Luc's Note: Claire wanted a press release full of words like "synergy" and "paradigm shift." I told her if she used those words in public, I'd set fire to the press release. This is the compromise.
For twenty years, my brother Luc and I have agreed on almost nothing.
He stayed in Lyon, driving our father's old car, obsessed with solving the messy, street-level crimes that the system ignores.
I went to Paris. I built companies. I learned that truth is a commodity, and scaling it requires structure, capital, and ruthlessness.
We lived in different worlds until necessity forced us together.
The Bottleneck
Luc is the best forensic investigator I know. His instinct for human deceit is unparalleled. But by last year, even he couldn't keep up. The sheer volume of modern evidence broke his analog methods.
Luc's Note: It wasn't the cases that broke me. It was the attachments. They send thousands of pages of scanned police reports mixed with endless email chains and fifty-page documents. My apartment in Croix-Rousse isn't big enough for the filing cabinets I'd need to print it all out. I was drowning in a mix of old and new information I couldn't organize physically anymore.
I saw an opportunity that he refused to see. His intuition wasn't just a quirky relic of the past. It was a methodology that could be scaled.
The Network & The Tool
Today, we are opening the HeroTerminal Network.
At its core is Lens. Luc didn't build it as a commercial product because he loves technology. He built it out of sheer annoyance as a necessary bridge between the old world and the new.
It is a stripped-back digital workbench that allowed him to view the flood of modern emails and reports right next to his old handwritten notes. It's the only digital workspace he trusts because it doesn't try to be smart with "AI". It just holds the messy truth so a human can look at it.
It is an uneasy alliance. I provide the infrastructure, the global clients, and the financial security that allows this work to happen. Luc provides the standard, the Lens engine, and ensures that no matter how big we get, the evidence never lies.
We are recruiting independent investigators because Luc is one man drowning in paperwork that isn't on paper anymore. We need operators who possess his raw instinct for human deceit, but need the structure to apply it at scale.
It’s messy. It’s personal. It’s a family business born out of a twenty-year argument.
If you have the grit to look at a mountain of contradictions and find the narrative hidden inside, we have a desk waiting for you.
Claire Vernier, CEO
Luc's Note: She makes it sound poetic. It's just work. The archives are open. Start digging.