CASE STUDIES
How Adelar powers high-integrity research, due diligence, and reputational screening.
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Research & Lead Generation for Percipient Strategies
Client: Percipient Strategies LLC
Percipient Strategies LLC — a leading research and intelligence consulting firm serving political, corporate, and nonprofit clients.
Percipient sought a scalable, high-integrity tool to:
Identify new leads based on political, corporate, and reputational signals
Accelerate research timelines
Reduce the need for time-intensive manual screening
Improve client-facing reports with stronger validation and narrative clarity
Their existing process relied heavily making informed assumptions before human analysts combed through public records, social media activity, campaign finance data, and thousands of news articles — a workflow that was thorough but not scalable.
Challenge
Percipient integrated Adelar into its core analyst workflow as a research amplifier and lead generator.
Key capabilities deployed:
Broad multi-dataset ingestion to give a holistic baseline on targets
High-accuracy identity disambiguation and canonical fingerprinting
Automated reputational risk flags aligned to political and corporate sensitivities
Actionable executive-style summaries for analysts and clients
ADELAR SOLUTION
Adelar enabled Percipient to:
Reduce initial research timelines
Identify high-value prospects and potential issues by scanning thousands of data points for ideological alignment, corporate footprints, and decision-maker influence
Produce more polished, analyst-grade outputs that unlocked new service lines and client opportunities
Ultimately, Adelar has become a critical component of Percipient’s research toolkit, materially improving report turnaround and quality.
OUTCOME
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Due Diligence & Pre-Meeting Support for Senior Executives
Client: Corporate Affairs & Communications Division, Major U.S. Energy Corporation
A senior executive in the corporate affairs and communications division received a meeting request from an individual seeking to discuss potential partnerships and promotional tie-ins with the corporation. On the surface, the individual appeared legitimate — polished résumé, professional associations, and a public presence that seemed credible.
However, early indicators raised questions:
The individual’s business background was inconsistent across platforms
Some prior affiliations seemed unusually opaque
There were concerns that accepting the meeting without proper vetting could expose the corporation to potential reputational risk
Traditionally, the division relied on:
External research firms, which required 24+ hours and carried significant cost; or
Internal staff conducting manual research, which diverted resources from critical regulatory and public-affairs responsibilities
The executive needed a rapid, discreet, and trustworthy risk assessment before deciding whether to advance the meeting request.
Challenge
The executive used Adelar to conduct an immediate reputational and due-diligence review.
Adelar delivered a full report in under 12 minutes, incorporating:
High-accuracy identity matching and namesake exclusion
Multi-dataset validation (news archives, corporate filings, civil/criminal records, political ties, organizational affiliations)
Narrative-driven executive summaries
Automatic categorization of risk across business ethics, legal exposure, criminal histories, and political-sensitivity concerns
ADELAR SOLUTION
OUTCOME
Adelar revealed that the individual had:
Significant business ethics issues
Multiple legal disputes, including unresolved matters
Serious criminal-history flags tied to prior ventures
Patterns of behavior inconsistent with the individual’s self-presentation
These findings enabled the executive to:
Avoid a potentially harmful meeting that would have created reputational and compliance vulnerabilities
Rapidly brief senior leadership with an evidence-based, defensible assessment
Conserve internal resources by eliminating the need for a traditional 24-hour research cycle
The corporation acted within the same business day, declining the meeting and documenting the rationale internally.
Adelar is now integrated into the division’s pre-meeting due diligence workflow, allowing senior leaders to quickly screen incoming requests, protect corporate reputation, and make informed decisions without delays or unnecessary expenditures.
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RAPID VETTING AND REPUTATIONAL SCREENING FOR A CABINET-LEVEL DEPARTMENT
Client: U.S. Cabinet-Level Department (Name Confidential)
A Cabinet-level agency urgently required due diligence on an academic figure who had recently received national media attention. Officials needed to understand:
The individual’s background
Any potential ties to foreign adversaries
Whether engagement with this figure could create reputational, national-security, or policy complications
Historically, the department relied on internal analysts for foreign-influence and reputational reviews. However, due to existing workload and time-sensitive priorities, those analysts were unavailable. Meanwhile, the agency faced pressure to finalize briefing materials and prepare official commentary.
The department needed a fast, accurate, and defensible assessment to inform internal decision-making and public-facing communications.
Challenge
Officials turned to Adelar to conduct immediate reputational and foreign-adversary vetting.
