Not what it claims.

The case is fiction. The method is not.

Every case opens with a claim. You take it apart with the verification techniques journalists and investigators use on the open web.

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One case open now, no account · First intake soon

IMG-01. A narrow cobbled alley running between old buildings, the paving wet. A carved stone facade stands on the left under a wall lantern; a glazed display case holding printed sheets is mounted on the dark frontage to the right. The alley ends in a flight of steps, a figure climbing away from the camera. — Fig. 01·Case workspace·SPU-000, open now

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SPU-000 · Demo case · no arc · EasyTwenty minutes lateA rental car was rear-ended on 26 October 2023, at 16:07. The driver denies being anywhere near it: Three findings, unlimited attempts, hints free. No account, nothing scored — it is here to show you the work.Verification · Easy · about 20 minutesOpen the demo →

Arc index

Every case
feeds the next.

Cases are grouped into arcs. A name you verify in one case becomes the opening lead in another. Nothing resets between them, and the walkthrough stays sealed until a case closes. None of them is open yet — the first arc runs with the first intake.

SPU-ARC-01 · The harbour file3 cases · opens soon

SPU-001Sealed

Signed on delivery

A courier company is disputing a charge with the client who filed it. The runner who made the drop says he was at the address on the afternoon of 31 August 2026, went in, and handed the parcel over in person.

Verification · EasyEst 25 min

SPU-002Sealed

The runner's log

A courier company is answering a complaint: a parcel logged as handed over never arrived. The dispatch extract shows five handovers that afternoon, every one scanned, every one marked OK — but the addresses are withheld under the company's data policy, and the system does not record which stop was which.

Reconstruction · HardEst 45 min

SPU-003Sealed

The hill remembers

The runner has been asked, twice now, how he came to know the addresses on his round so well. His answer has not changed: one of them is his family's, and always has been.

History · EasyEst 25 min

Method

No trivia.
No pixel hunting.

Every claim is testable with methods you could use tomorrow on a real investigation. The fiction is a frame. The technique is the product.

01GeolocationSun angle, shadow length, street furniture, kerb profile, signage typography.

02Image verificationEXIF and its absence, error level analysis, reverse search across four engines.

03Archive recoveryWayback captures, cached DOM, deleted media, the diff between two crawls.

04Corporate recordsNational registries, filings, directorship overlap, beneficial ownership chains.

05Movement dataAIS and ADS-B history, port calls, the gap in a track that means something.

06Timeline workWeather records, celestial position, tide tables, cross-referenced timestamps.

Intake 001

Open your
analyst file.

Two ways in, no password either way. Your reference is issued the moment the file opens and never changes. The first intake runs soon — until your seat comes up, the demo is open to you like it is to everyone.