🏛️ April is officially Second Chance Month — and a timely reminder that justice-impacted individuals remain one of the most underutilized segments of the American workforce.

🗓️ Upcoming Appearances

At Rézme, we believe that redemption should include economic participation. Our flagship product, The Restorative Record helps employers comply with fair chance hiring laws by systematizing federal, state, and locally mandated requirements after a background check failure occurs. Integrated directly into background check providers and HR systems like Checkr and Workday, The Restorative Record is designed to empower individuals with criminal records to showcase their true potential in response to a background check flag. By highlighting core competencies, skills, micro-credentials, and personal rehabilitation journeys, we help applicants present a new layer of information to demonstrate their employability. Employers can use this information to conduct mandated individualized assessments that de-risk candidates. Our software tools can also help them pre-file for tax credits and federal bonding insurance.

⚖️ Kicking Off Second Chance Month in D.C.

🧠 ICYMI: Check out the 2025 Second Chance Forum

Featuring:

Jodi Anderson Jr. | Co-founder @ Rézme

Matt Joyce | Partner @ Envoy

Lucretia Murphy | Vice President @ Jobs for the Future

Special thanks to the Second Chance Business Coalition & The Business Roundtable for amplifying this work alongside JPMorgan Chase, Resilience Education, Eaton, and UVA. 

🧩 Partnership Highlights

Workday Innovation Partnership

Palo Alto, CA – April 7, 2025 – Rézme, an HR compliance tech platform focused on increasing employment opportunities for justice-impacted individuals, today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Employers will be able to streamline compliance with fair chance hiring laws and capture financial incentives for hiring from target populations with criminal records.

🔐 First-of-Its-Kind Integration: Rézme is the first fair chance employment compliance solution available in the Workday ecosystem!

🌍 Scale of Impact: Over 11,000 organizations rely on $WDAY ( ▲ 2.49% ) to power their HR operations — positioning Rézme to embed fair chance employment compliance into some of the most influential hiring ecosystems in the world.

🧪Product Update: Real-Time Legal Assessments, Layered with Policy Intelligence

This quarter, we’re introducing a powerful enhancement to our compliance platform:

🛡️Dynamic Legal Assessments — purpose-built to support HR teams in making defensible, audit-ready employment decisions in real time.

Rézme’s platform will now enable layered assessments based on:

🏛️ Applicable laws and regulations 

🏢 Internal adjudication policies and hiring matrices

📘 Uploaded background reports, HR guides, and onboarding protocols

These assessments surface relevant legal thresholds, internal rules, and documentation guidance at the moment of decision — offering real-time support that’s both compliant and context-aware.

💡 Example: A healthcare employer in Connecticut can now evaluate a candidate’s background by combining state law, internal adjudication policy, and industry-specific exclusions — all within a guided, risk-aware workflow.

📍 First Deployment: San Diego, California

We’re launching this feature first with a set of partners in San Diego, where our system is being configured for municipal reentry incentives and California’s compliance stack. Special shoutout to Branden Butler, Director of Ethics, Compliance & Labor Standards for the County of San Diego in helping to advance Fair Chance Hiring at scale

🚀 Call for ALPHA Partners

We’re opening early access to seven ALPHA companies who want to test-drive this technology — even if you’re not based in San Diego. If you’re navigating employment compliance complexity and want early visibility into this feature set, just reach out.

🔎 The Research Agenda

Rézme’s compliance engine isn’t just operational — it’s evidence-based. As we scale deployment, we’re also advancing a rigorous research agenda in partnership with academic institutions, scholars, and foundations.

📚 CAHRS x Cornell ILR

We’re collaborating with the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) to study how employers assess justice-impacted candidates — and how structured, compliant frameworks like the Restorative Record shape decision-making across sectors.

🧭 San Diego Deployment

With new employment laws going into effect on July 1st, San Diego will serve as a real-time policy-to-practice pilot site — generating actionable insights on compliance behaviors, employer readiness, and candidate engagement.

📊 Research-Driven Analytics, Powered by Amplitude $AMPL ( ▲ 0.74% )

All research efforts are supported by Amplitude’s analytics infrastructure, enabling data-informed experimentation, longitudinal tracking, and deep behavioral insights to inform future regulatory design and platform development.

📬 Interested in partnering on research or corporate innovation initiatives?

Reach out to Ryan at [email protected] to learn more.

🖥️ Advancing Workforce Policy Through Tech

🎓The Last Mile x Rézme: Empowering Justice-Impacted Talent

We’re proud to partner with The Last Mile to provide Rézme’s fair chance technology for participants in the Catalyst apprenticeship program. This collaboration supports justice-impacted individuals in accessing meaningful pathways in tech and the future of work. Learn more about the program and other partners included in this initiative like TechSF here and here.

📜 GovTech in Action: Rhode Island Leads the Way

This week, we engaged with Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee to explore how Rézme can support the state’s efforts to integrate fair chance hiring and licensing technology into their public workforce strategy. As Rhode Island shapes its economic future, we’re honored to support reintegration efforts at scale. Explore Governor McKee’s RI 2030 Plan here for more on the state’s vision.

🏆 NBA All-Star Weekend 2025 in San Francisco

🏀 Co-Founder’s Reflection: Opportunity, Justice, & Technology

This year’s NBA All-Star Weekend wasn’t just about competition — it was a powerful reminder of what it means to bring economic opportunity to the center of influence, culture, and technology.

Standing in the heart of Silicon Valley — where technology startups have disrupted industries and redefined modern life — we were reminded of the urgency and potential of our mission: to build the infrastructure that brings justice-impacted talent and innovation into the future of work as meaningful contributors in our economy.

That vision resonated. From tech and sports to finance, entertainment, and civic leadership, the audience engaged with a shared understanding: that the systems driving our economy must be reconfigured to reflect a broader range of human potential and lived experience. Technology has the power to embed this into the fabric of our lives at scale, and the moment - both politically and technologically - seems to be uniquely upon us.

And a big shoutout to the whole Amplitude Family for their overwhelming support in every function of our startup: Spenser, Thomas, Andrew, Sandra, John, Teaja, Shintaro, Claire, Jess, Nikki, Katie, Andrae, and too many Ampliteers to name on one page.!

Did You Know? There is a Fair Chance movement happening in Canada consisting of a consortium of professionals from LinkedIn, Deloitte, and others…

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Cheers,

Rézme