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.

  1. 1
    Executive summary with risk score (0–100) and top 3 concerns
  2. 2
    Per-subject findings grouped by category — sanctions, litigation, breach, media
  3. 3
    Network graph of related entities discovered during enrichment
  4. 4
    Citation appendix linking every claim to the originating API response
  5. 5
    Signed 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.

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