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 why files that came back empty elsewhere resolve here.
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 — but a record is a record, not 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 and an attorney who needs one evasive defendant found are not buying the same thing, and shouldn't pay the same price. We sell both.
An investigator works the file. Findings are cross-referenced across independent sources, conflicts are resolved or flagged, same-name subjects are eliminated on identifiers, every material fact is tied to where it came from, and each result carries a confidence rating.
Comprehensive person reports run at volume against licensed databases and returned in batch. These are database output, not investigator-verified findings — which is exactly what makes them cheap enough to run across a whole portfolio.
Run the whole portfolio through bulk reports first. Most files resolve there for the price of a coffee. Then escalate only the ones that come back thin, stale, or ambiguous to a $200 investigation. You end up paying investigative rates on the fraction of files that actually need an investigator, which is the entire point.
Most vendors run one national aggregator and forward the export. That covers the easy files. We run three layers, and the second and third are the reason our hit rate on hard subjects is what it is.
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.
Indexed county-level records, historical address and property data reaching back decades before digitization, business filings never scanned into any national system, and working relationships with regional record custodians. Built since 1980 and carried by no aggregator.
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 team's cyber intelligence and military intelligence background is what makes this a discipline rather than a search box.
The layers reinforce each other. An OSINT artifact gives us a city; the local records confirm a tenancy; a utility record corroborates the date. That is what a verified finding looks like, and it is what a single database export cannot give you.
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 rather than guesswork.
When a subject genuinely cannot be located, 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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