Intelius, the Intelligence Services Company
Washington-based technology firm Intelius renders intelligence services and identity theft protection solutions. Established in 2003 by MSN pioneer Naveen Jain, Intelius is the winner of the 2006 American Business Award for Best New Company.
Its services are designed mainly to give consumers greater knowledge regarding the people they associate with, anyone from babysitters to business partners. The rationale behind every Intelius service is simple: one couldn’t be too familiar with someone else.
Some of its services have even become institutions in business. Employment Screening by Intelius is widely praised by such magazines as Workforce Management and HRO Today. The latter even crowned Intelius the second-best employee screening provider in the whole United States. Apart from employment screens, the company also offers great tenancy screening services.
In the main, Intelius is a consumer-oriented business. Many of its services have practical uses in everyday life. Date checks by Intelius, for instance, let clients know more about their dates than the ambiguous profiles posted in dating sites. More impressively, Intelius can check the criminal records of almost any person in the US. Either Intelius accesses its immense database of court dockets, or sends professional court retrievers to verify criminal records with the courthouse itself. Intelius also checks for people’s civil records.
Other Intelius services are intended to let people know the addresses and contact details of others, as in Intelius People Search or Intelius Business People Search. The company has even created email search services just for this purpose. A similar service, Social Net Search, checks for the screen guises of online users.
Customers could likewise identify the owner behind those mysterious phone calls by using Intelius’ reverse phone verifications and cell phone caller IDs.
In 2008, Deloitte & Touche ranked Intelius 8th among the fastest-growing Washington-based companies. On top of that, Intelius is part of Deloitte and Inc. Magazine’s list of the fastest-growing companies in the US.