Role
SearchIn for investigative journalists
Verify subjects and documents with commercial OSINT on a reporter’s budget.
Investigative journalists use SearchIn to check people, companies, and images without maintaining separate paid OSINT accounts. Pay per query, save work in cases, and move between identity, domain, and visual sources from one desk.
Who it's for
Built for investigative journalist work
- Staff and freelance investigative reporters
- Data journalists verifying entities and domains
- Newsroom researchers supporting long-form projects
- Journalists who need occasional paid OSINT without annual seats
Workflows
Typical workflows
- 01
Subject verification
Cross-check emails, usernames, and names across identity and breach providers before publication.
- 02
Company and shell-domain trails
WHOIS and DNS history to document ownership and related infrastructure.
- 03
Visual verification
Face matching and photo geolocation when images are central to the story.
- 04
Project-length research files
Cases keep months of pivots reopenable for editors and collaborators.
Sources
Where to start
Each source has a full page with inputs, coverage, limits, and per-lookup prices.
- OSINT IndustriesPeople, identity, and crypto wallet intelligence across hundreds of online modules.from $0.60 (optional premium +$1.80)
- Predicta SearchReverse email, phone, username, and name lookup across 500+ networks.from $0.50
- WhoisXMLLast-known WHOIS, reverse WHOIS, and reverse IP from Domain Research Suite.from $0.40
- Facecheck.idFacial recognition matches from a photo file or public image URL.from $0.50
- Picarta.aiAI photo geolocation — GPS predictions and EXIF context.from $0.50
- GeoSeerAI photo geolocation with ranked locations and visual reasoning.from $0.40
- LeakOSINTbotBreach-database style leak search for emails, usernames, phones, domains, and IPs.from $0.20
FAQ
OSINT for investigative journalist, answered
Will SearchIn expose my story queries?
Treat SearchIn like any third-party research tool under your newsroom security policy. Product analytics do not include query text; review the privacy policy for details.
Can freelancers afford this?
Pay-per-query pricing avoids large seat commitments. Top up only what a project needs.
How does this differ from free OSINT?
Free sources remain essential. SearchIn adds commercial providers (identity, breach, WHOIS, faces, geolocation) behind one login and wallet.
Is there a team option for a desk?
Yes — team wallets and shared cases help research desks collaborate.
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OSINTverse means OSINT
Everything else on OSINTverse
One account covers search, the case map, the API, and MCP. The free tools, the resources, and the community need no account at all.
- SearchSearchInType one email, username, phone, or domain. See everything connected to it.17 sources behind one search box
- MapGraphInBrowser link analysis your whole team shares, priced per team.$100 once per team, not per seat
- AutomateOSINTOne APIThe same 17 sources in your own tools. One key, one schema.17 sources, one key, one schema
- ConnectOSINTverse MCPLet Claude run the same 17 sources and file results into Cases. You set the daily cap.24 tools for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor
- Free toolsFree OSINT toolsSherlock, Maigret, Holehe, and more in the browser, plus otinstaller on Linux. No account.9 browser tools and 40 CLI tools
- LearnResourcesCourses, books, ebooks, newsletters, and communities, judged before you pay for one.68 resources and 86 comparisons
- CommunityOSINT CollectiveA free monthly room where people who do OSINT teach what they know. OSINTCon recordings stay open.500 seats a month, 10,000+ OSINTCon attendees
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