The Deep Dive.
When one question opens five more. A deep dive runs every promising thread to ground, multiple analytic angles, a full relationship graph, competing hypotheses, and geospatial where it matters. Here's what a 20-page workup contains, section by section.
Ten parts. One file.
Every thread run to ground.
A deep dive carries everything a briefing does, then keeps going, more angles, more structure, and the geospatial and graph work a hard subject demands. Each section earns its place.
Bottom line up front
The judgment first, answer and confidence before any supporting detail. Fifteen seconds in, you know where it lands.
↳ Act or escalate before page two.
The Aldermere cluster almost certainly functions as a single coordinated maritime-finance operation across four jurisdictions; control likely resolves to one principal. No sanctioned linkage confirmed at this time.
Key judgments
Three to six thesis-level findings, each in ICD 203 estimative language, tagged with confidence and the sources behind it.
↳ Calibrated probability, never vague hedging.
Beneficial ownership likely resolves to a single principal via a Cyprus intermediary.
Confidence: ModerateThe cluster almost certainly shares operational infrastructure across four entities.
Confidence: HighVessel reflagging probably precedes each ownership transfer.
Confidence: ModerateAnalytic angles
A deep dive attacks the subject from several directions at once, ownership, infrastructure, finance, behavior, so a finding true on one axis is tested against the others.
↳ Three to five independent reads, not one narrative.
Competing hypotheses
Rival explanations are tested with Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, each piece of evidence rated against every theory. The one with the fewest inconsistencies survives.
↳ You see the alternatives we ruled out, and why.
| Evidence | H1✓ | H2 | H3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shared registered agent | + | · | – |
| Common TLS SAN | + | – | · |
| Nominee shareholder | + | · | + |
| Synchronized reflagging | + | – | · |
Entities of interest
Every person, company and asset resolved during collection, with identifiers, role, and a count of links, sources and risk flags.
↳ Pivot from any name into the rest of the file.
Relationship graph
Entities and the links between them as an interactive graph. Inferred edges are marked distinctly from sourced ones, so you see where analysis fills a gap.
↳ The shape of the network at a glance.
Chronology
A dated sequence of the events that matter, incorporations, name changes, infrastructure moves, on a swimlane so clusters jump out.
↳ When things happened, and in what order.
Geospatial, where it matters
When physical sites, vessels or routes are in play, they're geocoded and mapped, so location-based patterns are visible, not buried in prose.
↳ Included whenever the subject has a footprint.
Evidence register
Every source, graded on the NATO Admiralty code and hyperlinked to origin. Audit any claim back to where it came from.
↳ Nothing asserted that you can't verify yourself.
Graded & adversarially checked
Every source carries an Admiralty grade and every estimate uses calibrated ICD 203 language. Before delivery, an independent red-team pass tries to break the thesis.
↳ The grade is the product. Always included.
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$299 per deep dive, ~48-hour turnaround, free 90-second preview first. No contract.