feat(background-check): redesign overview and report to surface real verification methodology

[tofikwest]

Summary

The customer perception that our background check is "just LinkedIn scraping" is wrong — but our own UI was making it look that way. This PR rewrites the customer-facing copy and structure of the Employee Background Check overview + completed report to name what we actually do.

What the system actually does (verified against the trycompai/background-check repo):

• Biometric identity + liveness via AWS Rekognition + ID document OCR
• HR-confirmed employment — tokenized verification emails to each past employer
• Structured reference questionnaires with per-reference responses (the source of the partially_verified status)
• Right-to-work documentation extracted from gov ID
• AI-augmented public-source research via Firecrawl + LinkdAPI + OpenAI — this is the LinkedIn piece, and it's one of five components, not the product
• FCRA-style adjudication with candidate review + dispute flow

What changed

New — BackgroundCheckMethodology.tsx
Shared methodology components reused by both wizard overview and report so the copy stays in sync:

• MethodologyTrustSignals — four trust signal chips (Biometric / Human-verified / FCRA / AI-augmented)
• MethodologyIncluded — five detailed "What's included" cards with one-line method explanations
• MethodologyComplianceNote — FCRA adverse-action callout
• MethodologyReportBanner — compact banner for the top of the completed report

Updated — BackgroundCheckWizardParts.tsx

• Replaces 6 generic bullets ("Required for Compliance", "Social media verifications", etc.) with the methodology block
• New headline: "Background-checked the right way"
• Tagline: "A serious check, designed for compliance hiring — biometric, human-verified, and FCRA-aligned."

Updated — BackgroundCheckReport.tsx

• Adds the methodology banner at the top of every completed report
• Renames "Social and media research" → "Public-source research"
• Each section now shows its verification method as a subtitle (e.g., "HR-confirmed by email per employer")
• Empty state copy now reads "Awaiting candidate submission for this section." instead of the broken-sounding "Not included in the synced report snapshot."

Updated — tests

• EmployeeBackgroundCheck.test.tsx and BackgroundCheckStatusView.test.tsx assertions updated to match new copy.

Verification

• ✅ audit-design-system clean — no @trycompai/ui or lucide-react imports, no className on DS components that reject it
• ✅ Modified tests pass (renders methodology overview…, skips the overview…, status view section labels)
• ✅ No new typecheck errors in any background-check file
• ⚠️ Pre-existing failures in EmployeeBackgroundCheck.test.tsx (PointerEvent is not defined from a Switch component) are unrelated — confirmed by stashing my changes and re-running.

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