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Forensic investigation · Third-party due diligence
Intelligence thatstands up to scrutiny.
Uncover hidden risks, understand complex relationships, and turn fragmented information into structured, evidence-led intelligence for better business decisions.
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One investigation. Every finding one click from its evidence.
Project MeridianMER-2026-014In review
Risk distribution
90 criterion assessments
- High 1
- Moderate 3
- Low 8
- None 75
- N/A 3
- Scoping
- Research
- Verification
- QA & client review
- Final report
Last updated 19 Oct 2026
- Risk modules
- 6
- 18 written criteria
- Assessments
- 90
- criterion × target, each explained
- Evidence records
- 46
- stable IDs, dated and verified
- Risk levels
- 4 + 1
- plus “not assessed”, never hidden
Figures describe the demonstration investigation and its framework. All demo data is synthetic.
What we examine
- Corporate registries
- Court & tribunal records
- Regulatory orders
- Sanctions & watchlists
- Debarment lists
- PEP data
- Adverse media
- Financial statements
- Charges & liabilities
- Site verification
- Document review
- Name-variant screening
02Services
Eight lines of inquiry. One coherent picture.
Commission a single check or a full review. Each service feeds the same framework, evidence register and report, so the findings fit together.
Compare services and build a scope01 / 08
Corporate Due Diligence
A structured review of a counterparty's registration, ownership, people and track record, rated against a written risk framework and backed by an evidence register.
What we examine
- Registration, status and filing history
- Ownership, shareholding and control
- Directors, key personnel and related entities
- Track record across courts, regulators and the media
What you receive
- Company profile with verified identifiers
- Risk matrix across six modules
- Structured report with evidence references
02 / 08
Forensic Investigations
Bespoke inquiries that reconstruct what happened from primary records: who was involved, how value moved and what the documents actually show.
What we examine
- Transaction and document trails
- Undisclosed relationships and conflicts of interest
- Corporate records behind counterparties
- Chronologies built from primary sources
What you receive
- Evidence register with a source for every record
- Findings memorandum
- Chronologies and relationship maps
03 / 08
Management Background Research
We test what people say about themselves against the record, and map the companies and organisations they have been connected to, without treating association as wrongdoing.
What we examine
- Career history and stated credentials
- Current and former directorships
- Litigation, regulatory and media history
- Political exposure and associations
What you receive
- Individual profiles with career timelines
- Directorship and association maps
- Findings rated per individual
04 / 08
Financial & Corporate Intelligence
Multi-year analysis of filed financial statements, with ratios calculated transparently from reported figures and read alongside charges and contingent liabilities.
What we examine
- Revenue, profitability and EBITDA trends
- Leverage, liquidity and working-capital ratios
- Charges, contingent liabilities and auditor remarks
- Group structure and related-party exposure
What you receive
- Multi-year financial analysis
- Ratio dashboard with source tables
- Commentary grounded in reported figures
05 / 08
Adverse Media Research
Systematic searches across name variants, languages and time periods, with every result given a disposition, so false positives are recorded rather than silently dropped.
What we examine
- National, regional and trade press
- Online sources, forums and review platforms
- Name variants and language coverage
- Elimination of false positives
What you receive
- Media log with relevance ratings
- Findings labelled as fact, allegation, legal outcome or analysis
- Source list that doesn't depend on live links
06 / 08
Sanctions & PEP Screening
Screening of every target and name variant, with each potential match resolved and documented, and political exposure assessed in context rather than by keyword.
What we examine
- Sanctions lists and watchlists
- Government and multilateral debarments
- Politically exposed persons and close associates
- Touchpoints with state-owned bodies
What you receive
- Screening record per target
- A documented outcome for every potential match
- Political exposure assessment
07 / 08
Litigation & Regulatory Research
Searches across the courts and regulators relevant to each target, with every matter recorded by status, so pending, adverse and favourable outcomes are never conflated.
What we examine
- Civil, criminal and commercial proceedings
- Arbitration and tribunal outcomes
- Regulatory orders and enforcement actions
- Statutory compliance history
What you receive
- Case records with status and outcome
- Pending, adverse and favourable matters kept distinct
- Look-back period stated for each source
08 / 08
Site Visits & Document Verification
Discreet visits to registered and operational premises and checks on registrations, licences and corporate documents, with limits on access stated plainly.
