Startup Spotlight: Superunit automates the employer calls background checks still depend on
Superunit co-founders Peter Marler and Zach Yellin-Flaherty built voice and email agents for the verification work databases and screening teams leave unfinished.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
Superunit is automating work between database lookups and completed background checks. Its reported usage suggests demand, while its own privacy policy makes clear that human review, auditability and sensitive data handling remain central to the product.
Superunit's Y Combinator profile describes a product built around one of background screening's least glamorous bottlenecks: getting an employer to confirm that someone worked there. Co-founder and CEO Peter Marler leads Superunit, a Los Angeles startup whose AI agents research HR contacts, then call, email and fax employers to collect employment records for screeners, banks and lenders.…