Contact and case inquiry

Discuss a forensic matter.

Tell us what happened, what system or records are involved, and what you need to understand. That is enough to start.

The initial inquiry is deliberately brief. It exists so a person can read the matter, judge whether AuditTrace Labs is the right place for it, and reply with a sensible next step. No evidence upload is accepted through this website, and none is needed at this stage.

Commercial forensic work and forensic access and assistance inquiries both arrive here. Email a short description for either type of inquiry.

For a scoped local-AI assessment, email us with the subject “Local-AI assessment”. Describe your customer-owned, locally operated model, runtime, assessment goals and authorization boundaries in general terms. Do not send model files, training data, credentials or private configuration. AuditTrace Labs does not sell computers or require specific AI hardware.

Useful in a first message

What happened, in plain language
Roughly when it happened, or when it was noticed
The kind of system, device, or records involved
What still exists, and what may already be gone
What you need to understand or demonstrate

General description only · no credentials · no evidence files

Inquiry

Send a short description of the matter.

The website form is temporarily unavailable. Email is the active inquiry channel.

Please do not send sensitive material in this first message

Do not send passwords, authentication credentials, private keys, access tokens, or sensitive evidence by ordinary email. Describe the matter in general terms instead — that is all this stage requires.

If the matter is appropriate for further review, AuditTrace Labs can provide instructions for the next step, including how any relevant material should be handled and exchanged.

Email inquiries

The website form is temporarily unavailable. Email contact@audittracelabs.com with a short, general description. Do not include credentials or sensitive evidence.

Email AuditTrace Labs

After you send it

Email and human review.

Your email application sends the inquiry

Opening an email link does not send a message. Review and send it in your email application, or copy the published address. Sending email does not guarantee delivery, a reply or acceptance of a matter.
Website submissions are unavailable

The website does not accept or forward contact-form submissions in this release. Direct email remains available. Contact Containment is not active on this release.
Scope comes before work

If the matter is one AuditTrace Labs can help with, the reply sets out what would come next: which evidence appears to matter, what authorization is required, and how material should be exchanged. Scope and authorization are agreed before any work begins.

An inquiry is not an engagement

Sending an email does not create a client relationship and does not mean a matter has been accepted. Every matter is different, and some fall outside what this laboratory should take on. An inquiry does not guarantee acceptance.

Contact AuditTrace Labs directly

Write to contact@audittracelabs.com with the same kind of description. The same caution applies to email: keep credentials and sensitive evidence out of a first message.

Email is the only contact channel AuditTrace Labs publishes.

Conditions of the work

Two points that are settled before anything else.

Authorization comes before access

Work can only involve systems, accounts, devices, records, or evidence for which appropriate authorization exists. Where that authorization is unclear, establishing it is the first task rather than a formality to be worked around.

Where a matter proceeds, retention scope is agreed explicitly and in writing. Reviewability long after an event is a design goal, not a promise, and it holds only where the available source evidence and chosen retention scope support it. Evidence that no longer exists cannot be recreated.

Bounded scope · documented authorization · human-gated review

What this laboratory is not

AuditTrace Labs is a private data forensics and system-state preservation laboratory. It is not a law-enforcement agency, a law firm, a court, or an emergency service, and nothing on this page is legal advice.

If a situation involves immediate danger, an ongoing crime, or any other emergency, please contact the appropriate authorities first. A forensic inquiry can follow afterwards; it is not a substitute for that step.

Questions about rights, obligations, or legal strategy belong with a qualified attorney.

We would rather state the weaker true thing than the stronger unsupported one.

That applies to this page and to anything we write in a report. Where evidence does not support a conclusion, the record says so. Separating observed fact from inference — and both from evidence that is simply missing — is part of the work, not a caveat added at the end.