First Advantage Corporation (FA)
Background screening and identity verification, 19 countries. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 136 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
21%
Employees, annual report
9,500
Leading staffing pattern
Investigation and Security Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202720%
- End of 202821%
- End of 203022%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 79%
- Becomes checking a model's work 17%
- Handed over with lighter checks 3%
First Advantage states over 9,500 employees across 19 countries at December 31, 2025, with third-party contractors engaged apart, running background screening, identity verification and drug testing services for employers with no count by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at the investigation and security services group that holds background checks by description (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 21% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 24% people work and 55% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 79% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 17% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,500 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; revenue is 86% U.S.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had over 9,500 employees across 19 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Investigation and Security Services | 100% | The filing describes background screening, identity verification and workforce risk services for employers with AI-powered platforms and data, with no count by kind of work, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at the investigation and security services group that holds background checks by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 9,500 employees across 19 countries; third-party contractors engaged apart; no collective bargaining agreements; the count rose from 5,000 in 2023 with the Sterling combination.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Investigation and Security Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Brink's Company (BCO, 65,400 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028
- ADT Inc. (ADT, 12,200 employees)17% now, 21% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
24 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing presents AI-powered proprietary platforms combined with proprietary and primary source data for hiring and workforce risk, and names generative AI and deepfake identity fraud among the challenges its customers face.
- “Social, ethical, and legal issues relating to the use of new and evolving technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, in our offerings may result in reputational harm and liability.”
- “Combining AI-powered proprietary technology platforms with proprietary data, primary source data, and third-party data, we help organizations hire with confidence and manage risk across the entire employee lifecycle.”
- “Organizations face unprecedented challenges: generative artificial intelligence ("AI") and deepfake enabled identity-fraud, increasing regulatory complexity, borderless, distributed workforces, gig-based employment models, high churn and rapid role-switching, hybrid hiring, and social media risks.”
- “Our AI-powered platforms deliver automated process outputs including anomaly detection, analytical insights, and continuous monitoring reports, transforming screening data into actionable insights and benchmarking capabilities.”
- “Recent advancements include digital biometric identity verification with liveness detection, synthetic identity and deepfake detection, continuous criminal monitoring, mobile-first AI-enabled candidate experiences, AI-powered credential verifications (SmartHub), continuous driver monitoring (RoadReady), and instant oral drug testing.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20216median 0
- Fiscal 20226median 0
- Fiscal 202316median 1
- Fiscal 202416median 4
- Fiscal 202524median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 9,500 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 10,000 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,000 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 5,800 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 5,500 | 2022-03-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 4,000 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,600 | 2008-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,400 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,800 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,700 | 2005-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-21 | 1,400 | 2004-03-11 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by kind of work: the one pattern is by description (c); contractors are not counted (rule 8).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-076740, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of First Advantage Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 21% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce First Advantage Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does First Advantage Corporation employ?
- 9,500 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up First Advantage Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Investigation and Security Services; by those patterns the work is about 22% desk work, 24% people work and 55% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does First Advantage Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 24 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 6, 6, 16, 16 and 24 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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