Investigations workspace

Crack 100,000 leaked documents in days, not months.

Drop a 2.6 TB document drop. Leapable indexes, OCRs, and surfaces every connection. Every answer cites the file, page, and entity.

Built for reporters, newsroom data teams, watchdogs, auditors, and consortium investigations that need defensible findings without assembling infrastructure first.

Leapable investigation workspace showing source-cited FOIA findings beside highlighted source files
Panama-Papers scale Built around leak-scale folders: millions of files, scans, spreadsheets, and email.
Local-first control Keep private investigation material in local vaults unless you explicitly share.
Cross-document entities Find people, companies, addresses, and recurring terms across disconnected files.
Append-only audit Preserve a checkable record of files, transformations, and cited findings.
MCP-native stack BYO LLM through 10 MCP client configurations, 191 MCP tools, and 21 file types.

How it works

FOIA production to entity trail.

Add the drop, let OCR and extraction make it searchable, then ask from your AI client and inspect the cited file before a lead becomes a story sentence.

Workflow diagram from user workspace to AI client and cited answer for investigations

The legacy stack

ICIJ proved the model. Most teams cannot rebuild the machine.

ICIJ says the Panama Papers were 2.6 TB and 11.5 million leaked files, reviewed over a year by ICIJ, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and more than 100 media partners. Their technical writeups name Apache Solr, Blacklight, Apache Tika, Tesseract, Oxwall, and Linkurious as parts of the stack. You do not have time to be a sysadmin. You are on deadline.

Sources: ICIJ Panama Papers investigation facts and ICIJ data and technology stack.

60-second demo

Drop a 50,000-page FOIA production. Open the cited source.

The reserved demo path is a scanned public-records production: OCR pages, find every mention of a target, compare redactions, and return cited findings your editor can inspect.

INPUT

Scanned FOIA files, spreadsheets, emails, and notes.

ASK

Find the target, aliases, companies, dates, and redaction patterns.

OUTPUT

Source-cited leads with file, page, and entity references.

Transcript placeholder: scanned production added to Leapable, OCR status completes, entity trail opens, and cited findings link back to source files.

Capabilities

Six jobs for leak-scale investigation review.

Massive-scale document review

Handle TB-scale folders with PDFs, images, spreadsheets, presentations, CSV, Markdown, and text.

Entity extraction across documents

Connect names, companies, addresses, dates, and recurring phrases across the drop.

Vault isolation per investigation

Separate stories, sources, and legal-risk boundaries with local vault controls.

Cross-vault entity graph

Roadmap work for matching entity trails across investigations without exposing full files.

Local-first chain of custody

Keep sensitive work local-first while preserving source hashes and cited outputs.

Portable vault collaboration

Move sealed vault files between trusted collaborators when a story needs distributed review.

Competitor reality

There is no clean boxed competitor for leak journalism.

Investigation teams usually choose between custom open-source assembly, enterprise investigation platforms, and manual review. Leapable is the local-first MCP workspace between those extremes.

Capability Custom ICIJ-style stack Enterprise investigation platform Manual newsroom review Leapable
Setup Solr, Tika, Tesseract, Blacklight, Oxwall, Linkurious, glue code Procurement and cloud onboarding Folders, spreadsheets, and human memory Install local workspace, add files, ask from MCP client
Local-first control Depends on team architecture Often cloud-first Local but hard to verify Yes, with explicit source citations
Entity trail Powerful, if maintained Varies by platform Ad hoc Cross-document entity extraction and cited findings
BYO LLM Custom integration Usually platform-defined No Yes, 10 MCP client configurations
Pricing posture Engineer time plus hosting Enterprise Staff time Explorer/free install, Builder $49, Pro $99, Elite $2,000

Casepoint and similar platforms serve government and enterprise investigations. This page is for teams that need a local-first source-cited workspace, not an enterprise cloud procurement project.

Pricing

Pricing for one reporter, one newsroom, or one consortium.

Explorer starts free for independent review. Builder supports a newsroom subscription, Pro adds API access for an investigation team, and Elite supports consortium-scale work.

Trust and FAQ

Sensitive sources need boundaries, not broad promises.

What Panama Papers facts are this page comparing against?

ICIJ reports 11.5 million leaked files, 2.6 TB of data, and a year of work by ICIJ, Suddeutsche Zeitung, and more than 100 media partners.

Does Leapable replace ICIJ's custom stack?

Leapable gives smaller teams a local-first MCP workspace without assembling Solr, Tika, Tesseract, Blacklight, Oxwall, Linkurious, and custom glue first.

Can it handle FOIA scans?

Add supported files, let OCR complete when needed, and inspect the cited source before a finding reaches an editor, lawyer, or partner.

How do consortium teams collaborate?

Keep each investigation in its own vault, move sealed files between trusted collaborators, or talk to Leapable about a supported consortium workflow.

Final CTA

Make the leak answer checkable.

Install Leapable, add one FOIA folder, and ask the question your team has been postponing because the files are too scattered.