WHO
Resolve people and organizations while preserving the identifiers and evidence behind each resolution.
Trace / Investigation intelligence
Reconstruct the case. Preserve the evidence.
Fragmented records become a reviewable case graph. Trace makes relationships explicit while keeping source evidence, uncertainty and unresolved gaps visible.
Discuss an investigationInteractive explainerFictional records · not live product output
Select a relationship to inspect its source.
Case graph / source-linked relationships
Person → Organization → Payment
A role, a reported payment and an unresolved identity are not the same kind of evidence.Documented in this record
A role is recorded. Control is not.
The register supports the stated role. It does not establish beneficial ownership, signing authority or control of funds.
Record A · director register · entry 04
A. Rowan is listed as a director of Northline Ltd.
Evidence boundarySource authenticity and the identity behind “A. Rowan” still require appropriate verification.
Inputs, checks & review limits
- Inputs & identity
- Documents, records and investigator-supplied context. A matching name, address or description can suggest a candidate identity; it does not by itself resolve that identity.
- Relationships & support
- A source locator explains why a relationship is present. A record that states a fact, corroborating material and an investigative hypothesis carry different evidential weight.
- Review & limits
- Investigators decide what evidence is sufficient for their use. Source linkage is not authentication, a legal finding, a guarantee of completeness or a forensic chain-of-custody certification.
An investigation rarely arrives as one coherent picture.
Trace connects fragmented records without collapsing evidence, inference and uncertainty into one undifferentiated graph.
MONEY
Connect reported financial relationships and counterparties to their underlying source records.
AUTHORITY
Distinguish roles, control, approval, signing authority and responsibility.
WHERE
Connect entities, assets and events to place while preserving what kind of location was actually reported.
WHEN
Keep event time, record time, publication time and reporting periods distinct.
ASSETS
Separate observed connections from ownership or control that has actually been established.
Evidence states
Uncertainty should remain visible.
DIRECTDocumented
The source directly states the fact or relationship. Authenticity and accuracy remain separate verification questions.
CORROBORATEDSupported
Accepted evidence supports the conclusion, but not from one direct authoritative statement.
OPENUnresolved
A plausible relationship remains visible without being promoted into fact.
The graph can contain hypotheses.A responsible investigator decides whether the evidence is sufficient for the intended reliance.
Investigation flow
From scattered records to a reviewable case picture.
Explore the 6-step workflow
/01SearchFind the relevant people, entities, records and events.
/02ResolveDetermine whether records refer to the same real-world entity.
/03ReconstructConnect documented relationships across money, authority, place and time.
/04InspectMove between a relationship and the source material behind it.
/05Identify gapsKeep contradictions, missing links and unresolved hypotheses explicit.
/06Find next evidenceUse the case graph to determine what additional evidence would change the picture.
Current maturity
Case-specific workflows today.
Working nowCurrent
Evidence-linked case reconstruction, graph investigation, source-grounded relationship review and structured investigative outputs.
Product development & longer-term direction
Product developmentExpanding
Stronger case collaboration, reusable ingestion patterns, broader entity resolution and more formalized review workflows.
Longer-termDirection
A governed investigation environment where every material relationship can be traced back to the evidence used to establish it.
Current scope: case-specific investigation workflows and evidence-linked outputs. Reusable ingestion, collaboration and broader case-management controls remain product-development work.
How we scope, test and deploy a systemWhere it fits
Where relationships need evidence.
Trace is most relevant when connected data is useful only if investigators can still explain why each material relationship is present.
Financial investigation
Reconstruct people, entities, transactions and authority without losing provenance.
Legal matters
Build reviewable factual chronologies and relationship maps around case evidence.
Fraud & integrity
Surface hidden relationships while keeping allegation, inference and documented fact distinct.
Due diligence
Connect corporate, individual, asset and event records into a defensible evidence picture.
Discuss an investigation.
Start with the case question, the available records and the relationships that need to be established or ruled out.