What problem does it solve?
OSINT investigations become unreliable when evidence is scattered across inconsistent sources and entity identities don’t match cleanly. This Skill helps you systematically cross-reference public records, track confidence, and assemble a verifiable evidence chain from raw source rows.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Cross-source OSINT investigation: Pulls from major public-record datasets like SEC EDGAR, USAspending, Senate lobbying disclosures, OFAC sanctions, ICIJ offshore leaks, NYC ACRIS property records, CourtListener litigation data, Wayback archives, Wikipedia/Wikidata, and GDELT news monitoring.
- Entity resolution with confidence tiers: Normalizes names and produces candidate links (exact, fuzzy, and token-overlap) with explicit confidence—so matches are leads, not unsupported conclusions.
- Evidence-chain JSON output: Produces structured findings where every claim ties back to specific CSV rows from the underlying sources.
- Optional timing correlation tests: Runs a permutation test to see whether events (e.g., lobbying filings) cluster suspiciously near related counterpart events (e.g., contract awards), without claiming wrongdoing.
Quick Start
Use the skill to investigate a company’s public-record footprint by having the agent run the cross-reference workflow and return a findings.json with confidence-scored evidence chains and optional timing analysis.