Penlink PLX

Investigative Fusion Platform

Accelerate investigations with real-time intelligence and unified evidence analysis

 

Penlink’s PLX is a state-of-the-art platform designed to collect, normalize, and analyze data from hundreds of diverse sources. Purpose-built for mission-critical investigations, it delivers proven results through seamless digital evidence management and real-time data analysis.

Whether you’re loading historical data, intercepting live communications, or working with telephonic or internet-based sources, PLX delivers a comprehensive AI-based analysis to uncover insights and reveal hidden connections, trends, and relationships within your data.

From instant insights to courtroom-ready reports, PLX delivers clarity, speed, and control at every stage of your investigation.

 

Collect and Analyze Digital Evidence from Thousands of Sources

 

  • Search Warrant Returns
    Normalize communication data from major telecom providers and enable consistent structure and interpretation. Support standardized formatting, time zone alignment, and seamless integration across diverse record types.
  • Mobile Forensics Data
    Analyze extracted data from multiple devices, operating systems, and vendors to uncover communication patterns. Streamline forensic exports review using powerful and intelligent analysis to quickly surface device data and insights.
  • Telecom Data
    Analyze CDRs, tower dumps, RTT data, and location pings to uncover movement patterns and shared locations. Identify links between multiple subjects by examining calls frequency, geospatial data, and connection analysis.
  • Internet-Based Activity
    Analyze behavior and content trends across leading social media platforms to uncover digital footprints and patterns. Gain visibility into online activity through web browsing history and IP session data to analyze internet communications.

Drive Investigations with Powerful Data Analysis

 

PLX transforms complex data, structured and unstructured, into actionable, intelligence-driven insights, enabling smarter investigations and faster case resolution.

 

Interactive Mapping

Customized Dashboards

Powerful Visualization

 

  • Comprehensive Analysis
    Analyze complete conversations from various online social media platforms, and seamlessly combine the data with phone records for deeper insights.
  • Image Recognition
    Automatically tag and organize images to streamline review and quickly surface critical visuals, making it faster to locate the most relevant images.
  • Financial Data
    View transaction data from banks, Venmo, Bitcoin, CashApp, and other platforms to uncover patterns, relationships, and financial links between subjects.
  • Transcription and Translation
    Rapidly convert communications into accurate, searchable text, saving valuable time, uncovering new leads, and streamlining digital evidence analysis workflows.
  • OSINT Discovery
    Integrate PLX with Penlink’s Tangles platform to uncover data and provide openly available account information associated with a given phone number.
  • Cross-Case Deconfliction
    Get notified of overlaps to help investigators make faster connections, enhance officer safety, and uncover broader criminal networks.

 

Turn complex data into actionable intelligence with PLX CoAnalyst and Agentic AI

 

CoAnalyst is a groundbreaking platform at the forefront of generative AI, designed to streamline complex investigations and analyze large data sets. It enhances the analysis of digital communication data collected from various sources, including phone records, social media, and other digital evidence. Our platform harnesses the most sophisticated generative AI technologies, powered by large language models.

 

Lawful Collection Made Simple

 

Capture real-time intelligence with our platform’s live data-collection system. Track and monitor communications as they happen, ensuring that you gather crucial insights instantly. Our solution offers seamless integration, secure data handling, and easy access to critical data for immediate action.

 

Image-recognition adds automatic tagging, making it faster to locate key images

 

As the number of image types associated with investigations continues to grow, better organization and the ability to find pertinent images more quickly has become critical. With the new image-recognition
features available in PLX, you can quickly sift through images and identify relevant evidence.

 

The feature recognizes objects in images and automatically tags them with keywords and categories. New reports have been added to the Attachments Analysis area to help you quickly fi nd images by category. Once you have enabled the feature, you can submit images when autoloading or directly from the Media Gallery to be processed.

 

Cross-agency intelligence awaits—PLX Connect offers a secure glance inside

 

PLX Connect allows agencies to share and search data in a safe and secure way. By leveraging the data in this larger collective community, investigators can make faster case connections, improve officer safety, and identify larger criminal networks.

 

Cross-agency Intelligence

 

  • Search to learn whether a communication ID exists in a case at another agency.
  • Find out if a target is under investigation by another agency.

 

Securely Gain Insights

  • Ensure informational integrity with end-to-end encryption.
  • Safely query other PLX systems where an authorized connection is established.

