Corporate Intelligence & Investigative Due Diligence

Intelligence before impact.

Cerebellum Intel Group is a private intelligence firm retained by general counsel, private equity managing directors and family offices to establish what a data room, a screening vendor and a reference call will not.

We deliver evidence-based, legally defensible findings on the people, entities and structures behind a transaction — sourced, corroborated and documented to a standard that withstands regulatory examination, litigation and board scrutiny.

Senior partner review within two hours · PGP and Signal available

Established
2024
Service locations
NYC · ATX · LA
Mandate
By retainer only

§ 01Our Philosophy

Cerebellum Intel Group is the culmination of more than twenty years of combined experience among former military signals intelligence operators, threat intelligence specialists and covert practitioners.

We are not a data vendor.
We are the product of two decades of signals, threat and covert intelligence modeling.

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Former military signals intelligence officials

Operators trained in the collection, exploitation and protection of communications and electronic intelligence. They bring a technical discipline to source validation, counter-surveillance and the detection of hidden infrastructure that conventional due diligence cannot replicate.

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Former threat intelligence specialists

Analysts who tracked nation-state actors, criminal networks and adversary infrastructure at scale. Their work informs how we map exposure, attribute behavior and anticipate the paths a hostile researcher or counterparty will take before they take them.

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Covert operations practitioners

Experienced professionals from clandestine operational environments where discretion, source protection and lawful collection are not abstract principles but survival requirements. That discipline governs how we handle sensitive mandates and protect client identity.

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OSINT and HUMINT specialists

Analysts and field sources across the Americas, EMEA, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific. Human inquiry is conducted lawfully, on the record where possible, and always with the client's exposure protected.

Operational discipline, applied to institutional risk

Every engagement is scoped in writing, executed against a documented methodology, and delivered with each finding graded as confirmed, corroborated or unresolved. We collect only through lawful means, record provenance for every material assertion, and produce work product that counsel can rely upon, disclose or defend without qualification.

§ 02Capabilities

Two practices. One standard of proof.

Institutional mandates and private client matters demand different tradecraft, different reporting and different confidentiality architecture. We run them as separate tracks, staffed accordingly.

→ Full capability briefs
Capability field · live
8 nodes / 2 tracks
Node A1 · Track A
A1 · Track AEnterprise & capital markets

Pre-transaction and M&A diligence

Integrity, ownership and litigation diligence on targets, counterparties and co-investors before capital is committed. Findings are graded by confidence and delivered against your investment-committee timetable, not ours.

§ 03Methodology & Deliverables

Scored, sourced and defensible.

Findings are graded against a published rubric — severity, recency, pattern, corroboration, judicial status, remediation and counterparty contagion — and resolve into a composite score with multi-axis exposure mapping.

View methodology & sample brief
Scoring rubric

1–10 severity scale with seven analytical modifiers and hard floors for open proceedings.

Executive risk assessment

Composite score and eight-axis radar across financial, conduct, litigation and positioning exposure.

Legal dossier

Judicial status recorded explicitly: resolved with prejudice, dismissed, appellate denial, open.

Underwriting conclusion

Risk drivers against mitigants, with a recommended engagement framework.

§ 04Secure Client Intake

Initiate an encrypted briefing.

Intake is handled directly by a senior partner. Provide only the shape of the matter — the jurisdiction, the decision in front of you and the timetable. Nothing privileged, and no identifying detail, is required to open a file.

A senior partner will review your submission and establish a secure communications channel within two hours during business hours, and by the following morning otherwise. The initial consultation is scoping only, without cost or obligation.

Handling protocol
Encryption
PGP key issued on request. Signal available for voice and message traffic once identity is established.
Response standard
Senior partner acknowledgement within two hours; scoping call within one business day.
Compartmentation
Case teams are minimum-necessary. Client identity is treated internally as material non-public information.
Data handling
Encrypted in transit and at rest, jurisdiction-controlled residency by contract, defined retention with documented destruction.
Conflicts
Cleared before scoping. We do not act on both sides of a dispute.

Standards & Handling

  • SOC 2 Type IIControls-aligned handling
  • ISO 27001Aligned ISMS practice
  • FCRA CompliantPermissible-purpose vetting
  • GDPR / UK DPAJurisdictional data residency

Coverage

  • New York
  • Austin
  • Los Angeles
  • London
  • Dubai
  • Singapore

Field capability and correspondent networks across the Americas, EMEA, the Gulf and Asia-Pacific.