//About

I find what stays hidden, and I build the tools that find it faster.

Seventeen years as a cyber and technology investigator, recognized nationally for the work. Somewhere along the way I stopped waiting for better tools and started building them. Here's the long version.

//The short version

From the field to the build.

I started Southern Recon Agency in Florida in 2010 and built it into an award-winning firm. Then I founded E3 Legacy Intel, its cyber division, to take the cases most firms won't touch: wire fraud, cryptocurrency tracing, dark-web work, online-actor attribution. The deeper I went, the clearer it got. The work was outgrowing anything a human analyst could do by hand.

So I built the tools. Mantle, Recon, ATLAS, Ledger, a deeper set of forensic instruments, and the investigation agents that run inside them, all working real casework right now. Together they're the E3 suite. I developed them. E3 Legacy Intel owns and operates them.

A working cyber investigator who also ships production AI is a rare combination. Rare enough that conference organizers, law firms, corporations, and federal partners keep calling. This site is where that work lives.

Matt Aubin, cyber investigator and AI builder

//Credentials

Licensed, certified, and genuinely rare.

Licensed PILicensed Florida Private Investigator
FBCIFlorida Board Certified Investigator
CDFECertified Digital Forensics Examiner
TSCMTechnical Surveillance Countermeasures

The FBCI is rare on purpose. Fewer than fifty Florida Board Certified Investigators exist in the state, and I'm one of them. Alongside it: an active Florida private investigator license (Southern Recon Agency, A-1400197), digital forensics certification, and formal TSCM (technical surveillance countermeasures) training, with more credentials behind those.

//Boards & leadership

Trusted by the people who run the profession.

Board Member

Florida Association of Licensed Investigators (FALI)

Invited Member

Council of Association Leaders

An invitation-only body of the leaders of investigative associations worldwide.

//Federal work

I've worked the cases the agencies care about.

Seventeen years of casework brought alongside federal, state, and local agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals Service, among others. The kind of work that doesn't make it into a brochure, on the kind of cases that don't leave room for error.

//One note on names

You may find my earlier AI work referenced as Agenticam. That research line grew into what is now Mantle.

//In the press

On the record as a cybercrime expert.

National and regional outlets call when they need someone who can explain cybercrime and digital investigations in plain language, on camera, on deadline.

ABC Action News
The Daily Beast
Spectrum News
Fox 35 Orlando
10 Tampa Bay
Netflix / MAC Pictures

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A series about unmasking anonymous internet trolls. In the pilot, I track down an attacker who resurfaced a revenge-porn victim's images years after the fact, and bring him to justice.

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