Blog: 09.02.26

Switch Investigation Platforms With This Migration Strategy

If your investigation platform feels like it’s slowing you down, it probably is.

Manual file sorting, copy-paste reports, and disconnected tools aren’t just annoyances. They are risks. And they cost your team hours that should be spent uncovering leads, not wrangling systems.

If you’re considering a switch to Falkor, this article breaks down what the migration looks like and why it’s worth it.

What to Ask Investigation Platform Providers

Before you migrate, ask the right questions:

How does your platform handle structured and unstructured data?
Can I ingest PDFs, images, OSINT feeds, and mobile dumps?
Does your platform support live collaboration across teams?
What does link analysis actually look like? Maps? Timelines?
Can I build a report without copying into PowerPoint?
How long does onboarding take? How much of it is hands-on?
What does it take to run this on-prem or in a hybrid setup?

These questions will reveal if the platform is built for your real-world work.

Which Platforms Should I Evaluate?

Check out this checklist: what to do and what to avoid.

✔ Strong at dashboards and modeling
✘ Weak on collaboration, OSINT, or fast case work

✔ Powerful for link-based OSINT snapshots
✘ Lacks structured case flow, team access, or reporting tools

✔ Proven in defense & law enforcement
✘ Heavy setup, little flexibility, desktop-bound, no modern collaboration

Falkor offers:

A unified, browser-based platform for everything from ingest to report
AI-powered insights to spot patterns, summarize cases, and ask questions directly in the platform
Structured and unstructured data support
Entity profiling, timeline/map view, link analysis in one flow
Real-time collaboration with audit trails and permissions
Fast onboarding, role-specific dashboards, and guided migration
AI-powered insights to spot patterns, summarize cases, and ask questions directly in the platform

What migrating to Falkor actually looks like

Here’s the good news: most teams don’t need to start over. In fact, you can easily ingest much of your old data thanks to our build-in capabilities.

Falkor is built to ingest your existing data, from spreadsheets and PDFs to entity files and case archives. We preserve structure, source links, and metadata, so you don’t lose track of what matters.

Is your data stored in structured files such as XML, CSV or otherwise? No problem, just configure the data file quickly and with no coding experience necessary, and you can upload as many as you want. Need any assistance with this? Just let us know.

Our onboarding team helps you:

Define your first cases
Import legacy documents, notes, and OSINT traces
Set up user roles, permissions, and workspace boundaries
Train your team, from power users to field officers

Need to upload unstructured data, such as images, Word files, PDFs or otherwise? No problem also - just upload them to Falkor, scan them with our OCR and NER capabilities, and they’ll be added to your database.

Have all of your data available via API or want to plug in to other data sources? No problem at

Need to run it on-prem? Already using internal data feeds? Falkor can meet you where you are.