What we examine
- Registered and operational premises
- Registrations, licences and certificates
- Policies, leases and corporate documents
- Whether marketing claims hold up
What you receive
- Site observation records
- Document verification log
- Plainly stated follow-ups and limitations
01 / 08
Corporate Due Diligence
A structured review of a counterparty's registration, ownership, people and track record, rated against a written risk framework and backed by an evidence register.
What we examine
- Registration, status and filing history
- Ownership, shareholding and control
- Directors, key personnel and related entities
- Track record across courts, regulators and the media
What you receive
- Company profile with verified identifiers
- Risk matrix across six modules
- Structured report with evidence references
03Methodology
A method you can audit, step by step.
Six stages take a question from scope to report. Select a stage to see what happens, what you receive and the safeguard built into it.
Read the full methodologyStep 01
Define scope and targets
Agree the decision being supported, which entities and individuals are in scope, and the jurisdictions and look-back periods that apply.
What happens
- Confirm the decision and the client's risk appetite
- Identify targets: entity, directors, key personnel, associated parties
- Set look-back periods, for example 5 years for litigation and 10 for media
- Agree the risk framework and reporting format
You receive
Scope note and target list
Anything excluded from scope is recorded, so it can later be shown as “not assessed” rather than “no risk”.
Step 02
Gather available information
Collect records from corporate registries, financial filings, courts, regulators, screening sources, media archives and the client.
What happens
- Registry extracts, filings and charges
- Court, tribunal and regulatory records
- Sanctions, watchlist and PEP screening
- Media and online sources across name variants
You receive
Source log with retrieval dates
Every source is logged with its own date, separate from the date we reviewed it.
Step 03
Verify identities, relationships and records
Disambiguate names, confirm identifiers, and map ownership, directorships and associations across sources.
What happens
- Match identifiers, not just names
- Corroborate self-declared information
- Map shareholding, directorships and related entities
- Discount false positives, with reasons
You receive
Verified entity and relationship map
We record associations as context. An association is never treated as evidence of wrongdoing on its own.
Step 04
Assess and contextualise risks
Rate each criterion for each target against written thresholds, weighing recency, materiality and how reliable the source is.
What happens
- Apply the 6-module, 18-criterion framework
- Distinguish facts, allegations, outcomes and analysis
- Calibrate ratings across targets
- Identify mitigations and follow-up questions
You receive
Risk matrix with rationale for every cell
Each rating carries a written rationale and an analyst note. None are left unexplained.
Step 05
Document findings and evidence
Link every finding to evidence with stable IDs, source dates and review dates, then have a second analyst review it.
What happens
- Assign stable IDs to findings and evidence
- Record verification status for every item
- Log open items and limitations
- Second-analyst quality review
You receive
Evidence register
Items that cannot be verified are marked as such, rather than being quietly left out.
Step 06
Deliver a structured report
An executive summary, detailed findings and appendices, delivered as a navigable digital report and a print-ready document.
What happens
- Executive summary written for decision-makers
- Detailed findings by subject
- Appendices: scope, sources, legend and limitations
- Walkthrough of findings and open items
You receive
Report and digital dossier
The information cut-off date is stated, as are any changes after it that the report does not reflect.
- Step 01
Define scope and targets
Agree the decision being supported, which entities and individuals are in scope, and the jurisdictions and look-back periods that apply.
What happens
- Confirm the decision and the client's risk appetite
- Identify targets: entity, directors, key personnel, associated parties
- Set look-back periods, for example 5 years for litigation and 10 for media
- Agree the risk framework and reporting format
You receive
Scope note and target list
Anything excluded from scope is recorded, so it can later be shown as “not assessed” rather than “no risk”.
Digital report
From static report to navigable intelligence.
The same report a board would read, rebuilt so every rating opens its rationale, every finding opens its evidence, and every table comes from one dataset.
- Jump from a risk rating to the evidence behind it, then back to where you were.
- Charts, tables and commentary drawn from the same figures, so they always agree.
- Print-ready when you need paper. Nothing is lost in translation.
