The Nexus user guide
Find your way.
Follow the evidence.
Practical help for every step of your investigation. Learn the workspace, run Skills, review results and manage your subscription.
Your first investigation
Go from a question to reviewed findings.
Find the right Skill
Use guided workflows for focused research.
Understand your credits
See how balance, reservations and usage work.
Explore the documentation
Getting started
Set up your account and complete your first investigation.
Your first investigation
Create a case, ask a focused question, review its sources, and keep useful results.
4 min readRegister and activate your account
Request access, confirm your email, and complete your first Nexus sign-in.
4 min readFind your way around Nexus
Understand the dashboard, active case, case workspace, and main navigation.
4 min read
Investigations
Ask focused questions, review sources and follow the evidence.
Start an investigation in chat
Write a useful request, set its location context, and follow the investigation’s progress.
4 min readClarify and follow up on an investigation
Keep a conversation focused while resolving ambiguity and inspecting earlier results.
4 min readRead evidence and check sources
Trace an answer to retained evidence, inspect provenance, and save useful records.
4 min readAttach documents for analysis
Upload supported files to a case conversation and request document analysis.
4 min readReview risk-assessment candidates
Inspect source coverage and record separate identity and relevance decisions.
4 min readRead the Breach Analytics dashboard
Understand the account-wide charts and summaries of your recorded breach searches.
3 min readValidate bank and payment identifiers
Check IBAN, BIC/SWIFT, BBAN and LEI structure, then save selected results to a case.
4 min readValidate and export a batch of identifiers
Run bulk bank-identifier checks and understand which results are saved, copied or exported.
4 min readRun tools from OSINT Search
Choose a dashboard tool, enter an identifier, then review and save useful results to your case.
5 min read
Your workspace
Organize cases, findings, notes, documents and reports.
Create and manage case files
Organize conversations and records with case metadata, deadlines, priorities, and optional custody.
5 min readSave and organize findings
Keep selected results in a case, inspect their details, and copy useful records between cases.
4 min readBuild and explore relationship graphs
Turn saved entities into a graph, inspect connections, and keep graphs linked to cases.
5 min readExport reports and case records
Choose PDF report sections and understand the separate graph and custody exports.
4 min readFind records and narrow your view
Use the case dashboard filters and the searches inside Findings and Notes.
3 min readWrite encrypted investigation notes
Set up your note passphrase, write case notes, attach files, and include notes in reports.
4 min readTrack investigative tasks
Record next steps with priorities and due dates, then keep their status up to date.
3 min readUse Chain of Custody
Enable custody when creating a case, inspect logged events, and export the available trail.
4 min read
Skill guides
Choose a workflow, prepare its inputs and understand the results.
Using the Skill library
Choose a prepared investigation, enter its required details, review the request, and run it in your case.
4 min readBLUF situation brief
Produce a concise bottom-line-up-front assessment from public evidence.
2 min readDeep Public Research
Run a bounded multi-source public research workflow and produce a cited report.
2 min readEnhanced Public Web Search
Discover categorized public web references and retrieve material original sources.
2 min readFederated and Regional Search
Expand a public investigation through bounded regional and alternative indexes.
2 min readNews and Adverse-Media Timeline
Build a sourced timeline of public reporting, disputes, and unresolved allegations.
2 min readPublic-source research
Find and compare public sources about a subject.
2 min readVideo and Transcript Intelligence
Find public videos and extract relevant transcript passages with timestamps.
2 min readAcademic and Publication Footprint
Find public publications and separate same-name author candidates.
2 min readBreach exposure search
Search authorized breach intelligence for a public identifier.
2 min readBreach pattern analysis
Analyze normalized breach evidence for cross-record patterns.
2 min readExtended social presence
Search a wider set of public social and community surfaces.
2 min readPhone intelligence
Validate a phone number and retrieve public line and numbering context.
2 min readPublic Forum and Community Mentions
Discover bounded public discussions, complaints, and historical references.
2 min readPublic email discovery
Find email addresses explicitly published for a named entity in public sources.
2 min readPublic Image Matching
Search exact, visual, and containing-page reuse, then classify candidate avatar, logo, contextual, or requested marketplace use.
2 min readPublic profile discovery
Locate attributed public profiles associated with a person or username.
2 min readPublic Social-Profile Enrichment
Enrich known public profile candidates and compare their identity signals.
2 min readPublic username discovery
Find public usernames and profile handles attributed to a named entity.
2 min readAdvertising Transparency
Find public campaign records connecting advertisers, domains, apps, and media.
2 min readBank and payment identifiers
Validate and enrich supported IBAN, BIC, or LEI identifiers.
2 min readBusiness and Place Intelligence
Resolve a public business or venue and enrich its advertised listing context.
2 min readCompany Directory Research
Extract attributed public company-directory listings with visible filters and pagination context.
2 min readCompetitive Intelligence Snapshot
Acquire a current, sourced snapshot of public pricing, product, feature, and release signals.
2 min readEU sanctions measures
Review EU sanctions records, legal instruments, restrictions and effective dates.
2 min readFinancial instrument mapping
Map a supported security identifier to canonical public instrument identifiers.
2 min readOffshore structure research
Search public offshore records for entities, officers, and intermediaries.
2 min readPatent and Inventor Footprint
Find public patents and disambiguate inventors, applicants, and assignees.
2 min readPEP offices and associates
Review politically exposed person records, public offices, occupancy dates and attributed associates.
2 min readPublic Lead Research
Build an evidence-bounded organization or professional research brief from current public sources.
2 min readRegulatory enforcement review
Review US NFA concluded enforcement and regulatory actions linked to the subject.
2 min readRisk change review
Compare retained risk assessments for an existing subject in the current case.
2 min readSanctions ownership exposure
Trace bounded source-attributed ownership and control relationships associated with risk-screening candidates.
2 min readSanctions, PEP, and risk screen
Screen a resolved subject against configured public risk datasets.
2 min readUK company registry
Retrieve public company, officer, controller, and filing evidence.
2 min readUS public filings
Retrieve public filing history and company facts for a resolved filer.
2 min readVessel sanctions screening
Screen a vessel by IMO, MMSI or name and inspect attributed restrictions.
2 min readWanted-person record check
Review Hong Kong ICAC wanted-person records and distinguish allegations from adjudicated findings.
2 min readDNS posture
Inspect current public DNS records and infrastructure relationships.
2 min readDomain registration intelligence
Review public registration identifiers and dates for a domain.
2 min readIP abuse history
Review attributed public abuse observations for an IP address.
2 min readIP network location
Assess approximate public network and location context for an IP address.
2 min readIP threat signals
Review public threat and reputation indicators for an IP address.
2 min readReverse IP relationships
Find public hostname relationships associated with an IP address.
2 min readApp and Developer Intelligence
Discover public mobile applications and enrich developer-account context.
2 min readCross-entity correlation
Acquire relevant public evidence, then correlate evidence-backed relationships.
2 min readCryptocurrency wallet intelligence
Investigate public wallet assets, bounded activity, labels, and token context.
2 min readWeb3 identity correlation
Resolve public decentralized names and wallet relationships.
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Account & billing
Understand plans, credits, payments and account controls.
Subscriptions and plan access
Find your current plan, choose a subscription, and understand feature access.
4 min readCredits and usage history
Read your balance, understand reserved and consumed credits, and inspect individual charges.
5 min readPayments, top-ups and cancellation
Buy extra credits, manage payment methods and invoices, and cancel a subscription.
4 min readAccount, sign-in and deletion
Find your account controls, sign out, and understand the permanent deletion process.
4 min read
Troubleshooting & support
Resolve common problems and get help with your account.