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The 85 Project

We are an independent research enterprise and consultancy serving media, nonprofits, and businesses with open-source research, geospatial analysis, and supply chain investigations — separating fact from fiction, substance from hype, and hard facts from convenient narratives.

From ocean to algorithm, we conduct research at the intersection of physical and digital worlds from maritime and natural resources to online risks and human rights documentation.

Our critical approach is central to why we exist: we are fact-focused, not sugar-coated.

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The 85 Project collaborates with nonprofits, legal experts, journalists, policy institutes, and private clients, applying advanced open source investigation techniques across a variety of industries.

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Digital disruption in supply chains

Maps, apps, pixels and patterns.

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Love Difficult.
Honor Complex.
Think Differently.