A UK DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATIONS PRACTICE
Digital intelligence for fraud, due diligence and protection.
Holmes Digital Intelligence researches companies, counterparties and people from public and commercially available digital sources, and documents what it finds to a standard that compliance teams, lawyers, family offices and protection professionals can rely on.
SERVICES
What we do
Four specialist services, each with a known scope, turnaround and price rather than an open-ended hourly engagement. Not sure which you need? Start with Digital investigations.
01 — DUE DILIGENCE
Third-party and counterparty due diligence
Who a supplier, agent, partner or deal counterpart actually is: ownership, directors, linked companies, judgments, insolvency, sanctions and adverse media. Fixed-price checks and ongoing monitoring, written to evidence the reasonable procedures the Failure to Prevent Fraud offence expects.
03 — PROTECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Protective intelligence for principals and families
What an adversary could find about a principal, their family, their home and their movements from public digital sources — together with specific requests from the protection team, answered in a full written brief.
02 — FRAUD & IMPERSONATION
Fraud, cyber and brand-impersonation investigations
Chargeback rings, refund abuse, account takeover, reseller fraud and cloned storefronts. We map the network behind it, attribute the operators where the evidence allows, and run the takedown with hosts, registrars and platforms.
04 — LITIGATION SUPPORT
Online identification for lawyers
Attributing the anonymous or pseudonymous actor behind defamation, harassment, leaks or fraud, with a methodology-backed report a solicitor can rely on for pre-action correspondence or a disclosure application.
HOW WE WORK
The report is the product.
One analyst, a written methodology, and the same standard on every matter. That consistency is what lets a compliance team, a court or an insurer rely on the result.
01 Scope and price agreed in writing
You know what will be searched, how far back, and what it costs before we start.
02 Official records first, open web second
Companies House, courts, regulators and sanctions lists before news and social media. Commercial data where it adds certainty.
03 Every fact sourced and dated
Including negative results. “Not found” is only meaningful if you know where we looked.
04 One analyst, start to finish
The person you brief is the person who does the work and signs the report. Nothing is handed off.
WHO WE WORK WITH
People who have to be right, and have to show their working.
Compliance & risk teams
Supplier and third-party checks at a price that lets you check everyone, not just the big ones.
Executive protection firms
The digital research arm for your physical operation — advance packs and principal exposure.
Law firms
Instructed research and identification work with a report built to stand behind.
Other intelligence firms
White-label digital research delivered under your name, to your template, on your timeline.
Family offices
Discreet checks on counterparties, advisers and staff, and exposure reviews for the family.
Tell us about the matter.
A short, confidential conversation. We'll say plainly whether it's work we should do, what it would cost and how long it takes.