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Public record intelligence

Find out who is reallyon the other end.

Search a name, a profile link, an email or a phone number. We assemble every public trace into one verified dossier — with a Trust Score you can audit line by line.

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A recorded demonstration of a check. It reads 6 public origins, assembles a dossier of 6 sections, and stamps a Trust Score of 87 out of 100 — Clear. In the free preview 34 fields stay withheld.

Specimen — not a real person12 public origins · real states · real sections

What we can prove

No borrowed numbers. No invented reviews.

We are new, and a background-check company that fabricates its own social proof has already told you how it treats evidence. So instead of counting customers we do not have, here is what the product itself will let you check.

Verifiable properties6 claims

Public origins a check reads

12

Every profile and every mention in a dossier is printed with the public address it was read from — the LinkedIn page, the article on the outlet’s own site — so you can open it and check us.

Scoring rules

26

Six categories: identity, presence, consistency, professional, reachability, exposure. Each rule has a name, a weight and a threshold, and the report prints the ones that fired.

Model-written conclusions

Zero

No language model reads your subject or writes any part of the dossier. Nothing in a report is generated text, so nothing in a report can be hallucinated.

Facts without a source

None

Every field carries the providers that supplied it, the confidence attached, and when it was retrieved. A fact with no attribution does not make it into the document.

Locked values sent to the browser

None

The free preview is built as a second, smaller payload that never contained the paid values. The redaction bars are the visible consequence, not the mechanism.

CCPA opt-out honoured

Step 2

The suppression list is checked before the cache and before any provider is called. An opted-out subject cannot be searched, at any price, on any plan.

Source This codebase — not a customer survey

§01How it works

Three steps, and you can see the cost of each one.

Nothing is guessed and nothing is hidden. The same waterfall that keeps our costs down is the thing that lets us show you where every fact came from.

How it worksStep 1 of 3

You give us one identifier

A name, a dating profile link, an email address or a phone number. We normalise it first, so "J. Okonkwo", "jokonkwo@" and a LinkedIn URL all resolve to the same subject.

Source Normalised query becomes the cache key
How it worksStep 2 of 3

We check sources in cost order

The cache answers first when we already hold a fresh record. After that we read public origins cheapest-first — the web index, then the profiles, then the identity records — and stop the moment we have enough to answer you.

Source Every fact is logged with its origin, its confidence and the time
How it worksStep 3 of 3

You read one dossier

Identifiers, matched profiles, employment and education history, web mentions, and a Trust Score where every point traces back to a named rule and a named source.

Source No summary written by a model — rules only

§02What's inside a report

Eight sections, and the sources behind them.

These are the real section numbers, titles and provenance footers, rendered by the same components the dossier uses. In the free preview 25 identifying fields stay struck out — the values are removed on the server, so they never reach the browser to be un-blurred.

Dossier viewerPC-8F3K2A
Engraved portrait plate for Marcus D.MD
Full dossier

Marcus D.

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Austin, Texas

Trust score 88 of 100 — Clear, reference PC-8F3K2AREF PC-8F3K2AVERIFIED 2026-09-0288
Clear88
Match confidence
94%
Public origins
7
Checks run
26
Checks passed
21
  • §01Identity
  • §02Contact
  • §07Reachability
  • §03Social media
  • §04Career
  • §05Education
  • §06Mentions
  • §08Risk
Social media5 entries
  • marcusdelacroixlinkedin
    • Followers 3,184
    • Verified
  • delacroix-devgithub
    • Followers 941
    • Last active at 2026-08-27
Source 3 sources agreedConf 0.91
Career3 entries
  • Fathom LabsStaff Infrastructure Engineer

    2022 – Present

    • Start date 2022-04
    • Current
  • RivetworkSenior Site Reliability Engineer

    2018 – 2022

    • Start date 2018-09
    • End date 2022-03
Source 2 sources agreedConf 0.88
Specimen · not a real person2026-08-31 14:02Z
Social media5 entries
LinkedIn@marcusdelacroix
  • Followers 3,184
  • Verified
  • Last active at 2026-08-19
Source LinkedInConf 0.91
Risk26 checks

Documented work history

+8/ 9

3 roles of documented employment.

Professional · matched · worth up to +9

Source 2 sources agreedConf 0.88
Identity3 sources

Full name

Marcus D.

3 sources independently returned this person, so the result is not resting on one source.

Conf0.94
Source 3 sources agreedConf 0.94
Sources7 origins

The public page each fact came from, so every line can be checked.

