Methodology

How TWILOX investigates

Last reviewed · 2026-05-18 · public-source intelligence only

1 · Intake

A user provides a single signal: an email address, phone number, username, identity (full name + location), image, social handle, domain, IP, company name, crypto wallet address, or URL. The signal is hashed before transit; we never store plaintext queries.

2 · Fan-out

The orchestrator dispatches isolated worker containers in parallel:

  • Sherlock and Maigret — username search across 400+ platforms.
  • Holehe — email-to-platform mapping.
  • PhoneInfoga — phone OSINT, plus 16-country reverse-directory probes.
  • ExifTool — image EXIF and metadata extraction.
  • SpiderFoot — domain, IP, and company graph.
  • TorBot — dark-web crawling via a local Tor SOCKS proxy (Ahmia, Torch, Haystack).
  • FaceCheck.ID, PimEyes — face-recognition reverse search via their HTTPS APIs.
  • Google Lens, Bing Visual Search, Surfface — reverse-image search via a Playwright headless-browser worker.

3 · Correlation

Findings stream into a Neo4j AuraDB graph. Aliases are resolved across channels, and a confidence score is computed per finding based on source authority and corroboration count.

4 · Narration

A multi-provider AI layer (Anthropic Claude → OpenAI → Gemini fallback) writes an executive summary anchored to the evidence trail. Every claim links to the public source that produced it.

5 · Rendering

The cinematic dossier UI streams the result. PDF export is one click. Typical end-to-end latency is under 60 seconds.

Public-source only

  • Open breach corpora, indexed social platforms, archived web pages, publicly queryable registries, public dark-web indexes.
  • No authentication bypass. No paywall scraping. No purchased private datasets.
  • Every finding links back to its public source.
  • GDPR subject-deletion requests honored within 72 hours.
  • Use is logged. Harassment, stalking, or unauthorized surveillance terminates the account and is reported to platform partners.

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