Checkr is one of the largest background check platforms in the country, and for some companies it is the right tool. This page is for the Ohio employers it does not fit: the ones who want a screening partner with a phone number, a local address, and a person who reviewed the report before it arrived.
Checkr built its platform for high-volume, technology-first hiring, and by its own count serves over 140,000 employers. The model is self-serve: order through a dashboard or API, receive results by email, resolve questions through support tickets. In 2022 Checkr acquired GoodHire, the platform many small businesses had used, and folded it into the same infrastructure.
That model works well for gig platforms and enterprises running thousands of checks a month. The employers who go looking for something else usually name the same reasons: they run a handful of checks a month and want a person, not a portal; they hire for roles where a missed county filing or a wrongly surfaced sealed record carries real risk; or they want pricing built around their actual hiring instead of platform tiers.
If what you need is a different national platform rather than a local partner, the names that come up are Accurate Background, HireRight, Cisive, and iprospectcheck, among others. Each runs a broadly similar model at national scale. Review sites like G2 maintain current comparisons. The rest of this page covers the option those lists leave out: the local consumer reporting agency.
Corporate Intelligence Consultants is an FCRA-compliant consumer reporting agency in Perrysburg, Ohio, screening for employers since 1977. Most reports complete in 24 to 48 hours. Criminal record research runs at the county, state, and federal court level with findings confirmed at the source, and every report passes through human review by our research and QA team before it reaches you. Verification work, drug screening, MVR, professional license checks, and electronic I-9 with E-Verify round out the program, scoped to each role.
The part that does not show up on a feature list: when Ohio’s sealing rules expand again, or Toledo’s hiring ordinances shift, or a BCI requirement applies to your new location, you call and ask. That is what a screening partner is for. CIC provides screening information for employer review, and the employer makes the hiring decision.
An honest comparison cuts both ways. Companies running thousands of automated checks a month across many states, or building screening into their own software through an API, are squarely in Checkr’s lane. CIC is built for employers who hire deliberately and want judgment in the loop.
Yes. Ohio has established consumer reporting agencies, including Corporate Intelligence Consultants in Perrysburg, which has screened for Ohio employers since 1977 and serves companies statewide with FCRA-compliant employment background checks.
Both operate under the FCRA. A platform optimizes for scale and automation, with self-serve ordering and support. A local consumer reporting agency runs court record research confirmed at the source, applies human review before reports are released, and provides direct access to the people doing the work.
Yes. CIC runs county, state, and federal record research nationwide and builds multi-state screening programs for Ohio-based companies hiring across the country.
Typically not. The FCRA disclosure and authorization process stays the same, and CIC helps map existing packages to an equivalent program, provides compliant sample forms, and sets up ordering the way your team already works.
Tell us about your hiring and what your current provider is not doing for you. A conversation, not a sales pitch. Family-owned in Perrysburg since 1977.
The complete guide to Ohio background checks covers laws, timelines, and BCI requirements, and the Bad Hire Cost Calculator shows what one wrong hire costs.
