Clearview AI has built and tested an experimental assistant that could turn an investigator’s initial face-search lead into a broader personal profile. Code reviewed by WIRED describes InquiryIQ opening web pages, analyzing images and assembling possible aliases, employers, associates, addresses, accounts and physical characteristics.
The prototype could take demographic details including age, gender and race as search inputs. Its interface listed several possible underlying models, including one from SpaceXAI, though Clearview says those options were for internal comparison rather than customer selection. The company describes the system as automation for web searches detectives already perform, not an autonomous investigator.
Clearview says InquiryIQ has never been pitched or shipped to customers, no law-enforcement user has used it, and the current prototype is not planned for release. WIRED found references to it in files delivered by Clearview’s login page; those files reveal interface text but not the server-side system, its accuracy or its actual usage.
If deployed, such a tool could compress lengthy research into minutes. It could also make broad fishing expeditions cheaper and make investigative paths harder to reconstruct because generative models can produce different results from the same starting information.