Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 15 → 8 of 52
1 category · RankedVerified First
34Judge labels
5First choices
0Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Background screening for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 83 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Verified First →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 59
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market5 of 83
7%14 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise7 of 71
2%12 labels
accepted challenger
In background screening · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Verified First for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background screening | Talent acquisition | 7% | 5 of 83 | 0% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Verified First held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Background screening · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 5 of 70, unchanged
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 16 → 7 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background screening | 7% | 6% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 7% → 6%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 of 83, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Verified First across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Verified First across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase9 labels3
Comparative10 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Verified First is the top choice for mid-market and enterprise teams prioritizing integrated efficiency, support, and partnership.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Background screening · direct prompt · first choice
“For mid-market domestic companies (50–2,500 employees), Bchex and Verified First are specifically built for this category” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Verified First as the top choice for a mid-sized B2B company” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with SmartHRCheqs or Verified First” MiniMax M2.5 · Background screening · paraphrase prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Verified First, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Verified First was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Verified First, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Verified First was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Verified First. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 32 of the 33 answers that named Verified First and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
checkr.com18
fadv.com17
pin.com17
bib.com16
verifiedfirst.comYour site15
vetty.co15
goodhire.com12
iprospectcheck.com12
mitratech.com11
deel.com9
127 of the 142 domain citations in answers naming Verified First came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
verifiedfirst.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Verified First takes 7% of first choices and Checkr takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
verifiedfirst.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Verified First takes 7% of first choices and Checkr takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “background check provider”
9
Position for “background check providers”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“verified first”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 255 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 11,301 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,903 · 108 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,580
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
7%
rank 5 of 83 in background screening
Segment leader
31%
Checkr
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 33 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 32 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on verifiedfirst.com
1,022
subdomains included
Content
535
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 115
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 473 | 10 | 2026-09-22 | Background screening, Applicant tracking syste | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 24 | 2 | 2026-09-10 | Background screening | |
| Case study | 10 | 0 | 2024-10-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 9 | 0 | 2021-10-13 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 0 | 2026-04-09 | Background screening | |
| Report or ebook | 5 | 0 | 2019-01-21 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 1 | 2026-09-08 | Background screening | |
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2024-07-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Verified first adp integration background screening blog
- 2026-09-21Acst protecting your congregation guide blog
- 2026-09-15Nonprofit volunteer background check mistakes blog
- 2026-09-10Building momentum igniting your mission webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-08Annual mvr review vs continuous mvr monitoring comparison
- 2026-08-24Background check turnaround time delays blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page verifiedfirst.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Verified First
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Verified First; a claim can dispute any of them.
VerifiedFirst 1
Follow Verified First
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Verified First is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Verified First is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Background Checks for Companies
- For
- companies
- Price stated
- View Pricing verifiedfirst.com
- Starting price
- 29.99 verifiedfirst.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 150 verifiedfirst.com/partners
- Certifications
- PBSA-accreditedSOC2 complianceNIST 800-53 compliantPBSA-AccreditationProfessional Background Screening Association (PBSA)PBSA
- Customers named
- Elevation
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, hosting
What Verified First's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: verifiedfirst.com, verifiedfirst.com/pricing, trust.verifiedfirst.com, verifiedfirst.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Verified First's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Verified First, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Verified First by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Verified First is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Verified First, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.