 

Manage Accessibility

  • Control who can request information from your agency.
  • Review and approve or deny connection requests before they are established.

 

Accelerate your cases by leveraging AI to identify critical communications

 

The transcription and translation add-on revolutionizes the way law enforcement professionals handle audio and text evidence. Rapidly convert intercepted communications into accurate and searchable text. Save time in data analysis, uncover new leads, and expedite investigations using this powerful new tool.

 

  • Eliminate Language Barriers
    Translate crucial evidence from over 60 languages to work seamlessly on crossborder or multilingual cases.
  • Increase Productivity
    Machine transcription and translation provides quick feedback to help you determine whether data is relevant to your case.
  • Decrease Cost
    With automated tools, any case agent can review evidence, letting hired language professionals verify only the most promising materials.
  • Find Answers Faster
    Once your audio has been automatically transcribed and translated, you can leverage PenLink’s robust search capabilities to instantly uncover the content that matters.

Use data to stay ahead of net-savvy criminals

 

Take advantage of the most advanced solution and expand your investigation beyond phones by collecting and analyzing data from nearly any social media provider.

 

For little or no cost, investigators can request access to a target’s online activity, revealing invaluable insights and evidence. Our team of experts can assist you in writing the legal order and guide you through the process of receiving, autoloading, and analyzing data.

 

All Your Data In One Location

 

PLX provides investigators with the power to overlay and normalize data from all types of providers—internet-based, phone, surveillance, and forensics—in one platform, to reveal details that might otherwise go unnoticed.

 

Internet-based communications can yield a goldmine of information. Take your investigation to the next level by uploading data from emails, social media, mobile apps, and mobile forensics returns in PLX and
overlaying it with traditional phone data. PLX offers investigators a powerful, easy-to-use, and flexible array of reporting and analytical tools to reveal subtle connections, trends, and relationships.

 

Get the Entire Picture

 

It is important for investigators to have a complete picture of a target’s communication patterns. Most internet-based communications providers offer an array of data that can be of value in investigations.

 

 

Aggregate and Analyze All Your Data in One Place

 

PLX supports thousands of native file types and live data-delivery standards, enabling real-time ingestion and normalization of incoming data streams into a single integrated fusion system.

 

  • Unmatched Intercept Capabilities
    Capture what matters with comprehensive support for all major data types, including telephony, internet activity, social media, and GPS trackers.
  • Real-Time Monitoring
    Quickly review, flag, and share pertinent telephony and social media communications, all from a single intuitive workspace.
  • Field-Ready Tracking
    Visualize your target’s latest locations to support field operations from location pings to real-time tracker feeds.
  • IMSI Catcher Integration
    Seamlessly deliver real-time identifiers, including 5G, to cell site simulators via our API, for enhanced tracking and precision.

 

Built for Security and Trust

 

Keep your data protected at every stage. PLX provides secure storage, complete audit trails, and digitally signed evidence packages, ensuring flexibility and confidence for sensitive missions.

 

Stay Ahead with PenPoint

 

Built for the Field

 

Stay mission-ready anywhere. The PenPoint mobile app keeps field teams connected with real-time access to case data, team locations, and search tools, plus uninterrupted tracking through direct integration with cell site simulators.

 

Trusted and Secure

 

PenLink is grounded in integrity, accountability, and a deep commitment to compliance across all areas of our operations. Full data integrity and complete audit trails ensure that sensitive operations remain secure and fully accountable. By leveraging innovation and acting with purpose, we aim to deliver long-term value, protect vital resources, and contribute to a more resilient, responsible global ecosystem.

 

About Penlink

 

Penlink stands at the forefront of digital intelligence, offering comprehensive solutions tailored for the law enforcement, national security, the defense sector, and organizations. Our expertise lies in seamlessly integrating extensive digital evidence with open-source intelligence, gathered from a vast number of sources, and harnessing the power of AI for critical insights. Comprehensive data coverage ensures the rapid and efficient identification of key leads and crucial connections in complex investigations.

 

Our robust product portfolio enables end-to-end digital investigations and threat monitoring, leveraging technologies equipped with a broad spectrum of AI analytics capabilities. These technologies are designed to swiftly and accurately uncover key insights, ensuring efficient and informed decision-making.