  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • X
  • TechCentral TX
  • +3 more
Source 7 public platformsConf 0.91
Specimen dossier PC-8F3K2A · rendered by the components the report itself uses

§03Sources

Where a check actually looks.

Public accounts the person runs, public pages that mention them, and the identity records that tie the two together. Every fact in a dossier is printed with the public address it was read from, so you can open it and check us.

Origin trace0 of 4 reported
  • Account the subject runs
  • Page on an outlet’s own domain
  • Public and licensed records
Source Public originsConf 0.00Specimen · no language model
Public profiles9 platforms

Accounts the subject runs themselves, read from the public page — no login, no scraping behind a wall, nothing a signed-out visitor could not see. The free preview tells you which of these hold something; a plan prints the addresses.

  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • GitHub
  • YouTube
  • TikTok
  • Reddit
  • Medium
Source Printed with the address in every report
Public web and records3 families
Public web and news index
Articles, listings, directories and press on the outlet’s own domain. Every mention in a dossier is printed with the address it was read from.
Professional and education history
Roles, employers, dates and institutions as the person published them on their own public professional profile.
Public and licensed identity records
Email addresses, phone numbers and the identity resolution that ties them to one person. Licensed, rate-limited, and reached only after a plan is active.
Source Identity records need an active plan

12 origin families · We publish where a fact comes from, not who we buy it from. Which suppliers sit behind the identity records is a commercial arrangement, and naming them would tell you nothing about whether the person you are checking is who they say they are.

§04Identity resolution

6 people answer to this name. The file is about one of them.

Before a single fact is scored, the fragments have to be proved to belong to the same person. These are the rules that decide it — and the ones that throw a candidate out. A candidate we cannot separate is left out of the file, never merged into it.

Subject plateResolved

1 resolved5 ruled out0 assumed

Signals that must agree

  • Result matches what you searchedthe query resolves to one person, not to a name
  • Name consistent across accountsthe same full name on 3 of 3 profiles
  • Same username across networksone handle, reused on 2 networks
  • Location agrees across sourcesone metro area on the profile, the record and 2 mentions
  • Confirmed by more than one source9 of 14 facts carry two or more origins

Same name, 6 candidates

  • Austin TXhandle, employer and metro all agree
  • Leeds UKno overlapping employer or timeline
  • Lagos NGdifferent field of work throughout
  • Toronto CAaccount opened after the mentions
  • Austin TXplaceholder account, no activity
  • unplacedsources disagree — left out, not merged

§05Trust Score explained

A number you can argue with.

The score is the sum of named rules against named thresholds. Nothing is inferred by a language model, so every point can be traced, challenged and corrected.

Seal previewInteractive
Trust score 87 of 100 — Clear, reference PC-8F3K2AREF PC-8F3K2AVERIFIED 2026-09-0287CLEAR
Clear87
Source 26 rules · 6 categoriesConf 0.88
Move the scoreScore 87

Clear

The identity is corroborated across independent sources, the accounts are old, and nothing in the record contradicts anything else.

  1. 85100Clear
  2. 7084Low concern
  3. 5069Moderate
  4. 3049Elevated
  5. 029Severe
Source Rule-based scoring · no model inference

§06Use cases

Five situations where knowing early changes the outcome.

All of them share one shape: you are about to trust a stranger with money, an address or an evening, and the only thing you have is what they told you.

Online datingPermitted use

Is the person in the photos the person in the messages?

Match the profile against the rest of their public footprint before you agree to meet. Name, photos, employer, city, and how long the accounts have existed.

Marketplace dealsPermitted use

Is this seller who they say they are?

Before you wire a deposit for a car, a rental or a piece of equipment, check whether the seller has a history that matches the story they told you.

A landlord or a tenant you found onlinePermitted use

Does the listing belong to a real person?

Confirm that the person collecting a deposit exists outside the listing. This is identity confirmation, not tenant screening — we do not report on eligibility.

A prospective business partnerPermitted use

What is the public record on the person asking for a signature?

See their stated history against what the public web actually shows, and where the two disagree, before you commit capital or a company name.

ReconnectingPermitted use

Where did they end up?

A relative, a former colleague, a friend from a previous city. Public traces, contact routes, and the confidence that the person you found is the person you meant.

Not permitted · Not a consumer reporting agency. Not for employment, credit, housing or insurance decisions. If you need information for one of those decisions, obtain it from a licensed consumer reporting agency.

§07Questions

The ones people ask before they type a name.

Questions7 answered

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