Background screening infrastructure for employers.
Run FCRA-compliant checks, let CourtScopeAI work out which courts can actually hold a record, and get one consolidated report back, from your first hire to your ten-thousandth.
Most missed criminal records sit in a court that was never searched.
In the United States there is no national criminal record database. Records sit with thousands of independent courts, county by county, and no index spans them, so a check is only ever as complete as the list of courts it was pointed at. CourtScopeAI exists to work out that list: it reads residence history, the reliability of each jurisdiction and the patterns in the offense record to narrow down where a record could sit, then CourtRequest files with those courts directly. One consolidated report comes back.
- Maricopa County, AZnothing on file
- Los Angeles County, CAnever searched
- Johnson County, KSnever searched
1 of 3 clear · 2 records missed
- Maricopa County, AZnothing on file
- Los Angeles County, CArecord found
- Johnson County, KSrecord found
2 records found
The difference is which courts each check was pointed at.
Four ways a record gets missed
Every one of these comes from the same place: which courts the search covered.
- Pattern 01
The address they didn’t list
A search covers the addresses an applicant disclosed and nothing else, so an address left off the form is a state no search reaches. The record here was in Los Angeles County and in Johnson County, Kansas.
AZ clear · CA record · KS record
- Pattern 02
The statewide search that skips counties
The failure here is not carelessness: Florida was searched county by county, which is correct there, and Michigan through one statewide query, which is reasonable. Misdemeanors in Michigan sit with city and township courts and felonies with circuit courts, and a statewide search is not built from either.
MI statewide clear · court not covered
- Pattern 03
The offense was somewhere else
People do not always offend where they live, and a scope built from residence history has no reason to look anywhere else. The applicant lived in Kern County and the offenses were in Los Angeles County, and the state keeps no single index that would have thrown it up in passing.
Kern Co clear · LA Co record
- Pattern 04
The right court is rarely the nearest one
New York has no single place to look, so the search is a list of counties, and the list starts with the address. Here none of the offenses had happened in the counties searched, and the record sat in Erie County, at the far end of the state.
Columbia Co clear · Erie Co record
How the platform works
Step two is the one that matters, and the rest is table stakes. CourtScopeAI is our own AI algorithm, and it decides which courts get searched.
- 1
Authorization
The applicant gets a digital disclosure, signs it electronically, and the signed authorization is stored on the case.
- 2
CourtScopeAI
Reads the addresses on the application and works out every court that has to be searched, federal and state, including the ones a statewide check would miss.
- 3
CourtRequest
Every court in the scope is searched at source, and each one carries its own status against the case.
- 4
One report
It all returns as one report, so an unanswered court is never mistaken for a clear result.