The investigative landscape is shifting faster than ever. Data is multiplying, risks are coalescing in real time, and compliance expectations aren’t easing up for anyone. Criminals are using more sophisticated methods—from synthetic identities to AI-generated misinformation—making it harder than ever to separate real risk from noise. For professionals on the front lines, the job has become a constant race against volume, velocity, and complexity.
Incremental improvements on traditional tools cannot keep pace with today’s investigative demands. Thomson Reuters CLEAR Investigate introduces a new way to handle complex, multistep investigations.
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| The investigation challenge |
| The Thomson Reuters vision |
| CLEAR Investigate = Prompt driven investigations |
| Handling messy data & identity challenges |
| Why it matters |
The investigation challenge
Investigators today live in a paradox: more data than ever, yet less time to act on it. You’re expected to make confident decisions while navigating fragmented sources, inconsistent records, and compliance requirements that grow more demanding each year.
Manual searches slow everything down. Human bandwidth becomes the bottleneck. And every delay increases exposure to fraud, financial crime, and reputational risk.
Automation helps, but only at the edges. The core problem remains compliance with processes like KYC and CIP—and reactive investigations—are still labor intensive and dependent on professionals manually stitching together scattered information.
The Thomson Reuters vision
At Thomson Reuters, we believe the future of investigations is intelligent, transparent, and trusted. That belief is driving the launch of CLEAR Investigate, our next generation agentic AI platform that arrived in early 2026.
Agentic AI capabilities work beyond more than an interface. It’s a support tool that plans, executes, and adapts. It understands investigative goals, builds multistep workflows, and carries them out with precision—freeing investigators to focus on judgment, strategy, and risk interpretation.
Imagine starting with a single question and receiving a clear, structured, source-backed report that connects the dots across premium data and open web intelligence. No hunting. No stitching. No second guessing whether you missed something.
That’s the power—and the promise—of CLEAR Investigate.
Built for professionals who understand that effective investigations require both powerful tools and human discernment, the platform works to enhance investigator expertise, not replace it. It brings multiple investigative functions into one trusted environment, with guardrails, citations, and audit trails built into every workflow. Investigators remain in control, supported by AI that reduces manual effort and helps them work faster, more efficiently, and with greater confidence—while maintaining full transparency and accountability.
CLEAR Investigate = Prompt driven investigations
Start with a simple question. CLEAR Investigate interprets your input, builds a plan, and guides the process end‑to‑end—helping investigators move from question to insight faster. The system queries premium Thomson Reuters content alongside curated open-web sources, synthesizing results into concise, actionable insights. It’s designed to think in workflows, not isolated steps. Every answer includes source citations and a full audit trail. Your data is never used for AI training. Privacy, compliance, and accountability are built in from the ground up.
Handling messy data & identity challenges
Anyone who has worked with public records knows the reality: they’re often incomplete, inconsistent, or outdated. A criminal record might list nothing more than a name and state—“John Smith, New York”— leaving investigators to determine whether information applies to the right individual—or whether critical context is missing.
CLEAR Investigate helps reduce this manual burden by organizing, cross‑referencing, and prioritizing relevant signals across premium Thomson Reuters content and curated open‑web sources.
Rather than forcing investigators to sift through fragmented or duplicative records, CLEAR Investigate surfaces potential matches, highlights inconsistencies, and flags ambiguous results for human review. This approach helps reduce false positives and missed connections—while ensuring final determinations remain firmly in the hands of the investigator.
Built within the trusted CLEAR platform, CLEAR Investigate supports investigators facing increasingly sophisticated, AI‑enabled fraud techniques by streamlining identity analysis and surfacing defensible insight—so professionals can focus on judgment, context, and case strategy where it matters most.
Why it matters
CLEAR Investigate doesn’t just save time; it reshapes investigative strategies. By handling the heavy lifting of messy data, CLEAR Investigate frees professionals to focus on what they do best: applying judgment, assessing risk, and making decisions that protect their organizations
This isn’t just a new tool for investigators. It’s a signpost for a future, empowering professionals with AI that is agentic, ethical, and enterprise ready. The era of agentic AI has arrived. CLEAR Investigate is your gateway to faster, smarter, more confident investigations. Ask for your demo today.
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