Due diligence report · Draft v2.0
Project Meridian
Kelvoran Industrial Systems Private Limited
MER-2026-014
16 Oct 2026
- 1Statement of Work
- 2Risk Findings
- 3Executive Summary
- 3.1Overview
- 3.2Financials
- 3.3Summary of Site Visit
- 3.4Online Evaluation Results
- 4Detailed Findings
- 4.1Company Background and Business Activities
- 4.2Key Management Personnel
- 4.3Shareholding
- 4.4Financials
- + 4 more
- 5Appendices
- AResearch Scope and Source Categories
- BNotice to Reader, Methodology and Definitions
- CRisk Legend
2 · Risk findings
6 modules × 5 targets
Service map
Every service, in one view.
Each slice is one line of inquiry. Open up the chart and pick a service to see what it covers. All eight feed the same evidence register and report.
Use the arrow keys to move between services and Enter to select one.
06Evidence standards
Due diligence that shows its work.
A rating is only as useful as the reasoning behind it. Every finding is traceable, dated, and labelled for what it is, including what we couldn't establish.
F-11High riskLegal outcome4
Debarred by a state public works department (2023–2025)
Rivanta Engineering Services LLP 2
In May 2023 a state public works department debarred Rivanta Engineering Services LLP from tendering for two years after experience certificates submitted in a bid could not be authenticated. The debarment expired in May 2025 and no re-listing was identified. The order does not name individual partners.
- Evidence
- EV-030EV-031EV-0351
- Dates
- 9 May 2023 → 14 Oct 2026 3
- Criterion
- SP-5 Sanctions and debarment 5
- Limitation
- Order does not name partners 6
- 1
Source traceability
Every finding links to evidence records with stable IDs, so any statement can be traced to where it came from.
F-11 → EV-030 · EV-031 · EV-035
- 2
Research scope
Targets, jurisdictions and look-back periods are stated up front and repeated wherever they matter.
Litigation 5 yrs · Media 10 yrs
- 3
Reporting dates
Source date, review date and information cut-off are recorded separately and never blended.
Source 9 May 2023 · Cut-off 14 Oct 2026
- 4
Fact, allegation, analysis
Verified facts, third-party allegations, legal outcomes and analyst interpretation are labelled distinctly.
Allegation ≠ outcome
- 5
Risk categorisation
A four-level scale applied against written criteria. “Not assessed” is shown as such, never as “no risk”.
None · Low · Moderate · High
- 6
Research limitations
What we could not cover, and why, is stated plainly, from consent-based checks to restricted site access.
3 cells not assessed
Four dates, never blended
Example: evidence EV-030, finding F-11
Source date
9 May 2023
Debarment order issued
Reviewed
8 Oct 2026
Order read and verified
Information cut-off
14 Oct 2026
Research closed
Reported
16 Oct 2026
Report Draft v2.0
07About
Built for decisions that need defending.
FI-DD is a research practice built around one question: what can be established about a counterparty, and how confidently? Registry research, litigation and regulatory searches, financial analysis, media review and field work come together in a single, traceable view.
We separate what is known from what is alleged, say what we could not check, and show you where every statement comes from, so your decision holds up when someone asks why.
FI-DD stands for Forensic Investigation & Due Diligence: two disciplines, one evidence trail.
- 01
Corporates & procurement
Onboarding suppliers, distributors and channel partners, with findings your compliance team can sign off on.
- 02
Investors & deal teams
Pre-investment, M&A and lending decisions where the people behind the numbers matter as much as the numbers.
- 03
Legal & compliance
Disputes, internal investigations and regulatory obligations that call for documented, defensible research.
- 04
Public sector
Vetting contractors, grantees and partners against debarment, sanctions and integrity concerns.
08Why FI-DD
Why choose FI-DD?
Evidence-led research that holds up when someone asks why. Six things that stay true on every engagement.
Evidence you can trace
Every finding links to dated, reviewed source records, so any statement can be checked in a click.
Facts kept apart from allegations
Each finding is labelled as verified fact, allegation, legal outcome or analysis, and never blended together.
Every angle, one connected view
Registries, litigation, sanctions, adverse media, financials and site visits come together in a single, linked picture.
One consistent risk framework
6 risk modules and 18 written criteria, applied the same way to every company and person reviewed.
Scope that fits the decision
Commission a single check or a full investigation, and choose the depth that matches what's at stake.
A report you can navigate
A board-ready report where ratings open their reasoning and findings open their evidence, and it still prints cleanly.
Start a conversation
Bring us the counterparty.
We'll bring the evidence.
Tell us who you're dealing with and what's at stake. We'll propose a scope, from a desktop review to a full investigation.