# Zinc

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zinc/  
**Website:** https://zincwork.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Zinc is a UK-founded, Y Combinator and Seedcamp-backed background checking platform that automates pre-employment screening for HR and talent teams. It runs criminal record checks across 195 countries, employment and reference verification, financial and adverse-media screening, right-to-work and qualification checks, delivering results in hours rather than weeks with an average three-day turnaround. Zinc integrates with major ATS and HRIS platforms (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, HiBob, SAP SuccessFactors and others) and is ISO 27001, SOC 2, Cyber Essentials, GDPR and FCRA aligned. This profile was surfaced as a VC portfolio company and enriched from Zinc's public web surface; no public developer API or OpenAPI specification is published at this time.

## Kin Score — 18.8 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (2)

- **Zinc Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Zinc Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001

## Tags

Company, Background Checks, Employment Screening, Identity Verification, Human Resources, Recruiting, Compliance, HR Tech

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