SOLUTIONS / LAW ENFORCEMENT
Agentic OSINT for Law Enforcement
Nexus is an agentic OSINT platform — an AI-powered investigation workspace — for law enforcement investigators whose work must withstand scrutiny. Choose an investigative Skill or describe the objective in plain language; Nexus discovers public sources, links cited findings to inspectable evidence, supports relationship analysis in Agency graphs and offers custody records on Pro and Agency when enabled at case creation. Export selected case material to structured PDF reports for review; the investigator decides which conclusions are justified.
Support lawful investigations with open-source intelligence that is documented from the first query. Nexus helps investigators resolve identities and infrastructure while keeping cited findings connected to available source records.
Challenges
Challenges for Law Enforcement
Evidentiary integrity
Intelligence that may reach a courtroom must be collected, timestamped and preserved so that no one can credibly argue it was altered, selectively kept or mishandled between collection and disclosure.
Identity resolution under uncertainty
Linking a username, phone number, email address and social profile to one individual takes corroboration across many sources. A matching handle is a lead, not an identification, and the record has to show the difference.
Lawful and proportionate collection
Investigators must stay within publicly available information and their agency’s legal authority. Any method that would require a warrant, covert access or account intrusion is outside the scope of open-source work.
Caseload and analyst scarcity
Workloads are heavy and trained OSINT analysts are few. Investigators need guided workflows that produce reviewable output, not a dozen disconnected websites and a folder of screenshots.
Workflow
The Nexus workflow for Law Enforcement
- 01
Define the objective
Open a case and record the subject, known identifiers, the investigative question and the relevant timeframe. Enable custody when creating the case on Pro or Agency, confirm that it is on and review the events recorded as work proceeds.
- 02
Choose the starting point
Start with a focused Skill such as Public Profile Discovery or Phone Intelligence, or describe the objective in the case conversation and let Nexus plan the investigation. Direct lookups remain available for a single identifier.
- 03
Discover relevant evidence
Nexus searches supported public sources — social profiles across 200+ platforms, published contact details, network context, authorized exposure records and public reporting — and links each finding to an evidence record with its source.
- 04
Review findings critically
Open an evidence detail to examine the original source and its context. Nexus separates supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps, so the investigator decides what is corroborated and what remains a lead.
- 05
Explore relationships
Add evidence to the case graph and map connections between people, accounts, phone numbers, addresses and infrastructure. Similarity alone is never treated as proof of association; the graph documents what the evidence supports.
- 06
Develop the assessment and report
Ask follow-up questions and request a BLUF Situation Brief for briefings and tasking. Export selected case material as a structured PDF report, including available custody records where enabled. Review completeness and applicable disclosure requirements before use.
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 Law Enforcement
- Open-source-only collection within legal authority
- ISO/IEC 27037-aligned chain of custody on Pro and Agency cases
- Supported associations kept separate from possible matches
- Relationship graphs of suspects, accounts and infrastructure
- Findings tied to source evidence ready for disclosure
- Structured PDF reports from selected case records
Related OSINT concepts
Frequently asked questions
What is agentic OSINT in law enforcement?
Agentic OSINT in law enforcement is open-source intelligence in which an AI agent plans and carries out multi-step research — source discovery, evidence retrieval, relationship analysis and reporting — against an investigative objective, while a sworn investigator or analyst reviews, directs and decides. Nexus applies this model to lawfully available public information such as social profiles, public records, network context and reporting, and keeps cited findings linked to available source records so they can be corroborated and disclosed.
Does Nexus preserve a chain of custody for open-source evidence?
Pro and Agency support custody records aligned with ISO/IEC 27037. Enable custody when creating a case and review the recorded events before relying on the trail. Entries have sequential numbers and SHA-256 hash-chain fields; the Chain intact display checks links between entries, not the accuracy of their contents. Export the available trail as JSON or include recorded entries in a PDF. These records do not guarantee legal admissibility.
Can Nexus be used within legal and policy limits?
Nexus is built for open-source collection only. Skills work with publicly available information and supported sources; Nexus does not perform intrusion, covert access or account takeover. Agencies remain responsible for their own legal authority, warrant requirements, proportionality and disclosure obligations. Nexus supports that responsibility by recording the method, preserving the original source for each finding and stating clearly what the evidence does not establish.
How does Nexus help resolve a suspect’s identity across accounts?
Nexus treats identity resolution as a corroboration task. Public Profile Discovery and Public Username Discovery return candidate profiles and handles, each labeled as a supported association or a possible match. Public Social-Profile Enrichment compares candidates using biographies, public links and conflicting signals. Cross-Entity Correlation then assesses relationships across people, accounts and identifiers, distinguishing direct evidence from inference. A matching username alone is never presented as an identification.
Is Nexus suitable for cybercrime and online-threat cases?
Nexus suits cybercrime and online-threat cases: investigators can combine Breach Exposure Search with IP Network Location, IP Abuse History and IP Threat Signals (both Agency-only) to understand the infrastructure behind an incident, and Cryptocurrency Wallet Intelligence to examine public wallet activity. Nexus records these observations as evidence with their dates and limitations — reputation signals can be stale or reflect shared infrastructure — and connects them to human identifiers on the case graph without treating a match as proof of who was responsible.
Which Nexus plan fits a law enforcement unit?
Agency (€89/mo) is the plan built for a law enforcement unit. Agency includes all 47 investigative Skills, including the four Agency-only Skills — Cross-Entity Correlation, Breach Pattern Analysis, IP Abuse History and IP Threat Signals — plus end-to-end encrypted investigation notes. Pro (€59/mo) covers 43 of the 47 Skills for an individual investigator who does not need those four Agency-only Skills.