# First Advantage

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/first-advantage/  
**Website:** https://fadv.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

First Advantage provides global background check and screening solutions for employers, candidates, and customers. Their platform offers identity verification, criminal record searches, employment tax credit screening, and industry-specific background checks, helping organizations mitigate risk and build workforce trust across the employee lifecycle.

## Kin Score — 13.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: flat (-4.8 from 18.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 56.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Employment & Payroll**: 22.1 (matched via weak_tags).

## Agent readiness — 18.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | na |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (3)

- **First Advantage Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **First Advantage Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **First Advantage Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Tags

Company, Background Checks, Screening, Identity Verification, Employment

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/first-advantage/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.