Due Diligence
Corporate and Individual Due Diligence
Know who you are actually dealing with before a transaction, partnership, or engagement is signed.
What this service is
Due diligence research assembles a documented public-record picture of a business or individual counterparty: corporate structure and filings, principals and affiliations, publicly recorded disputes, and other indicators relevant to a risk decision.
Common qualifying use cases
- Pre-transaction review of a target or counterparty
- Vendor or contractor onboarding review
- Evaluating a prospective business partner's filing history
- Investigating whether related entities share principals
- Supporting a dispute with documented background research
What research may include
- Entity registration, standing, and filing history review
- Principal, officer, and affiliation research
- Related-entity and common-address mapping
- Publicly recorded litigation, lien, and judgment indicators
- Regulatory and licensing public-record review
- Open-source reputational research from identifiable sources
What this service does not include
- Consumer reports for employment, credit, housing, or insurance eligibility
- Credit reports or protected financial data
- Undisclosed contact with the subject's employees or clients
- Speculative conclusions unsupported by the record
- Any research used to discriminate unlawfully
How the process works
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Intake and purpose review
We confirm who is requesting the research, the matter it relates to, the jurisdiction, and the intended use before any work begins.
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Scope and quote
You receive a written research scope, an estimated delivery window, and pricing so expectations are defined up front.
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Structured research
An analyst works the assignment through a documented workflow using lawful public-record and open-source sources.
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Verification and review
Findings are cross-checked against independent indicators, and anything that cannot be corroborated is labeled as unverified.
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Reporting
You receive organized findings with source notes, confidence indicators, limitations, and recommended next steps.
Potential deliverables
- Due diligence report with an executive summary
- Entity and principal profiles
- Indicator tables with record dates
- Source index and limitations statement
- Open questions and recommended follow-up
Limitations and compliance
Findings reflect publicly available records at the time of research and do not constitute a credit, employment, housing, or insurance eligibility report. Absence of a public record is not proof that an issue does not exist.
All case requests are reviewed for a lawful and authorized purpose. TracePoint Forensics reserves the right to decline any request that does not meet its compliance and ethical standards.