SOWRegistry
For Startup Founders, HR Heads & Talent Teams | ₹0 Vendor Retainer

Stop paying for 14-day background checks (and DPDP liability).

Agile companies lose top engineering and operations hires to counter-offers because traditional BGV agencies take three weeks and charge ₹2,500+ per candidate. Worse, collecting raw PAN cards, identity PDFs, and bank statements over email exposes your company to severe DPDP Act 2026 fiduciary penalties.

The SOWRegistry Flip: Candidates verify their own EPFO service timeline, court records, closed-startup history, and career gaps on SOWRegistry, sharing a 72-hour self-destructing verification token with your HR team. You onboard in 5 minutes and pay ₹0.

Whitelist Your HR Domain (Free) Copy Offer-Letter BGV Clause
₹0
Cost for Teams < 50 Hires/Yr
< 5 Min
Candidate Token Audit Time
Zero
Raw PII Stored on HR Drives
EMPLOYER COMPLIANCE TERMINAL

Inspect a Sample SOW-ID Dossier

DPDP Safe View
INSTRUMENT CLASSIFICATION SOW-CLASS-I (Pro Se Interval Filing)
Self-Declared
Candidate Name: Rohan Vishwanath Sharma
Timeline / Scope: 14 Months (Jun 2024 – Aug 2025)
Statutory Standing: Non-Remuneration Undertaking Signed
AUDITOR NOTE: Class-I instruments confirm the candidate's standardized Pro Se interval declaration. To run an automated EPFO UAN moonlighting check on this candidate, whitelist your HR domain below.
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Statutory Risk Alert for Indian Employers

Why Collecting Raw Identity PDFs Over Email & WhatsApp Is Now a Toxic Corporate Liability.

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2026, every startup and enterprise collecting candidate documents becomes a regulated Data Fiduciary. Storing unencrypted PAN cards, government IDs, bank statements, and EPFO passbooks across recruiter laptops, Slack channels, and Google Drives exposes your company to severe audit penalties.

LEGACY HR WORKFLOW (HIGH RISK)

Permanent PII Hoarding

Recruiters ask 50 interviewed candidates to email raw identity PDFs and salary slips. Even for the 45 candidates you reject, their sensitive files remain sitting in your company email servers forever—violating DPDP purpose limitation and storage erasure mandates.

THE SOWREGISTRY PROTOCOL (ZERO RISK)

72-Hour Self-Destructing Tokens

With SOWRegistry, your HR team never downloads or stores raw government IDs. The candidate sends a 72-hour read-only cryptographic link. Your HR manager inspects the green verification badges, logs the audit Reference ID, and the token automatically expires.

SOLVING THE 3 HARDEST EDGE CASES

Gaps, Dead Startups & Hostile Ex-Bosses

Instead of your HR team wasting weeks trying to verify a candidate whose previous startup shut down or who took a 1-year UPSC break, SOWRegistry delivers standardized Class-I Gap Dossiers and Class-II Defunct Entity Traces ready for your audit file.

HR Compliance Playbook

How Your HR Team Uses SOWRegistry Instruments

Whether a candidate hands you a ₹299 Career Gap Dossier today or shares a full SOW-ID Token, here is how it streamlines your hiring pipeline.

SCENARIO 01 • CAREER GAPS SOW-CLASS-I

Candidate Has a 6–36 Month Resume Gap

Instead of rejecting a strong developer over a UPSC, medical, or layoff gap—or accepting an informal email excuse—ask the candidate to attach a SOWRegistry Class-I Career Gap Dossier.

  • ✓ Includes sworn Non-Remuneration Undertaking
  • ✓ Confirms zero undisclosed EPF employment
  • ✓ Lists competency preservation & supporting proofs
Cost to Employer: ₹0 (Candidate pays ₹299)
SCENARIO 02 • CLOSED STARTUPS SOW-CLASS-II

Candidate's Previous Startup Shut Down

Traditional BGV vendors flag candidates "Red" when an old startup domain stops replying. SOWRegistry resolves this via Class-II Forensic Triangulation.

  • ✓ Sovereign EPFO UAN contribution match
  • ✓ MCA CIN official "Struck-Off" status proof
  • ✓ FingerprintJS-audited ex-manager attestation
Cost to Employer: ₹0 (Candidate-Financed)
SCENARIO 03 • INSTANT ONBOARDING SOW-CLASS-III

Full Pre-Offer Background Verification

Verify a candidate's complete identity, multi-employer EPFO UAN timeline (detecting moonlighting), and national eCourts criminal sweep before Day 1.

  • ✓ Sub-second KYC & PAN node validation
  • ✓ 3,400+ Court Complex eCourts litigation sweep
  • ✓ 72-Hour expiring token (Zero DPDP liability)
Cost to Employer: ₹0 for Startups (<50 employees)
Zero-Integration HR Template

Automate Your BGV Today: Add This 3-Line Clause to Your Offer Letters

You don't need complex IT integrations to start using SOWRegistry. Paste this standardized compliance clause into your startup's Offer Letter or Pre-Onboarding Email so candidates submit pre-verified records automatically:

"STATUTORY BACKGROUND & TIMELINE COMPLIANCE: In accordance with Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2026 data-minimization standards, our organization does not collect raw identity files over unencrypted email. Prior to your onboarding date, please provide your 72-hour SOW-ID Verification Token via SOWRegistry (https://sowregistry.com). If your resume includes any academic or professional interval exceeding 90 days, please attach a standardized SOWRegistry Class-I Pro Se Career Interval Dossier (https://sowregistry.com/gap-certificate.php) alongside your onboarding packet."
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Whitelist Your Corporate HR Domain

Register your startup or HR team below to receive free access to the SOWRegistry Employer Verification Gateway, verify candidate EPFO non-overlapping histories on scanned Class-I Gap Dossiers, and eliminate your BGV vendor spend.

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