How it works
From your question to a signed report.
The same six steps run on every assignment, whether it is one photograph of a plot in Wakiso or a 400-household survey in Lango. Consistency is what makes the output hold up when someone challenges it.
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Tell us what you need confirmed
Send the location and the specific questions you want answered. If the brief is vague we will come back and tighten it with you, because a vague brief produces a useless report.
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We agree the scope in writing
You get back a written scope: the location, the questions we will answer, the method and what you receive at the end. Nothing outside it is part of the job unless we both agree a change, so there is no argument later about what was covered.
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We quote, and the work starts once payment is in
A fixed price against that scope, on a quotation or invoice. Standard local travel is included. Exceptional travel and any official search fee are shown as separate lines and agreed first. Smaller verification assignments are paid in full before we start; larger investigations are split in half, with the balance due before the final report is released. We confirm your payment in writing and brief the researcher the same day.
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A vetted researcher is assigned
The assignment goes to a researcher in that region who speaks the local language, has passed our identity and reference checks, and has signed our confidentiality terms.
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They go, and the evidence is captured
Photographs are taken with location and time recorded by the device, not typed in afterwards. Interviews are logged as they happen. Nothing is reconstructed from memory later.
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We review, then deliver
A second person checks the evidence against the brief before anything reaches you. You receive the report, the underlying evidence, and a clear statement of anything that could not be confirmed.
The evidence chain
What is attached to every finding.
This is the part that turns a photograph into evidence. It is also the part that is hardest to fake after the fact, which is the whole point.
The photograph
Taken on site by the researcher, not sourced from a listing, a brochure or a phone gallery.
The position
The coordinates the device recorded at the moment of capture, with its accuracy reading.
The time
When the shutter fired, not when the file was uploaded. The two are stored separately.
The person
A named researcher whose identity, references and contract we hold on file.
The review
A second person checks it against the brief and signs it off. After that the record locks.
Limits
What we will not do.
A verification business is only as useful as its refusals. These are ours, in writing, before you hire us.
- Give a legal opinion on a land title. We report what is on the ground and obtain public records where we can. Interpreting the title is work for a licensed advocate.
- Record someone covertly where doing so would be unlawful, or misrepresent ourselves as an official of any kind.
- Send a researcher into a situation we judge unsafe. We will say so and propose another way to get you the answer.
- Report a finding we cannot evidence. If we could not confirm it, the report says we could not confirm it.
- Sell data we do not hold a signed consent for.
Who does the work
Every researcher passes the same gates before they are assigned anything: a verified National ID, two reference calls we actually make, a signed contract and confidentiality undertaking, a supervised test assignment, and a probation period where their work is reviewed line by line.
Researchers are paid a fixed fee per assignment with transport reimbursed separately, so nobody is under pressure to cut a trip short or skip a site to protect their own margin.
- Identity
- National ID verified before the first assignment
- References
- Two calls made, not two names collected
- Contract
- Signed terms and a confidentiality undertaking
- Probation
- Early work reviewed line by line before sign-off
Tell us where to go and what to confirm.
Send the location and the questions. We will come back with a fixed price, a named researcher and a date.