Forensic Accounting
ENV-01Reconstruct complex financial flows and investigate irregular transactions.
Forensic financial intelligence
Follow the evidence.
Reconstruct the event.
TraceLedger connects fragmented financial records into a temporal evidence graph, helping investigators reconstruct how transactions, entities, contracts, and decisions became connected.
For forensic accounting, financial investigations, litigation, and enterprise risk teams.
- Evidence types
- 10+
- Dimension
- Temporal
- Output
- Event chain
Illustrative caseCASE-0000 / EVIDENCE GRAPH
Fragmented records → connected evidence → reconstructed event0/8 nodes resolved
02Distributed evidence
Financial events leave traces everywhere.
The evidence required to understand a single financial event is rarely stored in one place. It is scattered across core banking, accounts payable, document management, procurement, ERP, registries, and custody systems — each with its own identifiers, timestamps, and formats.
Reviewing those systems document by document is slow and structurally incomplete: the relationship between two records is only visible when both are read together.
Evidence matrix8 records / no relationship
| Record | Source | Date | Entity | Amount | Reference | Relationship |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bank transaction | CORE-BANK | 03-11 12:03 | Entity B | $482,700 | TXN #A817 | — |
| Invoice | AP LEDGER | 03-11 09:14 | Vendor A | $482,700 | INV #4821 | — |
| Contract | DMS | 02-27 10:02 | Vendor A | — | CTR 19-B | — |
| Purchase order | PROCURE | 02-25 16:20 | Vendor A | $480,000 | PO-7741 | — |
| ERP record | ERP-FIN | 03-11 12:07 | Cost ctr 44 | $482,700 | JE-99120 | — |
| Corporate entity | REGISTRY | 01-08 | Entity B | — | ENT-0774 | — |
| Communication timestamp | METADATA | 03-11 11:47 | Vendor A | — | MSG-2213 | — |
| Asset movement | CUSTODY | 03-11 16:42 | Entity B | $451,000 | AST-0031 | — |
Records appear unrelated when reviewed individually
03Temporal reconstruction
Time is the missing dimension.
Most systems store records as isolated documents. TraceLedger orders them on a shared timeline, so a sequence — not a score — becomes the unit of analysis.
Investigative timeline / 03-110 of 6 revealed
09:14
Invoice created
•••••
10:02
Contract modified
•••••
11:47
Payment initiated
•••••
12:03
Funds transferred
•••••
13:18
Related entity receives payment
•••••
16:42
Asset transaction recorded
•••••
- 09:14Invoice created•••••
- 10:02Contract modified•••••
- 11:47Payment initiated•••••
- 12:03Funds transferred•••••
- 13:18Related entity receives payment•••••
- 16:42Asset transaction recorded•••••
04Anomaly expansion
An anomaly is only the beginning of an investigation.
A flag tells you a transaction looks unusual. An investigation requires the chain of evidence surrounding it — what preceded it, what authorised it, and where the value went afterwards.
Synthetic investigationExpansion depth 0
Flagged transaction
Amount$482,700
Timestamp14:32:18
StatusUnder investigation
ReferenceTXN #A817
Values are synthetic and do not represent a real case.
Connected records
- VendorinvoicedVendor A · ENT-0192
- ContractauthorizesCTR 19-B · amended 10:02
- Related entityreceivesEntity B · ENT-0774
- Previous paymentspattern4 payments / 90d
- Accountowned byACC-31•• 8842
- Subsequent transfertransferredAST-0031 · 16:42
From “this transaction looks unusual” → “here is the chain of evidence surrounding it”
05Evidence graph
The investigation lives in the graph.
Entities, accounts, transactions, contracts, documents, and assets are held in one relational surface. Filter by object class or relationship type, then follow the paths that matter.
Graph workspace / CASE-00009 nodes · 10 edges
Select a node to isolate its relationships
06Provenance
Every conclusion should be traceable back to evidence.
TraceLedger never presents a machine-generated conclusion as settled fact. Each reconstructed finding is attached to the underlying records it was derived from, so investigators can review, challenge, and validate it.
Evidence chainObservation → Relationship → Event → Hypothesis
Reconstructed finding
Potential related-party transaction chain
A payment authorised under an amended contract was settled to an entity that shares a registered relationship with the originating vendor, followed by an asset movement the same day.
ConfidenceRequires analyst review
Derived from5 source records
StatusUnvalidated hypothesis
Supporting evidence
- ←Transaction #A817CORE-BANK · 12:03
- ←Invoice #4821AP LEDGER · 09:14
- ←Contract #19-BDMS · amended 10:02
- ←Entity relationship recordREGISTRY · ENT-0774
- ←Timestamp correlation5 events within 7h 28m
07Investigative environments
One evidence layer. Multiple investigative environments.
The same reconstructed evidence model supports different investigative disciplines, each working from the records they already hold.
Evidence layerTraceLedgerEntities · transactions · documents · timeCORE
Financial Institutions
ENV-02Investigate suspicious transaction networks and connected entities.
Litigation
ENV-03Organize financial evidence into chronological and relational structures.
Corporate Investigations
ENV-04Understand relationships between vendors, entities, contracts, payments, and assets.
Regulatory Investigation
ENV-05Trace complex financial activity across organizations and time.
08Reconstruction
The goal is not another risk score. It is a reconstructed story.
Raw evidence
TXN #A817
$482,700
INV #4821
AP LEDGER
ENT-0774
REGISTRY
CTR 19-B
AMENDED
PO-7741
$480,000
JE-99120
ERP-FIN
MSG-2213
11:47
AST-0031
16:42
ACC-8842
CUSTODY
TXN #B209
$96,400
ENT-0192
VENDOR A
DOC-5514
SCAN
Unordered · unlinked · multi-system
TraceLedger
Reconstructed event
- ENTITY01
- CONTRACT02
- INVOICE03
- PAYMENT04
- RELATED ENTITY05
- TRANSFER06
- ASSET07
Chronological · relational · reviewable
TraceLedger transforms fragmented financial evidence into an investigative model that can be examined, challenged, and validated.
09Case intake
Tell us what you’re investigating.
TraceLedger is opening access to a limited group of forensic, financial, and investigative teams.
- 01Roleactive
- 02Evidencepending
- 03Objectivepending
- 04Identitypending
Investigation intakeSTEP 1 / 4