# DeepTrace

- **Event:** [Zero to Agent: Vercel x Deepmind Hackathon NYC](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-nyc)
- **When:** Sat, Mar 21 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (EDT)
- **Where:** 220 W 26th St, New York, NY
- **Team:** [Samantha Brown](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/samanthajeanneb), [Daniel Yi](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/eggoil166), [Eric Zou](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/emzou)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/SamanthaJeanneb/CV-hackathon
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/zGCL066w-gk
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-nyc/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/zero-to-agent-nyc/hackathon/gallery/41

DeepTrace is an AI-powered OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) agent that investigates people the way a skilled human investigator would — not just searching for a name, but following the trail.
Standard search tools stop at the surface: a LinkedIn, a Twitter, maybe a GitHub. DeepTrace goes further. You give it a name and any seed information you have, and it recursively searches, extracts facts, draws inferences, and spawns new searches from those inferences — automatically. Found that someone went to Stuyvesant High School and loves physics? It'll check Physics Olympiad records. Found a volleyball reference? It'll pull the school's sports roster. Each discovery becomes a new lead.
The problem it solves: public information about a person is scattered across dozens of sources, and connecting the dots requires hours of manual cross-referencing that most tools don't attempt. DeepTrace automates the inference chain — the "what would a detective think to look up next?" — at machine speed, across a user-controlled recursion depth from a quick surface scan all the way to a deep multi-hop investigation.
The output is a structured intelligence report with a live-updating search tree showing exactly how each discovery led to the next — full transparency into the investigative reasoning, not just the results.

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