About Us
Welcome to Pietos
We are your trusted partner as a comprehensive background verification agency, ensuring trust, integrity, and compliance in your hiring and business decisions.
Who Are We
Founded in 2015 by Barsha Chakraborty, Pietos is one of India’s most trusted background verification companies, delivering reliable and compliant employee screening services to organizations nationwide.
Built on the pillars of integrity, transparency, and accuracy, we empower HR teams, compliance officers, and business leaders with complete, verified information to make confident decisions. Our mission is simple: to help companies build trustworthy teams through honest, tech-enabled background checks.
Trust, But Verify — with Pietos
Our Mission
At Pietos, our mission is to reduce organizational risk and empower smarter decision-making through fast, accurate, and reliable background verification services.
We specialize in employee screening, vendor due diligence, insurance verification, KYC checks, and more—helping businesses build safe, compliant, and trustworthy ecosystems. Our team combines speed with precision to deliver results that drive confident hires and partnerships.
What We Do
- Background Verification Services - End-to-end employee background checks to validate identity, address, education, criminal records, and more.
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Employee Screening -
Fast and accurate pre-employment screening designed to reduce hiring risks and meet compliance standards.
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Vendor & Partner Due Diligence -
Verify the legitimacy and integrity of your vendors and third-party partners to ensure a secure business network.
- Insurance Verification - Cross-verify submitted insurance documents and credentials to safeguard against fraudulent claims.
- KYC Verification Services - Compliant KYC checks that include identity verification through Aadhaar, PAN, DigiLocker, and more.
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About Pietos
Pietos is an Indian background verification company built to support organisations hiring at scale, operating under compliance scrutiny, or managing workforce risk across geographies.
We work with employers and staffing companies that view employee background verification not as a formality, but as a risk, trust, and process function.
Our focus is on delivering structured, defensible, and audit-ready background verification frameworks—designed to scale with hiring volumes while maintaining consistency, transparency, and reliability.
Why Pietos Exists
As hiring environments became faster and more distributed, background verification processes did not always evolve at the same pace.
Many organisations today face challenges such as:
inconsistent verification outcomes across locations
delays caused by manual or fragmented workflows
difficulty explaining verification processes during audits
increased risk in staffing and third-party payroll models
Pietos was built to address these gaps by focusing on process design, documentation, and risk clarity, not just report delivery.
Why Choose Us?
Our Approach
We believe background verification should be:
Process-led, not ad-hoc
Consent-driven, not assumed
Documented, not implicit
Scalable, without increasing risk
Every verification we conduct follows clearly defined workflows, consent frameworks, and escalation logic—so outcomes remain consistent even as hiring volumes grow.
Who We Work With
Pietos typically works with:
Mid-sized and large organisations hiring at scale
Enterprises operating under audit or client scrutiny
Staffing and payroll companies managing third-party risk
Organisations replacing fragmented or outdated BGV setups
Our solutions are designed for long-term reliability, not transactional checks.
What Sets Pietos Apart
Enterprise-ready processes built for scale
Clear consent frameworks aligned with Indian data protection expectations
Structured exception handling for discrepancies
Pan-India coverage with consistent standards
Risk-aware reporting, not just verification status
We are often engaged by organizations looking to review, stabilize, or upgrade their existing background verification processes.
A Long-Term Partner Mindset
Background verification decisions have implications far beyond onboarding.
They impact:
audit outcomes
client confidence
internal escalations
workforce trust
Our role is to help organizations reduce long-term hiring risk, not just complete checks.
Barsha Chakraborty,
Founder & CEO, Pietos
Recipient, Women of Excellence Award – 2019
Barsha Chakraborty is the Founder and CEO of Pietos, an Indian background verification company built to support organisations hiring at scale and operating under compliance and audit scrutiny.
With a professional background in corporate HR and risk management, Barsha identified early challenges in the background verification ecosystem—particularly around process inconsistency, delayed verification cycles, and limited audit defensibility. Pietos was founded in 2015 to address these gaps through structured, process-led, and compliance-oriented verification frameworks.
Under her leadership, Pietos has evolved from a founder-led initiative into a mature background verification organisation trusted by employers and staffing companies across India. The company’s focus has consistently remained on reliability, transparency, and scalability, rather than transactional verification.
Barsha’s leadership has been recognised with the Women of Excellence Award (2019) for her contribution to building a credible and resilient organisation in a traditionally male-dominated domain. Her work continues to be guided by a belief that background verification should function as a risk and trust enabler, not just an operational checkpoint.
Today, Barsha is actively involved in shaping Pietos’ long-term direction, including:
strengthening audit-ready verification processes
expanding compliance-aligned consent frameworks
enabling digital and tech-supported verification models
supporting organisations managing workforce risk at scale
She is also a strong advocate for process maturity, ethical hiring practices, and inclusive leadership, and continues to mentor emerging professionals and founders in the HR and compliance ecosystem.
Pietos’ approach to background verification reflects the same emphasis on structure, accountability, and long-term risk management that guides its leadership.
Pietos’ approach to background verification reflects the same emphasis on structure, accountability, and long-term risk management that guides its leadership.
LEADERSHIP AND ADVISORY TEAM
Hiring at Scale or Managing Workforce Risk?
Pietos supports organisations that treat employee background verification as a risk and governance function, not a formality.
Our background verification frameworks are designed for:
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mid-sized and large organisations
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staffing and payroll companies
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audit-driven and compliance-sensitive environments
If you’re evaluating background verification partners or reassessing your current setup, we can help you review timelines, processes, and risk exposure.
Request an Enterprise BGV Review
Typically engaged by organisations hiring 50+ candidates per month or operating under audit requirements.
Call us on +91 98210 11624
