Case Study: 5 Stones intelligence streamlines investigations with Videris from Blackdot Solutions

How Five Stones Intelligence uses Videris to add value and see the bigger picture

5 Stones intelligence (5Si) is a Miami-based professional services firm that provides intelligence collection and analysis, global investigations, and operations support for governments and corporations. Its investigators needed a faster, safer way to identify network connections and work across multiple disparate sources, since manual OSINT research on social media, public records, search engines, and adverse news databases was time-consuming and tedious. Blackdot Solutions’ Videris platform was used to centralize these investigations.

Blackdot Solutions implemented Videris as a one-stop shop for 5Si, combining search, social media, corporate records, premium databases like Dow Jones Factiva, and automated network mapping in a single platform. This helped 5Si uncover connections more quickly, improve scoping, and surface hard-to-find content such as foreign-language articles, contributing to successful long-running investigations including a high-profile professional sports doping case. The company says Videris has saved investigators significant time, cutting initial scoping from hours to about 10 minutes and enabling more thorough, value-added investigations.

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Gregg Popick

Director of Special Projects