Thanks, glad to hear it!Short answer - no, not right now.However, instead of going through locally hosted docker and local LLMs, you could reroute it wherever you like, but I don&#x27;t have a cloud option set up at this time.I&#x27;m focused on the developing the local, private applications myself, but nothing is stopping someone from hooking it up to stronger cloud-based stuff if they want.The good news is that my plans for this include making it more modular, so people have better options for what it does and how powerful it is.

Ironically, is there a way to try this out in the cloud for people who want this tool who aren’t hyper worried about security?It looks cool.

It&#x27;s not just for people doing interesting things. It just helps people answer questions about stuff. The stuff can be interesting or boring or dangerous or silly. The last question I tested the ACH tool on was &quot;Did William Shakespeare really author all of the works he was credited for?&quot; - You can use this stuff to research whatever you want. That&#x27;s the point of it - it&#x27;s no one&#x27;s business what you are interested in getting to the bottom of.

Description on the repo says it&#x27;s for journalism, but I build similar rigs that I use for research in companies that have entered bankruptcy proceedings.Commonly there is a lot of information and it might as well be unstructured, and then I need to get answers quickly because my clients aren&#x27;t going to pay me for going about it slowly.

What field are you in, sounds interesting that one would need such a tool?

For sure - &quot;conspiracy theorists&quot; are just another group of people trying to find truth, patterns in the world and trying to connect the dots. 
The cork board feel was very much intentional in some of the visualizations. 
Specifically, the &quot;lie web&quot; visualization that uses &quot;red yarn&quot; visuals to connect detected contradictions across different entities and documents.If I had the skills, I would totally map that onto a cork board.

Excellent! Thank you for releasing this.Notice the &quot;Knowledge Graph&quot; feature that lets you &quot;Visualize hidden connections between People, Orgs, and Places&quot; just like the cork board meme.This is the essence of what good &quot;conspiracy theorists&quot; do. Whenever investigative journalists uncover a conspiracy among the elite, they are talked down to and dismissed as &quot;conspiracy theorists&quot;. But that is what good conspiracy theorists are: investigative journalists.

I got tired of expensive SaaS tools that want my sensitive documents in their cloud. I built ArkhamMirror to do forensic document analysis 100% locally, free and open source.What makes this different:Air-gapped: Zero cloud dependencies. Uses local LLMs via LM Studio (Qwen, etc.)ACH Methodology: Implements the CIA&#x27;s &quot;Analysis of Competing Hypotheses&quot; technique which forces you to look for evidence that disproves your theories instead of confirming themCorpus Integration: Import evidence directly from your documents with source linksSensitivity Analysis: Shows which evidence is critical, so if it&#x27;s wrong, would your conclusion change?The ACH feature just dropped with an 8-step guided workflow, AI assistance at every stage, and PDF&#x2F;Markdown&#x2F;JSON export with AI disclosure flags. It&#x27;s better than what any given 3-lettered agency uses.Tech stack: Python&#x2F;Reflex (React frontend), PostgreSQL, Qdrant (vectors), Redis (job queue), PaddleOCR, Spacy NER, BGE-M3 embeddings.All MIT licensed. Happy to answer questions about the methodology or implementation! Intelligence for anyone.Links:
Repo
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror</a>ACH guide with screenshots at
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;blob&#x2F;reflex-dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;ACH_GUIDE.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;blob&#x2F;reflex-dev&#x2F;d...</a>

That&#x27;s awesome, thank you so much for getting more eyeballs on it!My approach to security so far has been to keep it air-gapped and include a nukeitfromorbit.bat that will do everything but physically destroy your SSD to keep your privacy intact.The narrative reconstruction tool was pretty fun to make, and it&#x27;s been impressive in testing, but the real test will be if it actually helps someone in a real investigation.If you see anything in my project that could help your project, then that&#x27;s awesome news to me!I&#x27;m definitely going to keep working, and hopefully soon it&#x27;s going to do some pretty cool stuff. All the best to you and OSINTBuddy

Beautiful work and it&#x27;s always nice to see new projects in these spaces! I&#x27;m the creator of OSINTBuddy which is a somewhat similar project if you squint haha. We&#x27;ve just recently finished porting our web app to an electron binary (unreleased) for people who perform sensitive investigations (aka we have encryption at rest via Turso database) and collaboration features will be done via WebRTC + a signalling server.I&#x27;m loving the approach you took to the UI! I had some similar ideas in mind and plan to build narrative reconstruction and timeline view tools too so it&#x27;s really nice to see how others have done so! I&#x27;ll definitely be following your work and I shared your project in the OSINTBuddy discord to hopefully get some more eyes on it :)Great work, I hope you keep at it :)

Thanks for the interest! I agree, the less people that need it the better, but I want it to exist just in case.

