When something goes wrong inside a company, the technical part is rarely the hard part. Money is missing, a client list has surfaced at a competitor, the stock count stops adding up — and the real question becomes who to talk to, in what order, and what to ask them.
That is my work. For more than twenty years I have helped companies establish what actually happened: planning the enquiry, conducting the interviews, and giving management something solid enough to act on.
I am an International Member of the British and European Polygraph Association and a member of the UK Polygraph Association. In 2004 I co-founded LieScan, an investigations practice in Moscow, which I still run. I work in Russian and English.
What I do
Investigation support. An incident has already happened and you need to know what, and who, before you make a decision you cannot take back.
Screening programmes. Not a single test, but a process a company can actually run — who gets checked, on what grounds, how often, and what happens with the result.
Expert review. A second opinion on another examiner's work: the questions they asked, the method they used, and whether the conclusion follows from the data. Done on the file, wherever you are.
Working with clients outside Russia
Most of this does not require me in the room. Case strategy, interview planning, reviewing another examiner's methodology and charts, training your security or HR people, advising on how to verify digital material — all of it works remotely, in English.
One thing I will say plainly rather than sell around: I do not offer employment polygraph testing in the EU. The legal footing for workplace testing in Europe is not what it is in Russia or the United States, and an instrument you cannot lawfully use is worth nothing to you.
Why the method matters more than the instrument
A polygraph measures physiological reactions. It does not read minds, and it knows nothing the examination was not built to ask. Nearly every failed examination I have been asked to review failed before the sensors were attached — in the questions, in the order of the interviews, in a decision to test an entire department instead of the three people it should have been.
What I sell is that part: the design of the enquiry. The instrument is one of several tools inside it.
Deception in the age of synthetic media
A voice on the phone, a face on a video call, a signed scan — until recently, three reasonable grounds for believing a person was who they claimed to be. None of them is any longer. Establishing who you are actually dealing with, and whether a document or a recording is what it appears to be, has become part of the same job. I work on this with companies, and I teach it.
Talk to me
Tell me what happened, in your own words. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing — and if I am not the right person for your situation, I will say so.