Different questions.
Same standard of proof.

We work to the standard your file will actually be tested against. Findings are documented so they can be annexed, explained and defended, not just relied on informally in a conference and then quietly dropped when the other side asks how you obtained them.

The most common brief is a locate: a respondent who has moved without notice, a defendant avoiding service, a witness who has changed states, a beneficiary who has not been heard from in years. The second most common is background work on the other side, where the question is who you are actually dealing with and whether the public record supports what they have told the court.

Where the matter involves conduct rather than location, we preserve social media and other online material at the point of discovery with timestamps and hash values, because content disappears and an undocumented screenshot produced six months later is easy to attack.

On the underwriting and lending side the question is always the same. Who actually controls this counterparty, what is their litigation and regulatory history, and is there anything in the public record that contradicts what has been disclosed to you before you write the risk or advance the funds.

Open-source due diligence answers that with a documented file either way. Used at onboarding it tells you which counterparties are clean, which need a conversation, and which carry exposure that should change the terms or stop the deal.

The same method extends to the people behind the entity: directorships and disqualifications, beneficial ownership, sanctions and PEP status, insolvency history and adverse media, corroborated across independent sources rather than taken from a single database hit.

A résumé is a marketing document. So is a capability statement. We test the claims, the associations and the public conduct behind both, and we produce a defensible record of exactly what was reviewed, which matters when a hiring or contracting decision is later questioned.

Vetting is tiered by role. A standard pre-employment check on a graduate and a board-level review of an incoming director are different products with different depth, and we scope them accordingly rather than charging one price for both.

On the risk side we also review what your organisation has already exposed: credentials and internal material appearing in breach corpora, and staff whose personal digital footprint creates a security or reputational problem for the business.

A stale address on a file is worse than no address. It produces failed service, wasted postage and a debtor who now knows someone is looking. We resolve identity first, then establish where the person actually is now.

Every address we return is marked confirmed or unverified, with the corroborating evidence behind it, so you know whether to serve, send a letter of demand, or keep looking. That verdict is the difference between a list of possibilities and an actionable file, and it is what stops your team chasing the wrong John Smith.

We handle volume. Batched files are processed with consistent output formatting for direct import into your case management system, with a confirmed-or-unverified verdict per file and a summary of which accounts are worth pursuing and which should be written off.

If you are visible, someone has already built a profile of you. We build it first, show you exactly what it contains, and tell you which source exposed each piece of it.

A digital footprint analysis for a private client is adversarial by design. We establish what a hostile party could discover about your home address, family members, children's schools, vehicles, daily routine, travel patterns, financial position and personal relationships, using only lawfully accessible sources. People are consistently surprised by how much is reachable and by which unremarkable source leaked it.

The report is not the point. The prioritised remediation plan attached to it is, along with the option to re-run the assessment periodically so exposure does not quietly rebuild after everything has been cleaned up.