It&#x27;s always interesting to stumble upon a bubble you never heard of.This is super interesting. I will probably (hopefully?) never need to use it, but interesting nonetheless. It also makes sense to have this type of application airgapped. Journalists need to have near-perfect OPSEC depending on what they are working on.

That would be a cool test - let me know if you decide to do it!

This looks interesting, and honestly makes me want to fire up The Roottrees are Dead and see if I can use this to solve the second act.

I know it is supposed to be airgapped but can’t this be dockerized ?

Thank you, I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s gathered some interest!I don&#x27;t have any background as an analyst or anything like that. ACH is a real tool, really used by the CIA, and the existing versions are basically crappy spreadsheets, or not free, or both.I don&#x27;t doubt someone with coding skills could do it better, it&#x27;s just that no one else has stepped up. Probably because there&#x27;s no profit angle, but that&#x27;s conjecture on my part.

Interesting tool, do you have some domain knowledge as an analyst or something similar? I&#x27;ve always been curious what research tools analysts are using outside of like, Google.

Supposed to be the Mirror of Galadriel showing Arkham asylum. Just joshing on Palantir Gotham a little bit

That logo is like concentric rings of power around Galadriel&#x27;s seer-pool, looking at... Hogwarts?

Great, thanks! I don&#x27;t know much about Python or Docker, for that matter. But I just learned about and installed uv for Python management, and I have used Orbstack for containers in the past because I&#x27;m on Mac and the Docker Desktop blows.I do development on my machine, so I like to control its environment deliberately.

TL;DR is it should be fine, and thank you!There&#x27;s an isolated venv&#x2F; in the project folder, so no global packages or system python mods.If your python is 3.11+, the install should recognize it. If you have 3.10 or lower, it&#x27;s going to prompt you to install 3.11 for the project environment through winget or python.org. If you are running multiple pythons, it uses py -3.11 to pick the version.For Docker, the app is going to want you to already have docker running, and will want to make and utilize 3 containers (PostgresSQL, Qdrant, Redis) in their own isolated docker-compose project. It uses nonstandard ports, but there could be conflicts there if you have stuff running on 5435, 6343&#x2F;6344 or 6380. The backend wants to run at 8000, and the frontend wants to run at 3000, so those could conflict potentially as well.The script is going to check if docker is running - if it is, you should be set. If it&#x27;s not, it&#x27;s going to prompt you to start it up.Nothing in the install should touch your docker daemon config or your existing containers.Let me know how it works for you!

This looks very interesting. I already have Python and Docker set up the way I want. Will the installer mess with them?

This feature update is all about ACH, but there are several other functions that might also be of use for doing audit or compliance work.Is there any particular function you had in mind?ArkhamMirror can also scan your corpus for near duplicates, clusters, can check for signs of people using copy-paste in their work, find designated red flags, regex data, and that sort of thing. It&#x27;s really generalized for as many use cases as possible at this stage, and I&#x27;m about to start working on modularity for specialization soon, so feel free to make suggestions on how you&#x27;d want to use it.

This is very compelling, very nice work!I really would like to know how good this would be for a corporate Internal Audit workflow&#x2F;professional.

The cheesy noir persona is for the AI assisted install and that&#x27;s it. Inside the app, the prompts are strictly business. (They still have roles, but not &quot;characters&quot; or &quot;personas&quot;).

The idea is good. I do think that is going to be the future for high volume data leaks like the Snowden or Epstein files.I do think though that this approach will become annoying quick:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;prompts&#x2F;installer_persona.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;scripts...</a>

In case it wasn&#x27;t clear, the ACH update is on the reflex-dev branch -<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;tree&#x2F;reflex-dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mantisfury&#x2F;ArkhamMirror&#x2F;tree&#x2F;reflex-dev</a>

&gt; Literally everything else the LLM generated on demand for me based on its existing training data, offlineThat&#x27;s a ton of scope for hallucinations, surely?

I didn&#x27;t think a video would be very exciting. It did feel like deep magic when I tested it though. For the scenario in the screenshots, I provided the question, &quot;Did we really land a man on the moon?&quot; and the null hypothesis &quot;We landed on the moon in 1969&quot;, and the low value piece of evidence &quot;My dad told me he saw Stanley Kubrick&#x27;s moon landing set one time and he never lies.&quot; Literally everything else the LLM generated on demand for me based on its existing training data, offline. It gave me hypotheses, challenges, evidence, filled out the matrix, did the calculations, everything.

