Use Case
Covert Foreign Land Ownership
See through shell companies and layered investments to understand who truly owns or controls land near critical infrastructure and sensitive facilities. Quantifind’s partnerships enable the ingestion of structured and unstructured property records from across counties into a unified, actionable interface, creating searchable entities that reveal opaque land ownership and support deeper investigation. Graphyte uncovers foreign influence, complex corporate structures, beneficial owners, and high-risk ties by unifying public and commercial data into a single relationship graph. Agencies use these insights to detect covert foreign land ownership, assess national-security implications, and protect state and local interests with timely, transparent, evidence-backed intelligence.
Detection of shell companies, layered investments, and foreign state influence
Deep coverage of corporate records, including Chinese-language sources
Multi-hop relationship mapping to expose beneficial owners and control structures
Automated alerts and monitoring to flag emerging risks near key locations
CHALLENGE
Foreign ownership of U.S. land is expanding rapidly, including a sharp rise in purchases linked to adversarial nations and entities operating near critical infrastructure and military sites. Bad actors routinely exploit LLCs, shell companies, nominee buyers, and cross-border partnerships to obscure beneficial ownership and evade existing reporting mechanisms. At the same time, property and land records are often stored as scanned PDFs in county offices rather than centralized, searchable systems, leaving agencies with limited visibility into who actually controls a parcel of land. Traditional due diligence tools cannot reliably detect malign ownership hidden behind layered structures and foreign state influence. As a result, agencies are left without the clarity they need to assess national security risks or safeguard local communities.
Turn scattered land records into usable, parcel-linked intelligence
When property data is trapped in scanned PDFs and siloed county systems, Quantifind and its data partners transform it into a unified, real-time foundation for risk analysis.
Quantifind and its partners ingest structured and unstructured records across counties
Deeds, mortgages, and UCC filings are converted into clean, parcel-linked data
Automatic critical-infrastructure overlays create surveillance zones around sensitive sites
A single, searchable system replaces fragmented, inconsistent local records
Strengthen oversight with automated alerts and continuous monitoring
When adversarial activity moves quickly, Quantifind keeps agencies ahead of emerging threats with real-time visibility.
Near real-time alerts on transactions occurring near critical infrastructure
Continuous monitoring of owners, holding companies, and related entities
Batch screening of newly ingested parcels for risk and ownership concerns
Exportable, audit-ready reports supporting state, federal, and multi-jurisdictional oversight
Graphyte integrates seamlessly to add public data exploration into your existing investigations environment and workflows
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Alerts can be sent to Graphyte via API, which initiates a search throughout a comprehensive list of data sources and includes programmatic searches. Resulting risk assessments are pre-populated in the case manager, where they can be queued and prioritized by risk. Deep links let the investigator process and report on each alert in GraphyteSearch; they can pursue other lines of search, such as related entities, in the same analysis and reporting session.
GraphyteSearch
Purpose-built web-based investigation application with consumer-grade user experience
GraphyteAPI
Synchronous risk assessments on-demand, with deep links to GraphyteSearch
GraphyteBatch API
High-volume risk assessments that can be ranked and prioritized
Benefits of
Graphyte for Identifying
Covert Foreign Land Ownership
Clear visibility into who truly owns land, why it matters, and how ownership patterns affect national security and local resilience.
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Immediate clarity into complex and opaque ownership structures
By combining structured land data from trusted partners with Graphyte’s relationship mapping, teams can quickly understand layered ownership, intermediaries, and concealed foreign influence.
Early identification of transactions that pose national-security risk
Real-time alerts and continuous monitoring flag concerning buyers and patterns before they become entrenched, helping agencies act sooner and with greater confidence.
A unified, defensible record of ownership and risk
Each insight is transparent, sourced, and explainable, supporting oversight, interagency coordination, and potential regulatory or legal action.
Scalable oversight across jurisdictions and critical infrastructure zones
Graphyte enables small teams to monitor large volumes of parcels, counties, and critical infrastructure areas without the manual burden traditionally required.
A modern investigative workflow for an emerging threat
Agencies gain a repeatable, technology-enabled process for assessing land transactions that would otherwise be too fragmented, too opaque, or too resource-intensive to track effectively.