Retailers, hotels and restaurants, transit hubs and guard companies document what happens on their private property in CaseTrace. When an owner decides to share an incident with your agency, what reaches you is not a grainy clip on a thumb drive. It is a sealed, verifiable evidence bundle, built to survive a courtroom and everything on the way to it.
Most of what happens to a business happens on private property, in front of cameras the business owns. The problem was never a lack of footage. It was that by the time it reached an investigator, the footage had lost its context, its timeline and its provenance.
Every CaseTrace property keeps its own sealed record. The CaseTrace Global Network is how those records help one another without any property giving up control, and how an authorized handoff reaches the agency that needs it.
Nothing on this diagram moves on its own. A record crosses the network only at record level, and it reaches an agency only because the property owner chose to hand it over.
An evidence bundle is what a property owner hands to your agency. Everything in it is listed in a signed manifest, and every item's hash is in that manifest. Anyone, at any later date, can recompute the hashes and compare. If a byte changed, the manifest says so.
The record is sealed the moment it is made, at the property, before anyone has a reason to want it changed. The seal is a cryptographic hash, not a promise.
Who documented it, when, from which device, on which timeline. The answer to "where did this come from?" travels with the evidence instead of living in someone's memory.
Every access is logged from the first view to the handoff to your agency. Shared links expire. The log is append-only, and it is in the bundle.
You do not have to trust BlueWave, the property or the software. Recompute the hashes and compare them to the manifest. The math either agrees or it does not.
Admissibility is decided by the court. Provenance is decided by the record. A bundle is designed so that the second question has a clean answer before the first is ever asked.
This is the path a record takes from the moment staff document it to the moment it is presented. Each step leaves a mark the next one can check.
These are the screens running at customer locations today. The Evidence Locker is where a guard company builds a bundle. The incident list is what a retailer sees. The phone is what an associate carries on the floor.
Evidence Locker, desktop and phone. Sealed incident records on the left, evidence exchange bundles and prepared handoffs beside them, integrity status on the right. The Build Evidence Bundle control is the moment a record becomes something your agency can receive.
The incident list at a retail location. Each row carries its record signal, its date and its status. Sealed records stay sealed; the list still tells the owner where everything stands.
The same record at a hotel. Different edition, same sealed timeline, same bundle when the owner decides to share. One format for your agency, whatever kind of property it came from.
BlueWave was shaped by people who spent their careers on the receiving end of the evidence gap: the chief who had to tell victims there was not enough, and the investigator who had to build cases from what others documented.
Thirty years in policing, across patrol, command and the chief's office. He spent a career on the receiving end of the evidence gap: officers telling victims there was not enough, and prosecutors telling him a case would not stick. CaseTrace is built so that neither conversation has to happen again.
Nearly three decades in federal service across the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and the DHS Office of Inspector General, including years in San Francisco and Seattle building cases from the ground up. He designed the evidence bundle the way he would have wanted to receive one.
An agency does not need an account, a subscription or any BlueWave software to receive a bundle. It needs a property in its jurisdiction that runs CaseTrace, and an owner who wants to share.
The owner or their guard company builds a bundle in the Evidence Locker and hands it to your agency by an expiring link. The handoff is logged on their side and yours.
Open the manifest. Recompute the hashes with any standard tool. Compare. The bundle either agrees with its own seal or it does not, and no one has to take BlueWave's word for it.
The record, the media, the notices and the custody log go into your case file as one object with its history attached. When a property in the network has seen the same person or plate before, that fact is in the record too.
Agency briefings are given by the founders. We will walk through a real bundle, the custody log and the verification steps, and answer the questions a prosecutor or a defense attorney will ask, before they ask them.