The Shield for Civic Resources.
Local Authorities face unprecedented challenges at a time of constrained resource – the need to make accurate decisions relating to grants, vetting, benefits and much more are imperative. The Synalogik team have decades of experience working within Local Authorities, with former policing and law enforcement, Government, legal and Ministry of Defence careers. We’ve worked at the coalface and are acutely aware of the pain points involved.
These experiences led our founders to creating Scout® – a single intelligence environment, that securely aggregates, cleanses and risk scores all the data sources your team require – so they can spend more time making decisions, rather than repeating the same searches, in multiple places.
Local Authority investigation is continually evolving – it has to – to keep pace with the changing landscape and increasingly sophisticated methods deployed by those looking to break the law. Keeping up with huge data volumes and heightened threat levels is challenging. That’s where we come in – providing configurable technology that grows with you and keeps you ahead of the game.
Councils hold massive amounts of data across housing, social care, and tax—but it lives in silos. Fraudsters explicitly exploit the gaps between these disconnected administrative systems.
Organized criminal networks are systematically draining public funds through coordinated housing fraud, fake grant applications, and sophisticated tax evasion strategies.
A unified civic view. We automatically cross-reference internal council data with external registries to flag organized fraud rings long before funds are dispersed.
Cross-reference housing registers, internal systems, and external credit footprints to instantly identify illegal subletting, ghost tenants, and multiple-occupancy violations.
Automate the identification of undeclared businesses, false single-person discounts, and organized business rate avoidance schemes draining local revenue.
Validate care benefit claims and disability badge applications against mortality registers and external financial indicators to protect vulnerable support funds.
Uncover hidden links between council suppliers, employees, and ultimate beneficial owners to prevent contract rigging, conflicts of interest, and insider fraud.
Triage emergency support and business grants against national databases to ensure funds only reach genuine, verified residents and legitimate local enterprises.
An auditable, RIPA-compliant environment that seamlessly fuses internal council data with DWP, HMRC, and Police intelligence without compromising data privacy.
"Councils are bleeding funds through disjointed administrative systems. Scout® unified our view across tax, housing, and social care. By automating our data cross-referencing against national fraud databases, we've stopped millions in coordinated tenancy and grant fraud before a single payout was made. It's transformed our counter-fraud response from reactive to preventative."
