Background Intelligence & Screening
Discreet, legally compliant background intelligence to inform executive, partner, and counterparty decisions.
Standard background checks return what is recorded. For high-stakes partnerships, executive hires, and investment decisions, the difference between what is in a database and what has been deliberately concealed can represent existential risk. Veritas Intelligence closes that gap.
Standard background checks return what is recorded. Our intelligence methodology reveals what is deliberately concealed — using collection techniques refined across decades of CIA operations.
Every material finding is corroborated across independent sources. We do not report single-source findings as conclusions. Accuracy is the standard, not volume.
Subjects remain unaware of intelligence activity. Collection is conducted using tradecraft that protects client identity and engagement confidentiality at every stage.
Findings are documented to a standard suitable for legal proceedings, regulatory submissions, board presentations, and investment committee review.
What Commercial Screening Misses
Commercial background check services return what is recorded in public databases. They cannot surface what has been deliberately concealed — undisclosed relationships, suppressed litigation, hidden beneficial ownership, or adverse associations that subjects have actively worked to obscure.
Veritas Intelligence applies collection methodologies refined across decades of CIA operations to close this gap. Our analysts combine open-source intelligence with human source networks to deliver findings that databases simply cannot reach.
- Undisclosed conflicts of interest and hidden associations
- Suppressed litigation, regulatory actions, and professional discipline
- Beneficial ownership structures designed to obscure control
- Reputation risk invisible to automated screening
Background Intelligence Services
Every engagement is tailored to the client's specific requirements, the subject's profile, and the jurisdictional complexity involved.
Executive Background Intelligence
Comprehensive intelligence on senior executives, board candidates, and key personnel with access to sensitive information or operations. We go beyond employment verification and criminal records to identify undisclosed conflicts, adverse associations, reputational risk, and patterns that standard screening does not surface.
Partner & Counterparty Screening
Discreet background intelligence on potential business partners, counterparties, and management teams. Focused on identifying hidden liabilities, politically exposed persons, sanctions exposure, and risk factors that could materially impact the relationship or transaction.
Employment Background Intelligence
Advanced background checks for sensitive hires that require more than commercial database screening. Designed for positions involving fiduciary responsibility, access to proprietary information, international operations, or security-sensitive roles where standard employment checks are insufficient.
Advanced Background Checks
Multi-layered background analysis combining open-source intelligence, public records, commercial databases, and human source networks. Calibrated for situations where accuracy is critical and the subject may have actively worked to suppress adverse information.
Federal & Criminal Background Intelligence
Deep-level background analysis including federal records, criminal history across jurisdictions, regulatory actions, civil litigation, and professional disciplinary records. Conducted with the rigor and tradecraft required for high-stakes decisions.
Ongoing Monitoring
Continuous or periodic background monitoring for key personnel, partners, and counterparties. Designed to detect changes in risk profile — new litigation, regulatory actions, sanctions designations, adverse media, or reputational shifts — before they become material exposure.
Discreet, Defensible, Decision-Ready
Every background intelligence engagement is conducted to the highest standards of operational security and evidentiary rigor. Subjects remain unaware of intelligence activity. Findings are documented to a standard suitable for legal proceedings, board presentations, and investment committee review.
Collection protects client identity and engagement confidentiality at every stage
Every material finding corroborated across independent channels
Deliverables prepared for legal, regulatory, and boardroom scrutiny
Engagement structures available to protect attorney-client privilege
When Clients Need Background Intelligence
Clients engage Veritas for background intelligence when the stakes are too high for standard commercial screening and the consequences of missed risk are irreversible.
- Executive or board candidate requiring screening beyond standard commercial reports
- Potential business partner or counterparty in a complex or opaque jurisdiction
- Sensitive hire for a position involving fiduciary responsibility or proprietary access
- Adverse party analysis supporting litigation or pre-litigation strategy
- Investor or family office vetting a management team before capital deployment
- Ongoing monitoring of key personnel or third-party relationships for risk changes
- Federal, criminal, or regulatory background analysis for high-stakes decisions
What a Background Check Shows — and What It Misses
Standard background checks surface what is in public records and commercial databases. Intelligence-grade background analysis reveals what is not.
Standard Background Check
- Criminal records in searched jurisdictions
- Employment verification from stated employers
- Education verification from stated institutions
- Credit history and public financial records
- Sex offender registry and sanctions lists
Veritas Background Intelligence
- Undisclosed business relationships and conflicts of interest
- Hidden litigation, regulatory actions, and professional discipline
- Adverse associations with politically exposed persons or sanctioned entities
- Reputation risk from sources, associates, and community standing
- Deliberately concealed history, aliases, and suppressed information
- Behavioral patterns and risk indicators from human source networks
Require Background Intelligence?
Contact Veritas Intelligence to discuss your background intelligence requirements. All consultations are confidential and provided without obligation.