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The compliance layer between HR's judgment and the employment lawyer.

Certavi screens every corrective action against FMLA, ADA, Title VII, and state employment law in real time — before any documentation is generated.

The Problem

The moment every HR Director knows.

A manager comes in. They want to terminate someone. In the next thirty minutes, decisions get made that either resolve quietly — or surface as a six-figure EEOC claim eighteen months later.

01

The risk is invisible

An employee on FMLA leave. A recent complaint. A pattern across a protected class. The manager doesn't see it — and neither does the paperwork.

02

Counsel is expensive

Outside employment attorneys cost $400+ an hour. No mid-market HR team can afford to run every write-up past a lawyer.

03

The gap is structural

There is a missing layer between HR's judgment and the employment lawyer. Most corrective actions live in that gap, unscreened.

What Certavi Does

Legal risk screening, built into the workflow.

Certavi works at the moment of action — not after the claim arrives.

01

Auto-pulls protected status

FMLA leave, ADA accommodations, prior protected activity, tenure, and age — surfaced automatically before HR drafts a single document.

02

Real-time legal screening

Every action screened against FMLA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, NLRA, PDA, USERRA, and state employment law — instantly.

03

Risk flags before documentation

Retaliation timing, accommodation conflicts, and disparate treatment patterns flagged before the corrective action is finalized.

04

Defensible audit trail

Every action time-stamped, encrypted, and stored in a tamper-evident vault with seven-year retention. Documentation that holds up.

How It Works

Four steps, one workflow.

From the manager's request to a compliance-screened document — in a single pass.

1

Action initiated

A manager starts a corrective action — a warning, a PIP, a suspension, a termination.

2

Status pulled

Certavi automatically pulls the employee's protected-class status and history.

3

Risk screened

The action is screened against federal and state employment law in real time.

4

Document generated

A compliance-screened document is produced, e-signed, and stored with a full audit trail.

Who It's For

Built for the mid-market.

  • HR Directors & VPs of People

    Leaders accountable for compliance outcomes without an in-house legal team on call.

  • Employee Relations teams

    The people who handle corrective actions every week and carry the documentation burden.

  • Companies with 100–500+ employees

    Large enough for real disciplinary volume, lean enough that outside counsel on every case isn't realistic.

$400+
per hour for outside employment counsel

Mid-market HR teams handle dozens of corrective actions a month. Running each one past an attorney isn't realistic — so most go unscreened. Certavi closes that gap at a fraction of the cost.

Why Certavi

The category nothing else fills.

Every tool in the HR stack does something valuable. None of them screen the action itself.

HRIS

Stores the data

Workday, BambooHR, and others hold employee records. They store information — they don't screen decisions.

Performance Tools

Manage reviews

Performance platforms track goals and reviews. They don't evaluate the legal risk of a disciplinary action.

Compliance Libraries

Answer questions

Content libraries explain employment law in general. They wait to be asked — they don't screen in real time.

Certavi

Screens the action

Certavi evaluates each specific corrective action for legal risk, in real time, before the document exists. Nothing else does this.

We're building Certavi with a small group of founding design partners — mid-market companies who shape the product in exchange for founding-partner terms.

We're intentionally selective about who joins. If your team handles corrective actions and you've felt the gap this page describes, we'd like to talk — not to pitch you, but to understand your process and see if Certavi fits.

Start with a conversation.

Not a demo. Not a pitch. A real conversation about how your team handles corrective actions today — and where Certavi might fit.

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