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Automated and interactive Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) solution
Whether undertaking preliminary investigations into a person of interest, conducting Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) ahead of an investment decision or Know Your Customer (KYC) activities, a comprehensive sweep of publicly accessible information on the web is a time-consuming activity.
With potentially many sources, languages and the challenge of ensuring your search eliminates false positives, combined with the volume of data returned, having confidence that the search has been exhaustive, yet at the same time, defensible, is challenging and potentially costly in terms of time and resources.
Ensuring all bases are covered
It’s difficult to have confidence that a web search has picked up all relevant publicly available information across a variety of government, judicial, news and social media sites in multiple languages (including Cyrillic, Arabic, Mandarin and African languages).
How reliable are your sources?
Having gathered a large volume of information, checking and verifying the legitimacy of its sources, removing duplicates and exploring links and contradictions is challenging and potentially means cross-referencing a complicated web of hundreds of pages. Plus, it’s crucial to ensure that the process is defensible.
Resource intensive
An exhaustive search of OSINT is a time-consuming process, when conducted manually. Checking sources, building an audit trail and ranking source authority, plus pulling all the data together into an easily navigable timeline or report structure also takes time.
OSINT Enhanced due diligence
How can we help?
Using an AI-powered knowledge engine, developed by DeepDive, Salient provides automated and interactive investigation capability to accelerate research across open source data.
DeepDive provides an exhaustive search across languages and jurisdictions that you can have confidence has robustly covered all bases. The search all but eliminates false positives and focuses on the individual under investigation, with results and sources ranked, prioritising context and quality.
It also uses adversarial AI to challenge responses to the search, resulting in succinct and targeted synopses, and ensuring an easy-to-read summary of the pertinent facts arranged into user-friendly headings; freeing up the investigator’s time to focus on analysing the findings rather than gathering material.
Ten times faster than manual research and analysis, we can reduce OSINT investigations from days to hours. The process is robust and defensible, with a clear audit trail, and DeepDive’s excellent chatbot-driven interface allows investigators to interrogate the extensive body of knowledge generated, allowing flexibility in the development of the report or perspective of the subject.
Advanced search capabilities that are easy-to-use
Multi-language, alphabet and browser queries, tailored to the geographic scope of your investigation, go beyond manual search or basic AI search queries. And an easy-to-use search builder makes defining and refining your search quick, effective and accessible.
Natural language processing
Deep Dive aggregates, processes and analyses vast amounts of data from hundreds or thousands of sources in any language.
Entity resolution
Filter out false positives, ensuring that only relevant sources contextually linked to the correct subject are retained.
Turn intelligence into knowledge
AI-driven prompt engineering extracts key statements, assesses source credibility and cross references findings to build a structured report framework, with full hyperlinked citations.
Generative AI report and chatbot
Drawing on the information pulled into Deep Dive’s knowledge engine, use the chatbot to interrogate the results and reveal key insights into known associates, locations, business links, sources of wealth, political connections and criminal activity.
Defensible methodology
Full source attribution and audit trails in every report. When regulators or courts ask questions, you’ll have clear documentation of your investigative process and findings.
Why choose Salient?
We're data experts
We help our clients to explore and make sense of large volumes of information, getting to the truth quickly and efficiently.
Reliable, defensible results
You can have confidence that an exhaustive, web search of open source intelligence has been conducted robustly and in a fraction of the time of a manual search.
Insight-ready intelligence
Frequently asked questions
How does DeepDive differ from using a GenAI tool to perform OSINT research?
DeepDive isn’t a black box. Every step of the Knowledge Engine process is auditable, with clear rationale and links to preserved source material — giving you a fully defensible trail regulators, auditors and legal counsel can rely on.
It also goes deeper than AI search engines. DeepDive performs multilingual, exhaustive OSINT collection across jurisdictions and scripts, without relying on shallow indexes or snippets that restrict what AI tools can “see.”
And it prioritises accuracy. At each stage, DeepDive validates, cross‑checks or discards data to remove false positives and eliminate hallucinations before information is added to the Knowledge Base.
How is DeepDive defensible?
DeepDive is designed to meet regulatory, compliance and audit standards by delivering a fully transparent and verifiable investigation process. Every stage of the workflow generates a complete audit trail, including:
– Full source attribution with links to every item of data collected.
– Preserved copies of the original source documents, ensuring evidence remains available even if the website, record or publication changes or is removed later.
– Documented reasoning and decision‑making, showing how information was validated, weighted for veracity and credibility, cross‑checked, or excluded.
This structured, tamper resistant approach ensures your OSINT findings remain‑ defensible in court, repeatable for auditors, and reliable for regulatory review—no matter how source information evolves over time.
How can DeepDive help investigators?
DeepDive accelerates corporate investigations by giving investigators fast, structured intelligence about persons of interest. It helps teams:
– Build a clear, high‑level picture of an individual or entity
– Uncover hidden or obscured relationships
– Analyse legal, financial and adverse‑media issues
– Shape targeted lines of enquiry or interview strategies.
By automating data collection, validation and reporting, DeepDive frees investigators to focus on analysis rather than time‑consuming search and aggregation.
How can DeepDive help with Enhanced Due Diligence?
DeepDive strengthens enhanced due diligence by delivering fast, defensible checks for employment screening, M&A activity, commercial activities and lending decisions, lifestyle audits or source‑of‑wealth reviews.
By automating the heavy lifting, DeepDive ensures your due‑diligence findings are comprehensive, consistent and well‑supported — while your team concentrates on interpreting the results.
How does DeepDive make EDD more affordable?
DeepDive uses a six-step process to conduct defensible OSINT due diligence that can reduce effort from days to hours:
– Search: executes complex multi-language queries across all major search engines
– Ingest: uses AI to analyse thousands of sources in any language
– Resolve: filters out false positives; retains only sources linked to the correct subject
– Extract: uses AI to extract relevant evidence and scores source credibility
– Report: uses Generative AI to contextualise Body of Knowledge into a digestible report
– Interrogate: offers opportunity for users to interrogate Body of Knowledge through chatbot
How does DeepDive deal with different languages?
DeepDive runs global, multilingual searches — including non‑Latin scripts like Cyrillic, Arabic and Mandarin — and understands content natively.
The built‑in chatbot can also be queried in any language and will respond in that language, making cross‑border investigations seamless.