RTW Checker started inside Instant Check.
A few months ago we sat down with our night control team during a routine meeting.
We asked them how long Right to Work checks were actually taking every night.
Four hours.
Four hours a night, every night, copying share codes into gov.uk one worker at a time. Waiting for the page to load. Saving the PDF. Filing it. Moving on. With 150 to 200 workers per shift, the work routinely ran from midnight until past 4am.
It had been the routine for years. Quietly absorbed into our running costs without anyone questioning whether it should exist.
That was the moment we knew we were going to build something.
Instant Check is our vetting and compliance business. Alongside it we run a UK security firm and a specialist recruitment business. Several hundred workers on our combined rosters, and one compliance problem we hadn't seen for what it really was, until that conversation made it visible.
We went looking for software that could solve it. There were per-check verification tools, and there were compliance officers for hire, but nothing that ran continuous monitoring against gov.uk on a fixed watchlist of workers and kept going, day after day, for years. The market assumed Right to Work was a one-time event at hire. Anyone who has actually managed a UK workforce knows it is not.
So we built it. Our sister company, Aberdeen Technologies, took the requirements straight from our compliance floor and shipped the first version inside Instant Check, where it ran live against our own rosters before any client ever saw it. Once it had proved itself on us, we opened it up to everyone, because continuous monitoring should not be a privilege of the companies with the biggest compliance budgets.
We built RTW Checker because we needed it. That is why it works.