What Intelius Is All about
Intelius, Inc. is part of Washington’s fastest-rising private companies. Inc. Magazine, Deloitte & Touche, and the Puget Sound Business Journal unanimously agree, acclaiming the company in various lists.
Since its founding in 2003, the company has accumulated revenues of $88 million from over seven million customers in the United States. On any given day, Intelius.com reportedly receives approximately a million hits, according to comScore.
Naveen Jain established Intelius in January 2003, a month after he left InfoSpace. The latter supplies stock quotes, maps, hotel reservations, weather forecasts and other content to many websites, among them Lycos, AOL, and MSN, as well as wireless Internet providers.
Much of Intellius’ services have less to do with brand-new web content than dated official documents. Some of them are very old while some are new. In any case, they are all public records, vital ones that could affect everyday decisions regarding people.
Intelius provides background reports about virtually any American citizen on record, from county to federal level. The company provides this data over the Net, where its clients can easily access them.
The business part of it comes when consumers and commercial establishments buy these reports for whatever purpose they serve. For example, public records help employers find out if the application of a prospective employee checks out or not. Ordinary customers, on the other hand, can easily use background reports to see if anyone poses a danger to their lives and assets.
Apart from background reports, Intellius also sells identity theft protection products, reverse phone lookups, criminal reports, neighborhood reviews, and people search reports, among others.
The company designates specialists to help Intelius customers conduct searches of specific individuals. As for criminal checks, it sends professional researchers to courthouses to verify offenses associated with a person in the report.
