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Today we're launching Tracelight — a platform for private investigators, M&A diligence teams, and journalists who need OSINT work product they can defend in court.

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of gathering and analyzing publicly available information. Here's how it actually works in modern investigations.

A practical playbook for vetting an expert witness — yours or opposing — using public-records OSINT. The credentials lie, the prior-testimony record doesn't.

Address-history databases lag the real move by a year. Here's what to use instead — and how to combine OSINT signals to find someone in under 90 seconds.

Resolving the @handle on Telegram to the LinkedIn profile to the GitHub repo isn't magic — it's a layered confidence model. Here's the version that survives in court.

TLO, IDI, IRBsearch, and similar paid data brokers are powerful but expensive and FCRA-encumbered. OSINT is the right complement for most workflows. Here's how to pick.

Treating leads as conclusions, missing the FCRA notice, no chain of custody, no methodology disclosure, acting on stale data. The non-obvious ones.

The deleted Instagram post is gone forever. Here's how to preserve social-media evidence at discovery time so it survives litigation.

Comprehensive list of the OSINT data sources Tracelight queries on every subject, what each one returns, and the licensing posture. Reference for buyers + integrators.

Opposing counsel will ask the same 6 questions about your OSINT methodology in every deposition. Here's how to answer them — and why the answers should be in the report before you walk in.

An honest accounting of where OSINT-platform spend pays back for a 1-3 person PI shop. Numbers from the early-access cohort.

Twelve items every diligence team should run before signing a letter of intent. Sanctions, litigation, key-person liability, cyber exposure, IP risk, and the rest.

What architectural choices to make at series-seed so SOC 2 Type II in 18 months is achievable without a $50k panic project. Drawn from Tracelight's own pre-audit roadmap.

When you use OSINT findings in a hiring decision, FCRA's permissible-purpose rules apply. Here's the short version of what that actually requires.

Sanctions, undisclosed litigation, key-person liability before LOI

FCRA-aware OSINT screening that complements credit-bureau checks

Social-media surveillance, cross-claim pattern detection

Source vetting, pre-publication audit trail, COI surfacing

Find people who've gone off the grid — alias correlation + recent signals

Prior-testimony patterns, credentials disputes, COI for litigation

Discovery, deposition prep, impeachment ammo, asset-search leads

Entity ownership, property records, beneficial-owner chains for collections + judgment recovery

SIU teams — claim fraud detection, cross-claim patterns

Threat-actor attribution + IOC enrichment + dark-web exposure scoping for IR teams

Social monitoring, doxx exposure baseline, venue OSINT briefs for EP teams

Beneficial-ownership verification, sanctions + AML screening for commercial real-estate

Lookalike domain monitoring, impersonation detection, dark-web brand mentions, customer-data exposure

Wallet-to-identity attribution, OFAC sanctioned-wallet screening, exchange-account vetting

Self-serve transparent SaaS vs sales-led enterprise OSINT

Hosted + opinionated vs self-hosted + flexible

Modern SaaS vs desktop classic

Investigation platform vs dark-web search engine

Civilian-OSINT vs enterprise threat intel

Background investigation vs identity verification

Background investigation vs identity verification + KYC

Lookup, Watch, Vetting, Intel — four named capabilities

Starter $49, Pro $149, Agency $499; 7-day free trial

$9 per case, no monthly base — for solo PIs (waitlist)

Slack, Zapier, Discord, Teams, Notion, Linear, HubSpot, Salesforce, Splunk, Datadog, generic webhooks

Bearer-token REST API, plan-tier rate limits, OpenAPI 3.1 spec

Encryption at rest + transit, RLS isolation, audit log, headers, ops

Compliance posture, sub-processors, vuln disclosure

Built in Miami for civilian investigators underserved by enterprise OSINT

Pricing, defensibility, FCRA, integrations, trust + ops

Recent features, fixes, security, infra

What's in flight, near-term, exploring

56 OSINT terms, plain English

Right-click any name/email/phone to start an investigation

Early-access cohort segment breakdown

Anonymized early-access user quotes