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Agentic OSINT for Brand Protection and Trust & Safety Teams
Nexus is an agentic OSINT platform that brand protection and trust & safety teams use to investigate look-alike domains, counterfeit storefronts, logo reuse, impersonation accounts, cloned apps and abusive infrastructure from public sources. Choose one of 47 investigative Skills or describe the objective in plain language; Nexus discovers evidence, links cited findings to an inspectable source, connects related assets in a relationship graph and leaves the enforcement decision with the team.
Investigate look-alike domains, counterfeit storefronts, logo reuse, impersonation accounts and cloned apps from one case-centered workspace. Nexus keeps cited findings linked to their sources, so the team can hand a registrar, platform or counsel exactly what a takedown request rests on.
Challenges
Challenges for Brand Protection and Trust & Safety Teams
Infringement appears faster than one-lookup-at-a-time review
Counterfeit storefronts, typosquatted domains, cloned apps and fake accounts are cheap to create and quick to replace. Checking registration records, DNS, hosting, image reuse and ad records one service at a time cannot keep pace with the reports a brand receives.
Attribution hidden behind privacy services and shared hosting
Registrant details are often redacted, infringing sites share hosting with unrelated businesses and the same logo appears on pages that may or may not belong to one operator. Teams need to separate a supported connection from a coincidence before naming anyone in a complaint.
Evidence that must survive the takedown
Registrars, platforms and counsel expect documented evidence, and the infringing page usually disappears once action is taken. Screenshots pasted into an email lose their source, capture time and context, which weakens the request and any later dispute.
Abuse reports without public context
A trust & safety team receives a reported account, handle or IP address and must decide quickly whether it belongs to a wider pattern. Internal data shows what happened on the team’s own platform; the public context around the handle or the infrastructure sits elsewhere.
Workflow
The Nexus workflow for Brand Protection and Trust & Safety Teams
- 01
Define the objective
Name the brand assets in scope — marks, logos, product images, domains, official handles and apps — the report or suspicion that triggered the case and the relevant timeframe. Open a case so conversations, findings, notes and graphs stay together for the enforcement file.
- 02
Choose a Skill or describe the investigation
Pick a focused Skill from the Skill Library — Public Image Matching for a reused logo, Domain Registration Intelligence for a typosquatted domain, Advertising Transparency for an ad that borrows the brand — or describe the objective in the case conversation and let Nexus plan the work.
- 03
Discover relevant evidence
Nexus searches supported sources and retrieves available material: registration details, DNS records, hosting relationships, image appearances, app-store listings, ad records and public profiles. Every finding carries a citation that opens to evidence details with the original source and its context.
- 04
Review findings critically
Separate supported findings from possible matches, contradictions and information gaps. A reused logo does not prove who operates the page, shared hosting does not prove common ownership, and an empty result does not establish that an infringing asset is absent.
- 05
Explore relationships
Add domains, hostnames, IP addresses, advertisers, developer accounts and profiles from evidence details to a relationship graph and examine whether infringing assets connect through shared infrastructure or identifiers, without treating similarity alone as proof of a coordinated operator.
- 06
Develop the assessment
Ask follow-up questions, produce a BLUF Situation Brief for the enforcement decision or export selected case material as a structured PDF report for a takedown request, domain dispute or referral. Include available custody records where enabled and review the basis of each claim.
Skill Library
Skills used in this workflow
The investigative Skills these cases draw on most. Every Skill states the question it answers, what the investigator receives and what it cannot establish.
Outcomes
Outcomes for Brand Protection and Trust & Safety Teams
- Look-alike domains examined with registration, DNS and hosting context
- Logo and product-image reuse located across public pages and profiles
- Impersonation accounts and squatted handles documented across 200+ platforms
- Ads and apps that borrow the brand traced to their public advertiser and developer records
- Related infringing assets connected on a relationship graph instead of a spreadsheet
- Structured PDF reports from selected records for review before takedowns or disputes
Related OSINT concepts
Frequently asked questions
What is agentic OSINT for brand protection and trust & safety teams?
Agentic OSINT for brand protection and trust & safety teams is open-source intelligence in which an AI agent plans and carries out multi-step investigations — source discovery, evidence retrieval, relationship analysis and reporting — against a defined brand-abuse or platform-abuse objective, while the team reviews and decides. In Nexus, an analyst investigates look-alike domains, logo reuse, impersonation accounts, cloned apps and abusive infrastructure, and cited findings link to inspectable source records rather than an unsupported summary.
Can Nexus find where our logo or product images are being reused?
Nexus can investigate exact and visually similar appearances of a logo or product image with the Public Image Matching Skill, including the pages that contain them and possible avatar, logo or contextual uses. Each appearance links to its source page so the team can inspect the context before acting. Image reuse is a correlation signal: a match does not establish who operates the page, ownership or consent, and a no-result does not prove the image is absent elsewhere.
How does Nexus help investigate a look-alike domain or counterfeit storefront?
Nexus lets a brand protection team examine a suspicious domain with Domain Registration Intelligence, DNS Posture and Reverse IP Relationships, review public complaints about the storefront with Public Forum and Community Mentions and check whether the brand appears in public ad records with Advertising Transparency. Related domains, hostnames and advertisers can be added to a relationship graph. Redacted registrant details, shared hosting or a similar name are leads to corroborate, not proof of a single operator.
Does Nexus monitor our platform or the web for abuse automatically?
Nexus does not provide continuous monitoring or alerts and does not access data inside your platform. Each Skill answers a defined question from public and authorized sources at a point in time, so a trust & safety team investigates when a report arrives: Public Username Discovery and Public Profile Discovery show whether a reported handle appears elsewhere, and on the Agency plan IP Abuse History and IP Threat Signals review abuse observations and reputation indicators for a reported IP address. Reports and matches are leads, not proof of identity.
Is investigating infringers and impersonators with Nexus lawful and ethical?
Nexus works only with public and authorized sources. Nexus does not access private accounts or mailboxes, does not guess email addresses and keeps breach exposure findings redacted. Brand protection and trust & safety teams remain responsible for a lawful basis, proportionality and the rules of the platforms, registrars and jurisdictions they act in; a finding that a page reuses a mark is a lead for counsel, not a determination of infringement. Nexus supports that discipline by keeping supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps separate.
Which Nexus plan fits a brand protection or trust & safety team?
Most brand protection teams start on Pro at €59 per month, which includes 43 of the 47 investigative Skills and 150 credits a month, covering Public Image Matching, Domain Registration Intelligence, DNS Posture, Reverse IP Relationships, Advertising Transparency, App and Developer Intelligence and Public Username Discovery. Agency at €89 per month adds IP Abuse History, IP Threat Signals, Breach Pattern Analysis and Cross-Entity Correlation, 300 credits a month and end-to-end encrypted investigation notes.