Kairo
About Kairo

Building the trust layer for modern hiring.

Kairo helps companies verify candidates faster with trusted employment, education, identity, and background verification — all through one unified platform.

  • Source-verified records
  • Real-time verification tracking
  • Portable trust profile
  • Candidate-owned identity
Verification queue
Live · 24 in progress
Active
PS
Priya Sharma
Employment · Infosys
Verified
RM
Rohan Mehta
Education · IIT Bombay
In review
AI
Anika Iyer
Identity · Aadhaar
Verified
VP
Vikram Patel
Address · Bengaluru
Source check
2.1d
Avg TAT
94%
Pass rate
120+
Sources
Our story

Why we built Kairo.

Four scenes — from the broken status quo to the trust layer modern hiring deserves.

01The status quo

Hiring still runs on broken trust.

Background checks take weeks. Records get fabricated. Every employer repeats the same manual verification — and trust resets at every door.

Scene 01 of 04
Legacy BGV
Broken
8 days waiting
Fabricated employer
Inflated tenure
Every hire repeats the same slow, manual checks.
02The insight

What if trust was verified once?

Identity, employment and education only need to be verified at the source one time. The hard work is already done — it just needs to be reusable.

Scene 02 of 04
The insight
Verify once.
Reuse everywhere.
Identity
Employment
Education
Source-verified at the issuer
03Portable trust

A trust profile the candidate owns.

Verified once, the candidate carries their Trust Passport to every opportunity — and every hiring team reuses that verified trust instead of restarting checks from scratch.

Scene 03 of 04
One trust profile
Carried by the candidate
Series B fintech
Reusable
Healthcare startup
Reusable
Enterprise SaaS
Reusable
04What we're building

The trust layer for modern hiring.

Kairo is the infrastructure beneath every hire — identity, employment and education stitched into one source-verified, reusable trust graph.

Scene 04 of 04
Identity layer
Employment layer
Education layer
Trust infrastructure
Kairo
Our story

Why we built Kairo.

Hiring still runs on fragmented documents, manual calls, and unverifiable claims. Kairo replaces outdated verification workflows with a faster, trusted, and reusable infrastructure layer for modern hiring teams.

Portable trust

Candidates shouldn't repeatedly prove the same credentials across every employer.

Less repeat verification

Source-verified records live inside the candidate's Trust Passport, so hiring teams don't restart verification from scratch every time.

Reusable verification

One verified profile, used across every opportunity — no repeated background checks.

Founders

Building the future of professional trust.

Kairo is built by founders with experience across financial services, technology, governance and enterprise risk—working together to make professional trust portable, reusable and owned by individuals.

Aman Jha — Co-Founder

Aman Jha

Co-Founder

Background in financial services, investor relations and operations. Previously worked at Morningstar and Baker Tilly. Focused on building Kairo's vision of portable professional trust and bringing trusted identity infrastructure to employers, institutions and professionals.

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Akhilesh Thakur — Co-Founder

Akhilesh Thakur

Co-Founder

Over 23 years of experience building advisory practices across governance, risk and business consulting. Led large-scale consulting engagements across India, the United States, Europe and the Middle East, helping organisations strengthen operations and build trusted institutions.

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Principles

What we believe.

Trust by default

Every verification should strengthen confidence, not create friction.

Privacy first

Candidates control sensitive information with explicit consent workflows.

Speed matters

Hiring delays cost companies time, talent, and momentum.

Built to scale

From startups to enterprise hiring teams operating across geographies.

See how Kairo transforms hiring verification.

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