About Vettr
Vettr was founded to solve a specific institutional problem. Fingerprinting and background-check services that work at enterprise scale, without sacrificing the compliance rigour that regulated institutions require.
Fingerprinting Infrastructure for Institutions That Can't Afford Errors
Most fingerprinting services are built for individual consumers. A healthcare network onboarding 300 clinical staff, a school district processing 150 teachers before the academic year begins, or a licensing board managing thousands of applicants — these organisations need something fundamentally different: a service built for their scale, their compliance requirements, and their accountability obligations.
Vettr operates at the intersection of identity verification and institutional compliance. We exist to be the infrastructure layer that handles the fingerprinting process so your HR, compliance, and legal teams can focus on the decisions they're qualified to make — not on chasing paperwork, managing rejections, or reconciling incomplete submissions.
The institutional B2B fingerprinting market has been underserved by providers who are either too small to handle enterprise volume, too consumer-focused to understand compliance requirements, or too operationally loose to provide the documentation standards regulated industries demand. Vettr is the answer to that gap.
- Compliance first — every operational decision is evaluated against its compliance implications before anything else
- Institutional scale — our processes are built for volume without degrading documentation quality or accuracy
- Transparency — your organisation has visibility into the status of every submission at every stage
- Accountability — there is a named Vettr contact responsible for your organisation's submissions
- Rigour without bureaucracy — compliance does not have to mean slow; we make the process efficient without cutting corners
Why Institutional Fingerprinting Needs a Dedicated Solution
Background check compliance — and specifically fingerprint-based background checks — is a non-negotiable requirement across a significant portion of the US regulated economy. Healthcare networks, school districts, financial institutions, and government agencies all face the same core challenge: they need a reliable, documented fingerprinting process that their compliance teams can trust and their regulators can audit.
The challenge is not finding a fingerprinting service. Consumer-facing live scan providers operate in most metropolitan areas. The challenge is finding a service that treats institutional submissions with the documentation rigour, volume capacity, and accountability structures that regulated employers actually need — and that can operate within their operational constraints.
That is the problem Vettr was built to solve. Not fingerprinting as a commodity service, but fingerprinting as institutional infrastructure.
Part of a Broader Compliance Ecosystem
Vettr is the institutional counterpart to Provn (getproven.us) — a consumer-facing fingerprinting and identity verification platform. Where Provn serves individuals navigating their own background check requirements, Vettr is built for the employers, agencies, and licensing bodies on the other side of that transaction.
The two platforms are complementary: together, they address the fingerprinting compliance ecosystem from both ends — the institution that requires the check and the individual who needs to complete it.
Vettr's institutional focus means that every design decision — from how submissions are tracked to how results are reported to how documentation is structured — is made with the compliance officer, HR director, or legal team in mind, not the individual applicant.
Founded by Operators Who Understand Compliance
Vettr was built by people with firsthand experience of the compliance challenges institutions face — not by technologists who discovered a market opportunity.
Shah Saint-Cyr
Co-Founder — Compliance & OperationsShah brings a background spanning legal compliance, e-discovery, intellectual property litigation, and technology-enabled services. His experience across regulated industries — including data security compliance, IP litigation support, and FDLE-authorised fingerprinting operations through MetroPrints — provides the operational and regulatory foundation that Vettr is built on. Based in Miami.
Jack Bernik
Co-Founder — Business Development & Institutional PartnershipsJack leads Vettr's institutional engagement and partnership strategy, focusing on building the relationships with employers, agencies, and licensing bodies that form Vettr's client base. His focus is on translating Vettr's compliance infrastructure into practical, accessible solutions for institutional procurement teams. Based in New York.
Based in Miami and New York
Vettr's operations are anchored in two of the country's largest metropolitan markets, with reach across the United States for institutional clients with distributed workforce requirements.
Miami, Florida
South Florida headquarters. Mobile on-site services available across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Primary base for Florida state (FDLE) submission processing.
New York
Greater New York metropolitan operations, including New York City, Long Island, and New Jersey. Mobile on-site deployment available for institutional clients across the tri-state area.
Work With an Institutional Fingerprinting Partner That Gets It
Contact Vettr to discuss your organisation's requirements. Every engagement starts with a scoping conversation — no commitments, no pressure.