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Extraction is solved. Review is not.
We got very good at pulling everything off a device. We did not get equally good at reviewing it. The bottleneck moved from getting the data to understanding the data.
SoCal Tech Forum · October 3, 2026
AI for Digital Forensics · A Founder Story
Find what matters.
Then build something that does.
Investigators don’t need more data. They need the few pieces that matter — and builders who will take the first pass without taking the accountability.
Mark Tacconelli. Founder & CEO, EvidaraIQ / ClearPath.AI. Former Head of Product at Cellebrite.
“I didn’t leave because I wanted less work — I left to build something that matters.”
The question changed
“Can we find what matters before a human reviews everything?”
Not one giant prompt
A team of specialists. Then a human.
Investigations already operate this way. Agentic AI should too. Specialists surface intelligence. Humans validate findings. The audit trail records every step.
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Image
Visual triage, clusters, near-duplicates
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Video
Keyframes, audio, moments that matter
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Chat
Threads, entities, report correlation
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Correlation
Cross-device map, timeline, confidence
The talk, in four beats
Digital evidence has outgrown legacy workflows. The next leap is not replacing extraction tools. It is connecting the lifecycle around them.
02 · The whole talk, in one question.
Can we find what matters first?
That is no longer a tooling question. It is a workflow question. Software should take the first pass so a human never has to review everything.
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Agents are specialists — not one giant prompt.
Image, video, chat, correlation. Investigations already work as a team of specialists. Agentic AI should too. Humans still validate, decide significance, and defend conclusions.
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AI multiplies builders. It cannot replace trust.
“Fluency is not the advantage. The problem is.”
A founder can now move from idea to working enterprise software at a speed that used to require a much larger team. Relationships, customers, and judgment still have to be earned.
Keep going
The next advantage is not “knowing AI.” It is combining AI fluency with a real problem, real domain depth, and real execution.
Build with agents
Agentic AI
From answering questions to executing defined work.
Learn the domain
Digital forensics 101
Preserve, extract, interpret, present — then find what matters.
Do the work
Where this lives
Domain depth plus AI fluency is the next advantage.
What we’re building
After extraction. Before the courtroom.
ClearPath.AI organizes evidence, surfaces what matters, preserves accountability, and helps teams move faster. Agents surface. Humans validate. The audit trail records every step.
Time saved equals victims protected.
Cloud native
Secure collaboration on Salesforce Government Cloud.
AI assisted
Triage, classify, correlate, summarize — as a first pass.
Human validated
Investigators remain accountable for every finding.
Court defensible
Audit trail from intake to output. Source evidence unchanged.
Continue the conversation
If the talk landed, reach out. The builders who win will use AI to attack problems that were previously too slow, too complex, or too expensive to solve.
EvidaraIQ · ClearPath.AI · Expected launch Q1 2027