M&A diligence
Find what the data room
won't tell you.
Before you sign the LOI, run the executives, the cap-table holders, and the company itself through 32 OSINT workers. Sanctions, undisclosed litigation, dark-web exposure, key-person reputation — surfaced and cited in under an hour.
What this fixes.
PAIN 1
Sellers don't disclose key-person liability.
$840M Theranos. $470M Wirecard. The post-deal write-down is always more expensive than the diligence.
PAIN 2
Background-check vendors are FCRA-only and miss the gray-zone risks.
Sanctions adjacency, dark-web identity exposure, ongoing litigation under aliases — all invisible to a credit-report style background check.
PAIN 3
Manual OSINT takes a senior analyst a week per executive.
Six executives × $250/hr × 40 hours = $60K/deal in opportunity cost — and you still don't have a defensible audit trail.
What gets checked
8+ data sources running in parallel.
OFAC + EU + UK + UN sanctions lists
World-Check / Dow Jones politically exposed persons
PACER + state court records (US) + Companies House (UK)
Adverse media across 80,000+ news sources
Dark-web breach indices (HIBP, Dehashed, IntelX)
Corporate registry cross-references via OpenCorporates
Social-media identity resolution (Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Telegram)
Domain + IP infrastructure pivots
What you get
The report that lands on your desk.
- 1Executive summary with risk score (0–100) and top 3 concerns
- 2Per-subject findings grouped by category — sanctions, litigation, breach, media
- 3Network graph of related entities discovered during enrichment
- 4Citation appendix linking every claim to the originating API response
- 5Signed PDF + share link gated by token, expiry, and download count
Common questions.
Is this FCRA-compliant for employment decisions?+
M&A diligence is not employment screening, so FCRA doesn't apply to the deal itself. If you also use Tracelight for post-close hiring decisions, the platform records consent and respects FCRA Section 604 use restrictions.
How fast can I run a target company?+
Single executive: 60–90 seconds. Full leadership team (typically 6–10 subjects): 5–8 minutes. Reports generate in under 30 seconds once enrichment is done.
Can my legal team verify the findings independently?+
Yes — every claim links to the evidence row, which links to the raw API response. Your counsel can re-run any individual lookup, see the exact API used, and verify the timestamp.
Run a free diligence lookup — free for 7 days.
No credit card. Cancel anytime. Same product, same OSINT workers, same audit trail — just scoped to your investigation.
Other use cases
Background checks
Background checks
Pre-employment screening with FCRA-aware citation trails. 32 parallel workers cover criminal records, sanctions, dark-web exposure, and adverse media — far beyond a stock credit-report background check.
Fraud / insurance
Fraud & insurance investigations
Claim verification, social-media surveillance, address history, and behavior pattern analysis. Built for SIU teams and fraud investigators who need court-ready evidence.
Journalism
Investigative journalism
Source vetting + cross-platform identity correlation for investigative reporters. Verify identities, surface conflicts of interest, and audit your own sourcing trail before publication.
Skip tracing
Skip tracing
Find people who've gone off the grid. 32 OSINT workers correlate aliases, addresses, social activity, and breach exposure to surface a current location lead.
Expert witness vetting
Expert witness vetting
Before you depose them or hire them, run an expert through 32 OSINT workers. Surface prior testimony, conflict of interest, credentials disputes, and reputation risks before they cost the case.
Litigation support
Litigation support
Adverse party discovery, witness vetting, asset-search leads, and impeachment ammunition for civil + criminal litigators. Citation-anchored, deposition-defensible.
Asset search
Asset search
Find what they own — entities, properties, vehicles, hidden affiliates — for collection actions, judgment enforcement, divorce discovery, and pre-litigation settlement leverage.
Insurance / SIU
Insurance claim investigation
Catch claim fraud before payout. Social-media surveillance, address history, cross-claim pattern detection, and court-ready evidence preservation for SIU teams.
Cyber IR
Cyber incident response
Attacker attribution, breach-victim notification context, dark-web exposure verification, and indicator pivoting for IR teams + MSSPs. Citation-anchored, fast.
Executive protection
Executive protection
Pre-event venue threat assessment, named-target social-media monitoring, doxx-exposure baseline, and travel security briefs for EP teams.
Real estate
Real-estate diligence
Counterparty + entity verification + sanctions screening + adverse-media checks for commercial real-estate transactions. AML-aware.
Brand protection
Brand protection
Surface lookalike domains, employee impersonation accounts, dark-web mentions of your brand + customer data exposure. Continuous monitoring with severity-graded alerts.
Crypto
Cryptocurrency investigations
Wallet attribution, transaction-counterparty diligence, exchange-account holder vetting, and dark-web exposure for crypto investigators + exchange compliance teams.