You do not have to hire us to start
Send one specific question, or the documents you already have and cannot make sense of. We will tell you what we see.
For Newsrooms and Investigative Journalists
Add an investigations desk.
Professional investigative research and financial analysis, working alongside your reporting, by the story.
You do the reporting. We dig underneath it.
Newsroom budgets shrank while the stories got harder.
Journalists are tracing money, locating people and untangling ownership on top of everything else the job asks of them. We bring the licensed data access, tooling and methodology that turn a promising lead into something you can run, so the story you already have gets further than it otherwise would.
What we bring to a story.
The kind of capability a large legal or corporate team brings in, pointed at your story. Public records are the floor, not the ceiling.
- Subject and source location
- Asset tracing and ownership research
- Corporate structure and beneficial ownership mapping
- Financial and fraud analysis
- Public records research and retrieval
- Credentialed access to licensed investigative databases
- Dark web and breach data research
- Link and network analysis, relationship mapping
- Document and metadata analysis
- Digital asset and cryptocurrency tracing
- Digital and physical forensic capability, coordinated as needed
- Vehicle, title and registration research
- Large data set structuring and analysis
Made to be questioned.
Findings documented and sourced to hold up when an editor, a review process, or the subject of the story pushes back.
The difference between a claim you believe and a claim you can publish.
We work to your deadline
Scope, turnaround and depth are set against your publication date, not the other way around.
We understand what is at stake
Source protection, pre-publication confidentiality and discretion about the engagement itself are conditions of the work.
Newsrooms · Freelance journalists · Nonprofit outlets · Documentary producers · Podcasts · Authors
As much support as the story needs.
Investigative reporting budgets vary wildly. Engagements are built to match them.
Single story
Scoped research and analysis for one investigation.
Ongoing analyst support
A standing analytical resource for a team or a long-running project.
Strategy consult
A working session on how to approach an investigation before reporting starts.
Newsroom training
Investigative methodology, records strategy and analytical technique.
Engagements run from a single question to a full investigation, and independent journalists get the same methodology as national desks. Tell us the budget and we will tell you what is possible inside it.
We reserve capacity each quarter for nonprofit and public-interest reporting.
Public-Interest Investigations
Support for trafficking and exploitation reporting.
We work with newsrooms, nonprofits and advocacy organizations investigating human trafficking and the exploitation of children, contributing the research, financial analysis and documentation these stories demand.
Findings are developed so they strengthen any action the appropriate authorities may take, never compromise it. Sensitive material is handled appropriately and discreetly at every stage.
- Subject and network identification
- Financial flows and front-business structures
- Corporate ownership and property research
- Digital footprint and platform analysis
- Dark web and breach data research
- Evidence preservation and documentation
Tell us about the story.
Early conversations are free, and we will tell you honestly whether we can move it forward.
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