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Document Authenticity Assessment

A structured examination of a contract, certificate, ID or financial document, assessing whether it is genuine, altered, or fabricated, including with AI assistance.

The Problem

The document looks right. Is it?


A contract, identity document, academic certificate, or financial statement has been presented to you, and something about it does not quite add up, or you simply need to know before you act on it. Document fraud has always existed, but large language models and accessible design tools have made a convincing fabrication easier to produce and harder to spot by eye than it used to be.

What's Included

What you receive.


A written assessment of the document's authenticity, covering what was examined, what was found, and how the finding was reached. Where the document's origin can be verified against an issuing authority or other independent source, that verification is reported alongside the technical examination.

Metadata and file-history examination for digital documents

Format, template and issuing-authority consistency checks

Linguistic and stylistic analysis where AI-generated text is suspected

Verification against the issuing authority or another independent source, where accessible

A clear statement of what could and could not be verified, rather than a confident guess where evidence runs out

Methodology

How it's produced.


Forensic document examination combined with source verification where a document's claimed origin can be checked independently. Findings involving AI-generated content are worded as consistent with, not proof of, AI generation, in line with our standard across this capability.

Timeline

What to expect, and when.


Typical turnaround: 3 to 7 business days, depending on the number of documents and whether issuing-authority verification is required. A litigation-grade tier is available for a document in dispute, adding CPR Part 35 compliant formatting, a formal rebuttal statement, and expert witness availability, typically extending turnaround to 5 to 15 business days depending on complexity.
Frequently Asked

Questions we're asked most


Can you verify a document with a foreign or overseas issuing authority?

Often, yes, including in our UK to Nigeria corridor work, though verification depends on the records being accessible in the relevant jurisdiction. Any limitation is stated in the report rather than left implicit.

What if the document turns out to be genuine?

That is reported as plainly as a finding of fabrication would be. A clean result is a result, not a failure to find something.

Do you need the original document?

A high-quality scan or the original digital file is usually sufficient. Where the physical original matters to the outcome, this is confirmed at scoping.

Can this be used as evidence in a dispute?

Yes. Where a document submitted by another party is in question, request the litigation-grade tier: the assessment is prepared to CPR Part 35 standard, cross-referenced against the case timeline, with chain-of-custody documentation and the analyst available to provide an expert witness statement or a formal rebuttal statement.

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Every enquiry is reviewed by an analyst and routed to a scoping call, a fixed fee is confirmed in writing before any work begins.