An OSINT platform for pulling together, cross-referencing, and visualizing investigative data from disparate sources. The core of it was a LexisNexis integration, the most comprehensive data source I could find (disturbingly so). It fed a collection and analysis layer that could turn a thin lead into a full picture of a person or entity.

Primitive by today’s standards but genuinely functional, and a real education in how much is quietly knowable about anyone. I was nineteen and somehow talked LexisNexis into giving me access. I’m still not entirely sure how.