A video demo would be useful. I can&#x27;t really tell how much the application is doing from the screenshots. Is it a tool with some smart guidance, or is it doing deep magic?

Probably - LLMs definitely benefit from having decision-making frameworks. ACH is a super-widely useful tool, so I don&#x27;t see why you couldn&#x27;t tune an AI with it too.

I&#x27;m wondering if the ACH Methodology could be used as a general purpose Chain-of-Thought variant.

There&#x27;s a lot of potential for overlaps in features - e-discovery is one of the core concepts behind this platform, definitely.Also, it&#x27;s true that a lot of the existing tools that do similar things are anything but free.I can imagine most or all of the things ArkhamMirror does are done elsewhere by other programs and tools. I don&#x27;t know of any unclassified projects that do ACH better, but that&#x27;s a pretty niche tool, and the government loves their 20-year-old software solutions.Off-the-shelf programs designed for use by lawyers have layers of protections built in to make sure they are suitable for court-use. I don&#x27;t make any claims as to the legal utilities of this program whatsoever. In fact, the ACH PDF report generated specifically calls attention to the AI-generated nature of the materials and warns against using any data generated or entered without human review and approval.That said, you can make some pretty cool, non-legally useful, connections with tools like author unmask, where you feed the system docs by a known author and run them against docs written by an unknown or suspected alias to check for similar voice. During ingestion, the system automatically yanks all detected Regex data and puts it into a nice sortable, searchable list for you.Legal e-discovery products are going to be highly polished, reliable programs designed to be used in a legal setting, while ArkhamMirror is designed to be used while you sit in your faraday cage in your hacker cabin in the woods with no Wi-Fi.No shade intended - my stuff&#x27;s not nearly as pretty or as well-put together as a decent off-the-shelf e-discovery program and I&#x27;m not trying to imply that it&#x27;s better in any way, it&#x27;s just differently aligned.

Is this &quot;investigation platform&quot; any different from legal &quot;e-discovery&quot; software products? It&#x27;s a great accomplishment either way, but I am posting so other people know that lawyers use this stuff all the time and there are many (paid) off the shelf options.

The ACH method actively encourages you to start off with any and all plausible explanations and eliminate them as you go along, but the AI suggestions are definitely more limited than what a human could come up with.There are LLM limitations on the call to generate hypotheses to return them in a certain format and to return a certain number of them, and that sort of thing, so it&#x27;s usually in your best interest to use the LLM as more of an assistant to check if you missed anything or for a push to get started looking in different directions more than having the AI doing the whole thing (although if you are being lazy or don&#x27;t know what to do, you could let the LLM do pretty much everything - I pretty much let the LLM handle everything it could in testing.)

Doesn&#x27;t ACH also constrain hypothesis generation in certain ways?

In the same way it will be true that one day most of us will wake up unaware that all of our tomorrows will have become yesterdays except one and that when we lay down to rest on that day, we will only have part of the next day to wrap up any loose ends in our lives. Perhaps treating every day as if it could be our last is not an unreasonable plan.

Funny and thought provoking, you&#x27;ve now got me reflecting on if i&#x27;ll ever see anything stupider than my current top 5Personally as an american i&#x27;m quite optimistic on peak stupid being ahead of us :)

The Secretary Problem tells us that once you’ve lived 1&#x2F;e (~37%, 30ish years) of your life[1], the next time you see something that’s stupider than everything you’ve seen before there’s a 1&#x2F;e chance that’s it’s the stupidest thing you’ll ever see.[1] Strictly speaking it would be 1&#x2F;e of your stupidity sightings, which may not be 1&#x2F;e of your life. If you intend to retire early and become a hermit you may want to stop the exploration phase earlier.

Am I going to be killed by the stupidest thing I&#x27;ve ever seen, or will it merely be a distraction from my demise?

Huh that uh. That is something to think about

ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing

Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream

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 - Context-based keybindings (always visible)
 - Neovim-like interface with normal and insert mode for query editing
 - Browse databases, tables, views, stored procedures
 - Adapters for SQL Server, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Turso &amp; more
 - SSH tunneling support
 - Themes (Tokyo Night, Nord, Gruvbox etc.)

 Inspired by lazygit, neovim and lazysql. Built with Python&#x2F;Textual.
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Feedback welcome – especially on which adapters to prioritize next. My vision of sqlit is to make a tool that makes it easy to connect and query data, and to do that, and that thing only, really well.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Maxteabag&#x2F;sqlit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Maxteabag&#x2F;sqlit</a>