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
Most-likely current address with confidence + age of supporting signal
2
Active social handles with last-activity timestamps
3
Phone numbers with carrier + line-type (mobile/landline/VoIP)
4
Known-associate network graph (co-residents, family, frequent contacts)
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.).