One canvas, every kind of thing
People, organizations, events, places, documents, social posts, media — as first-class nodes with typed connections: funds, controls, contradicts. Not just a graph of identifiers.
Investigation analysis platform
Rel. 1.0
Map the whole case on one canvas — and let the AI do the reading.
People, organizations, events, documents and posts, connected on an infinite board. A research assistant that searches, scrapes and files what it finds. Everything in one local database on your machine.
Case file DS-0001
Demonstration
14
Specialised node types
100%
Case data held on-device
BYOK
Or fully offline models via Ollama
2–50
Seats per enterprise licence, self-managed
60+
Research tools across web, social, records and geospatial sources
Everything an analyst needs, in one working surface.
Built for investigators who deal with many actors, long timelines and a lot of evidence — and who have to explain their reasoning afterwards.
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Unlimited canvas
Pan, zoom and arrange an investigation across an unbounded workspace. Group work into regions, and keep separate matters on separate boards.
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Entity tracking
Persons and organisations carry aliases, roles, affiliations and links to the evidence that supports each claim.
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Timeline view
Every dated node is placed on an interactive timeline so sequence, gaps and overlaps are visible at a glance.
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Narratives
Group nodes into competing or complementary narratives and follow how each develops across the board.
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Full-text search
Indexed search across nodes, connections and narratives, including non-Latin scripts.
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Source capture
Articles, social posts, documents and media are captured with metadata, archived snapshots and offline copies, so evidence survives takedowns.
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Automatic enrichment
A local job queue enriches new nodes in the background: profiles, article extraction, archive snapshots and media, all flagged as machine-sourced.
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Reporting
Generate briefing decks from the board — executive summary, timeline, actor network or evidence summary — refine them in chat, and export to PDF with speaker notes.
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Paste anything
Paste a link, a tweet, a YouTube URL, an image or plain text onto the board and the right node is created and populated automatically.
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Organise and filter
Auto-layout, regions, collapse-all, filter by node type or narrative, a minimap, and keyboard shortcuts for every node type. Large boards stay legible.
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Multiple conversations
Several assistant conversations per board, auto-titled, with context compaction and a token budget so long-running cases don't run out of room.
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Custom tools Pro
Extend the assistant with JavaScript tools that call internal systems or partner APIs, under your own controls.
Fourteen node types. Every item of intelligence has a place.
Each type carries the fields, previews and behaviour appropriate to it, so a board reads like a structured file rather than a wall of sticky notes. Select a type to see what it holds.
Free-form notes with Markdown formatting for headings, lists and code. The place for reasoning, working hypotheses and to-do items that should sit next to the evidence.
Dated events with precise timestamps and optional locations. Every event appears on the timeline view for sequence analysis.
Profiles for individuals: aliases, roles, affiliations and links to supporting evidence. Open reference data can enrich each profile with a description and photograph, marked as machine-sourced.
Companies, agencies and NGOs with industry, location and key personnel. Enrichment adds logos and descriptions where available.
Analytical judgements recorded with a stated confidence level and a resolution date, so assessments can be reviewed against outcomes later.
Web pages captured with title, author, publisher and body text extracted automatically, with the original link retained.
Posts from X, Reddit, Bluesky and YouTube captured with author, timestamp and engagement figures, preserved even if the source is later removed.
Images and video added by drag-and-drop or paste. Vision-capable models can describe and OCR imagery on request.
PDFs and other files attached to the board with inline previews, linked to the nodes they support.
Addresses and coordinates with map previews. Locations connect to the events and persons associated with them.
Threads that group related nodes and are colour-coded on the board, so competing storylines can be followed independently.
Articles ingested with automatic content extraction and an AI-generated summary, ready for relevance filtering.
Subscriptions to RSS, Reddit, Bluesky and X sources that import new items on a schedule, with keyword and relevance filters.
Labelled, colour-coded containers that organise sections of a board without altering the underlying data.
An assistant that works the board, not a chat window beside it.
The agent panel sits alongside the canvas. It reads what is on the board, creates and links nodes, searches open sources and captures what it finds. Every tool call is shown inline as it happens, and every change can be undone.
