SKILL / Business & Risk
Plans: Pro & AgencyBusiness and Place Intelligence
Research advertised business locations, websites, phone numbers, categories and branch information.
Read the step-by-step user guideBusiness and Place Intelligence answers the question of what a business publicly advertises about itself: where it operates, how it can be reached, what category it trades in and which branches it runs. The investigator starts from a business or venue name, optionally with a location, and Nexus identifies the matching public listing and gathers what it advertises: websites, phone numbers, categories, related branch locations and other details where a listing publishes them. Each detail links to its listing.
What you get
A sourced record of a business or venue with its advertised address, website, phone, category and branches.
Using Business and Place Intelligence in an investigation
The investigator receives a place record in which every field is attributed to its listing. When a name is ambiguous, Nexus presents the candidate businesses side by side and marks which are supported by matching details, such as a shared address or phone number, and which remain possible matches. The investigator decides which listing belongs to the subject; Nexus does not merge candidates on similarity alone. Discrepancies between listings, such as two different phone numbers for the same address, are surfaced rather than quietly picked.
In a case, the record can be added to the relationship graph as an organization or location node, connecting a phone number or website to a place and, through later Skills, to the people and companies behind it. Business and Place Intelligence often precedes Phone Intelligence, Domain Registration Intelligence or UK Company Registry, which test whether the advertised details agree with technical and official records. The findings feed investigation notes and the case brief.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
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“Which advertised locations, phone numbers and websites are listed for this dental clinic chain, and which branches share a number?”
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“Which advertised address, phone number and website does this restaurant list, and does it have other branches?”
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“What category, website and contact details does this car-rental agency advertise, and do its listings agree with each other?”
How Business and Place Intelligence fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a structured PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What Business and Place Intelligence cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Business and Place Intelligence states up front.
- An advertised listing shows what a business, or someone acting for it, has published. It does not establish who legally owns the business or who holds the phone line.
- Listings can be outdated, duplicated or created by third parties, so Nexus presents each detail with its source rather than as an established fact.
- When no listing is found, the business may operate under another name or without a public listing at all; an unsuccessful search does not show that the business does not exist.
Best for
Teams that reach for Business and Place Intelligence most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
What does Business and Place Intelligence return?
Business and Place Intelligence returns a sourced place record for a business or venue: its advertised address or addresses, website, phone numbers, business category, branch locations and other advertised details where published. Every field is attributed to the listing it was taken from, and when several businesses could match the name, Nexus lists the candidates with the details that support or weaken each one instead of choosing on its own.
Can Business and Place Intelligence identify who owns a business?
Business and Place Intelligence does not identify who owns a business or who holds the phone line; it documents what a listing advertises. An advertised association is a starting point. To test ownership, the investigator follows up with UK Company Registry, US Public Filings or Company Directory Research, and Nexus keeps the listing and the official records as separate, attributed findings in the same case.
What happens when several businesses match the name I entered?
When several businesses match, Business and Place Intelligence shows each candidate with its advertised address, phone number, website and category. Nexus lays out the details that support or weaken each candidate; the investigator compares them with what the case holds and decides which listing to pursue. A shared name alone does not make two listings the same business.
Which Nexus plan includes Business and Place Intelligence?
Business and Place Intelligence is included in the Skill Library on the Pro and Agency plans. Pro unlocks 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including Business and Place Intelligence and the other business, financial and risk Skills, and Agency includes all 47.