Clouseau
Forensic document intelligence. On your laptop. For the price of a coffee.
Point Clouseau at a folder of emails, contracts, scans, spreadsheets and bank statements — in any language, including handwriting — and interrogate it in plain English. The agent cross-checks the live web inside the same conversation. Documents never leave your machine.
macOS desktop app. Bring your own Anthropic API key or use a Claude Max subscription.
Clouseau is built for owner-operators, controllers, and forensic accountants who need to understand what's actually in a corpus too large to read manually. It ingests heterogeneous document types, runs vision-grade OCR with structured extraction, and indexes the result locally. From there you can chat with the corpus the way you'd chat with an analyst who'd spent six weeks reading everything.
Overview of a 3,000-document tea-import corpus — 13 unsupervised topic clusters surfaced automatically.
Findings, not summaries
Insights are framed for the operator — duplicate payments, sequence gaps, undocumented retainers, currency-trail anomalies. Each finding cites the source documents so you can verify in one click.
Findings out, paper in
Tick the answers worth keeping; mark the cited documents worth attaching. One click compiles a report ready for a lawyer or auditor — or bundles the underlying documents into an evidence pack.
What makes it different
Scale that breaks the manual-reading claim.
Index hundreds of thousands of documents on a laptop. The "I could just read it myself" defence stops working past a few hundred docs; Clouseau is built for the order of magnitude beyond that.
Multilingual and handwriting-aware.
Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, German, mixed-script contracts, handwritten delivery notes. Vision-grade OCR via Claude — reads margin notes, post-its, and non-Latin scripts as readily as English type.
Your documents and the live web, in one conversation.
Cross-check your vendor list against today's OFAC sanctions, your contracts against today's law, your counterparties against this week's news. Live web access alongside the corpus, in one query, with citations to both.
Privacy by location.
Documents stay on your machine. The corpus, the index, the conversations, the attachments — all local. Only the specific question and the retrieved snippets reach the LLM.
Reports in any language, ready for the local file.
Read your English corpus, ask your question in English, hand the answer to your German auditor in German — or your Japanese controller in Japanese. End-to-end multilingual output without the translate-and-paste loop.
Adversarial verification on every finding.
Skeptic, referee, and confidence passes pressure-test each audit finding before you ship it. Avoids the plausible-but-wrong failure mode that hand-rolled LLM tools have.
What a forensic accountant does in six weeks of $300-an-hour reading, Clouseau does on a laptop, in the time it takes to drink a coffee.
Who it's for
The French MD with the Vietnamese subsidiary
Three years of accounting in Vietnamese, supply contracts mixed-language, correspondence with a Japanese sales partner the prior local MD never escalated. Open the corpus, ask 'what should I worry about?' — get back: vendors not in the parent's approved-supplier list, contracts expiring without renewals, a quarterly payment to an entity nobody recognises, customer disputes that never made it to head office.
The controller running monthly anomaly checks
Cron-tab approach for an SME finance lead. Drop the month's documents in, run the audit pass, review the flagged items. Catches things sampling misses: invoices just below approval thresholds, duplicate payments under slightly different names, missing receipts, expense miscategorisations.
The owner-director with a $40k legal dispute
The other side served a demand. A lawyer would charge $15k to do the first-pass document review. Build the evidence pack yourself in a weekend, hand a structured findings document to the lawyer, save most of the fee for the part that actually requires legal training.
The forensic accountant on a fixed-fee engagement
Where every hour of triage is margin. Clouseau gets a 5,000-document case down from a week of reading to half a day of asking. Same final report quality; different cost base.
Twenty-three minutes inside the Enron emails
Four findings Clouseau surfaced from the public Cohen/CMU Enron release — documented threads that don't appear in the standard secondary literature. The corpus search and the public-record verification ran in the same conversation.
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Thirty minutes. Bring a folder of documents — anything you'd normally read manually.
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