Trace a Finding to Its Source

You take a claim headed for the report and practice tracing it back to where it came from, so it survives the first serious question instead of collapsing under it.

Run Down an Adverse Item

You work an adverse signal to ground, learning the difference between noting a flag and actually resolving what it means.

Document So It Holds

You build the record that carries the review through scrutiny, where every finding is sourced and every adverse item accounted for.

About the course

A completed checklist is not a defensible review. This workshop is two hours of hands-on practice in the difference, built for anyone whose work has to hold up when the deal, the regulator, or the courtroom tests it. You work the situations that separate real diligence from the appearance of it. A finding that cannot be traced. An adverse item that was flagged and never resolved. A file that has to be documented so the conclusions stand when someone asks how you reached them. Each exercise is drawn from the kind of review the job produces. This is the practitioner tier, so the emphasis is on doing. You leave having practiced defensible diligence, not just read a definition of it.

Practice tracing a finding to a primary source, so it holds when the first hard question comes.

Learn to run an adverse item to ground rather than leaving it as a flag on the file.

Document a review so its findings are sourced and its conclusions stand under challenge.

Sean Mahon

A senior intelligence professional with over 20 years of experience across military intelligence, KYC/AML compliance, open-source intelligence instruction, and forensic due diligence. He has led analytical teams in regulated, high-stakes environments where incomplete or misattributed information carries direct operational and legal consequence. He is the founder of The Collective Risk Intelligence, a specialized firm delivering structured, evidence-based due diligence and investigative analysis for law firms, private equity, investment firms, and high-net-worth individuals. His work sits at the intersection of investigative intelligence, identity verification, and litigation support . All environments where the standard of proof is not negotiable. This course draws directly from the analytical methodology applied in real engagements, not theory, not frameworks built in a classroom.

Curriculum

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Diligence That Holds Under Pressure.

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