Pre-launch · founding group open
Run every case from one secure workspace.
Manage cases, encrypted evidence, client updates, time, expenses, and professional reports without piecing together five different tools. Your sensitive case data is encrypted before it leaves your device.
No weekly newsletter. Founding users receive meaningful development updates, early product access, and a direct way to shape the workflow.
Interface concept — not a screenshot of shipped software.
Built for PI workflowsCase lifecycle, evidence, reports, and client delivery — not a renamed project tracker.
Security by designDesigned around client-side encryption and controlled access from the beginning.
Professional deliveryGive attorneys and clients a clean portal, secure updates, and branded reports.
Honest pre-launchSee what's planned, what's in progress, and help decide what ships first.
The work is difficult enough
Your operating system shouldn't be five unrelated tools.
Most investigators don't lack discipline. They lack software designed around the actual path from intake to evidence, client communication, reporting, and closure.
01
Case information is scattered
Notes in email, photos in Drive, hours in a spreadsheet, the invoice somewhere else. Reconstructing one case means opening five tools.
02
Evidence handling changes by case
Files get renamed, copied, and emailed. When someone asks what changed and when, there's no record to point to.
03
Delivery still means manual cleanup
Reports assembled by hand, updates sent from a personal address, hours retyped into the invoice — some never make it.
One workspace, three jobs
Run the case. Protect the evidence. Deliver the work.
This is the plan, not a finished product — founding users get a say in the order and the details.
01 · Run the case
See the entire case without reconstructing it.
Inquiry to active work, report writing, closure, and archive — with contacts, notes, tasks, time, expenses, and activity tied to the case.
- Purpose-built case lifecycle and status controls
- Timestamped notes, tasks, contacts, and activity
- Time and expenses captured where the work happens
Interface concept — not a screenshot of shipped software.
02 · Protect the evidence
Keep evidence organized with its integrity record.
Upload evidence into the case, preserve timestamps and integrity details, and maintain an exportable record — without turning file administration into a separate job.
- Encryption before sensitive files leave the device
- File hashes, timestamps, and evidence history
- Exportable chain-of-custody record
Interface concept — not a screenshot of shipped software.
03 · Deliver professional work
Give the client a finished experience — not a folder link.
Create a structured report, apply your branding, send updates securely, and deliver completed work through a client portal bearing your firm's name.
- Structured report templates and PDF export
- Branded client portal and secure case updates
- Controlled report delivery and case closure
Interface concept — not a screenshot of shipped software.
Security architecture
Designed so sensitive data is protected before storage.
The architecture keeps encryption close to the investigator: data is encrypted before upload, stored as encrypted content, and opened only by authorized users with the required credentials.
Step 01
Your device
Case data and evidence are encrypted locally before upload, with keys derived from your password. Plaintext never leaves the machine.
Step 02
Encrypted transfer and storage
Only encrypted content reaches the platform. Every file also gets a timestamped integrity hash, so you can show it hasn't changed.
Step 03
Authorized access
Access goes through your credentials and a recovery key you get during setup. There's no back door — which also means we can't reset your password for you.
PIToolkit is in development. Final cryptographic implementation and recovery procedures will be documented and validated before general release — we won't make guarantees we can't demonstrate.
Planned pricing · subject to founding-user feedback
Priced for working investigators, not enterprise procurement.
Nothing is for sale yet. These numbers are a starting point for feedback and may change before launch — there's a question about exactly this in the form below.
Free
Real casework, no countdown
$0forever · planned
Enough to run real cases without a trial clock running down.
- 25 active cases
- Unlimited contacts, notes and time tracking
- Unlimited secure messaging
- 3 client portal seats
- 5 GB encrypted evidence storage
- Reports (watermarked)
Likely starting point
Solo
One investigator
$29per month · planned
For a solo PI running active casework, client delivery and reporting from one workspace.
- Unlimited active cases
- Unlimited client portal seats
- 250 GB encrypted evidence storage
- Full reports, no watermark
- Per-file evidence hashing
- Direct support
Professional
A scrutiny-proof evidence trail
$59per month · planned
When the evidence trail has to hold up to outside scrutiny.
- Everything in Solo
- 1 TB encrypted evidence storage
- Full evidence hash chain
- RFC 3161 trusted timestamping
- Priority support
Security is never an upgrade. Two-factor authentication, recovery keys, session management, audit log, and client-side encryption are included on every plan — not reserved for a higher tier.
Why this product
Security experience meets firsthand exposure to PI work.
PIToolkit is built by a cybersecurity professional with private investigators in the family.
Security-first product directionPI-specific workflow researchFounding-user driven roadmap
Built with investigators, not around them
We'd rather find the wrong assumptions now.
The goal is not to guess what investigators need, build for a year in isolation, and reveal a finished product. It's to establish the secure core, place it in front of working investigators, and change the workflow based on how real cases are run.
That means the founding group is not a marketing list. It's the group that answers the practical questions: what belongs on the case screen, how evidence should be indexed, what a client should see, and what makes a report genuinely easier to finish.
A working investigator saying "this is not how the job works" is worth more than a hundred passive signups.
Development roadmap
Clear about what exists and what comes next.
The roadmap will change as working investigators test the product. That's the point of opening the process early.
Built
Core product structure
- Zero-knowledge encryption foundation
- Accounts, two-factor auth and recovery keys
- Case lifecycle and records
- Contacts and the PI workspace
In progress
Secure case operations
- Encrypted evidence vault
- Time and expense tracking
- Report builder and PDF export
- Client portal and secure messaging
Founding beta
Client delivery and testing
- Portal branding
- Invoicing export
- Trusted timestamping
- Founding-user workflow revisions
Founding group
Help shape the tool you'd actually use.
Join for development updates, early access, and an invitation to test the parts of PIToolkit most relevant to your practice.
- Email is the only required field.
- No case names, client details, licence numbers, or anything sensitive — we can't lose what we never collected.
- No weekly newsletter or automated drip sequence. What we do with your data.
Prefer email? Write to hello@pitoolkit.com. A working PI telling us we've misunderstood the job is worth more than a hundred signups.
Join the founding group
Email is required; everything else is optional — and the optional answers set the build order.
Please don't include any case or client details.