Most calls to a PI are not a movie. Someone needs a fact they can't get from a search bar or from the police — a person, a background, a claim, a household, or a hole in the books. The work is the same idea every time: document what's true, in a way that still stands if someone argues. These are the five reasons that show up again and again.
Find a debtor, a witness, an heir, an old partner, or someone who dropped off the map. When the police won't run a civil locate, this is who does.
Explore → 02Know who you're dealing with before you hire, date, invest, partner, or hand over a key. The highest-volume work a PI does.
Explore → 03Employers and carriers use investigators when a claim and the real week don't match — workers' comp, occupancy, staged loss.
Explore → 04Infidelity, overnight guests around the kids, money moving before a divorce. What most people picture when they think "private investigator."
Explore → 05A register that comes up short, inventory that walks, a second set of books, the "sick" employee working another job. When cameras and HR can't finish the story.
Explore →“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”— John Adams