Resume-Claim Verification Checklist Gate

No — and it's built so it can't. It scores the verification status of each individual claim on a resume, never the candidate, and there is no hire/no-hire output. Every verdict, including HOLD TO VERIFY, routes to a verification step — "go confirm this claim with the candidate" — never to a reject or a "do not proceed." People make the hiring decision; the checklist only tells you what to verify. That separation is deliberate: using AI to screen or rank people raises EEOC adverse-impact issues this tool stays clear of by scoring claims, not people.

Because the roll-up follows the weakest material claim, not the average. A material claim whose source can't be reached is UNVERIFIABLE, and that holds the checklist at HOLD TO VERIFY no matter how many other claims are confirmed — a stack of verified claims can't lift one material claim nobody can confirm. In the worked example, three of four material claims are VERIFIED but the degree claim has an unreachable source, so the checklist holds. A clean-looking resume resting on one unconfirmable material claim is exactly the case a simple count would wave through.

You do — material is a buyer-set flag for the claims a decision actually rests on: the degree, the title, the headline result, the certification. Mark those material and minor claims (a language, a hobby) stay scored for context but never gate the checklist. The discipline that keeps it fair is consistency: decide what's material for the role up front and apply the same checklist to every candidate at the same stage, rather than verifying different things for different people.

Per claim: VERIFIED (corroborating evidence and a reachable source), VERIFY FIRST (some evidence but not yet confirmed — reach the source or ask for primary-source confirmation), and UNVERIFIABLE (no evidence, or a material claim with no reachable source). The checklist rolls up to CHECKLIST CLEAR (all material claims verified), OPEN ITEMS (material claims still in progress), or HOLD TO VERIFY (a material claim is UNVERIFIABLE). Every flag comes with the next verification action, and the kit names the one claim holding things up.

They pair. The Application Fabrication-Risk & Verification Triage ($79) scores the whole application's verifiability as a 0–100 read and tells you an application needs verifying. This checklist is the per-claim drill-down you work through to actually do it — list each claim, mark its evidence and source reachability, and get a verdict and a verify-first action on each. Triage at the document grain, checklist at the claim grain; run the triage to know which applications to dig into, run this to dig.

Treat it as a verification checklist, not a decision-maker: verify the same material claims for every candidate at the same stage, and use a verdict only to decide what to confirm — never as a reason to reject. Acting on what verification turns up can trigger FCRA / background-check duties, and AI-in-hiring is regulated federally and by a growing set of state laws, so confirm your process with HR and qualified counsel. The kit states no dated statutory figures by design; the regulatory framing is the part to review with counsel for your jurisdiction. It's a decision aid, not legal advice.