01 · Product name
Searchlight Investigate
Paid dark-web image search.
Published by Searchlight Cyber.
In short
Searchlight Investigate is Searchlight Cyber's collection search. A post published 14 Oct 2026, and modified the same day, adds image search across the clear, deep, and dark web collections the product already holds. The new pieces are an image search dashboard, optical character recognition, automatic captions, and hash search with MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256. The post says this had been limited to a small set of law-enforcement teams and is now available to all criminal investigators. No price is printed. A hit is a lead inside a licensed collection.
Product pricing strategy
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Premium
Searchlight Investigate does not publish a dollar price on the 14 Oct 2026 image-search post. The word pricing does not appear on that page. Access is described as a feature of Searchlight Investigate for criminal investigators, after having been limited to a smaller set of law-enforcement teams. Book a demo and ask which collection and which image features the quote includes. Do not borrow a Flashpoint or Intelligence X figure and call it a Searchlight price. Automatic captions are a feature the post names. They are not a measured accuracy rate, and the post does not sell them as a separate SKU with a fee.
Utility and features
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The Searchlight Cyber post is titled “Introducing Image Search and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Investigate.” Its description says you can search and view results that contain images across Searchlight's clear, deep, and dark web collections, including results that text-only search misses. The feature list in the post is an Image Search Dashboard that searches by keyword and filters, OCR that turns text in an image into searchable text, automatic description text for an image, and hash image search on the MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256 value of a photo.
- Four image features. Dashboard search, OCR, automatic captions, and MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256 hash search. The post lists all four.
- A wider set of users. The post says the feature moved from a small law-enforcement set to all criminal investigators.
- No public price. The 14 Oct 2026 post does not print a fee. The next step it offers is a demo.
The post says the feature was previously limited to a small selection of law-enforcement teams and is now available to all criminal investigators. It also talks about listings that mention a brand. It does not print a price, a plan name, or a seat count. The commercial path on the site is a demo. This listing did not open an Investigate login. It does not repeat the post's examples of contraband listings as steps. An image hit, a caption, or a hash match is a lead in someone else's collection. It is not an identification and not permission to act on what the picture shows.
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Read the 14 Oct 2026 post and name which of the four image features the question actually needs.
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Ask the demo which collections are in the license. The post says clear, deep, and dark web collections.
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Treat an OCR string or a caption as machine text. Open the underlying item before you quote it.
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Do not use this listing as a guide to finding illicit goods. A hash or a caption is a lead, and only inside an agreement you already have.
Caveats
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An OCR line or an automatic caption is text the product generated from an image in its collection. The post does not say that text is proof of who posted the image or of what the object is. A hash match means the fingerprint matched a value you supplied. It does not name a person.
The post discusses illicit goods as a reason investigators use the feature. This listing does not explain how to search for weapons, narcotics, or any other contraband, and it does not tell a reader to collect those images. The collection is licensed. A reader without an Investigate agreement does not have the corpus. The public page is an announcement, not the search form. No screenshot of a result grid was filed, because the working UI was not open.
Potential use cases
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- A program office hears that Investigate now searches images. Open the 14 Oct 2026 post and list the four features it actually names: an image search dashboard, OCR, automatic captions, and hash search on MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256. The description says the search covers Searchlight's clear, deep, and dark web collections. Ask the demo which of those collections the license includes. The post does not print a price, so the quote has to supply the number.
- An automatic caption is about to be quoted as what an image shows. The post calls that text an automatic description. It is machine text over a file in the vendor's collection. A hash match is a fingerprint comparison against MD5, SHA-1, or SHA-256. Neither one names a person. Open the underlying item, record which feature produced the string, and say what you did not verify.
- A reader asks this directory how to find illicit goods in the dark web collection. Do not answer with a procedure. The post says the feature is for criminal investigators and was previously limited to a smaller set of law-enforcement teams. A reader without an Investigate agreement does not have the corpus. Describe the capability and stop. A hit, if an authorized team has one, remains a lead.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
The announcement is filed as a result grid
The public post is a feature announcement dated 14 Oct 2026, modified the same day. It is not a logged-in search. This listing did not open Investigate and did not capture a result. If a report needs a picture of the dashboard, it has to come from the team's own agreement, with the query and the date. Do not redraw the vendor's contraband example as a search you ran.
Practitioners using it
Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a data partner, or an investor.
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Questions
Is Searchlight Investigate free?
The 14 Oct 2026 post does not describe a free tier or a dollar price. It presents image search as part of Searchlight Investigate and points readers to a demo.
What hashes can Investigate search?
The post names MD5, SHA-1, and SHA-256 as the fingerprint values for hash image search.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
Image search and OCR in Investigate
https://www.slcyber.io/blog/introducing-image-search-and-optical-character-recognition-ocr-in-investigate