Platform
Several logins and several hours, reduced to one search and one audit record
intelID consolidates licensed New Zealand data sources into a single search interface for vetted, authorised users. The workflow follows how an enquiry is actually run, not how a database happens to be structured.
What the platform is
intelID is a secure online intelligence and data aggregation platform. It sits between a professional user and a set of licensed New Zealand data sources, and it does three things that a stack of individual provider portals cannot do: it resolves a subject once rather than repeatedly, it returns every licensed source into a single consolidated result, and it records the whole enquiry as one auditable event.
The platform is not a public database and it is not open to self-service signup. Access is granted only after the user, the organisation and the intended authorised purpose have been verified. That vetting step is part of the product, not an obstacle in front of it, and it is what allows the underlying licences to be held at all. The logged-in application is separate from this website; this site describes it and takes access requests.
How a search runs
- 01
Identify the subject
Start with a name, an address, a company or a partial detail. intelID resolves the subject across directory, company and digital footprint data before you commit to a full enquiry, so you are not paying for searches against the wrong person.
- 02
Declare the authorised purpose
Every search requires a declared authorised purpose. The declaration is bound to the query, the user and the timestamp. It is not a tick box that disappears afterwards, and it cannot be added later to tidy up a file.
- 03
Search once, across every licensed source
Credit, company, title, security interest, insolvency and digital footprint data return into a single consolidated result rather than eight browser tabs, eight logins and eight separate invoices.
- 04
Work the result
Ownership, encumbrances, security interests, directorships and insolvency events sit alongside each other, so the asset position is readable rather than reassembled by hand at the end of the day.
- 05
Keep the audit record
One record covers the whole enquiry: who searched, when, under what authorised purpose, and which sources were queried. Produce it if the search is ever questioned by a client, a data provider or a regulator.
Search types
Each search type draws on whichever licensed sources are relevant to it, and each one runs under the same authorised-purpose and logging rules.
Person locate
Resolve a subject and confirm a current address before you act on it.
Identity verification
Confirm that the person in front of you is the person on the file.
Address history
Prior addresses and the sequence in which they were recorded.
Company and director
Registration, officers, shareholders and filing history.
Property and title
Titles, ownership, encumbrances and sales history.
Security interests
Registered interests over personal property through the PPSR.
Insolvency
Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures and company insolvency events.
Digital footprint tracing
Advanced social media, phone number, username and email tracing that returns linked accounts, aliases and platform registrations against a single identifier.
Contact point resolution
Test whether a phone number or email address is live, who it resolves to, and what else it is registered against.
Availability of an individual search type depends on the user’s role and on the terms of the underlying licence. Credit reporting data in particular is restricted to users whose declared purpose is permitted under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020. The full list of integrated sources and what each one returns is set out on the data sources page.
The audit trail
The audit record is the part of the platform that matters most when an enquiry is challenged.
Every query writes an immutable entry recording the user account, the organisation, the timestamp, the declared authorised purpose, the subject searched and the sources queried. Nothing about that entry depends on the user remembering to note it, and nothing about it can be edited after the fact to make a file read better.
Organisation administrators can review activity across their own users. That makes the usual internal questions answerable: who ran this search, on what basis, and was it within the purpose the account was issued for. It also means a supervisor can spot a pattern of enquiries that falls outside the organisation’s authorised purpose while it is still a management matter.
Where a data provider or a regulator asks for the basis of a specific query, the answer is a record rather than a reconstruction. The compliance framework the log is built against is described on the compliance page, and the technical controls protecting it are described on the security page.
Retention follows the purpose. Audit records are held for as long as they are needed to answer a question about the enquiry that produced them, and subject data returned by a search is never used for marketing, resold, or exposed to public indexing.
What the consolidated result covers
The sources below return into the same enquiry, so one subject produces one picture.
Equifax
Credit reporting data, including the address and contact information held on file for tracing and service, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose.
Centrix
Credit reporting and consumer credit information, including recorded address and contact details used to confirm a current address, subject to the same authorised-purpose controls.
MBIE / Companies Office
Company registration, directors, shareholders, addresses for service and filing history.
LINZ property and title data
Certificates of title, ownership, encumbrances, legal descriptions and sales history for the property position.
PPSR
Registered security interests over personal property.
Insolvency and bankruptcy registers
Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events.
Digital footprint and contact tracing
Advanced tracing across social media profiles, phone numbers, usernames and email addresses, returning linked accounts, platform registrations and the identifiers that connect them.
What the platform will not do
The limits are deliberate. They are what makes the platform defensible to a data provider or a regulator.
- No search runs without a declared authorised purpose.
- No subject data is used for marketing, resold, or exposed to public indexing.
- No account is issued without verification of the user and the organisation.
- No user sees a source their role has not been granted.
The background to the platform is set out on the about page, and plan pricing is published in full on the pricing page.
Request access to intelID
There is no self-service signup. Access is granted after verification of your identity, your organisation and your authorised purpose.