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Encyphir Risk Management

Our Company

Built by Investigators Who Lived the Work

Encyphir Risk Management is a licensed private investigation and risk management firm founded and led by former law enforcement professionals. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, with an office in St. Petersburg, Florida, we operate in all 50 states through a vetted network of licensed investigators.

We built Encyphir on a simple conviction: the people and organizations we serve deserve the same rigor, discipline, and uncompromising commitment that defined our careers in public service, now applied exclusively in yours.

William BrownWilliam BrownCEO
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200+ Cumulative
Years Combined Experience
1,308+
Cases Resolved
Licensed
Nationwide - Fully Insured
100%
Confidential

Senior Investigators, Not Junior Staff

Former homicide detectives, patrol sergeants, 911 dispatch supervisors, SWAT operators, and intelligence professionals. Every case is managed by a licensed senior investigator from intake to final report.Full bios and credentials

Built to Close a Gap in the Industry

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Our founders spent their careers in law enforcement and kept running into the same problem on the private side: firms that marketed aggressively but lacked the investigative depth to deliver court-admissible, defensible results.

Encyphir was built to close that gap. It pairs decades of hands-on criminal investigative experience with the operational discipline of public service, and applies it to individuals, law firms, corporations, school districts, insurance carriers, and government agencies.

Message from the CEOWhat we do

  1. Law enforcement standards

    Every senior investigator comes from a background where the quality of the work had real consequences. We carry that standard into every engagement.

  2. A senior investigator on every case

    A licensed senior investigator manages each case from intake through final report. We do not hand cases off to junior staff or uncredentialed third parties.

  3. Court-admissible results

    Documented, defensible findings with chain-of-custody discipline, written for attorneys, courts, insurers, and decision makers who need to rely on them.

  4. Confidential by default

    Discreet handling of every inquiry, from the first conversation through delivery of the final report.

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Two Offices. One Standard.

Headquarters

California Office

1401 21st St, Ste R
Sacramento, CA 95811

Florida Operations

Florida Office

7901 4th St N, STE 300
St. Petersburg, FL 33702

Licensed in California and Florida. License numbers C 3600237, A 3600116, PI QM 99, PI 190157. Please direct all correspondence to the California office.

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