About Firsthand

Firsthand is a team of OSINT analysts that partners with organizations prioritizing transparency, due diligence, and risk mitigation. We support your internal team with open-source intelligence gathering to help protect your employees, customers and assets. We strategically leverage online public information, and when necessary, human intelligence, to provide you with actionable intelligence.

Our services include researching and providing due diligence on companies and/or people. For clients who want to derisk a business transaction support them in the following areas: pre-acquisition due diligence, capital markets IPO due diligence, foreign anti-bribery due diligence, Know Your Customer, and Anti-Money Laundering due diligence for financial institutions.

We help attorneys with investigations and disputes. This includes asset tracing, asset recovery and litigation support. Firsthand also provides corporations with competitive intelligence and geopolitical analysis in countries where they operate.