→ CASE STUDY 02
SAAS / INTELLIGENCE / FY2026
EST. READ — 6 MIN
VOL. V / NO. 02
→ THE BRIEF
Arc Light Technologies:
SleuthNet — crowd-sourced intelligence for the rest of us.
SALUTE-framework reporting platform for enterprise security teams, investigative journalists, and field operators. Tier model: team, department, agency. Private beta Q3.
→ CLIENT
Arc Light Technologies
CLIENT
→ DISCIPLINE
Product, Full-Stack
FULL-STACK
→ TIMELINE
FY26 — ongoing
ACTIVE
→ STATUS
Beta
BETA
→ 01 / THE PROBLEM
REPORTING IS BROKEN OUTSIDE THE WIRE.
In the military, a SALUTE report — size, activity, location, unit, time, equipment — takes ninety seconds to file and reaches the right desk before the situation has finished developing.
In the civilian world, the same observation takes thirty minutes to write up, lives in a Google Doc nobody reads, and reaches the right desk only if someone happens to forward it. Enterprise security teams, journalists, NGO field staff, and municipal investigators all face the same problem: the structured intelligence reporting that operators take for granted does not exist anywhere outside the wire.
SleuthNet was built to close that gap — to bring nearly two decades of tactical reporting discipline to the people who need it most, with none of the friction.
→ 02 / THE APPROACH
DOCTRINE FIRST, THEN SOFTWARE.
Most reporting tools begin with a database schema. SleuthNet began with the doctrine.
Before a single line of code, we mapped nineteen distinct report types — SALUTE, UXO 9-line, suspicious activity, asset, source contact, surveillance detection, and others — against three end-user archetypes: the corporate security analyst, the investigative journalist, and the federal field operator. Each report type was rebuilt from its tactical origins to fit civilian reality without losing its discipline.
→ WHAT'S NEXT
INTERESTED IN THIS WORK?
Every engagement begins with a brief. Two minutes to describe the system you need built or the decision you are facing. A response within forty-eight hours.
→ ARCHIVE
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