Some investigations fail because people don’t care. Most fail because the information is scattered across thousands of records nobody can organize. ALIADO is a professional-grade investigative analysis platform used by journalists, researchers, and human-rights investigators to connect large volumes of documents, communications, financial records, and open-source intelligence into a coherent network.
Built by the non-profit investigative organization ALEPH, the platform allows users to upload documents, emails, spreadsheets, public records, and media files, then cross-reference names, dates, phone numbers, locations, and organizations. Instead of reading files one-by-one, investigators can visually map relationships and detect patterns — who communicates with whom, which companies connect to which individuals, and how networks operate across jurisdictions.
This type of analysis is essential for complex investigations involving trafficking networks, corruption, financial crimes, coordinated harassment campaigns, or large document releases. Researchers can tag entities, track timelines, build evidence relationships, and collaborate with teams while preserving documentation trails.
For citizen investigators and watchdog researchers, the value is enormous: the challenge is rarely the absence of evidence — it’s information overload. Tools like ALIADO turn massive document collections into searchable, analyzable datasets and help identify connections that would otherwise remain buried. It is especially useful when reviewing court records, FOIA disclosures, leaked datasets, or archival collections where individuals and organizations appear repeatedly across different sources.
This is essentially a network-mapping and investigative research environment that helps transform raw records into understandable case structures and timelines.