Documented for the internal investigation — evidenced facts, dated sources.
When it gets serious, opinion doesn't count — evidence does. Indicium structures the facts: every statement with source and date, the limits of knowledge openly named — usable for committee, audit and external advisors.
Not the facts. The chain that makes them usable.
Every statement with source and date. No black box.
The difference between a search result and a decision record is the chain: who checked what, in which order, from which source, at which date.
| Principle | What it means | How Indicium implements it |
|---|---|---|
| Dated sources | Every finding traces back to source and timestamp | Retrieval time and cut-off date on every source; reproducible as of the cut-off date |
| Audit trail | Who checked what, in which order | Four-eyes principle where significance is elevated; identifier on every report |
| Honest boundary | What the check structurally could not see | Stated in every report rather than papered over |
| Art. 22 GDPR | No solely automated decision with legal effect about a person | Human final review at fixed trigger thresholds, four-eyes principle, audit trail |
The honest boundary: what is registered nowhere — unregistered trusts, purely private holdings — no automated check can see from open and licensed sources. Every report states that limit rather than papering over it.
€79 is the automated baseline — not the whole spectrum.
A price that low invites the question every general counsel is right to ask: can this actually be trusted? The honest answer is that €79 buys the Essential tier of the Software-Report — the fully automated depth that resolves around 70% of routine cases, every source dated and reproducible as of the cut-off date. It is the baseline, not the ceiling.
Where the stakes are higher — a suspicious counterparty, a nested ownership structure, a case that will end up in front of a committee or a court — Hybrid adds documented human review under the four-eyes principle, and Boutique is fully analyst-led. You choose the depth per case; the audit trail records which depth you chose and why. Set against a partner-rate hour of outside counsel, even the analyst-led depth is a fraction of the cost.
"With Indicium, we were able to implement a digital process that provides structured and traceable reports and supports our internal documentation processes. The decisive factors for us were European data residency and the clear consent structure."— Bruno Schneller, Managing Partner, Erlen Capital Management AG
Erlen Capital is a FINMA-licensed asset manager, not a legal department — but it operates under the same documentation bar: KYC, anti-money-laundering and ongoing-monitoring duties that must survive internal and external audit. Read the case study →
From the routine check to the analyst-led escalation.
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