Finding the party who moved, changed names, shares a name with four hundred other people, or is deliberately hard to reach. We run proprietary local records and privately sourced OSINT alongside the standard databases, which is how we close files that came back empty from other vendors.
A locate report giving you the best available leads on the subject, each rated for confidence and tied to the record it came from. We do not forward a raw database export. Findings are cross-referenced across sources, conflicts are resolved or flagged, and same-name subjects are eliminated on identifiers.
Nothing is verified until someone lays eyes on it in person. Cross-referencing multiple independent sources raises confidence substantially, and that is what a good skip trace delivers. Still, a record is not the same as a sighting. We tell you how confident we are and why, and where certainty actually matters we will go put a person on it.
A collections manager screening four hundred files needs something different from an attorney looking for one evasive defendant, and the price should reflect that. We offer both.
An investigator works the file by hand. Results are checked across independent sources and same-name subjects are ruled out on identifiers. Every material fact is tied to its source and rated for confidence.
Full person reports run at volume against licensed databases and returned in batch. These are database output and have not been checked by an investigator, which is why they are cheap enough to run across a whole portfolio.
Run the whole portfolio through bulk reports first. Most files resolve there at the bulk rate. The ones that come back thin or stale, or that are ambiguous, get escalated to a $200 investigation, so you only pay investigative rates on files that need an investigator.
Most vendors run one national aggregator and forward the export, which works for easy files. We work from three layers of data. Hard subjects that the national data misses usually turn up in the second or third.
Credit headers, utility and telecom records, and public record aggregation, accessed under a documented permissible purpose. This is what everyone has, and it resolves straightforward subjects on day one.
This layer is our indexed county-level records and historical address and property data reaching back decades before digitization. It also includes business filings never scanned into any national system, plus our working relationships with regional record custodians. We have been building it since 1980, and no aggregator carries it.
Structured OSINT tradecraft against the subject's digital footprint: platform and account artifacts, username and email correlation, image and metadata analysis, domain and business registration trails, breach-exposure correlation, and network mapping through relatives and associates. Our analysts have backgrounds in cyber and military intelligence, and they work a subject the way they were trained to.
The layers work together. An OSINT artifact might point us to a city, and local records then confirm a tenancy there, with a utility record backing up the dates. A single database export can't give you that kind of corroboration.
Straightforward subjects resolve from public and licensed record sources. The ones that don't are where the actual work lives: reconstructing an address history from utility and property records, working outward through relatives and known associates, tracking a name change through court records, following a vehicle or business registration into a new jurisdiction, correlating a long-abandoned username across platforms, and eliminating same-name subjects on identifiers.
When we can't locate a subject, you get a report that says so and documents exactly what was searched, so you can make a diligence showing for alternative service if you need one.
Full name and any known variants, last known address, and at least one identifier (date of birth, partial SSN, or a known relative). More data means a faster and cheaper search. Send what you have and we'll tell you if it's enough. If you don't have an identifier, we can develop one: date of birth or SSN is $30 each, or $40 for both.
Skip trace reports are investigative work product, not consumer reports. They may not be used to make eligibility decisions governed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act: credit, insurance, employment, or housing. Where a search touches motor vehicle records, we work within the permissible uses of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act. See our compliance standards.
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