Built by a son still looking for his mother.
Ash Ghaemi's mother disappeared more than two decades ago. Her case was never solved. CrimeOwl is the workspace he wishes his family had — and the one he's now putting in the hands of every sleuth who refuses to look away.
Ash & his mother
The photo, and the case, behind CrimeOwl.
“Every cold case is a family that was told to wait. I refused to keep waiting. So we built the tool I wish my family had.”
Ash Ghaemi
Founder, CrimeOwl
Our story
Three chapters. One workspace.
Chapter 01
The beginning
CrimeOwl was born out of one family's unresolved cold case. Ash watched the system grind to a halt — not from a lack of love, but from a lack of bandwidth. The leads existed. Nobody had time to hold them all in one head.
Chapter 02
The problem
Investigators drown in paper. Families get forgotten. Patterns hide in plain sight across binders, hard drives, and phone calls that stop coming back. The evidence doesn't vanish. It gets buried.
Chapter 03
The solution
Modern AI can read everything in minutes — if someone puts a workspace around it. So we did. CrimeOwl is the first Investigator OS: timelines, files, suspects, and an AI that never gets tired of the case.
Real impact
What changes when AI sits next to the case.
AI catches contradictions and connections that previous reads missed.
Read thousands of files in the time it takes to make coffee.
Citizen detectives, families, journalists, and pros — all in one workspace.
What we believe
Four things we won't compromise on.
Compassion
We understand the weight of unanswered questions. Every feature has to earn its place inside that grief.
Security
Your case is yours. Files stay locked down by default. You decide who sees what — and when, if ever, to go public.
Precision
AI grounded in your own files. No hallucinated leads. Citations or it didn't happen.
Collaboration
Sleuths, families, journalists, investigators — invite the right person and let the work compound.
Stop scrolling. Start looking.
Pick a public case today. Open your own private workspace when it gets personal.
One workspace, every kind of sleuth
- Citizen detectives chasing the case the news forgot
- Families holding decades of binders together
- Journalists cross-referencing thousands of pages
- Investigators who'd rather follow leads than format files