A company dossier is a single, sourced file that gathers everything the public record knows about a business — its people, hiring, money, locations, tech, news and risk — and lays it out so you can read the whole company in minutes instead of weeks of open tabs.
The word dossier comes from the French for a bundle of papers tied together — a case file. A company dossier is exactly that, for a business: a structured collection of facts about a single company, drawn from the public record and organized into one document you can actually use.
It is not a marketing page and not a database dump. A good dossier reads like an intelligence brief. It tells you what the company does, who runs it, whether it's growing, where the money comes from, what it's building on, and what's worth a second look — and it tells you where every one of those claims came from. The phrase "company dossier meaning" really comes down to one idea: a fast, honest, sourced starting map of a business.
The point of a dossier is leverage. Anyone can find a company's website, a few news articles and a LinkedIn page. The work is gathering all of it, cross-checking it, and laying it out in an order that tells a story. A dossier does that work once and hands you the result.
A Company Dossier file is built from nine standard sections. Each one answers a different question you'd otherwise have to chase across a dozen sources:
Together those nine sections cover the four questions most research actually comes down to: what is this company, is it healthy, what is it doing now, and what should I be careful about? Because each section is built the same way every time, you can read a dossier on a company you've never heard of and know exactly where to look. See a sample dossier to get a feel for the format before you run one yourself.
People reach for several different documents when they research a company, and they're easy to confuse. The short version: a company profile vs. a dossier is the difference between a summary and an investigation.
A company profile is a short, often self-published snapshot — a paragraph of description, an industry tag, a headcount band, maybe a logo. You find profiles on directory sites and on a company's own "About" page. They're useful as a label, but they're shallow, rarely sourced, and usually written by the company itself. A dossier goes wider (nine sections, not one) and deeper (every claim pinned to where it came from), and it draws on outside signals the company doesn't control, like hiring data and news.
A credit report is a narrow financial instrument from a bureau, focused on one question: will this business pay its bills? It scores payment history and credit risk and is typically paid and privacy-regulated. A dossier is broader and qualitative — it sketches the financial shape (funding, investors, public filings, revenue signals) alongside people, tech and risk, but it is not a credit score and shouldn't be used as one.
A formal due-diligence report is the heavyweight version, produced during a deal — exhaustive, often involving the target's cooperation, private data rooms, legal review and a hefty bill. A dossier is the lightweight cousin that comes first: it's the fast public-source brief you build before a meeting, a pitch or a deeper diligence process, so you know which questions are worth the expensive answers. Many people use a dossier to decide whether full due diligence is even warranted.
Anyone whose job involves walking into a room already knowing the company on the other side of the table:
See the full list on the use cases page.
A dossier is only as trustworthy as its sources, so the build process is the whole game. Company Dossier assembles a file from public signals only — seven streams that anyone could reach on their own: job boards, public filings, news and press, the open web, maps and places, reviews, and the company's own site. It gathers them in one pass, de-duplicates and reconciles what it finds, and writes each fact into the section where it belongs — with a link back to the source.
That last part matters. A claim with no source is a rumor. Every line in a finished dossier points back to where it came from, so you can verify it, judge it, and dig deeper. Treat the file as a starting map, not the last word — confident, fast, and honest about its own limits. The full pipeline is laid out on how it works.
Is building a company dossier legal? Yes — when it's done the way it should be. A dossier built from public sources only gathers what anyone could find: published filings, posted job listings, news coverage, the company's own website. There's no unauthorized access, no login bypass, no social engineering, and no private or personal data harvested in violation of anyone's expectations. It's the same information a diligent person could assemble by hand — just gathered faster and laid out better.
The ethics follow the same line. Company Dossier is about businesses and the public record, not about surveilling individuals. Because everything is sourced, the file is transparent about what it knows and where it learned it, which is exactly what an honest brief should be. And because a dossier is a map, not a verdict, the responsible way to use one is to verify before you act on anything that matters.
Company Dossier is free and runs wherever you work. You can open the web app at everjust.app, install the VS Code extension, run the npm CLI (company-dossier), or use it inside the ChatGPT app or as a Claude app and skill. Type a company name or paste a domain, and the file assembles itself.
If you'd rather look before you run, read the sample dossier first, or walk through how it works to see exactly how the file comes together.
one search. nine sections. every line sourced.