Journalism
Vet your sources
before you publish.
32 OSINT workers verify identities, surface conflicts of interest, and audit the paper trail behind every quote. Built for investigative desks that have to defend their sourcing under deposition.
What this fixes.
PAIN 1
A bad source can sink a story — or the reporter.
Rolling Stone vs. UVA cost $1.65M and ended an editor's career. Source vetting is the cheapest insurance there is.
PAIN 2
Cross-platform identity correlation is tedious.
Is the @handle on Telegram the same person as the LinkedIn profile and the Twitter alt? An hour of manual work per source — and easy to miss.
PAIN 3
Editors and lawyers want to see the work, not just the conclusion.
Pre-publication review needs auditable sourcing trails. Tracelight gives you the citation chain so your editor can verify in 5 minutes.
What gets checked
8+ data sources running in parallel.
Cross-platform username resolution (Sherlock-style)
Sanctions + politically-exposed-persons lists
Court records + litigation history
Corporate registry lookups for COI surfacing
Adverse media + prior interview record
Dark-web exposure (signal of identity theft vs intentional persona)
Domain + email infrastructure pivots
Wayback Machine + archived social-media history
What you get
The report that lands on your desk.
- 1Source profile with cross-platform identity confidence score
- 2Conflicts-of-interest section pulling corporate registries + sanctions
- 3Timeline of public statements with citation links
- 4Evidence locker preserving original sources at access time
- 5Read-only share links for editors and counsel
Common questions.
Does using this protect me legally?+
It supports your defense by documenting the verification you performed before publication, but it doesn't replace legal review. Editors who can show a documented vetting process before publication are in dramatically better shape under defamation claims.
Can I share findings with my editor without giving them dashboard access?+
Yes — every case can be shared via a signed read-only link with token expiry and download tracking. The editor never needs an account.
What about source confidentiality?+
Investigative subjects are stored encrypted at rest in your workspace and visible only to people you invite. We never train models on your data and don't sell aggregated findings. The same RLS that protects competitor intel protects source identities.
Try a sample source vet — 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
M&A diligence
M&A & pre-acquisition due diligence
Surface sanctions hits, undisclosed litigation, key-person liability, and reputational red flags before LOI. Citation-anchored reports your legal team can defend.
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.
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.