What I bring is deep knowledge of coercive control, institutional betrayal, trauma responses, and how systems fail survivors — combined with years of experience building systems that analyzed institutional behavior at scale. I understand how institutions fail, how records are created and hidden, and that what looks opaque from outside has clear patterns once you know where to look.
Most survivors face a choice: hire an attorney (expensive, constrained to legal strategy), or research alone (time-consuming, easy to miss critical patterns). I sit in between. Fluent in institutional documentation, legal discovery, evidentiary standards, and the trauma-informed frameworks that explain institutional behavior. I work for people who need the evidence and the navigation, not people who need representation.
Institutions rely on your not knowing how they work. I do. I understand your rights, which processes produce results and which are designed to exhaust you, and how to document your situation so it speaks for itself. My approach is trauma-informed: paced for your safety, grounded in what actually happened, built on your expertise about your own situation.
I don’t do surveillance, trespass, or illegal access. What I do: research publicly documented information, identify patterns in institutional behavior, help you navigate institutional channels strategically, and synthesize findings into evidence courts and investigators believe.
Attorney, journalist, or organization? See Investigations & Due Diligence.
AI and the Acceleration of Coercive Control
The tactics that define coercive control — evidence tampering, impersonation, institutional capture, the systematic rewriting of reality — are now AI-accelerated. Fabricated evidence that once required weeks of sustained effort takes hours. Impersonation campaigns are scalable. Institutions already skilled at exhausting complainants can automate that exhaustion.
If your adversary has technical access or AI literacy and you don’t, the power imbalance deepens. This service operates with that threat model built in. Documentation strategy accounts for AI-resistant evidence formats and timestamped records. If there is reason to believe an AI-literate adversary is involved, we design for it explicitly — not as a hypothetical, but as a constraint shaping every decision about what to record, where to store it, and how to present it.
This work is confidential. It is not therapy — though I can help you find that too.
Engagement Models
Hourly for advocacy sessions, research, and strategy. Project-based for scoped investigations with clear deliverables. Retained monthly for ongoing advisory or support work.
For survivors, advocates, and individuals in active institutional disputes: sliding scale rates and pro-bono capacity are available. Reach out directly.