KarmaCheck

KarmaCheck Inc. is a San Francisco based, API-first background check and credential verification company serving staffing, healthcare, gig-economy, call-center and IT/tech hiring workflows. The KarmaCheck API is a REST contract on api.karmacheck.io covering the full screening lifecycle: creating and placing cases, candidate onboarding with FCRA, e-signature, Canada, international and location-specific disclosure acknowledgement, criminal, identity, motor vehicle record, education, employment, professional-licence and occupational-health screenings, secure document upload and retrieval, package and service catalogs, jurisdiction lookup, verification-book search, adjudication and pre-adverse-action documents. Results are pushed asynchronously through Svix-delivered, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks (case.statuschange and casedata.statuschange). KarmaCheck also operates a remote MCP server so agents can order and track screenings from natural language, and integrates with Bullhorn, Workday and symplr CTM. The company holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and operates as an FCRA consumer reporting agency.

KarmaCheck publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Candidate onboarding API, Case API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Background Checks, Employment Screening, Identity Verification, Credential Verification, and Motor Vehicle Records.

The KarmaCheck catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

KarmaCheck’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, changelog, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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52.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 55/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Background Checks Employment Screening Identity VerificationCredential VerificationMotor Vehicle RecordsOccupational Health ScreeningDrug ScreeningHR Tech Staffing Healthcare Compliance FCRA Adjudication Webhook MCP Server agent-native

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

Candidate onboardingCases

POST /case/create GET /case/id/{caseId}/preadverse/{type}/pdf/download GET /candidate/info/case/id/{caseId} GET /case/id/{caseId}

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 52.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 5.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.7 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 9

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

KarmaCheck Authentication API

The Authentication API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

KarmaCheck Candidate onboarding API

The Candidate onboarding API from KarmaCheck — 20 operation(s) for candidate onboarding.

KarmaCheck Case API

The Case API from KarmaCheck — 2 operation(s) for case.

KarmaCheck Cases API

The Cases API from KarmaCheck — 22 operation(s) for cases.

KarmaCheck Packages API

The Packages API from KarmaCheck — 4 operation(s) for packages.

KarmaCheck Secure documents API

The Secure documents API from KarmaCheck — 6 operation(s) for secure documents.

KarmaCheck Services API

The Services API from KarmaCheck — 5 operation(s) for services.

KarmaCheck Users API

The Users API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for users.

KarmaCheck Verification Book API

The Verification Book API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for verification book.

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

KarmaCheck MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Karmacheck Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Karmacheck Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Karmacheck Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Karmacheck Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Karmacheck Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

WellKnown

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: karmacheck
name: KarmaCheck
description: 'KarmaCheck Inc. is a San Francisco based, API-first background check and credential verification company serving
  staffing, healthcare, gig-economy, call-center and IT/tech hiring workflows. The KarmaCheck API is a REST contract on api.karmacheck.io
  covering the full screening lifecycle: creating and placing cases, candidate onboarding with FCRA, e-signature, Canada,
  international and location-specific disclosure acknowledgement, criminal, identity, motor vehicle record, education, employment,
  professional-licence and occupational-health screenings, secure document upload and retrieval, package and service catalogs,
  jurisdiction lookup, verification-book search, adjudication and pre-adverse-action documents. Results are pushed asynchronously
  through Svix-delivered, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks (case.statuschange and casedata.statuschange). KarmaCheck also operates
  a remote MCP server so agents can order and track screenings from natural language, and integrates with Bullhorn, Workday
  and symplr CTM. The company holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and operates as an FCRA consumer reporting agency.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/673634b37e2e1340c1ee5f3d/6736aa68f0e954a84817b9c0_Favicon-Icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karmacheck/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
tags:
- Background Checks
- Employment Screening
- Identity Verification
- Credential Verification
- Motor Vehicle Records
- Occupational Health Screening
- Drug Screening
- HR Tech
- Staffing
- Healthcare
- Compliance
- FCRA
- Adjudication
- Webhook
- MCP Server
- agent-native
apis:
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-authentication-api
  name: KarmaCheck Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-candidate-onboarding-api
  name: KarmaCheck Candidate onboarding API
  description: The Candidate onboarding API from KarmaCheck — 20 operation(s) for candidate onboarding.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Candidate onboarding
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-candidate-onboarding-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-case-api
  name: KarmaCheck Case API
  description: The Case API from KarmaCheck — 2 operation(s) for case.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Case
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-case-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-cases-api
  name: KarmaCheck Cases API
  description: The Cases API from KarmaCheck — 22 operation(s) for cases.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Cases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-cases-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-packages-api
  name: KarmaCheck Packages API
  description: The Packages API from KarmaCheck — 4 operation(s) for packages.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Packages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-packages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-secure-documents-api
  name: KarmaCheck Secure documents API
  description: The Secure documents API from KarmaCheck — 6 operation(s) for secure documents.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Secure Documents
  tags_raw:
  - Secure documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-secure-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-services-api
  name: KarmaCheck Services API
  description: The Services API from KarmaCheck — 5 operation(s) for services.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Services
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-services-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-users-api
  name: KarmaCheck Users API
  description: The Users API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for users.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- aid: karmacheck:karmacheck-verification-book-api
  name: KarmaCheck Verification Book API
  description: The Verification Book API from KarmaCheck — 1 operation(s) for verification book.
  humanURL: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.karmacheck.io
  tags:
  - Verification Book
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/karmacheck-verification-book-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/karmacheck-capability-edges.yml
  name: KarmaCheck Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/karmacheck-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.karmacheck.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/overview/introduction
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/api-reference/authentication/authenticate-api-client
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.karmacheck.com/background-check-api/guides/candidate-provided-pii-flow
- type: Support
  url: https://www.karmacheck.com/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.karmacheck.com/blogs
- type: Login
  url: https://app.karmacheck.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.karmacheck.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.karmacheck.com/privacy-policy
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/karmacheck-changelog.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/karmacheck-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/karmacheck-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/karmacheck-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/karmacheck-webhooks.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/karmacheck-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/karmacheck-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/karmacheck-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/karmacheck-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/karmacheck-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/karmacheck-sandbox.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/karmacheck-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/karmacheck-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/karmacheck-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/karmacheck-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/karmacheck-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/karmacheck-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 24
  pass: local-v1

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