Investigative Programs • Risk Mitigation

Your investigative program is either reducing risk or creating it

We help organizations build investigative programs that are defensible, fair, and built to withstand scrutiny — from regulators, from courts, and from your own board. Founded by a practitioner with 20+ years leading real investigations, not advising from the sidelines.

Discuss Your Risk Exposure
The Reality
67%
of corporate investigations contain procedural deficiencies that create legal exposure
The Cost
$14.3M
average cost of a botched internal investigation for Fortune 500 companies
Experience
20+
years across military intelligence, government enforcement, and global corporate investigations

Most investigative programs are a liability disguised as a process

The question isn't whether your organization will face an allegation. It's whether your response will protect the organization — or become the bigger problem.

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Indefensible Outcomes

Investigations that lack procedural rigor produce findings that collapse under legal challenge. The investigation itself becomes the liability.

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Regulatory Exposure

Regulators don't just evaluate what you found. They evaluate how you looked. A poorly structured program signals deeper problems to enforcement agencies.

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Leadership Liability

When an investigation fails, the fallout lands on leadership. GCs, CHROs, and board members carry personal and professional risk when programs aren't built to standard.

Investigative programs that are defensible, fair, and designed to reduce organizational risk at every stage

01 — DEFENSIBLE

Holds up under scrutiny

Every process, protocol, and decision point is designed to withstand challenge — from opposing counsel, regulators, and your own audit committee. No gaps. No shortcuts.

02 — FAIR

Protects the organization and the individual

Fair processes produce reliable findings. Biased processes produce lawsuits. We build programs that treat every party with procedural fairness — because that's what holds up.

03 — RISK-REDUCING

Engineered to minimize exposure

From intake protocols to final reporting, every element is designed to reduce organizational risk — not create new vectors of exposure through carelessness or procedure gaps.

How We Work

From program design to active investigation support

Investigative Program Design
Build or rebuild your investigative program from the ground up. Intake protocols, triage frameworks, investigation methodology, documentation standards, and reporting structures — all designed to produce defensible, consistent outcomes.
Reduced legal exposure Regulatory readiness Board confidence
Complex Investigations
Direct support on high-stakes investigations — fraud, misconduct, regulatory matters, and cross-border cases. Led by someone who has managed investigations from initial allegation through executive reporting, across government and Fortune 500 environments.
Defensible findings Evidence integrity Executive reporting
Program Assessment
Evaluate your existing investigative program against enforcement standards and industry best practices. Identify gaps, quantify risk exposure, and deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap your leadership team can act on.
Gap identification Risk quantification Remediation plan
Investigator Training
Train your internal teams to conduct investigations that hold up. Interview technique, evidence handling, documentation, and bias mitigation — taught by a practitioner who has trained investigators in military, government, and corporate settings.
Team capability Consistent methodology Reduced error

Built on the enforcement side, not the advisory side

Most consultants know how investigations should work in theory. We know how they actually work — because we've led them. In environments where findings had real consequences and process failures had real costs.

That enforcement perspective changes everything. It means knowing what regulators actually look for, what opposing counsel will challenge, and where most programs quietly fail.

CFE
Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE Advisory Council
20+
Years in investigations & enforcement
3
Sectors: Government, automotive, medical devices
MPA
Public Administration, Disaster & Emergency Mgmt
US Army Special Operations
Psychological Operations Team Leader
Texas Workforce Commission
Prosecutions Investigator, Regulatory Integrity
Nissan Motor Corporation
Manager, Global Investigations
Alcon (Novartis)
Global Director, Integrity & Compliance
Astris Integrity
Founder & Principal
Who This Is For

Leaders who think in terms of risk, not compliance checkboxes

General Counsel

You need investigative findings that survive legal challenge. You need to know that every investigation your organization conducts is defensible before it matters.

Board Members & Audit Committees

You need confidence that the organization's investigative function is reducing risk, not accumulating it. Oversight requires programs that can demonstrate rigor.

C-Suite & Business Leaders

You lose sleep over what you don't know. A strong investigative program is how you find problems before they find you — and resolve them in ways that protect the enterprise.

The next investigation your organization faces will test everything your program is built on.

Will it hold up? Astris Integrity builds investigative programs that do — defensible, fair, and engineered to reduce organizational risk. Senior-level expertise from a practitioner who has done this work, not just advised on it.

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