Your applicants stay yours. Clera checks each one against hundreds of thousands of profiles it has seen and every fake it has caught, and shows you the evidence before anyone books a call.
Alex Chen
Applied today via Ashby
Why Clera flagged it
Sources: Gartner, July 2025. US Department of Justice, June 2025.
What your ATS can't see
Fakes rarely apply once. Clera has already seen this number under two other names, so your applicant gets flagged before the first call.
Phone +1 ··· ··· ··37
March
Alexander Cole
Confirmed fake
June
A. Chen
Closed by Clera
Today
Alex Chen
Your applicant
The CV, against the record
Clera lines up every job on the CV against LinkedIn, company filings and the people who worked there. Anything that doesn't fit gets marked, with the reason next to it.
Software Engineer at Northpeak Labs
2016 to 2019
Verified. 2 ex-colleagues in Clera's network overlap these dates.
Senior Backend Engineer at Brightwave Systems
Jan 2019 to Mar 2023
Contradicted. Brightwave was incorporated in Aug 2021.
Backend Engineer at Kestrel Data
Mar 2023 to now
Can't verify. 4 people list Kestrel on LinkedIn. None of them know Alex.
Fakes get better every month. So do the checks.
Tech that didn't exist yet
Clera checks every tool on the CV against the day it shipped. LangChain came out in October 2022. This CV has it at a job that started almost four years earlier.
“Built RAG pipelines with LangChain” at Brightwave Systems, 2019 to 2023
Reported by other employers
When a company reports a fake, Clera flags them on their next application to anyone else.
Series B fintech, NYCreported Jun 12
A different person showed up on the video call.
40-person AI startup, SFreported Aug 3
Same CV under another name, same phone number.
Seed-stage devtools, Berlinreported Sep 20
Both references led back to one Gmail account.
Your applicant flagged before you open the CV
Deep research
Before a flag reaches you, Clera searches the open web for anything that backs up or breaks the story.
Company registryBrightwave incorporated Aug 2021
GitHubAccount created 7 weeks ago
Personal siteDomain registered 6 weeks ago
Talks and pressNothing under this name
Alumni directoryDegree confirmed
5 sources · 3 contradictions · 41 seconds
Any single signal can have an innocent reason. Clera's detection model weighs all of them together and only flags an applicant when they add up.
Clera detection model
Weighs 10 signals together
Built on the 610+ fakes Clera has already caught.
Example applicant: 4 of 10 signals fired, including a deal-breaker
The same check runs in the Clera dashboard, in Claude, and over the API in whatever system you already use.
Clera dashboard
Every applicant from your ATS shows up checked, with the evidence one click away.
Claude, via MCP
Paste an email, phone or LinkedIn into Claude and get the answer with the reasons.
Is [email protected] legit?
Clera confirmed this one fake in September. Same phone as another fake profile.
API
Run the check from your ATS, HRIS or onboarding flow. Ask us for a key on the demo call.
// your ATS, HRIS or onboarding flow check({ email: "[email protected]" }) → { matched: true, status: "confirmed_fake" }Get your API key
No batch runs and no backlog. Each applicant is screened as your ATS sends them over, and you see the week at a glance.
Inbound
Last 7 days
What tripped
Checks failed
Deal-breakers decide on their own. Signals only count together.
Fraud tools inside an ATS only compare your applicants with each other. Clera also knows every fake it has already caught, so you find out before the first call, not after the offer.
Fraud check inside your ATS
Compares your applicants with each other
A repeat fake looks like a brand new person
Clera
Also checks every fake Clera has already caught, across its whole network
Repeat fakes get flagged on their first application to you
Common enough that Gartner expects 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide to be fake by 2028. They cluster on remote engineering roles, where nobody meets in person until the offer.
Contact details shared by applicants under different names, emails that follow a generated pattern, CVs that contradict LinkedIn, LinkedIn profiles that don't exist, reports from other employers, and matches against profiles Clera has already confirmed as fake.
Your ATS can only compare your applicants with each other. Clera compares them with the hundreds of thousands of profiles it has seen and every fake it has already caught, so a repeat fake gets flagged on their first application to you.
No. You see the flag and the evidence behind it, and you decide what happens next.
No. There are no passport uploads and no selfies. The checks run in the background, so good applicants never feel suspected.
Ashby, Workable and Lever. Book a demo and we'll connect yours. On something else? Send applicants over on the call and we'll check them there.
Tell us and we reverse the flag. Every flag comes with its evidence, so a wrong one is easy to spot.
Drop your work email and pick a time. In 15 minutes we run the check together and show you exactly what Clera looks at.
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