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Azonic is a dynamic team building Azonic Vantage and Azonic Lighthouse for the people investigating child exploitation, scams and other online crime. We hire people who stand out, and give them real ownership of their work.

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What you would help build.

Reports of online crime keep rising, and investigators still trace who is behind each one by hand, one tool at a time. Azonic makes Vantage and Lighthouse to change that. This is what building them involves.

Vantage

Vantage follows up every lead on every open case.

An investigator asks a question or hands over a referral. Vantage opens the case, works the leads and links the accounts and people behind them. The hard part is making every step one an investigator can follow and check.

Vantage taking a request into a case. An investigator asks who is behind an account and attaches a referral. Vantage opens a case, reads the referral, follows the payments to a second account, finds a phone number on both profiles and names a likely holder, Person B. Vantage then waits for the investigator to confirm or reject the possible match.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse warns teams before harm reaches them.

Lighthouse watches social media, forums and the open web for the threats a team sets, including scam adverts and promoted offers. Each alert has to be worth an investigator’s time, and a lead can go straight into a Vantage investigation.

Lighthouse alerts for the topics a team set, from social media, forums and the open web, newest first: investment scam adverts, sextortion of young people, money mule recruitment, threats to public events and stolen data for sale. New alerts arrive at the top and the rest move down. The open alert shows what was found, with a screenshot, the link and the time it was seen, why it matched the topic, and a suggested next step, such as a takedown request, a report or opening it in Vantage, sent only after the team reviews it.

Software that runs where the work is done.

Each organisation runs Azonic on its own terms, and Vantage and Lighthouse have to work well inside them.

The organisation’s environment
Vantage
Lighthouse
  • In the organisation’s own infrastructure or cloud
  • Under the access rules and controls it sets
  • Connected only to the systems it chooses

Vantage drafts a cited report the team approves.

Vantage drafts the report with every claim cited and every step recorded. Nothing leaves the case until an investigator approves it, and the team can withdraw shared access at any time.

A Vantage cited report. The draft says two accounts paid into the same wallet four times, and the wallet took payments from a lookalike investment site, with numbered citations to a profile capture, a transaction record and a website capture. An investigator approves it, the approved version is locked, and it is shared with the referring unit until 30 November, with access the team can withdraw.

Who we hire.

We look for the candidates who stand out: exceptional people whose experience, judgement and drive set them apart.

Strong records, any path.

Including people who don’t fit a standard career path. We look closely at what you have done, not only where you have worked or what you studied.

  • High agency

    You see what needs doing and do it, without waiting to be told.

  • Capable

    You are very good at what you do, and you can show us.

  • Independent

    You form your own view, say it plainly and own the result.

Experience from the field.

We also hire experienced professionals from law enforcement, intelligence and investigation. At Azonic they usually train as forward deployed engineers, building Vantage and Lighthouse with the teams who use them.

Who you would work with.

You would work directly with the founders. Our advisors bring senior experience in intelligence, law enforcement and corporate security.

Caden Scott

Caden Scott

Co-Founder & CEO

Caden leads Azonic. He founded and leads IOC3, a non-profit connecting law enforcement agencies and platforms working on online crime.

Thomas Holdom

Thomas Holdom

Co-Founder & CTO

Thomas leads engineering at Azonic. Before Azonic, he was a forward deployed engineer across banking, healthcare and finance, building AI systems for large, regulated organisations.

Advisors

  • Ian Fletcher

    Ian Fletcher

    Advisor

    Former Director-General of New Zealand’s GCSB, and former diplomat.

  • Brad Brekke

    Brad Brekke

    Advisor

    Founding Director of the FBI’s Office of the Private Sector, and former VP of Corporate Security at Target.

  • Michael Hurley

    Michael Hurley

    Advisor

    Former CIA Senior Operations Manager, and former Senior Advisor at Palantir.

How we work.

  • You work with the founders

    The team is small. You work directly with Caden and Thomas, and you own your work from start to finish.

  • We build with the people who use our software

    We spend time with the teams who use Vantage and Lighthouse, learn how they work their cases and build what we learn into the next release.

  • Our work can be checked

    Every claim in a Vantage report is cited and every step is recorded. We hold our own work to the same standard.

  • We keep confidences

    Some of the people we build for are law enforcement and intelligence agencies. We don’t discuss who uses Azonic or what they work on, anywhere.

The subject is serious. Our work touches child exploitation, sextortion and other serious harm. If that is hard for you, tell us early and we will talk it through honestly.

Open roles.

No roles are listed right now.

If you want to do this work, write to us anyway. Tell us about yourself and something you have built or done.

Send us your work.

A CV or a link to something you have built or done, and a few lines on why you want to work here.

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