# Hello from investigativedata.io

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**Category:** Community Introductions\
**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://aleph.discourse.group/t/hello-from-investigativedata-io/174 "2025-01-21T18:03:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/aleph.discourse.group/simon/32/10_2.png) [@simon](https://aleph.discourse.group/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://aleph.discourse.group/t/hello-from-investigativedata-io/174/1 "2025-01-21T18:03:01Z")

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Hello from Simon 👋

My team and I run [investigativedata.io](http://investigativedata.io), a service provider for investigative reporting teams that provides ready-made data infrastructure based around Aleph. You bring the leak, we bring the search.

Our [“Managed Aleph”](https://investigativedata.io/solutions/aleph) instances are used by the teams at German public broadcasters, organizations like [Distributed Denial of Secrets](https://libraryofleaks.org) and other major news outlets from all around the world to build secure internal data repositories. We run our own physical servers in safe jurisdictions (Germany and Iceland).

We also do a lot of data engineering around this, helping investigators get the data sources they need into their Aleph instances, or cleaning and indexing complex leaked datasets.

Currently we are working on new features for open source Aleph and are building a comprehensive data repository for structured data and document collections usable within the FollowTheMoney / Aleph ecosystem. Will keep you updated about that, for sure! 🙂

Prior to that, I was working as an investigative data journalist and all-things-techie at the german non-profit investigative newsroom [CORRECTIV](https://correctiv.org), an organization with some similarities OCCRP. For the [CumEx Files Project](https://cumex-files.com) I developed our own software to search through leaked material, so I can proudly say I once started a similar thing like Aleph 😉

Don’t hesitate to ping me for any questions (or just reply in this thread)!

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**Author:** ![Tao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Tao](https://aleph.discourse.group/u/Tao)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://aleph.discourse.group/t/hello-from-investigativedata-io/174/2 "2025-01-22T10:01:40Z")

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Hi Simon. 👋  
It’s great to connect with you! Your work at [investigativedata.io](http://investigativedata.io) sounds incredibly valuable and it was also very interesting to read how your managed Aleph instances are being used.

> [@simon](#):
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> Currently we are working on new features for open source Aleph and are building a comprehensive data repository for structured data and document collections usable within the FollowTheMoney / Aleph ecosystem. Will keep you updated about that, for sure! 🙂

Please keep us updated, we will love to know more about your project.

> [@simon](#):
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> I developed our own software to search through leaked material, so I can proudly say I once started a similar thing like Aleph 😉

That’s amazing! 👏 Looking forward to hearing more about your progress!

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**Author:** ![simon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/aleph.discourse.group/simon/32/10_2.png) [@simon](https://aleph.discourse.group/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://aleph.discourse.group/t/hello-from-investigativedata-io/174/3 "2025-04-01T17:07:34Z")

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Just for the record: [investigativedata.io](http://investigativedata.io) transforms into the new [Data and Research Center](https://dataresearchcenter.org) and launched the project **OpenAleph** as a soft fork from the current open source Aleph. Read more about it in this discussion: [Introducing: OpenAleph and the Data and Research Center – DARC](https://aleph.discourse.group/t/introducing-openaleph-and-the-data-and-research-center-darc/214)