Corporate intelligence for decisions that cannot rely on assumption.
A national consultancy combining licensed investigation, structured intelligence analysis and a distinctive Visual Intelligence practice: for boards, legal counsel, government and complex commercial matters.
A single practice, structured around the questions that matter.
Sceáwian is engaged when the answer must be defensible, not merely credible.
Corporate Investigations
Discreet, licensed corporate investigations for boards, general counsel and executive teams facing internal misconduct, integrity breaches and complex commercial disputes.
Workplace and Misconduct
Independent workplace investigations into misconduct, bullying, harassment, discrimination and code-of-conduct breaches. Procedurally fair and defensible.
Fraud and Procurement
Detection, tracing and reconstruction of fraudulent conduct across supplier chains, contract awards and financial controls.
Due Diligence
Pre-transaction, counterparty, reputational and integrity due diligence for boards, investors and legal advisors.
OSINT and Digital Intelligence
Structured open-source and digital intelligence collection and analysis, lawfully obtained, defensibly recorded and executively reported.
Litigation Support
Evidence collection, witness location, forensic reconstruction and exhibit-grade dossiers prepared to legal standard for Australian legal advisors.
Visual Intelligence: evidence rendered unambiguous.
Most intelligence firms deliver documents. Sceáwian delivers dossiers a tribunal, a board or a claims adjuster can see.
Our Visual Intelligence practice combines evidence photography, high-end video, licensed drone operations, geospatial context, mapping, timelines, repeat-site documentation and photogrammetry-ready capture into visually coherent evidence dossiers of executive standard.
- Chain-of-custody photography and video, calibrated for exhibit use
- Licensed drone operations for site, asset and environmental documentation
- Geospatial overlays, timelines and reconstructed sequences
- Repeat-site captures for temporal comparison and progression evidence
- Photogrammetry-ready capture for downstream 3D reconstruction
Where we are engaged.
A national practice serving organisations where reputation, capital and integrity intersect.
Government
Independent intelligence, integrity enquiry and Visual Intelligence for Australian federal, state and local government clients.
Corporate and ASX
Board-directed corporate intelligence, executive conduct enquiry and pre-transaction diligence for ASX-listed and large private organisations.
Legal and Professional Services
Instructed factual investigation, evidence collection and exhibit-grade dossiers for Australian legal advisors, professional advisors and in-house counsel.
Construction, Property and Infrastructure
Visual Intelligence, drone documentation and dispute enquiry across major construction, property and infrastructure projects in Australia.
Insurance and Claims
Investigation and Visual Intelligence for insurers, brokers and claims counsel on disputed, complex and large-loss claims.
Disciplined enquiry. Defensible product.
A method shaped by scoping, lawful collection, intelligence analysis and executive-grade reporting.
Scoping
Every engagement begins with a private conversation, conflict-check and written scope. We agree the question before we begin the work.
Collection
Structured, lawful collection across human, open-source, digital and visual channels, documented from the first minute.
Analysis
Trained analysts apply intelligence tradecraft: corroboration, source weighting and hypothesis testing, not conjecture.
Reporting
Executive-grade written and visual dossiers. Exhibit-ready where required. Delivered through secure channels.
Lawful methods. Documented conduct. Nothing that cannot be defended. Trust and compliance posture
Considered writing on intelligence, integrity and risk.
Perspectives from the practice, not marketing.
Australian Workplace Investigation Field Guide
A detailed operational manual with worked examples, Australian case lessons and seven implementation tools.
The photograph as primary evidence
How disciplined visual capture is reshaping expectations of what a workplace investigation delivers.
Counterparty risk in cross-border transactions
A framework for boards approving acquisitions across jurisdictions of variable transparency.