implementation experience. She co-founded Kizuna to bring smarter adjudication solutions to CRAs and the businesses they serve.  

Panelist | Tyler Browne, Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer at Kizuna

Tyler brings deep FCRA and employment compliance expertise, having led Product Compliance at Checkr and Onboarded and advised on regulatory strategy at Apple. At Kizuna, he takes a partnership-driven approach to legal, collaborating with partners and employers to both educate and design practical solutions that scale.