Tracelight
Skip tracing

Find the person who
went off the grid.

Skip tracing is a manual workflow that hasn't changed much in 20 years — same paid databases, same address-history pulls, same alias guessing. Tracelight runs it in parallel: 32 OSINT workers cross-correlate aliases, recent social activity, breach exposure, and address records to surface the strongest current-location lead in under 90 seconds.

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What this fixes.

PAIN 1
Address history databases lag the real move by 6–18 months.
By the time a fresh credit-bureau record updates, the subject has been at the new address for a year. You need real-time signals — which is what social, breach, and ISP-edge data give you.
PAIN 2
Manual alias chasing eats hours per case.
Most skip-trace targets use 2–5 aliases across platforms. Resolving them by hand — username probe by username probe — is the work. Cross-platform identity correlation collapses it to seconds.
PAIN 3
PI shops priced out of enterprise OSINT can't compete on speed.
Nationwide enterprise tools cost $30k+/year and require contract minimums. Solo PIs lose bids to bigger shops not because their work is worse, but because their tooling is slower.
What gets checked

8+ data sources running in parallel.

Address history + co-resident lookups
Cross-platform username + alias resolution (Sherlock-style)
Phone + carrier intelligence
Email-to-account discovery (Hunter, EmailRep)
Recent social-media activity (geo-tagged posts, check-ins)
Breach exposure (HIBP, Dehashed) — current credentials = current accounts
Vehicle + property records cross-reference
Court records (eviction filings, civil judgments — proxy for current address)
What you get

The report that lands on your desk.

  1. 1
    Most-likely current address with confidence + age of supporting signal
  2. 2
    Active social handles with last-activity timestamps
  3. 3
    Phone numbers with carrier + line-type (mobile/landline/VoIP)
  4. 4
    Known-associate network graph (co-residents, family, frequent contacts)
  5. 5
    Citation appendix — every claim links to its source for the dispute window

Common questions.

Is skip tracing legal?+

Yes — gathering publicly available information about a subject is legal in all 50 US states. Restrictions kick in at use: skip-tracing for collection of debts is regulated by the FDCPA; for service of process, state-specific rules. Tracelight is the data layer, not the legal authorization.

Do you have access to credit bureau data?+

No, and intentionally not. Credit bureau data is FCRA-regulated and carries permissible-purpose obligations that don't fit a generic OSINT tool. We focus on the OSINT layer that complements bureau data — useful in conjunction with a CRA partner if you need full address history.

How current are the social-media signals?+

Username probes hit live endpoints — they're real-time. Activity timestamps surface from the platforms themselves with whatever granularity the platform exposes (Twitter/X to the second, LinkedIn to the day, etc.).

Run a sample skip trace — free for 7 days.

No credit card. Cancel anytime. Same product, same OSINT workers, same audit trail — just scoped to your investigation.

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Other use cases
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Surface sanctions hits, undisclosed litigation, key-person liability, and reputational red flags before LOI. Citation-anchored reports your legal team can defend.
Background checks
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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
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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.
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
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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
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Pre-event venue threat assessment, named-target social-media monitoring, doxx-exposure baseline, and travel security briefs for EP teams.
Real estate
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Counterparty + entity verification + sanctions screening + adverse-media checks for commercial real-estate transactions. AML-aware.
Brand protection
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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.