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name: rem-investigate-org
description: The steps for investigating an organisation's page, composed after rem-investigate when the subject is under orgs/.
---

# Investigating an organisation

## Research beyond the mailbox

Follow `rem-investigate` for research tools, privacy, own browser tab, the
LinkedIn prohibition and saved captures. Establish what the organisation does, who is involved and how it relates to the user from its public site and independent sources as well as mail. Put answered identity questions in the lead/Insight, with citations, not Uncertainties.

- Project documents that name the subject are the owner's record: cite them as
  such; a contact detail only from them is not the person's own.
- The material includes mail on this page's domains and, when another domain
  page shares a canonical contact candidate, their dated primary correspondence.
  A shared page or display name is a lead, not identity proof. Verify the person
  and company from the messages before drawing cross-domain conclusions; keep
  uncertain address/domain ownership explicit. Do not merge legal entities.
  Existing notebook pages are context, not independent evidence.
- Read the material for what is
  agreed with the **entity**: terms, dates, signed or unsigned documents, who
  decides. What is true of one person belongs on that person's page.
- `People here` links existing people pages; never copy their contents. A person
  who writes from the domain but has no page: name them, do not create a page.
- `Terms` holds the numbers (rates, dates, notice periods) with the mail or
  attachment that states them; search attachments for them first.
- Compare offers and replies by date and exact terms. An accepted credits/tier
  offer does not establish acceptance of a distinct free-month offer, provisioning
  or completed setup. A later request on another topic does not close a thread.
- Lead `Our relationship` with the current supported result and next uncertainty,
  before the introductory history. Preserve ambiguous scheduling language; do not
  infer a broken link or who supplied it. A shared subject is not a verified thread.
- A vendor that only ever sends, or the user's own domain, is not a relationship;
  say so in `Uncertainties` rather than filling `Our relationship`.

## What to produce

Follow `rem-page-org` exactly, every section present, in order.

- Keep Facts dates scoped to confirmed target-domain correspondence when cross-domain identity remains unverified. Put candidate-domain dates in explicitly qualified related context instead.