Hi @Rabbit, thank you — these are excellent, well-thought-out suggestions. Let me walk through each one and share what we already have and where we’re heading.
1. Known Aliases and Email Addresses on Person Profiles
Great call. We do have some alias data scattered across documents but it’s not surfaced as a dedicated field on person profiles yet. Adding structured aliases and known email addresses to the person schema is on our roadmap. The “Adam Gurgly” example from EFTA00263097 is exactly the kind of thing that should be linked to Ghislaine Maxwell’s profile with a citation.
For now, our AI Research Assistant can find alias references across 1.6M+ documents if you search for them — but you’re right that these should be first-class fields on the person page, not buried in document text.
2. Degree of Certainty Tags
This is a really important point and speaks to something we take seriously — every claim needs sourcing, and not all sources are equal.
We partially address this already:
- Our document review system uses a weighted consensus model — 3+ independent reviewers must agree before a finding is marked as confirmed.
- Our AI agents are designed to flag findings with evidence quality scores and explicitly note when something is unverified.
- The Dossier system includes community notes that can be rated as helpful/not helpful.
But a formal confidence/certainty tag on person-document links and entity claims (e.g., “confirmed by multiple sources” vs. “mentioned in single unverified document” vs. “alleged/disputed”) would be a valuable addition. We’ll look into building this as a structured field.
3. Entity/Organization Profiles
This is something we’ve been thinking about. Currently, organizations appear in our data as text mentions within documents, but they don’t have their own dedicated profile pages like persons do.
An Organizations section — parallel to /persons — with profiles showing incorporation details, known officers, document mentions, and connections to persons would be very powerful. Think: Southern Trust Company, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, L Brands, Gratitude America, etc. Each with the same cross-referencing treatment we give to individuals.
We have extracted entity data from EFTA documents that includes organization names, so the raw data exists — it just needs a proper UI.
4. “Homework/Draft” Profiles and Research Parking
The closest thing we have right now is the Dossier system — community-created investigative dossiers that can include pinned documents, community notes, and citations. Any user can create a dossier on a topic and others can contribute notes.
What you’re describing — a structured research workspace where someone can park leads, link external findings (state incorporation records, board of directors, etc.), and build out a profile over time — could be a natural extension of the dossier system. The idea of making these “actionable” by connecting them back to the document evidence is exactly the right approach.
5. Events and Timelines
Good news — we already have a Timeline page with 6,000+ events spanning 1974-2025, covering arrests, flights, filings, depositions, and key dates. Each event links to source documents.
What we could improve:
- User-contributed events: Let reviewers create new timeline entries directly from documents they’re reviewing (“I found that ExampleCo held a party on April 1, 2009, per document X”).
- Event-person linking: Connect events to specific persons and organizations so you can view any individual’s complete chronological narrative.
- Citation requirements: Every event backed by a specific document reference, as you suggest.
The vision of building out narrative threads from document evidence — linking people, places, dates, and organizations into coherent stories — is exactly what this platform is designed to enable.
Most of what you’re describing maps cleanly onto features we have in various stages of development. The key pieces that don’t exist yet:
- Organization profiles (new entity type alongside persons)
- Structured confidence/certainty tags on claims
- Inline research workspaces extending the dossier system
- User-contributed timeline events from the review flow
These are all great additions to the roadmap. Welcome to the community, and keep exploring — there’s a lot here to dig into!