Company Dossier — Intelligence Research

Turn any company URL into a structured competitive-intelligence dossier — without leaving VS Code.

What it does

Give Company Dossier a company name and URL. It crawls the live site, reconstructs its history from the Wayback Machine, fingerprints DNS/email infrastructure and the tech stack, pulls public records, and — optionally — uses Claude to synthesize an executive brief, SWOT, and ranked findings. The result is a navigable, agent-friendly folder of Markdown written right into your workspace. Public sources only.

Features

• One-input research — give a company name + URL, get a complete dossier.
• Live website crawl — homepage, sitemap, and up to 50 prioritized pages (about, team, products, pricing, contact, news).
• Wayback history — multi-query CDX recon: total captures, unique URLs, archived PDFs, and deleted pages.
• DNS & email recon — MX provider, SPF, DMARC, subdomains, verification tokens.
• Tech-stack detection — CMS, frameworks, CDN, analytics IDs, GTM, and ad pixels.
• Public records — USASpending federal contracts and discovered social profiles.
• AI synthesis (optional) — executive brief, SWOT, ranked findings, and "manual research needed", grounded in collected evidence (requires an Anthropic API key).
• Structured output — a 12-section dossier with YAML frontmatter, _MOC.md maps of content, and a ROUTER.md so AI agents can navigate in two reads.
• Public data only — no logins, no scraping behind authentication.

Install

From the Marketplace

1. Open VS Code → Extensions (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+X).
2. Search for Company Dossier — Intelligence Research.
3. Click Install, or open it on the Marketplace.

From source

git clone https://github.com/ever-just/company-dossier-vscode
cd company-dossier-vscode
npm install
npm run compile

Then press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host, or package a .vsix with npx vsce package and install it via Extensions → "Install from VSIX…".

Usage

Open a folder in VS Code first — dossiers are written into the open workspace.

• Sidebar view — click the Company Dossier icon in the Activity Bar, enter a company name + URL, pick a depth, and run the pipeline with live progress.
• Chat participant — in the Chat view (Copilot Chat), type:

  @dossier /research Acme Corp https://acme.com
  

  Results stream back inline with a button to open the generated dossier.
• Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+P):
  • Dossier: Research Company — prompts for name + URL, then runs the full pipeline.
  • Dossier: New Entity Profile — scaffolds a profile (person, supplier, competitor, client, product) into the right section.

Optional AI synthesis: add your key in Settings → Company Dossier → Anthropic API Key (companyDossier.anthropicApiKey). Without a key, data is still collected and written; only the LLM synthesis step is skipped. Tune crawl depth with companyDossier.maxPages.

Output

Each run creates a "<Company> DOSSIER/" folder in your workspace:

<Company> DOSSIER/
├── README.md               ← Landing page
├── ROUTER.md               ← AI-agent navigation (question → file)
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── _meta/                  ← Methodology, confidence scale
├── _data/                  ← Structured data (CSVs)
├── _assets/                ← Photos & PDFs
├── _evidence/              ← Raw source data
├── 1_corporate/            ← Identity, legal, tech stack, contacts
├── 2_people/profiles/      ← One file per person
├── 3_products/             ← Products, services, pricing
├── 4_suppliers/profiles/   ← One file per supplier
├── 5_customers/            ← Clients, prospects
├── 6_competitors/profiles/ ← One file per competitor
├── 7_financials/           ← Revenue, valuation, federal contracts
├── 8_marketing/            ← Social, events, press
├── 9_brand/                ← Visual identity
├── 10_timeline/            ← History, website evolution
├── 11_analysis/            ← Executive brief, SWOT, key findings
└── 12_industry/            ← Market context

Every file carries YAML frontmatter (type, confidence, last-updated). With an API key, the analysis section is populated with an executive brief, SWOT, key findings, and a manual-research checklist.

Works with

Company Dossier is one part of a larger ecosystem:

• Website — companydossier.lol
• npm package — company-dossier — run the same research from your terminal:

  npx company-dossier <company>

• Core repo & methodology — github.com/ever-just/company-dossier

Documentation

• Architecture — the collector → generator flow and pipeline phases.
• AGENTS.md — how an AI agent should understand and extend this repo.
• Contributing · Code of Conduct · Security · Changelog

License

MIT © EverJust