What comes back
What the public record has, grouped by the kind of record it is, with the source named on every line so you can go and read the original.
- Company and regulatory. Filings and officer records where the name appears.
- Research and academic. Publications, author profiles and institutional affiliations.
- Official registries. Government and public-body records that name individuals.
- Social and technical accounts registered under that name rather than under a handle.
- A reading of the name itself: how common it is, and therefore how much weight any single match deserves.
Where it looks
Thirteen sources, each of which is a real register rather than an aggregator's copy of one.
Corporate and regulatory: the SEC's EDGAR filings and the GLEIF legal-entity register.
Research: OpenAlex, ORCID and Wikidata.
Official publication: Brazil's Querido Diario municipal gazettes and its public-sector transparency register.
Accounts under a real name: Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub and Stack Overflow, plus a public-mentions sweep.
What it will not tell you
- A home address, a date of birth or a family tree. Those are the stock in trade of American people-search sites that buy marketing data. This reads registers, and registers do not carry them.
- Criminal history. Not a background check, and not usable as one.
- Which of several people with the same name you found. With a common name, expect several unrelated people in one report. The confidence rating and the source of each line are what you use to separate them.
A better identifier, if you have one
A name is the weakest thing to search on, because names are shared and records rarely disambiguate them. If you also have an email address, a handle or a phone number, that search will be both narrower and deeper. The email lookup reaches 71 sources against a single, unambiguous identifier.
Common questions
Why did a search on a common name return several different people?
Because several different people are in the records under that name, and silently picking one would be a guess dressed as a finding. Each entry names its source so you can tell which is yours.
Nothing came back for the name I searched. Did it fail?
Probably not. Most people have no company filings, no publications and no official register entries, so there is genuinely nothing public to find. The report lists everything that was checked so you can see that.
Can I use this to check a job applicant or a tenant?
No. Reports may not be used for employment, housing, credit or insurance decisions. That is the Fair Credit Reporting Act, not our preference, and it is written into the terms.