WHAT WE DO
Cross-Industry Due Diligence
Decipher’s expanded due diligence services provide pre-hire and pre-transaction background investigations tailored for industries where human capital is critical and risk mitigation is paramount—including private equity, investment management, executive search, higher education, healthcare, and more.
We partner with clients to deliver industry-specific, comprehensive, and customizable reports, ensuring a strategic approach far beyond a one-size-fits-all solution.
Strategic Background Investigations
We provide four levels of background investigations designed to align with your risk tolerance and decision-making needs.
- Pre-Hire Due Diligence – For potential hires, board candidates, and third-party relationships.
- Pre-Transaction Due Diligence – For prospective companies, key executives, and human capital.
Each level varies in scope, depth, and search complexity, allowing for a curated approach that delivers actionable intelligence.
Pre-Hire Due Diligence
Why it matters
When clients commit to hiring, they are exposed to differing degrees of risk, which requires due diligence well beyond “checking the box.”
We conduct comprehensive pre-hire background investigations to protect and empower our clients at every step, helping them curate high-performing teams with every hire.
How it works
Decipher takes a holistic investigative approach, ensuring findings are accurate, relevant, and ethically sourced. Using public, private, and proprietary databases, we uncover critical intelligence and deliver clear, fully compliant, and customizable reports tailored to each client’s needs.
Our white-glove service prepares and provides our clients with the best investigative intelligence to properly assess risk, maximize opportunities, and protect their interests, reputations, and standards. We independently verify professional histories and identify potential liabilities, including legal issues, questionable online activity, background inconsistencies, and financial concerns, enabling clients to confidently make informed and strategic decisions.
The result
Pre-Transaction Due Diligence
Why it matters
In pre-transaction due diligence, the most important consideration is to thoroughly investigate and understand the potential risks and liabilities with a target company or asset, and often the executives involved, before completing the transaction.
We conduct in-depth backgrounds on companies and human capital investigations, often in tandem, to fully vet a deal on the front-end, protecting investment, time, reputation, and in many cases, fraud and subsequent litigation.
How it works
Pre-transaction due diligence is an investigative process that allows clients to fully vet target companies in mergers, acquisitions, investments and other dispositions by allowing the interested party to gain more insight into the company, its people, and how it operates. We offer four levels, which vary in depth and scope, for company and human capital due diligence.
We take a strong, client-focused approach to our investigations. Pre-transaction needs vary by industry, so we collaborate closely with each client to tailor the scope, ensuring their needs are met while mitigating risk appropriately. Through our searches we identify and assess company and individual backgrounds and history, a thorough list of verifications, legal history, financial screening, press and social media coverage, and select interviews, depending on the chosen level of scrutiny.
The result
Human Intelligence
Why it matters
How it works
Decipher uses our renowned first-person human intelligence to conduct both enhanced referencing and reputational Interviews along with interviews with identified members of company leadership which enhance and complement our four levels of cross industry due diligence.
- Enhanced Referencing & Reputational Interviews: We conduct in-depth interviews with three to five disclosed references either provided by a candidate or company, depending on the type of due diligence being conducted. We seek and deliver useful commentary about the subject’s personal and professional skills, relationships, cultural fit, and more.
- Bespoke Interviews: We interview the candidate, subject, or member of company leadership utilizing a list of questions established with the client to learn first-hand what the person decides to disclose, if any information differs from our objective findings, and take note of their demeanor during the conversation.
The result
We summarize our findings from the in-depth interviews to develop and present a holistic view and fully developed profile of the candidate or subject. In addition, the intelligence we derive from these exchanges enhances our reports beyond verifications using objective sources by uncovering and assessing first-hand discrepancies with our findings.
