We started because
the record exists.

Sourced Truth is an independent investigative research operation based in Utah. We are new. We're not pretending otherwise. What we have is not a long publishing history or an institutional reputation built over decades. What we have is a methodology, a commitment to primary sources, and a belief that the truth, documented, cited, and verifiable, is worth the time it takes to find it.

We do two things. We publish. And we work for hire.

The published work lives on Substack, written for readers who want the story behind the story: the billing record behind the headline, the corporate filing behind the policy position, the data behind the talking point. We cover Medicaid fraud, public accountability, addiction and the systems that profit from it, immigration policy, and anything else where the distance between the official version and the documented record is worth examining.

The for-hire work is exactly what it sounds like. If you need a researcher who knows how to navigate public records requests, pull NPI and CMS data, trace corporate structures through secretary of state filings, and build a picture from documents rather than assumptions. That is what we do. We work with attorneys, journalists, businesses, and individuals who need real answers from real records.

Our editorial perspective is conservative. We believe in accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. We think institutions that take public money should answer for how they use it. We think the people most harmed by fraud and waste are rarely the ones with lobbyists, and that those people deserve the same kind of rigorous attention the powerful receive.

That's not a political position. It's a standard.

We write about addiction because it is one of the most consequential and least honestly covered stories in American life. The crisis is real. The industry built around it is complicated. The distance between what gets said in recovery culture and what the data shows is significant. We will not shy away from that distance.

We pursue stories that people have a habit of avoiding. Because they're uncomfortable. Because they implicate institutions people want to trust. Because they require reading a spreadsheet no one else wanted to download. Discomfort is not a reason to look away. In our experience, it is usually a sign that something important is being avoided.

Every investigation at Sourced Truth starts with a record. Not a tip, not a rumor, not a theory. A record. A billing file. A corporate registration. A GRAMA response. A court filing. We follow the documentation, and we don't publish what we can't source.

Our OSINT work draws on public-facing tools, government databases, and open-source intelligence methodologies. We use FOIA and Utah's GRAMA statute to compel records. We cross-reference NPI Registry data against Medicaid enrollment. We analyze CMS billing datasets. We read the documents that most people don't bother to request.

For hire engagements are handled with strict confidentiality. We discuss scope, deliverables, and expectations before any work begins. We don't fabricate. We don't speculate in our reports. We tell you what the record shows and what it doesn't.

In the near term, our investigative focus is Medicaid billing fraud in Utah and select other states, the structural failures in behavioral health oversight, and immigration policy through a data and labor-market lens. These are the areas where our research infrastructure is most developed and where the documentation trail is richest.

We are building toward a broader investigative platform. It pairs original reporting with a for-hire research service available to attorneys who need document support, journalists working on accountability stories, and businesses and individuals who need rigorous background and public records work.

Substack is our primary publishing home. Follow us there for investigations as they publish. For research inquiries, reach out directly. We're early. The work is serious. Come back often.