Platform
Several logins and several hours, reduced to one workflow and one audit record
intelID brings licensed New Zealand data sources into one interface, where you select the sources each enquiry needs. 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 the sources you select 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 first, so the enquiry that follows is run against the right person rather than a near match.
- 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
Choose your sources, then search once
You choose which of the credit, company, title, security interest, insolvency and digital footprint sources the enquiry needs, and the selected results return together rather than across 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.
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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.
Skip tracing, person locate and address history
Trace a subject across directory and credit-linked address data, with current and previous addresses and the dates each was recorded.
Social and digital footprint
Social media, phone number, username and email tracing that returns linked accounts, platform registrations, aliases and the contact points registered against them.
Property and title
Certificates of title, registered owners, encumbrances, caveats and sales history from LINZ, searchable by address, title reference or owner name.
Security interests (PPSR)
Registered financing statements and security interests over personal property, with the secured party, debtor details and collateral description returned.
Company and director
Registrations, directors, shareholders, allocations and filing history from the Companies Office, with related entities surfaced alongside each record.
Insolvency
Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events, including dates, status and the administering body.
Identity confirmation
Corroborate a person against several independent record sets before you act, so the file rests on a match you can evidence rather than a name that looked close enough.
Asset position
Property, security interests, company holdings and insolvency events read together, so recovery viability is a judgment made on evidence rather than assumption.
Individual and commercial credit checks
Full credit reports from Centrix and Equifax: credit score, account conduct, defaults, judgments and enquiry history on a person, or score, rating, payment behaviour and adverse events on a business.
Sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening
Screen individuals and businesses against global sanctions lists, regulatory watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media, returned alongside the rest of the enquiry.
Comprehensive media archive
Decades of New Zealand newspaper, magazine, journal and news wire copy, including the notices pages, searchable by name and date range.
Litigation history
Public court and tribunal decisions by party name, with citations, dates and full decision text.
More sources to come
Further licensed New Zealand sources are being added as access agreements are completed. Each one arrives under the same authorised-purpose declaration and audit logging as the sources already live.
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-linked identity, address and contact records used for tracing and service, including the recorded details that confirm a current address, accessed under the Credit Reporting Privacy Code 2020 and only for a declared authorised purpose.
Sanctions, watchlist, PEP and adverse media screening
Screening of individuals and businesses against global sanctions lists, regulatory watchlists, politically exposed persons and adverse media, returned alongside the rest of the enquiry.
Individual credit check
A full credit report on a person from Centrix and Equifax: credit score, credit history and account conduct, defaults, judgments, insolvency events, enquiry history, and the addresses and contact details held on file.
Commercial credit check
A full credit report on a business from Centrix and Equifax: company credit score and rating, payment behaviour, defaults and judgments, registered security interests, insolvency and adverse events, and the directors and shareholders behind the entity.
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.
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.
MBIE / Companies Office
Company registration, directors, shareholders, addresses for service and filing history.
Insolvency and bankruptcy registers
Bankruptcy, no-asset procedures, debt repayment orders and company insolvency events.
Comprehensive media archive
Full text archive of New Zealand newspapers, magazines, journals and news wire copy going back decades, including the notices pages: bankruptcy and insolvency notices, mortgagee sales, tenders, liquidations, and births, deaths and marriages.
Litigation history: public court and tribunal decisions
Published judgments of the New Zealand courts and tribunals searchable by party name, with citations and full decision text, alongside current and historical legislation and law journal material.
Also available: individual and commercial credit checks from Centrix and Equifax, and sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening. Each is set out in full, with its legal basis, on the data sources page.
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
Tell us who you are and what you need to search, and we will set up your account. Verification is part of the process and usually straightforward. Most accounts are verified and issued within 2 business days.