InvestigationLedger
An evidence-chain workspace for investigative journalists, policy researchers, and due-diligence analysts — keeps a verifiable graph of claims, sources, methodology choices, and contradictions across months-long investigations.
Investigative reporters and policy researchers running multi-month stories
- Claim-and-source graph with provenance, citation strength, and decay tracking
- Contradiction and citation-gap alerts when new evidence clashes with earlier threads
- Methodology-choice log ('why did we test this hypothesis this way?') with backtrack prompts
- Resource-time tracker that flags leads consuming hours without surfacing findings
The AI research evaluation paper identifies exactly the skills agents lack — judgment, creative recovery from dead ends, resource awareness — which are also the failure modes that derail long human investigations.
Demand is real but niche — Reuters Institute reports 80%+ of journalists use digital verification tools weekly, and tools like Hunchly and DocumentCloud have established user bases, but a specific 'claim-evidence-graph' for multi-month investigations is a thin slice.GIJN's Top Investigative Tools of 2024 ↗Essential Tools for Journalists: Mastering Research, Data, and Digital Verification ↗
Adjacent tools exist (Hunchly for capture, DocumentCloud for documents, Maltego for link analysis, Neo4j/Atlan for knowledge graphs) but none combine a claim graph, contradiction tracking, and methodology auditability in a single journalist-focused workspace.Hunchly | Secure, Reliable Tools for Online Investigation ↗Introducing Document Intelligence: From documents to a knowledge graph ↗
Hunchly demonstrates WTP from individual investigators, but newsroom budgets are tight (most investigative teams sit inside nonprofits or shrinking legacy media); B2C/B2B SaaS against free DocumentCloud and ad-hoc Notion/Airtable workflows is hard.Hunchly Plans & Pricing | Find the Right Solution for You ↗Hunchly Review - OSINTBench ↗
Long-form investigative work and the need for defensible evidence chains are structurally durable; AI-generated content and deepfakes increase the importance of provenance tracking, supporting long-term relevance.GIJN's Top Investigative Tools of 2024 ↗
Doable but non-trivial — requires a graph data model, multi-user collaboration, source-protection security, and integrations with capture tools (Hunchly) and document stores (DocumentCloud); meaningful UX and compliance work before it ships.Hunchly Review - OSINTBench ↗