Takes a lead — URL, name, topic, document — and designs a methodology you approve before anything runs.
No surprise research paths. The system proposes a plan; you accept, adjust, or reject.
No surprise research paths. The system proposes a plan; you accept, adjust, or reject.
Nothing advances on one source or one agent's reasoning. A second agent verifies, contradicts, escalates.
Primary documents anchored, two independent sources per claim, disputes flagged, affected perspectives present. Ready to publish or hand to an editor.
Your feedback re-triggers the investigator on specific points, not the whole case.
Entities, sources, tools, and methodology stay cross-linked. The AI remembers past work and applies it to new leads — "we already profiled this shell company" instead of starting from zero.
Buried Signals is an OSINT agency for investigative newsrooms. Spotlight is the open-source tooling we use on real cases — methodology, skills, and review schemas proven against source material that ends up in court. Free and MIT-licensed; these two offers are how we keep shipping it.
Hosted Spotlight, managed runtimes, priority integrations, and a private community of journalists running real cases.
We embed with your team — bespoke skills, custom review loops, on-premise deployment, and training for the journalists who'll run it.