If you are a small business owner who ran an occasional background check in 2026, you may have noticed the menu of options getting shorter. Three of the names that small and mid-size employers leaned on for years have quietly changed hands or disappeared entirely. The background screening market — long a fragmented patchwork of regional vendors and niche tools — is consolidating into a handful of well-capitalized platforms, and the SMB tier is where the shakeout is most visible.
ShareAble for Hires Goes Dark
The most abrupt change is the sunset of **ShareAble for Hires**, TransUnion's lightweight, candidate-pays screening product built for businesses that hired infrequently. Its pitch was simple and genuinely useful: no minimums, no contracts, transparent per-check pricing, and a TransUnion data source behind it. For a coffee shop hiring one barista or a startup vetting its first office manager, it was often the path of least resistance.
As of 2026, that path is closed. The product has been discontinued and is no longer accepting new customers. TransUnion still operates its SmartMove product on the tenant side, but the employment-screening sibling is gone. For the lowest-volume hirers, that removes one of the few options designed specifically for them — and pushes them toward platforms that were built for scale, not for the business hiring twice a year.
GoodHire Is Now Checkr
The second story is less a disappearance than an absorption. **GoodHire**, the PBSA-accredited, compliance-first screener that earned a loyal following for its candidate experience, is now part of **Checkr**. Checkr acquired GoodHire's parent company Inflection in a deal worth roughly $400 million, and by 2024 had fully folded the team and its tens of thousands of customers into its own SMB push.
For now, the GoodHire brand and platform persist, and existing customers have not been forced to migrate. But the strategic logic is clear: Checkr, the API-first giant built for gig-economy and high-volume hiring, wanted GoodHire's foothold among smaller employers who value a guided, self-service workflow over raw integration horsepower. The two products served different buyers, and Checkr now owns both ends of the market.
IntelliCorp Answers to Cisive
The third name on the list is **IntelliCorp**, a longtime favorite of staffing agencies and HR teams that wanted customizable screening packages at mid-market prices. It now operates as a Cisive company, part of a broader roll-up of background screening brands under the Cisive umbrella. The IntelliCorp name still appears on reports and portals, but the independent vendor you may have signed with years ago is now one label within a larger enterprise group.
This is the quieter kind of consolidation — no dramatic shutdown, no headline acquisition price — but it matters for buyers who chose a vendor partly because it was small, flexible, and responsive. Brands inside a roll-up tend to drift toward standardized pricing and centralized support over time.
What It Means If You're Hiring
The through-line is that the independent, SMB-friendly middle of the background check market is thinning out. The survivors increasingly fall into two camps: enterprise-grade platforms like Sterling, HireRight, and First Advantage built for global, high-volume, regulated screening; and technology-first players like Checkr (now including GoodHire) and Certn chasing the SMB and gig segments with automation.
If you screen candidates only occasionally, the practical advice has shifted. First, confirm your current vendor is still operating and still accepting new orders before you have an urgent hire — discovering a sunset mid-hire is a costly surprise. Second, prioritize FCRA compliance above all else; whatever platform you land on, it must provide proper disclosure, consent, and adverse-action workflows if you are making employment decisions. Third, remember that the candidate-pays convenience ShareAble popularized still exists at other small-business screeners, even though that specific product is gone.
Consolidation usually brings better technology and deeper compliance tooling, which is good news. But it also means fewer choices and less pricing leverage for the smallest buyers. If you have not reviewed your screening provider in a year or two, now is a sensible time to check who actually owns it — and whether it still exists.
**The takeaway:** the background check market is collapsing toward a few large platforms, so verify your screening vendor is still live and FCRA-compliant before your next hire depends on it.