How it works
Instruct
You set the objective and confirm the lawful basis for the enquiry. We confirm scope, tier and turnaround.
Investigate
Analysts examine lawfully accessible public sources across social media and the wider open web, using premium commercial intelligence platforms, specialist search techniques and manual analysis. Tools accelerate discovery; experienced judgement decides what matters.
Report
You receive a structured, source-referenced report addressed to your objective: what exists, where it was found, how it was corroborated, and its apparent significance — with relevant material preserved in evidentially robust form.
Decide
Your team weighs the findings. Extant provides intelligence, not conclusions.
The Extant Report
A scoped initial investigation against your specific objective. Structured, source-referenced findings — and where the record warrants deeper enquiry, we say so plainly and define the scope.
The Extant Investigation
Full-depth investigation across the open web: corroboration, connection analysis, and evidential capture preserved in court-aware form.
A detailed methodology statement is available to instructing clients on request.
We also report when there is nothing significant to find — that is worth knowing too.