Reference & Background Check Kit

Twenty minutes on the phone is the last unrehearsed information you will ever get about this person — stop spending it on dates.

What it is

The last checkable hour before a hire becomes a colleague, run as evidence-gathering rather than ceremony. Scopes what may lawfully be asked and kept, builds questions from the specific ways this role fails, scripts the call that gets a referee off adjectives and onto incidents, and governs the hard decision: when one bad reference is noise and when it ends an offer. For founders, hiring managers, HR leads and agency owners making an offer they cannot unmake.

What you receive

a reference check that returns evidence instead of dates — the consent and lawful-scope pass before any call, the risk map turning this role's real failure modes into questions, the 20-minute structured script with its calibration and closing questions, the rules for reading hesitation, silence and the policy-card referee, the single-source and right-of-reply doctrine deciding whether the offer survives, and the written record with its disclosure assumption and deletion date

Delivered as a single, complete .md skill file — open it, paste it into any capable chat model, and work. No installation, no account with anyone but us.

Supported models

• Claude (Opus/Sonnet)
• ChatGPT (GPT-4o/5)
• Gemini
• any capable chat model

People reach for it when

• “what to ask when calling a reference for a job candidate”
• “reference check questions that get past confirming dates”
• “can I call someone's current employer without telling them”
• “referee was vague and lukewarm should I withdraw the offer”
• “how long can I keep reference check notes on file”

Record

In the collection. The sale room is being fitted; this work goes on sale when it opens.

License

Free-shelf works ship under the DolceDrago House License — use the outputs freely, personal or commercial; the work file itself stays with the house.