SafeHiring Solutions
“Can a boutique, FCRA-registered background screener become the vertical safety operating system for schools, ministries, and non-profits?”
Founded2004
HQCrawfordsville, Indiana, United States
FoundersMike McCarty
IndustryVertical SaaS / Background Screening
The story
Safe Hiring Solutions was founded in 2004 by former violent-crime detective Mike McCarty as a background-screening firm focused on schools, churches, and non-profits. Over 20+ years it has expanded from FCRA-regulated background checks into an adjacent safety suite — SafeVisitor (visitor management), Arrest Alert (continuous booking monitoring), Reflynk (automated references), and LearningZone (LMS for child-abuse prevention training). It is a bootstrapped, family-led SMB (~18 employees, ~$5.5M revenue) rather than a venture-backed platform, and there is no evidence of an embedded-finance strategy.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2004
Mike McCarty founds Safe Hiring Solutions to provide background checks for schools, ministries, and non-profits.· founding
2010
Trisia McCarty joins full time; company scales background screening operations.· operations
2017
Adds SafeVisitor Solutions for visitor management, LearningZone LMS, and Arrest Alert monitoring.· product
2021
Expands product footprint with SafeVendor and Ministry Defender lines.· product
2025
Reflynk automated reference checks and Rock integrations broaden the platform.· product
Regulated entities
1
regulatory licence held by SafeHiring Solutions
Licence types, jurisdictions and registered entities are in the Embedded Finance Index report.
The stack
0 layers disclosed in SafeHiring Solutions’s embedded-finance stack
Accounting gap: none