Within 10 minutes, Adelar delivered:
Verified identity and namesake exclusion
Cross-referenced datasets including academic publications, media appearances, organizational affiliations, and global business registrations
Foreign-adversary linkage analysis using government, academic, and international corporate sources
A narrative assessment of ideological alignment and public positions
ADELAR SOLUTION
Adelar uncovered significant ties to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including:
Relationships with PRC consultative government bodies
Family connections to PRC-linked commercial entities
Academic and media writings strongly supportive of PRC policy positions
Repeated criticism of U.S. foreign-policy stances in public forums
These findings provided a comprehensive, multidimensional understanding of the individual’s affiliations and ideological posture — far beyond what a superficial search would reveal.
Armed with this intelligence, agency officials were able to:
Brief senior leadership and relevant internal stakeholders
Incorporate accurate, risk-aware context into briefing materials
Prepare informed media responses tied to ongoing reporting
Avoid inadvertently elevating or legitimizing a figure with substantial foreign-adversary alignments
Adelar has since become a trusted tool for the department’s rapid, high-integrity reputational and foreign-influence screening, especially when internal analytic capacity is constrained.
OUTCOME
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Social Support & High-Volume Vetting for a Major U.S. Political Organization
Client: A Prominent National Organization Supporting a Major U.S. Political Party
National political organizations face an enormous operational burden when it comes to managing events, donors, surrogates, and high-profile guests. These organizations must ensure:
Ideological alignment
Protection against reputational or legal exposure
Confidence that attendees, donors, or speakers do not carry hidden political, business, or personal liabilities
Accurate briefing materials and press releases based on vetted information
However, vetting at this scale is traditionally:
Expensive, requiring large research teams or external firms
Unreliable, with inconsistent levels of quality across vendors
Slow, often taking days for each background review
Fragmented, with little standardization or cross-event continuity
Most critically, political organizations lack a true enterprise-grade, high-throughput vetting solution. As a result, staff frequently rely on manual searches, spot Googling, and incomplete public information — processes that regularly miss major issues or fail to surface ideological signals.
The client needed a scalable, accurate, and repeatable system capable of supporting the high volume of vetting required during key election cycles and major donor events.
Challenge
ADELAR SOLUTION
The organization deployed Adelar as its unified reputational screening and collateral support platform.
Adelar enabled the team to:
Rapidly vet hundreds of guests, donors, and speakers across multiple events
Surface reputational, political, and legal issues within minutes
Analyze donors’ and attendees’ political alignments, public statements, and organizational ties
Identify business risks, foreign linkages, and past controversies
Automatically generate narrative briefing summaries and press-release-ready content
All results were delivered through Adelar’s enterprise-grade validation and identity disambiguation engine, ensuring accuracy and consistency across thousands of records.
Using Adelar, the political organization was able to:
Screen large guest lists in a fraction of the time previously required
Uncover significant issues that manual searching would have missed, including legal liabilities, ideological red flags, and reputational controversies
Brief executives, hosts, and event staff with polished summaries tailored to different internal audiences
Reduce reliance on external vendors and significantly lower research costs
Strengthen event preparedness and eliminate late-stage surprises
Adelar became a core component of the organization’s event preparation, donor engagement, and communications workflow, enabling the team to operate with a level of professionalism, risk-awareness, and throughput that manual vetting simply cannot achieve.
OUTCOME
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Vetting Executives of a Major Foreign Private Equity Firm
Client: A U.S.-based corporation evaluating a strategic transaction with a large foreign private equity firm.
The corporation needed to know:
Whether any foreign executives posed reputational, regulatory, or geopolitical risks
Whether there were undisclosed political connections or foreign-adversary ties
Whether the firm or its principals had a history of opaque shell companies or litigation
Whether U.S. partners could face scrutiny based on these affiliations
Manual due diligence across multiple jurisdictions would have taken weeks.
Challenge
Adelar performed deep-dive reputation scans on:
Senior executives
Board members
Key financial decision-makers
Historical leadership and founders
Deliverables included:
Full reputational dossiers
Source-verified risk flags
Political ties (domestic + foreign)
Beneficial ownership clues
Narratives on litigation, sanctions exposure, and cross-border financial activity
ADELAR SOLUTION
Adelar uncovered:
Several politically exposed persons (PEPs) with indirect state-linked affiliations
Ongoing foreign regulatory investigations
Risk-significant ties to entities with adversarial national-security implications
The U.S. corporation ultimately modified deal terms and implemented stronger compliance controls — all based on findings Adelar surfaced within a single business day.