A case rarely turns on a single fact. It turns on a relationship: the same address behind two companies, a name that appears on both sides of a transaction, a gap in a timeline that only shows up when two records are laid side by side.
Engramite Graph is where those relationships become visible. It connects entities, evidence and the links between them in an AI-assisted intelligence graph built from the case file.
From a list of findings to a shape
Findings arrive one at a time and read like a list. A graph reads like a structure. Put the same material in a graph and three things surface almost immediately:
- Clusters — the people, companies and assets that keep appearing together.
- Bridges — the single entity connecting two otherwise separate groups, usually the most interesting node in the case.
- Holes — the connection everyone assumed exists, with nothing supporting it.
Every node carries its evidence
A graph that cannot be interrogated is decoration. In Engramite Graph, an entity and a relationship both point back at the material that put them there — the source, the document, the finding. Click through and you are looking at what was admitted, and the decision that admitted it.
That matters when the graph is later used to justify a conclusion. A line between two people should mean this is supported by these records, not these two names appeared near each other once.
Time is part of the structure
Relationships have dates. A director who resigned before the events under review is not the same finding as one who stayed. Engramite Graph places events on a timeline alongside the graph, so sequence — who knew what, and when — can be read rather than assumed.
AI-assisted, analyst-decided
The assistance is in the work nobody wants to do by hand: proposing that two records describe the same entity, pulling relationships out of documents, keeping the graph in step with the case as it grows.
The decisions stay with the analyst. A proposed match between two people is a suggestion until it is reviewed — and where the evidence is a shared name, it is treated as possible confusion rather than a conclusion. See the homonym problem.
Frequently asked questions
Is this link analysis? It includes link analysis, with the difference that the graph is built from the case file and each element keeps its provenance.
Do I have to build the graph manually? No. It grows as the case grows, and you curate it.
Can the graph go into a report? Yes — the structure and its supporting findings feed Engramite Writer.
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