Our Services

Due Diligence & Research Services

Before you commit capital, hire a senior executive, or put a candidate forward, you want to know what’s actually true. North Point runs human-centered due diligence — pre-M&A and pre-hire research that goes past the documents to the people who know the real story, then tests what they say against the record. Brought in early, we can often tell you quickly whether the deal materials are describing the business as it is, or as someone wants it to look.

How We Help

• Pre-M&A and pre-transaction diligence: Vetting a target company, its leadership, and its claims before you invest or acquire.

• Voice of the customer: Independent conversations with a target’s customers to test whether the business is as healthy as the deal materials suggest.

• Forensic referencing (backchannel): Discreet, off-list reference checks on founders and executives that go well beyond the names a candidate offers.

• Pre-hire due diligence: Background and reputational checks on senior candidates before you extend an offer.

• Candidate self-vetting: A rigorous, independent review of your own record, surfacing the vulnerabilities an opposition researcher would find so you can prepare rather than be surprised.
  

Investigations

When something may have gone wrong inside a company, whether a suspicious invoice, a whistleblower complaint, or an allegation against an executive, North Point finds out what actually happened. As an independent investigations firm and licensed private investigators, we gather facts methodically and lawfully across the full employment lifecycle, from before hiring through tenure and after separation. We draw on internal data such as email, Slack, Teams, and financial records, alongside court filings, corporate records, and public records that internal teams often can’t reach, and we interview witnesses and subjects when the facts call for it. We can be engaged through counsel to preserve privilege, take the lead ourselves, or work alongside your HR and legal team — whatever fits the matter.

How We Help

• Theft and financial fraud: Embezzlement, expense and procurement fraud, kickbacks, payroll schemes, and diversion of company assets or opportunities.

• Malfeasance and compliance: Conflicts of interest, bribery and corruption, insider trading, accounting manipulation, credential falsification, and regulatory breaches across AML, sanctions, and data-privacy regimes.

• Workplace conduct: Harassment, discrimination, and retaliation matters, plus threat and fitness-for-duty assessments, handled with the care and legal guardrails these cases demand.

• Data and IP protection: Trade-secret and source-code theft, mass downloads, and data exfiltration.

• Post-employment and departures: Restrictive-covenant and NDA violations, client and employee solicitation, lingering system access, and misconduct that only surfaces once someone has left.

Decisions about people and companies turn on what others know but won’t put in writing. We get those answers through interviews conducted with the discretion, structure, and skepticism of a professional investigation. Where most firms send a questionnaire, we have a conversation: we identify the right sources, earn candor, and read what’s said against what isn’t. The result is signal you can act on — the reference who finally explains why the last role ended, the customer who reveals churn risk before a deal closes, or the witness whose account reshapes an investigation.

How We Help

• Forensic referencing (backchannel): Off-list reference checks on key hires and M&A leadership that go well beyond the names a candidate offers.

• Voice of customer & counterparty: Candid input from the customers, suppliers, and partners whose continued trust determines a deal’s real value.

• Witness & subject interviews: Fact-witness and subject interviews for internal investigations, including confrontational settings, handled for accuracy and defensibility.

• Expert & industry source inquiries: Conversations with the operators, competitors, and specialists who can explain a market, technology, or track record from the inside.