Lodestone as an IDI alternative.
IDI competes hard on match logic and speed, and idiCORE is a capable product with a real following among investigators and collections shops. Here is where we differ, and where we do not.
Premium data, from the same wholesale tier.
Both platforms are built on premium credit header data from the nationwide credit bureaus, plus alternative bureaus and public record files. Vendors in this category differentiate on how records are linked and scored rather than on holding files nobody else can license, and we would rather be straight about that than claim coverage we cannot demonstrate.
If linkage quality is your deciding factor, it is measurable: run a set of subjects you already know through both and compare not just hit rates but how many results are wrong. A confident wrong answer is worse than a no-hit, which is why we rate confidence and attribute sources on every material field instead of presenting a single merged identity as fact.
Published terms, and a purpose record per search.
You can price it before you talk to anyone
Our rate card is published: $5 a month for account maintenance, then per search at rates anyone can read. No quote, no discovery call, no negotiated tier that depends on how the conversation went.
No search minimum, free seats, no term
The $5 is a flat maintenance fee, not a spend commitment, and it does not convert into search credit. Users are free. The access agreement you sign carries no term, no volume commitment and no termination fee — it exists to set out permissible purpose and data-handling obligations, not to lock you in.
Confidence is rated, never asserted as verification
One source is single; two or more agreeing is corroborated. Neither is called verified, because neither is. Nothing in this category is verified until a person confirms it, and platforms that use the word are setting their clients up for a bad day in a deposition.
Purpose recorded per search
Each search carries its own permissible-purpose code and matter reference. Uncredentialed combinations do not run, are not billed, and are still logged. When a subject complains or opposing counsel asks, you answer with a per-search file rather than a policy document.
Bank and brokerage location is not offered
Not at any price, and no product code returns it. Say so early if that is part of your workflow.
Reasons to stay where you are.
If your team is fast in idiCORE and your close rate depends on that fluency, switching has a real cost that a lower rate may not cover. And if you already hold a negotiated volume agreement, compare the actual effective numbers rather than list prices.
We are newer, with a shorter operating record. Run us alongside what you have rather than in place of it, and let your own subjects settle it.
Run both on the same subjects.
$5 plus only what you actually search.