Expose Hidden Connections

Use TellFinder to search vast areas of the deep web or other media troves for connections to known subjects. Discover network personas in a fraction of the time.

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KYC for Risk and Marketing

Better understand your partners, customers and relationships. Score for risk, uncover personas and segment across new dimensions.

Intellectual Property

Find connections between complex concepts. Identify precedents and find areas of novelty.

Illicit Trade

Gather intelligence, detect networks and uncover actors on the deep and dark web.

Human Trafficking

Score for risk factors and link ads across time and space using common contact information, writing style and images.

"Sophisticated infographics that represent the relationships between Web pages"
- Wall Street Journal

Advanced Search

Quickly search through archived web data by searching names, addresses, other attributes, and even images using a Google-like interface.

Aggregate Data

Web results with common attributes are grouped into "personas" to help identify key people and organizations.

Relate Personas & Attributes

Quickly investigate relationships between personas that shared extracted attributes such as phone numbers, emails, addresses, or even similar images.

Discover Trends & Outliers

Data summaries identify top sites, commenters, and spot outliers on geographic and temporal aspects. Analyze further with the help of artificial intelligence to automatically flag high-risk or high-value indicators based on language or image content.

The Science Behind TellFinder®

Deployed to hundreds of analysts in Law Enforcement and at Federal Agencies, TellFinder has been successfully employed in numerous Human Trafficking and other Intelligence investigations.


TellFinder: Discovering Related Content in Big Data

Eric Hall, David Schroh, and William Wright

In this paper, we present lessons learned in the development of TellFinder, a tool designed to explore domain-specific web crawls using graph analysis and multi-modal visualization. The initial application of the tool was to help combat human trafficking through entity resolution and characterization based on data from sex ads crawled from a variety of publicly available sites.

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