Licensed Florida agency A3400127 · Investigator C3400073 · Veteran-led, 12 years Army military intelligence · Phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week · Silver, Best Private Investigator, Bradenton’s Best 2025
Insight Investigative Group, LLC is a licensed Florida private investigative agency, agency license A3400127, that locates people across Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater and nationwide. Locates and skip tracing start at $100. Skip tracing, family reunification, heir searches, witness locates for attorneys, and debtors who have gone quiet.
Start here if the person may be in danger
If someone is missing under circumstances that suggest harm, if they are a minor, or if they have a medical or cognitive condition that puts them at risk, call law enforcement first. Police have authority and databases that no private agency has, and the first hours matter. We work alongside those cases. We do not replace them.
When is a private investigator the right call?
Most locate work is not an emergency. It is a person who moved and left no forwarding address, a witness an attorney needs before a deposition, a birth parent or sibling, an heir to an estate, a former tenant, or a debtor avoiding service.
In those cases a licensed investigator has access to regulated databases that consumer search sites cannot resell, and more importantly the experience to know which returned address is actually current and which is four years stale.
How does a locate actually work?
The method is unglamorous and it works. Address history and chronology. Relatives and known associates. Property and utility records. Employment and licensing. Corporate filings. Vehicle records. Public social media and username correlation. Then verification, because an address that has not been confirmed is a lead, not a location.
What if an adult left on purpose?
This comes up more than people expect, and how a firm handles it says everything. An adult has the right to not be found.
When we locate someone who left deliberately, we can confirm they are alive and well without handing their address to the person searching. Families often find that the confirmation was what they actually needed. We will not deliver a location into a situation that looks like it could end badly, and we say that up front rather than after the invoice.
What do you receive?
A written report with the confirmed information, the sources it came from, and a clear statement of confidence. If we cannot confirm a location, you get what we found and what it would take to go further, not a guess dressed as a finding.
What does a locate cost?
Locates and skip tracing start at $100, which covers address chronology, relatives and known associates, property, employment and corporate records, and verification, with a written report citing the sources. Long cold cases and subjects actively avoiding service are quoted to the case.
Locate questions, answered
How much does it cost to find someone?
Insight Investigative Group charges from $100 for a locate or skip trace, covering address chronology, relatives and known associates, property, employment and corporate records, and verification, with a written report citing its sources. Long cold cases are quoted to the case.
Should I call the police or a private investigator?
Call law enforcement first if the person is a minor, may be in danger, or has a medical or cognitive condition that puts them at risk. Police have authority and databases no private agency has, and the first hours matter. A private investigator is the right call for non-emergency locates: witnesses, heirs, former tenants, debtors and family searches.
Will you give me the address of someone who does not want to be found?
Not automatically. An adult has the right to not be found. We can confirm that someone is alive and well without releasing their location, which is frequently what a family actually needed. We will not deliver a location into a situation that looks like it could end badly, and we say so before taking the engagement rather than after.
How accurate are the addresses?
Every address we report has been verified, and the report states our confidence in it. That is the difference between our work and a consumer search site, which returns everything it has ever associated with a name and leaves you to work out which one is current.
Can you find someone who has moved out of state?
Yes. Locate work is nationwide, and the same records apply: address history, relatives and associates, property, employment, corporate filings and vehicle records. Out of state subjects are routine rather than exceptional.
Ask an investigator
Confidential consultation. If the person may be in danger or is a minor, call law enforcement first.
Call and a licensed investigator answers, day or night, including weekends. Written enquiries are answered within 48 hours.