TRACE — Real-Time China SOCMINT

Weeks of work, in seconds

The same picture — reached at the speed the case needs.

// the manual way

Weeks — months

A Mandarin-reading analyst, working platform by platform, stitching selectors by hand across networks that fight collection. By the time the picture is assembled, it's already going out of date.

// with TRACE

Seconds

The same connections — across Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, Maimai and 35+ networks, plus the open sources around them — drawn live and assembled into one picture, sourced and ready to read.

TRACE doesn't replace the analyst — it gives them the hours back. The judgment, the questions, the assessment that actually matters still belong to the person. TRACE takes the weeks of collection off their plate so they spend their time thinking, not stitching. The best analyst in the room, with the collection speed of a platform behind them.

The problem TRACE solves

China is where the hardest questions lead — and where almost every tool goes blind.

The +86 verification walls, the language barrier, the platforms Westerners can't register on, the deep-packet inspection — they stop commercial OSINT tools cold. So teams fall back on manual work: an analyst who reads Mandarin, weeks of digging, a picture that's out of date by the time it's assembled.

TRACE closes that gap. It reaches the platforms others can't, resolves the identity behind a selector, and assembles the subject picture in the time it takes to read this paragraph.

The product

One selector in. The whole picture out.

Scroll through a single investigation — from a bare identifier to a sourced, exportable read on who the subject is.

01 — Start

Start with anything you know

A mobile number. An email. A username. A person's name. One selector is enough to begin — TRACE takes it from there.

02 — Resolve

Resolve the identity, live

Real-time across Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, Maimai and 35+ Chinese domestic networks — past the registration, +86, geo and language walls that stop everyone else. Every match is scored and sourced.

03 — Pivot

Map the network

Follow one identity across every platform it touches. Map mutuals, employers, and aliases on real platform signals — the pivots Western tools can't make inside the Chinese ecosystem.

04 — Locate

Where they operate, over time

Every location the subject reveals, pinned to a map and played back across time — so movement and presence become visible, from what they made public themselves.

05 — Assess

An all-source read

A written intelligence assessment: who the subject is, their affiliations, anomalies worth noting, and where the evidence is strong or thin. Confidence stated, not implied — and exportable in a click.

+86 ······ 1622SELECTOR

phoneemailusername微博 handle微信 IDname

One selector is enough to begin

Identity resolved92%

Linked accounts

7 platforms

China footprint

微博 · 知乎 · 脉脉

Real name

Resolved

Confidence

Sourced ×5

Every field sourced & confidence-scored

微博 @user知乎 profile脉脉 employer2 mutualsbilibilialias ×3

Employer

Confirmed · 脉脉

Co-registrations

4 selectors

Pivots Western tools can't make

Cities seen

3 · mapped

Span

2019 → 2026

From what the subject made public

ALL-SOURCE READ

Subject: resolved individual, active across 7 platforms since 2019. Affiliation: employer confirmed via 脉脉. Locations: three cities, consistent with stated history. Confidence: high on identity, moderate on movement.

ExportPDF · structured

Vault match1 document

Confidence stated, not implied

What you get

Five outputs, one selector in.

Subject resolution

One selector to a named, verified individual, with linked accounts across the Chinese social ecosystem.

Network mapping

The people, organisations, and affiliations connected to your subject — and the selectors that tie them together.

Geo-temporal intelligence

Every location a subject reveals, pinned to a map and played back across time, so movement and presence become visible.

Pattern of life

Posting rhythm, interests, professional focus, and behavioural signature — assessed from the full arc of activity, not a single snapshot.

All-source assessment

A written intelligence read: who the subject is, their affiliations, anomalies worth noting, and where the evidence is strong or thin. Confidence stated, not implied.

What you surface

One selector unfolds into the full picture.

Structured open-source collection across China's native platforms and ecosystems — resolved to entities, connections, and relationships, all from publicly reachable sources.

Resolve any selector

A name, a phone, an email, a handle, a company number. One input resolves into a single identity with its aliases, registrations, affiliations, and public footprint attached.

Expose the relationships

Shared selectors, co-registrations, common officers, and the quiet connective tissue that ties one target to the next — surfaced as a navigable graph, not a list.

Map ownership openly

Corporate structures traced through subsidiaries and holding layers from public registration records — including state-linked ownership several removes from the operating entity.

Track people across platforms

Personas followed between ecosystems and reconciled to one individual — presence, activity, network, and the pattern of behaviour that persists even when the handle changes.

Correlate across disciplines

SOCMINT, GEOINT, corporate, and open cyber signals fused into one picture, so a trace in one discipline surfaces the corroborating trace in another.

See what moved, and when

Change over time across entities and posture — what appeared, what was scrubbed, what shifted, and what the trajectory suggests next.

Recover what was removed

Publicly archived records and footprint retained and searchable after the original source has taken them down.

Verify every finding

Full source provenance on every result. Follow any claim back to the public source it came from and validate it independently — no black-box conclusions.

Pivot without losing the thread

Every result is a new starting point. Move from person to company to footprint and back, with the investigation held together as one case.

Built on tradecraft, not a feed

Not a wrapper over a public API.

TRACE is built on the same China collection tradecraft EPCYBER has taught to government, defense, and intelligence teams across 40+ countries — the methods that get past the walls, reach the sources, and read the ecosystem the way a local would.

The depth is why Chinese state-affiliated channels have named EPCYBER as a threat. No other provider in this space earned that.

Open-source, and nothing kept

Everything surfaced is publicly reachable. Nothing about you is stored.

Everything TRACE surfaces is open-source — collected from what is publicly reachable, with no access bypassed or altered. It runs live rather than from a store, so every result reflects the present — never stale data.

100% open-source

Publicly reachable sources only. Nothing bypassed, nothing altered — defensibly sourced for the report.

Live, not stored

Runs against the source in real time, so every result reflects the present — not a months-old index.

Nothing retained of you

No database of you, and none of your searches kept. What you look at is yours alone.

Pricing

Full capability. Priced for teams
that need the edge.

Start on TRACE, or step up to the full intelligence platform.

TRACE

$15,000/ month

Rolling · cancel anytime

Real-time China SOCMINT, full capability, monthly.

Subject resolution from any selector
All 35+ Chinese domestic networks
Network, geo-temporal & pattern-of-life
All-source assessment & structured export

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One selector
becomes the
whole picture.

The same picture — reached at the speed the case needs.

China is where the hardest questions lead — and where almost every tool goes blind.