SKILL / Identity
Plans: Pro & AgencyPublic Social-Profile Enrichment
Compare known profile candidates using biographies, usernames, public links, professional details and conflicting signals.
Read the step-by-step user guidePublic Social-Profile Enrichment is the Nexus Skill for the moment an investigation has candidates but not answers: of these public profiles, which ones actually belong to the subject? Nexus compares each known candidate on the details that distinguish people — biography, usernames, public cross-links, professional history — and weighs the signals that agree against the ones that conflict. The investigator receives every candidate resolved as attributed, rejected or unresolved, with the reasoning and evidence for each decision.
What you get
Each profile candidate resolved as attributed, rejected or unresolved, with the signals that decided it.
Using Public Social-Profile Enrichment in an investigation
The value is in the conflicting signals as much as the confirming ones. Two profiles with the same name and photo but different stated employers, or a biography that contradicts a known date, are exactly the details that stop a wrong attribution before it enters a report. Nexus keeps each comparison visible: which detail matched, which did not, and which evidence record each came from. Candidates that cannot be resolved either way remain unresolved, with the specific missing detail noted, so the investigator knows what further evidence would settle the question.
Public Social-Profile Enrichment is designed to run on the output of Public Profile Discovery or Extended Social Presence, and it is the step that turns a list of possible matches into a defensible attribution. Attributed profiles can be added to the relationship graph as attributed identities; rejected ones stay in the case record with the reason, so a colleague reviewing the case can see why they were set aside. The comparison carries into investigation notes and the PDF case report, so the chain from candidate to conclusion is visible to anyone who reviews the case.
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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“Compare these four profile candidates against what the case already holds about the subject and tell me which one is attributed, which are rejected and why.”
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“Two accounts share the subject’s name and photo; do their biographies, links and professional details point to the same person or to two different people?”
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“Which of the possible matches from the earlier profile search can be resolved with the details now available in the case?”
How Public Social-Profile Enrichment 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 Public Social-Profile Enrichment cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries Public Social-Profile Enrichment states up front.
- Private or access-controlled profile data is outside scope; comparisons rely on what each candidate has made public.
- A set of agreeing signals raises confidence but does not by itself prove identity; the investigator makes the final attribution.
- Candidates that lack enough public detail remain unresolved, and an unresolved candidate is neither a match nor an exclusion.
Best for
Teams that reach for Public Social-Profile Enrichment 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 input does Public Social-Profile Enrichment need?
Public Social-Profile Enrichment works on profile candidates the investigation already holds, such as the output of Public Profile Discovery or Extended Social Presence, together with what the case knows about the subject. The more identifying context available — a known employer, a city, a confirmed handle, a date range — the more signals Nexus can compare. Without candidates to compare, the Skill has nothing to enrich, so it belongs after discovery rather than at the start.
What does unresolved mean in a Public Social-Profile Enrichment result?
An unresolved candidate in Public Social-Profile Enrichment is a profile that the available public details could neither attribute to the subject nor rule out. Nexus states which signal is missing — for example, no biography, no cross-link and a name common enough to belong to many people. Unresolved is an honest status, not a soft yes. Treat unresolved candidates as open questions and revisit them when new evidence enters the case.
Which Nexus plan includes Public Social-Profile Enrichment?
Public Social-Profile Enrichment is included on the Nexus Pro and Agency plans. It is the resolving step after Public Profile Discovery has gathered candidate profiles. Pro costs €59 per month for 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, while Agency at €89 per month opens all 47, including the Agency-only Cross-Entity Correlation, and adds end-to-end encrypted investigation notes.
Can Public Social-Profile Enrichment help detect fake or duplicate accounts?
Public Social-Profile Enrichment can surface the conflicting signals that often mark an impersonation or duplicate account — a copied photo with a different biography, a claimed employer that does not match public records, or links that point somewhere unrelated. Nexus records those conflicts with their evidence so the investigator can assess them. The Skill does not declare an account fake; it shows where the public details disagree and leaves the judgment with the investigator.