INTAKE
Preserving provenance at intake
The strongest point to protect evidence is the moment it arrives. We advise on first-notice capture practice so provenance survives the intake process instead of being stripped by it.
SUBMITTED MEDIA REVIEW
The photographs a claim rests on.
Claims are paid on submitted images. We review that material for provenance, integrity, and internal consistency, and report what each finding supports — including when it supports nothing.
WHEN THIS HELPS
When to send us a file
- Submitted photographs appear inconsistent with the reported loss.
- Documentation appears edited, reused, or generated.
- The same imagery appears across unrelated claims.
- A file is heading to litigation and the evidence has not been examined.
WHY IT MATTERS
Why it matters
Screenshots, re-encoding, and messaging apps routinely remove the data that makes an image provable. Once it is gone, no later analysis recovers it.
What provenance data can and cannot tell you
Some cameras and phones now attach a signed record of an image's origin. Most do not. The absence of that record is not evidence that an image is fake — it usually means the device never wrote one.
And a record that is present proves provenance and integrity, not truth. It can establish that a file has not been altered since capture. It cannot establish that the loss happened, happened then, or happened there. We report both sides of that line.
WHAT WE DO NOT DO
- Publish or rely on a detection accuracy rate.
- Declare an item authentic or fabricated where the evidence supports neither.
- Draw conclusions outside the scope of the engagement.
- Guarantee admissibility.
CONTROLLED INTAKE
Discuss the assignment without transmitting sensitive evidence.
Public consultation channels are for business-purpose intake only. Claim files, medical records, credentials, claimant-identifying data, and evidence belong in an approved secure workflow.