Use case · Investigations consultancies
OSINT output a client can
verify without your tools.
Private investigators, OSINT firms, missing persons charities and independent investigation desks share a small set of recurring problems: clients ask "is this real" and the answer is "trust me", every new client wants a different report template, and cross-source dedup eats two hours per case. CLEARSKY turns those recurring problems into platform features.
The friction
The work, before a public verifier.
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Clients ask "is this real?" and the answer is "trust me". The credibility chain stops at the firm's reputation. Every new engagement starts with the same trust-establishment conversation.
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Each new client wants a different report template. Investigation work is repeatable. Reporting work is bespoke. Time disappears into formatting that adds zero investigative value.
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Cross-source dedup is manual. The same person appears under three slightly different spellings across four sources. Manual reconciliation is slow and error-prone. Missed dedup creates duplicate objects in the output.
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Subjects of investigations have no portal. A subject SARs the firm. The firm has no system to satisfy the request and no audit log to draw from. Compliance becomes an afterthought.
What CLEARSKY changes
Five capabilities mapped to OSINT firms.
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01 · Public verifier on every dossier
ECDSA P-256 signature on the signed envelope. Your client verifies in roughly 200ms at a public URL with no account. "Is this real?" stops being a conversation and becomes a click.
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02 · 64+ UK and IE sources pre-wired
46 UK police forces (missing persons feeds), Police Scotland, PSNI, Garda, Interpol, Missing People charity, NCA. The scraper tier handles the collection; the resolution engine handles dedup before write. You stop maintaining 64 different HTML parsers.
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03 · Resolution engine on every ingest
Elasticsearch fuzzy match plus a SequenceMatcher dedup pass before any write to ontology objects. Direct database INSERTs are blocked by a CI lint, not a code-review convention. Your knowledge graph stays clean by construction.
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04 · Subject portal handles SARs
Subjects request a Receipt of Evidence at the public portal, verify by OTP, and receive a redacted receipt built from your audit log. You do not maintain a parallel SAR workflow.
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05 · One signing identity, many client formats
The same signing key authenticates dossiers regardless of which client format the report is rendered in. Your firm's credibility chain is the signature, not the template.
Concrete shapes
Three illustrative engagements.
Hypothetical examples for illustration. Not statements about real firms or engagements.
Missing person trace
Family-instructed missing person inquiry. Scrape the 46 UK police feeds and the Missing People charity. Resolution engine deduplicates against prior cases. Signed dossier for the family, separately verifiable by the relevant force.
Asset trace
Judgment creditor instructs a trace on a debtor's assets. Companies House structures, beneficial owners, prior judgments, related party transactions. Knowledge graph keeps the same officer object alive across future engagements.
Pre-employment
Sanctions, PEP, adverse media, judgment debt, qualifications verification. Signed report handed to client. Subject can SAR the firm and receive a Receipt of Evidence without a separate workflow.
Compliance posture
Built around the operator's regulatory shape.
- SIA licensing: the platform does not relieve any operator of SIA obligations. It does provide the audit trail that an SIA-licensed activity expects to produce.
- UK GDPR Article 6: contract performance for client-instructed work; legitimate interest with documented LIA where relevant.
- UK GDPR Article 9: special-category processing is gated. The proportionality gate forces a documented Article 9 condition before sensitive collection.
- SRA referral standards: dossiers handed to instructing solicitors carry the signed envelope, so disclosure and methodology questions arrive with a verifiable record.
- Subject rights: the subject portal serves UK GDPR Article 15 by default; appeals route to compliance with a 14-day cycle.
Pricing fit
Which tier suits an OSINT firm.
Sole-practice PIs run Analyst (£49/month) for casework, the connector roster, and the verifier. OSINT firms with two-to-five investigators take Team (£399/month) for shared knowledge graph and CRDT collaboration. Charities can ask about nonprofit-tier arrangements directly.