Verified work history that delivery and warehouse workers carry between jobs
TL;DR Carrycheck lets frontline workers keep their checked identity, documents and work history in one consent-based record and share it with the next employer in minutes. Employers and staffing firms pay per hire. It works because these workers change jobs often, and today every switch triggers a fresh, slow check.
Delivery riders, warehouse pickers and retail staff in India switch employers and platforms often. Each new employer runs its own background check - identity, address and sometimes previous employment. Checking a former employer alone can take up to three weeks and several reminders, and costs HR an estimated ₹300–500 per request in staff time[1].
The worker waits without pay while the checks run, or starts work unverified. Meanwhile the employer pays again for checks someone else already did last month, which is silly when you think about it. Much of the source data, such as driving licences and education certificates, already sits in DigiLocker, signed by the issuing authority[2], yet each employer still collects photocopies.
What it does, in regulatory terms: a consent manager for worker records under the DPDP Act, not an identity issuer. It does not do police verification, which stays with the police, and it does not replace the employer's own legal duties.
The worker signs up once, pulls issuer-signed documents from DigiLocker with consent[3], and adds verified work stints confirmed by past employers who use Carrycheck. When applying for a new job, the worker shares a link. The employer sees what was checked, by whom and when, and decides what to re-check.
The seed proposed putting identity on a blockchain. I dropped that, and here's why - India already has signed government documents through DigiLocker, and writing personal data to a ledger that cannot be erased clashes with the right to erasure in the DPDP Act[4]. A normal database with signatures and consent logs does the job.
The worker uses it for free. Employers pay per hire at a price below a fresh check, and that means quick-commerce and delivery firms, warehouse operators, staffing agencies and retail chains. Staffing agencies are the best first buyer, because they move the same workers between clients and pay for checks each time. Background check vendors publish no standard price list, so test pricing in interviews.
DigiLocker reports more than 70 crore users and more than 900 crore issued documents[2]. Employers can now pull them through APIs with the worker's consent, which suits high-volume gig onboarding[3]. The DPDP Act makes careless storage of worker documents an expensive risk for employers[4].
No public figure exists for repeat verification of frontline workers in India. The supply side shows scale though. One Indian verification firm says it has done more than a billion verifications for large delivery and ride-hailing clients[5], and another claims more than 70 million verifications a month[6]. Treat those as adjacent, because they cover KYC and all checks, not repeat hires alone.
One Indian verification firm runs background checks and sells digital employment records that past employers issue to ex-staff[5]. Another offers background checks, KYC and a self-serve portal[6]. Both serve the employer. The gap is a record the frontline worker owns and carries, which re-uses checks across the many employers a delivery or warehouse worker passes through in a year.
| Difficulty | Moderate (42/100) |
| Starting capital | ₹90 L–1.6 Cr |
| Time to launch | 9–12 months |
The software is straightforward. The hard part is the classic chicken and egg. Workers won't sign up until employers accept the record, and employers will not accept it until enough workers have one. Getting past employers to confirm work stints is the slowest piece.
There's no single licence for this, but the data rules are strict and you hold sensitive records.
Building this outside India? The categories above usually have a local equivalent, so check with your own regulator.
AI shouldn't decide whether a worker is trustworthy or hireable. That's the employer's call, and a wrong automated label could cost someone a job.
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I think this is worth trying for a founder with relationships at staffing agencies and quick-commerce operations teams. If you want a pure consumer app then it is a poor fit. First prove that one staffing agency will accept records from another source and cut its own checks by half for 200 hires.
Plan for roughly ₹90 L–1.6 Cr, mostly for building the platform, integrations and getting both workers and employers on board.
There's no single licence, but you must follow the DPDP Act, use approved DigiLocker access, leave police checks to the police and take legal advice on Aadhaar.
Yes, if the country has trusted digital documents to pull from. Check your local data protection and background-check laws first.
The free Carrycheck validation kit has the line-by-line capital breakdown, the effort scoring, the consent and data-protection checklist, a 14-day validation sprint with pass/fail targets, a 90-day launch plan, 10 interview questions for workers and hiring teams, and 5 assumptions to test. Download the kit →
Thinking about building Carrycheck or something close to it? The make-or-break work is getting the first employers to trust checks they didn't run themselves, and that's the sort of problem I like working through with founders. If you need a hand, you know where to find me. Talk to Yash →
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