Lodestone as an IRBsearch alternative.

Both platforms start from the premium wholesale files beneath this entire category, credit header from the nationwide bureaus, utility and telecom records, property and vehicle registries, court and public records. On a common subject with a stable address history, results will look similar. Common subjects are rarely what stalls a file.

We layer alternative credit bureaus on top of the big three. IRBsearch is built for the licensed-investigator market and does that job well, but its locate depth rests heavily on the nationwide bureaus. Alternative bureaus capture the people those files cover thinly, thin-file and no-file subjects, recent immigrants, young debtors, anyone living largely in cash. Those are the files that come back empty elsewhere, and they are the ones you are actually paying to resolve.

We also refuse to merge identities silently. Every material field carries source attribution, and results are marked single or corroborated by how many independent sources agree. A confident wrong answer costs more than a no-hit (it sends a writ to the wrong person) and a merged record with no provenance is how that happens.

Test it rather than trust it: run twenty subjects whose answers you already know through both, and count the wrong answers as well as the hits.

The rate card is on the website

Our full rate card is on the website. You can work out what a month costs before you speak to anyone. Platforms that quote per customer are not doing anything improper, but it does mean the price depends on how the negotiation went.

A seat for everyone who touches the file

Every investigator, paralegal and clerk gets their own login and their own audit trail, priced so nobody is tempted to share one. A shared seat is the single fastest way to make a permissible-purpose log worthless, because the declaration no longer names who actually ran the search. Volume tiers apply automatically as the work picks up.

Permissible purpose on every search

This is the substantive difference. On this platform a permissible-purpose code and matter reference travel with each individual search, not with the account and not with the session. If the account is not credentialed for that purpose against that data class, the search does not run, is not billed, and is still written to the log.

That matters the day a subject complains or opposing counsel asks why a search happened. You answer with a per-search record.

Deposit account location is not a self-serve lookup, and we will not sell it as one

No product code here returns bank or brokerage account location. That is deliberate. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, obtaining a customer’s information from a financial institution under false pretences is a federal offence, and asset location is done as documented investigative work against a recorded purpose, not as a $10 click behind a form. A platform that sells it self-serve is putting your logged, purpose-gated request on the same rail as every unlogged one, and that record is what gets subpoenaed. Asset work belongs with a licensed investigator who will attest to how each item was obtained. Everything we do sell, we can show you the source of.