Product documentation
What the Operator Deep Dossier contains
One organisation, $99, delivered as a branded PDF within three business days. Fifteen sections: the complete Operator Brief, plus seven more. All of them listed here, with what each contains and what it cannot tell you.
Want to see it before you buy? View sample (fictional company, for demonstration only)
The deliverable
The organisation, not just the company
The Operator Brief answers who a company is and whether you can trust them. The Deep Dossier goes sideways and backwards: across the corporate group and the other names the same organisation trades under, and back through what they used to claim about themselves.
It is researched by an analyst, not generated. Roughly 10 to 16 pages. It contains the full Brief as sections 01 to 08, so you do not need to buy both.
Sections 01 to 08
The complete Operator Brief
Identity and corporate control · screening status · infrastructure evidence · address space block by block · naming and tenancy · claims versus observed · analyst read · provenance and limits.
These are the same sections, to the same definitions, as the $39 product. See them in full.
Sections 09 to 15
What the Dossier adds
Corporate group and control map
Every company under the same ultimate parent, not just this one: legal names, jurisdictions, and which entities are lapsed or dormant.
Example evidence — Ultimate parent: Example Group S.A. (LU) · 11 entities across 5 jurisdictions · 3 lapsed, 8 active
Conditional — needs a registered entity with at least one sibling. Most smaller operators have no group to map, and we say so rather than padding.
Group-wide screening
The whole group screened against published sanctions and export-control lists, not only this company and its parents.
Example evidence — 11 group entities screened · 10 no match · 1 match on a sibling in a third jurisdiction, country-corroborated, distinctive name — verify directly
Conditional on section 09. A clean operator with a designated sibling is a finding the Brief cannot produce, and is the main reason this section exists.
Other names, brands and related operators
Where else this organisation appears under a different name: other domains and directory records that share address space, an organisation name, or a parent company.
Example evidence — Three further directory records share AS64500 · example-colo.com (colocation), example-net.net (bandwidth) · basis: shared address space
Usually available where the operator holds address space or has a distinctive company name. The basis for every connection is stated, and a connection is never asserted as ownership.
Business lines, and what they actually sell
Their full web presence investigated: service lines linked to the actual product pages, pricing posture, certifications claimed, locations claimed, leadership where they publish it, and which lines are the real business versus a side line.
Example evidence — Colocation (deep link), IP transit (deep link), managed backup · primary line is colocation, six facility pages with published rates · backup is incidental: one page, no pricing
Always present.
What changed — the historical record
What they used to claim, set against what they claim now: products and facilities that disappeared, rebrands, and whether claims have grown or shrunk.
Example evidence — 2019 captures claim “four data centres” with a facility list · from 2024 the site claims “global presence” and the facility page is gone
Conditional on enough historical evidence existing. Archive coverage is uneven and outside our control, and no amount of current research can create a record of the past. Where the history is not there, we say so.
Additional address holdings and inactive space
Further address blocks recorded under a similar organisation name, their size and registry, and whether each is currently observed in routing.
Example evidence — Four blocks recorded under a similar organisation name · three not currently observed in routing · match basis: organisation name only
Conditional. These are holdings observed and matched by name, not a determination of legal ownership. “Inactive” means not currently seen in routing — it does not imply concealment, abandonment, or that the space is available.
Extended analyst read and trajectory
What kind of organisation this is, where the evidence suggests it is heading, what to verify directly, and what would change the assessment.
Example evidence — “A regional operator that has narrowed its claims since 2019. Evidence supports one active site rather than the four once advertised. Verify which facility is theirs before contracting.”
Always present. A judgment, labelled as one. No score, no rating, no ranking.
Before you buy
We check there is a Dossier worth writing
Several sections above are conditional, which raises an obvious question: what stops a Dossier from being the Brief with more words?
Because a person researches each one, we can check before charging rather than after. A Dossier is offered only where enough of the added sections will actually carry content. Where they will not, we point you to the $39 Brief instead — and if that only becomes clear after you have paid, we refund you in full rather than deliver a thin one.
If you already bought the Brief
Upgrade for $60
The Dossier contains the whole Operator Brief, so if you bought a Brief on the same operator within the last 30 days, the Dossier is $60 rather than $99. You are not charged twice for what you already hold.
The price is worked out from your own purchase record when you order, so you do not need a code and there is nothing to claim. Outside the 30 days, or with no earlier Brief, it is $99.
Delivery
What happens after you order
1 · Order
Pay by card. If we cannot research the operator at all, you are told before any charge.
2 · Research
An analyst works through the corporate group, the related names and the historical record.
3 · Delivered
A branded PDF, watermarked to your account, within three business days.
4 · Yours
It stays in your library and re-downloads at no extra cost.
Limitations
What it does not tell you
- It is research, not certification. Nothing here inspects a facility or verifies a contract.
- Screening is name-based and runs across the group. A match means a name resembles one on a published list. It is a prompt to verify directly, never a finding of wrongdoing.
- Corporate records are only as current as the registry, and a consolidation relationship is an accounting fact rather than proof of operational control.
- Address holdings are matched by organisation name and are not a determination of ownership. Registry holders and operators can be different parties, and company names collide.
- Historical comparison depends on archive coverage we do not control. Absence of captures is evidence of neither change nor stability.
- It is a point in time, and it is dated. Both infrastructure and ownership change.
- If we cannot research a useful Dossier on an operator, we tell you and refund you rather than send you a thin one.
Order a Dossier from any operator profile.
Find the organisation you are researching, then order from their page.