Operational expertise,
delivered as a service.
Kairos's consulting practice is grounded in real field operations across military, human rights, and investigative work: mass grave documentation, battlefield forensic exploitation, conflict-zone evidence collection. That operational depth also shapes a planned cryptographic evidence platform, detailed separately on Solutions. What's on this page is live now — field deployment, authentication review, and expert testimony for active investigations and proceedings.
Five segments, one consulting practice
Each segment has distinct evidentiary standards and procurement pace. The consulting engagement adapts to each; the underlying expertise doesn't change.
| Segment | Key organizations | Typical engagement | Procurement pace | How it starts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Federal LE + Military Justice | FBI WFO, Europol, BKA, JAG, NCIS, OSI, AFOSI, DIU | Field deployment support, authentication review | Weeks–months | Direct consulting engagement or expert witness retention. |
| National Universal Jurisdiction | German Federal Prosecutor, Netherlands PNAT, French PNAT/JUNALCO | Pre-trial evidentiary gap analysis, expert testimony | 6–18 months | Retained advisory or per-case engagement. |
| UN Investigative Mechanisms | IIIM, UNITAD, Myanmar Mechanism, Ukraine mechanisms, ICC Field Ops | Field deployment planning, Berkeley Protocol audit | 18–36 months | Advisory engagement, often multi-year. |
| ICMP + Identification Bodies | ICMP, national missing persons commissions | Mass grave and identification workflow consulting | 12–24 months | Per-investigation field deployment. |
| Major Institutional NGOs | PHR, HRW, Amnesty International, and similar documentation organizations | Investigator training, compliance audits | 6–18 months | Training engagement or retained advisory. |
Three consulting tracks
Field deployment, litigation support, and institutional compliance — structured for how investigations and proceedings actually need help. This is the full current offering; the planned software platform is covered separately on Solutions.
Field Deployment & Authentication Review
Kairos consultants have direct operational experience in mass grave documentation, battlefield forensic exploitation, and conflict-zone evidence collection, informed by field applications across military, human rights, and investigative work. Engagements bring that operational depth to an investigation's specific evidentiary requirements — including cases where digital evidence handling needs to be reconstructed or defended after the fact.
Includes
- Field deployment planning
- Evidence authentication review
- Chain-of-custody remediation
- Post-quantum readiness assessment
Expert Witness & Litigation Support
Expert witness services for ICC, UCMJ, universal jurisdiction, and domestic proceedings, paired with pre-trial evidentiary gap analysis that identifies authentication weaknesses before opposing counsel does.
Includes
- Expert witness testimony
- Pre-trial evidentiary gap analysis
Compliance & Training
Ongoing advisory relationships for organizations that need standing evidentiary expertise rather than a single engagement — Berkeley Protocol compliance audits and investigator training built from real field methodology.
Includes
- Retained advisory relationship
- Berkeley Protocol compliance audit
- Investigator training
Infrastructure enables accountability
Evidentiary infrastructure removes one of the clearest points of failure in atrocity prosecutions: whether the record survives scrutiny. The Caesar Files photographs supported prosecutions in Germany and informed French arrest warrants against Syrian officials — proof that documentation carries a case when it holds up. That's the standard field deployment and authentication review are built to meet, case by case, today.
Impunity for war crimes by state actors erodes the international legal order and emboldens future aggression. Evidentiary infrastructure is a national security investment, not only a humanitarian one.