Launching today
Superunit
AI agents that verify employment by phone, email & fax
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AI agents that verify employment by phone, email & fax
72 followers
Every time someone gets hired, applies for a mortgage, or leases an apartment, someone has to confirm they actually worked where they said they did. That means millions of calls, emails, faxes (yes, in 2026), to HR and payroll departments. Superunit's AI agents do all of that from start to finish. They research, call, email, fax and handle documents until the verification is done.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Peter, co-founder of Superunit.
Every time someone gets hired, applies for a mortgage, or signs a lease, somebody has to confirm they actually worked where they said they did. In practice that's millions of phone calls a year to HR and payroll — leaving voicemails, sending emails, sending faxes (yes, in 2026), waiting days for a callback, getting transferred, leaving another voicemail.
Background screeners, lenders, and property managers hire whole teams to do this. It's tedious, expensive, and turnover is brutal because the work is mind-numbing.
Tbh we didn't set out to fix this. We went through YC's S24 batch working on something else entirely (in the accounting space), and at Demo Day it landed with a thud, which sucked. By the end of the year we made the call to rip it all out and start over.
The restart came from a chance conversation: a product leader at Checkr told us employment verifications were "soul-crushing." We got curious, started building in January 2025, and haven't looked back.
So we built Ava (not the most original agent name, I know…), an AI agent that runs employment verifications end to end. She does the contact research, calls HR and payroll, navigates phone trees, sends the emails and faxes, handles compliance, and publishes a clean, auditable result back to your system.
In the past year we've made 1.5M calls and emails to complete 200k verifications across 17 countries for 50+ customers, including some of the largest background screeners and lenders in the US. 70% completed, most back in under a day.
Building this also gave us a look at the verification layer almost nobody gets to see, so we're publishing some of it today in our State of Employment Verification 2026 report. One finding that surprised even us: when a verification routes through a named third-party platform, ~73% of the time it's a single company. More in the report → superunit.com/launch
Happy to answer anything, how Ava handles a live call, the compliance side, the international data, whatever you're curious about. Ask away, excited to be here. 🙏
Peter, the fax detail is the part nobody outside these workflows believes. Healthcare runs the same rails, and the queue shaped exactly like yours is insurance benefit and eligibility verification, which sits directly on whether a practice gets paid.
What changes there is the content of the call. The moment your agent says a patient name to a payer, the recording, the transcript and the auditable result are all regulated records, and whoever holds them needs a signed agreement before a compliance team approves the pilot. That requirement stops this kind of automation more often than the phone tree does.
Have you pointed Ava at payer calls yet, and could a customer have the recording and transcript dropped so only the result survives?
@clemente_lopez1 I know, AI running faxes feels very dystopian right? But it's about 2% of companies require it that way. I've definitely heard of this more in healthcare (have you heard of Tennr?). I didn't know that about the regulatory hurdle with the patient name - I can imagine it being a compliance nightmare. I do believe with HIPAA compliance that recordings and transcripts don't need to survive for the result to, but not 100% sure. We're not planning to enter that space in the near future.
with voice-phishing sounding this convincing now, I'd actually worry less about HR being cautious of you and more about the reverse: what stops a bad actor from cloning Ava's script and running the same kind of call to social-engineer real employee data out of an unsuspecting HR rep, using your legitimacy as cover? is there a way for the person on the other end to verify a call is genuinely from you, like a callback number or portal link, rather than just trusting whoever calls and says they're an automated verification agent?
Congrats on your launch! Do receivers of the call like HR or employers get cautious cause its an AI Agent on the phone and don't want to confirm sensitive information?
@jacklyn_i Yes they do! In those cases we always let them know that we have a signed release from the applicant that we're happy to send over by email. Or that they have the option to speak to a live person on our team if they'd like.
Great idea and product for solving an everyday problem. As a business owner, I would get verification phone calls (and even faxes), all the time. Businesses want to respond, to help employees with their loans, rentals, etc, but the existing system was very cumbersome and annoying. Anything that streamlines and simplifies it is valuable, great use of technology.
@howard_lind Thanks for the comment, appreciate that you've felt this before!
Congrats on the launch, sounds like you've made some good progress. Question - what happens to a verification you can't complete? Does that happen often?
@mike_stachowiak Great question! We have about a 70% completion rate directly from the employers we contact. If we can't get it from them most commonly we'll collect proof docs from the applicants (e.g. W2s, paystubs). Another common path is to get it from a third party that holds the payroll info (e.g. Equifax). Sometimes we'll return it to our clients for them to give it a shake. And sometimes it's just not gettable (e.g. business no longer exists).