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What is Octostar?

Octostar is an Investigative and Decision Intelligence platform. You use it to run investigations and make decisions using data from many sources, including evidence files (documents, media, exports) and structured records (people, organizations, events, places, objects). Octostar brings search, analysis, and collaboration into one place so you can move from raw evidence to auditable outputs without switching between separate tools. Octostar combines:

  • Workspaces to organize investigations and control access.
  • Records to capture structured facts about entities.
  • Relationships to connect records and support network analysis.
  • Search across unstructured evidence and structured records.
  • Apps to run task-specific workflows such as extraction, transcription, imports, and reporting.
  • A consistent data model, the Ontology, so records, search filters, and visualizations behave consistently.

How Octostar works​

Most workflows follow the same pattern:

  • Bring data into Octostar
  • Upload files to a Workspace, import a CSV, or connect external data sources (if enabled).
  • Explore and structure the data
  • Use Search to find relevant files and entities. Create or review Records and Relationships as you confirm facts.
  • Analyze and present findings
  • Use a Link Chart to explore connections. Use apps and dashboards to run specific analyses and generate outputs.
  • Share results with your team
  • Save artifacts to the workspace and share access with users or roles, based on permissions.