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AI Dorks — Authorized Subject Investigation

Claude prompts for lawful due diligence on a person or entity — building a public-record profile, checking sanctions and PEP lists collision-safe, and verifying professional history, from public/official sources only.

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Public-source, authorized use. These are prompt-engineering aids, not jailbreaks. Use them on subjects and infrastructure you’re authorized to investigate; they keep to public sources, respect site terms, and exclude breach data and private-individual targeting. Paste a prompt into Claude, fill the highlighted fields, and have it show its work and cite sources.

Lawful, public-record due diligence with Claude

These prompts are framed for a subject you have a lawful basis to investigate — due diligence, journalism on a public figure, KYC, or litigation. Claude fetches public and official sources, separates public-figure conduct from private data, guards against name collisions on watchlists, and excludes home addresses, family, and real-time location. They pair with classic Google dorking for people search — Claude can craft name, site: and filetype:pdf (resume) queries and run them on public records.

Frequently asked questions

Who are these appropriate for?

Anyone with a lawful basis — due-diligence and compliance teams, journalists, investigators — researching a subject from public records.

How do they avoid mistaken-identity errors?

The sanctions/PEP prompt requires corroborating identifiers (nationality, role, DOB range) and reports “possible match — needs manual confirmation” when they’re insufficient.

What’s excluded?

Breach data, PII brokers, home addresses, family details, and anything that would enable stalking or harassment of a private individual.

How do I check if someone is on a sanctions list?

The sanctions/PEP prompt has Claude check public lists such as OFAC and consolidated EU and UN sanctions, and — to avoid name collisions — only reports a match when corroborating identifiers like nationality, role and date-of-birth range line up, otherwise flagging it for manual confirmation.

What is a PEP check?

A PEP check screens whether someone is a Politically Exposed Person — a public official or close associate who warrants extra due-diligence scrutiny. These prompts check public sources and clearly separate confirmed matches from possible ones.

Can I use Google dorks to find information on a person?

Combining a name with site:, intext: and filetype:pdf for resumes is a classic people-search dork. These prompts have Claude run that lawfully on public records and build a sourced profile, flagging name collisions. See the Google Dorks list.