The investigative search platform

Skip trace without the commitment.

Sign in and search. People, assets, employment, records and business filings from one place — $5 a month plus per-search pricing, no search minimum, and an audit trail that survives inspection.

Credentialed businesses only. We verify licensure and permissible purpose before your first search.

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Product
person.search — $1.50
Permissible purpose
Enforcement of a judgment
Matter reference
24-2-01847-3 KNT
Last name
HALVORSEN
State
WA
Run search
hit 2 records · corroborated · billed $1.50
Why this exists

The incumbents are built for enterprises. Most of this industry isn't one.

A solo investigator running thirty searches a month, a two-person collections shop, a process server who needs one locate when service fails — none of them should be signing an annual contract with a volume commitment to get access. You sign an access agreement here, and it commits you to nothing but handling the data properly.

01 — Pricing

Pay per search, not per seat

Add every investigator in your office at no cost — users are free, you pay only for searches that run, on top of a flat $5 monthly maintenance fee. No search minimum, no term commitment, and rates published on this site rather than quoted on a call. Volume moves you down a tier automatically.

Rates
02 — Compliance

Purpose logged per search

Not per account. Not per session. Every single search carries its own permissible-purpose code and matter reference, and the whole log is exportable. When your client or your regulator asks why a search was run, the answer is a file, not a memory.

Our standards
03 — Data

Premium data. Same tier as TLO, IRB and IDI.

Not a budget file. Premium credit header from the three nationwide credit bureaus, plus alternative bureaus and public records — billions of records behind every locate, drawn from the same wholesale tier TLOxp, IRBsearch and IDI are built on. Run the same subjects through us and compare. What differs is the price and the terms, not the data.

Compare us to TLO, IRB and IDI
What this is not

A record is a lead. It is not a fact.

Every platform in this category sells "verified" data. Almost none of it is verified in any sense that would survive a deposition. Aggregated records carry stale addresses, merged identities, and same-name collisions, and calling that verification is how people end up garnishing the wrong account.

We rate confidence and we show the source. Cross-referencing across independent sources raises confidence substantially — and it still is not proof. Nothing is verified until someone confirms it in person. When a matter turns on certainty, that confirmation is investigative work and belongs with a licensed agency.

  • Confidence rated on every result, not asserted
  • Source attribution on every material field
  • No-hit is a real result, priced and reported as one
  • No implication of completeness — coverage gaps are stated
Who gets access

Credentialed businesses with a documented purpose.

We verify licensure, entity standing, and permissible purpose before your first search — and we decline applications that don't hold up. That gate is why the platform is worth having.

Core

Private investigators

Skip tracing, asset work, witness location. Free seats mean the whole agency searches under its own logins, each with its own line in the audit trail.

Core

Law firms & legal teams

Judgment enforcement, pre-suit collectibility, witness and heir location — with a per-matter record your client, and opposing counsel, can inspect.

Public service

Law enforcement

Sworn agencies receive heavily discounted rates as a public service. Same platform, same audit trail, same per-search purpose record. Apply and identify the agency.

Corporate

Risk & corporate security

Threat assessment, insider matters, due diligence and entity resolution — with sanctions and watchlist screening in the same interface.

Volume

Collections & creditors

Portfolio triage at volume, batch-first, priced to run across a whole book.

Occasional

Process servers

One locate when service fails, for $5 a month rather than a subscription you use twice.

Not available for FCRA-regulated use

Lodestone Data is not a consumer reporting agency. Data furnished here may not be used for employment, tenant, credit, or insurance eligibility decisions. Account types are configured so that FCRA-shaped usage is blocked at the API rather than disclaimed in the terms — and accounts that attempt it are suspended.

Getting started

Four steps, and no salesperson.

  1. STEP 01

    Apply

    Entity details, licence number, the kind of work you do, and the purposes you need.

  2. STEP 02

    Credentialing

    We verify licensure and standing, and configure which data classes your account can reach.

  3. STEP 03

    Keys issued

    API key and portal access. $5 a month, no onboarding fee, no scheduled call.

  4. STEP 04

    Search

    Single searches or batch upload. Billed per search, monthly, itemised against your matters.

Stop paying for a subscription you use twice a month.

Published rates, $5 a month, credentialing usually inside two business days.