- Create and link nodes Persons, organisations, events and connections from natural-language instructions
- Open-source research Web, social platforms, court and SEC records, sanctions lists, historic newspapers, geospatial — 60+ tools
- Read what is on the board Full-text search of the case file, imagery review and OCR with vision models
- Plan mode A read-only mode that proposes steps and asks before changing anything
- Summaries and reports Narrative summaries, article digests and presentation decks from the board
- Your choice of model Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenCode Zen and Go, DeepState managed — or Ollama for fully offline use
AI Agent
Claude (Anthropic)
Ask the agent... (Shift+Enter for new line, paste images)
Every claim carries its source, its rating and its reasoning.
A board has to stand up later — in a briefing, a disclosure package or a courtroom. DeepState records where each item came from, how much it is trusted and why two things are linked, so the file can be defended by someone who did not build it.
Capture provenance
Captured sources keep the original URL, retrieval time, author and publisher, an archived copy where one exists, and offline copies of media. If the original is later removed, the node is flagged as deleted at source — the evidence remains.
Credibility & verification
Sources and claims carry a 1–5 credibility rating and a verification status — verified, unverified, disputed or debunked — with analyst notes explaining the assessment. Machine-generated content is labelled as such.
Verified
Unverified
Disputed
Debunked
Typed, reasoned links
Connections are not just lines. Eleven relationship types — causes, confirms, denies, contradicts, funds, controls, employs, quotes, precedes, sources, related — each with direction, strength and a written reasoning field shown on hover.
Assessments with confidence
Analytical judgements are recorded as their own nodes with a stated confidence level and a timeframe, then marked confirmed, partially confirmed or denied when the outcome is known — a running record of analytic performance.
Nothing is lost
Fifty levels of undo across node, connection and layout changes. Deletions are soft: nodes and connections are retained and can be restored. Every assistant action is listed in the transcript and reversible.
Portable, shareable case files
Export any board to a single .deepstate file, or share it live through a
folder your team already controls. Every change is attributed to a device and author
in an append-only log, so a shared board is also an audit trail of who did what, when.
What changed since
Ask the assistant what is new on the board since a point in time — "since yesterday", "in the last hour" — and get a structured diff of nodes, connections and narratives for shift handover or a supervisor's review.
§05Sources & integrations
Sixty-plus research tools, built in. The assistant and the analyst use the same ones.
Every source below is available as an agent tool and, where it makes sense, as a node action on the board. Results are captured to nodes with the original URL and retrieval time.
Open web
- Web searchExa semantic search and DuckDuckGo
- Page captureArticle extraction with author, publisher and body text
- Google NewsTopic and entity news monitoring
- Image searchFind and capture imagery to the board
- Wayback MachineLocate and fetch archived copies of pages
- WHOIS / RDAPDomain registration and registrar records
Social platforms
- X / TwitterPost search, profiles, timelines, trends, feed monitoring
- BlueskyPosts, profiles and timelines via app password
- RedditPosts, comments, user history, subreddit feeds
- YouTubeTranscripts, channel listings and comment capture
- Username searchHandle enumeration across 480+ sites by category
- RSS & feedsScheduled import with keyword and AI relevance filters
Public records
- CourtListenerUS court opinions, dockets and judge profiles
- SEC EDGARFilings, full-text search and XBRL financials
- SanctionsOFAC and US consolidated screening lists
- Historic newspapersLibrary of Congress Chronicling America, 1777–1963
- Person searchUS people-search aggregation with addresses and relatives
- GitHubRepositories, users and code search
Reference & geospatial
- WikipediaAutomatic enrichment of persons and organisations
- GeocodingAddresses to coordinates and back (OpenStreetMap)
- RoutingDriving, walking and cycling routes between locations
- Nearby searchPoints of interest around a coordinate (Overpass)
- Map snapshotsRendered maps with markers and routes as media nodes
- VisionOCR and image description with vision-capable models
Designed to pass the questions your security team will ask.
DeepState is a desktop application. There is no hosted case database, no account to create, and no requirement to send investigation material to us.
Request the security overview- Data residency
- Boards, evidence, media and search indexes are stored in a local SQLite database on the analyst's workstation. Nothing is synchronised to us.
- Backup & portability
- One-click full backup and restore of the whole workspace, and per-board export/import as a single file. Archives are plain ZIP containing JSON and the original media, so they can be retained, disclosed or audited without DeepState.
- Credentials
- API keys and session tokens are encrypted at rest with the operating system keychain (Windows DPAPI, macOS Keychain, Linux Secret Service). They never leave the device.
