Insights Blog
Welcome to the Insights Blog of SentVi—where data meets discovery and analysts become strategists. Here, we dive deep into the world of link-analysis, intelligence, and investigative workflows across law-enforcement, national-security, and commercial domains. Whether you’re navigating sprawling criminal networks, building proactive threat models, or simply unlocking hidden insights from your data, our articles bring together practical use-cases, evolving best practices, and the vision to shift from reactive to proactive investigation.
The Call Before the Wire
At 4:12 on a Tuesday afternoon, a regional sales director calls a number registered to a consulting firm nobody at her company has heard of. The call lasts six minutes. The next morning, $18,500 lands in her personal checking account from that same firm. Five weeks...
New Number. Same Circle.
The number on the subpoena goes quiet. Maybe the phone was lost. Maybe it was a prepaid phone bought with cash and tossed. Maybe it was a company phone, handed back the day someone resigned. Three days later a number nobody has seen before starts calling the same...
Six Towers, Two Days, Thousands of Phones
In June 2025 federal investigators in Mississippi asked four carriers for every phone that connected to the towers near six crime scenes, 10 to 30 minutes of records at each, over a two-day span in 2024. They only wanted the phones that showed up at two or more of the...