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// Human intelligence. Simplified.

Software built by investigators, for investigators.

We build secure, intuitive case and intelligence software for New Zealand’s law-enforcement, justice and investigation sectors — turning hard human intelligence into clear, confident decisions.

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// Products

Three instruments. One discipline.

Purpose-built tools for the people who manage sources, run investigations, and defend cases — each sharing the same secure foundation.

Informed Management System

Intelligence comes from people, from watching, and from technology — and the most sensitive of it demands the most careful handling. Informed Management System brings every covert collection discipline into one secure platform — human source management at its core, surveillance and technical deployment alongside it — protecting the people and methods behind it, and delivering intelligence to the teams who need it.

Informed Management System interface — a secure covert-intelligence record with audit trail and source handling.

Informed Investigations

Most investigation software is a filing cabinet. Informed Investigations works the case with you — holding every person, exhibit, document and statement in one controlled record, then keeping sight of what you're trying to establish and how close you are. At any moment it shows what's proven, what's still thin, and what to do next.

Informed Investigations interface — a case workspace tracking what's proven, what's missing, and the next step.

Informed Defence

Criminal defence runs on detail, deadlines and disclosure — and disclosure now arrives by the thousands of pages. Built for criminal defence alone, Informed Defence gives every matter one organised home and takes on the grind itself: it reads the disclosure, builds the timeline, flags what's missing and drafts your trial materials — every step grounded in your file and staged for your approval. Order on your side of the table.

Informed Defence interface — a criminal defence matter with police disclosure ingested, a proposed timeline and witness plan.

// Bespoke

Not every problem fits a product. When it doesn’t, we build.

Informed Software Solutions designs and develops bespoke software for organisations with serious requirements — secure by design, hosted in New Zealand, and shaped around the way your people actually work. Boutique, deliberate, and built to last.

  • Discovery & scoping
  • Secure architecture
  • Systems integration
  • NZ-hosted delivery
  • Long-term support
  1. Listen
  2. Design
  3. Build
  4. Stand behind it

// Who we work with

Trusted by multiple New Zealand government agencies and businesses to manage their most sensitive information.

  • New Zealand owned and operated.
  • Built by people who’ve done the work — 35+ years of frontline Police, fraud and investigative experience.
  • Security and data sovereignty by design — your data stays where it should.

// Security

Held to a higher standard.

The sectors we serve carry real consequences. We make the hard security decisions early, and we make them by default.

  • Sovereignty

    NZ-hosted. Your data stays in New Zealand, under New Zealand law.

  • Secure by design

    Security decisions made at architecture time, not bolted on afterwards.

  • Accountability

    Full audit trails — every action is attributable to a person and a time.

  • Access

    Least-privilege by default; sensitive material compartmentalised.

// The people

The people who’ve done the work.

Informed was founded by investigators who got tired of fighting their tools. The software is built by people who have lived the problems it solves.

  • Joel Slater, Founder and Managing Director.

    Joel Slater

    Founder & Managing Director

    Joel began in IT before spending 17 years with NZ Police, including managing and supervising detective teams in the National Criminal Investigation Group, where he specialised in risk assessment and management. He has since returned to his first love — building software — including proprietary systems for NZ Police.

  • Katherine Young, Director.

    Katherine Young

    Director

    Katherine brings 18+ years of investigative experience — 13 with NZ Police, followed by senior investigative and management roles at the Serious Fraud Office, Immigration New Zealand and WorkSafe New Zealand.

  • Suzanne Day, Advisory Board.

    Suzanne Day

    Advisory Board

    Suzanne has 25 years in the technology sector. She is Managing Partner, Technology & Professional Services at Morgan Young, and a trusted advisor to local and global technology firms.

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