- Model choice
- Bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or OpenCode (Zen / Go) keys, sign in with a Claude or ChatGPT subscription, use the DeepState managed service, or run Ollama for an entirely offline deployment with no external AI traffic.
- Network footprint
- Outbound traffic is limited to the AI provider you configure, the sources you choose to capture, licence validation, and optional anonymous product analytics that can be disabled in Settings.
- Collaboration
- Teams share a board through any folder they already control — a network share, OneDrive, or a USB stick for air-gapped sites. Every change and every media file is encrypted with a board key that only the invited devices hold. No sync server, ours or anyone else's.
- Seat administration
- Enterprise licences include a self-service portal to issue, reassign and revoke seats, and a usage dashboard for managed AI consumption per seat.
- Procurement
- Volume licensing, invoicing and multi-year terms are available for public-sector and enterprise buyers. Custom pricing above 50 seats.
§07From users
Finally an investigation tool that thinks the way an analyst does — entities, timelines and evidence, not slides.
The assistant is genuinely useful. It records what it did and cites the node it took it from, which is the only way I would trust it in a file.
Local-first with real privacy. Our material never leaves the workstation, which is what made it possible to approve at all.
§08Why DeepState
Link-analysis tools map data. DeepState maps the case.
Maltego and i2 are built for entity graphs. Note apps are built for prose. Investigations are both — and the reading is the slow part. DeepState puts every entity, event, document and post on one canvas, and gives you an assistant that does the reading.
An assistant that does the reading
Seventy-plus tools — web, Wikipedia, court records, SEC filings, sanctions lists, Wayback, WHOIS, social platforms, historical newspapers. It searches, scrapes, creates the nodes and cites where each one came from.
Local-first, by construction
One SQLite file and a media folder on your disk. No account, no server that can read your case. Share a board with a colleague end-to-end encrypted — over your LAN, a relay that only sees ciphertext, or a USB stick.
From board to briefing
Group findings into narratives with AI summaries, pull up the timeline, then turn the board into a slide deck or PDF the AI drafts for you. The output is the report, not a screenshot of a graph.
Bring your own model — or don't
DeepState AI is included with every license, so it works out of the box. Or connect Claude, ChatGPT, OpenRouter, OpenCode, or a fully offline Ollama model. Switch any time; boards are unaffected.
Priced for one analyst
$29 or $49 a month, per seat, cancel any time. The alternatives start in the thousands per year and assume a procurement department.
Fits alongside what you already use: import a .deepstate file from a colleague, export the board, or keep Obsidian and Maltego for what they do well.
§09Pricing
Simple per-seat pricing, billed monthly.
Cancel at any time. Upgrade between plans and the difference is prorated. Not sure yet? Start with the free 14-day trial — it is the full Professional edition.
Personal
Individual researchers and freelancers
$29
per month
- Unlimited canvas and all 14 node types
- Timeline, narratives and full-text search
- AI assistant with your own API key
- Up to 5 boards
- All updates included
- Unlimited boards
- Feed monitoring and person search
- Advanced AI capabilities
Recommended
Professional
Full capability for working analysts
$49
per month
- Everything in Personal
- Unlimited boards
- RSS and social feed monitoring
- Person search across public records
- Advanced AI capabilities and custom tools
- Included DeepState managed AI usage
- Priority support
Enterprise
Teams, units and agencies
$98
per month
250
Volume rates apply from 6 seats. More than 50 seats or invoiced terms: contact sales.
- Everything in Professional, per seat
- Seat management portal
- Managed AI usage per seat, with dashboard
- Volume pricing up to 40% off
- Priority support
- Invoicing and multi-year terms on request
Common questions
Can we cancel?
Yes. Cancel at any time; access continues to the end of the billing period.
What does "your own API key" mean?
Personal plans use the AI provider you already have — Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenCode Zen / Go, a Claude or ChatGPT subscription login — or a local Ollama instance. Professional and Enterprise plans additionally include managed usage through DeepState.
Can seats be reassigned?
Yes. Enterprise administrators issue, reassign and revoke seats from the management portal at any time.
Which platforms are supported?
Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple silicon) and Linux. A licence is valid on any platform.
§10Next step
Try it on a case you are working right now.
Fourteen days of the full Professional edition. No card. Your boards stay on your machine whatever you decide.