Employer names are one of the most common sources of inconsistency in employment verification. The same organisation may appear differently across systems, for example, as a legal entity name, trading name, payroll payer, abbreviated label, or bank transaction string.

Konfir's Employer Database helps us recognise these variations, building a true map of employers in the UK, powering match accuracy in the verification engine and delivering employer details (e.g. tradiing dates) as alerts & insights.

The Employer Database is applied at specific points in the verification flow to support accuracy and consistency.

When creating a verification, Konfir may present an employer selection dropdown.

This helps to:

This does not prevent employers from appearing differently in connected data sources, but it reduces avoidable ambiguity introduced at the outset.

Within the Verification Engine, the Employer Database supports Klarity’s contextual analysis by providing reference information about known employer naming patterns. This helps Klarity:

During decisioning, the Employer Database is used to support certain alerts and insights that rely on employer reference data. For example, Konfir's trading date check (which highlights whether an employer was operating during a given period) can only function with the supplementary data that the Employer Database provides.