Chuqlab

Chuqlab Inc. is an Indianapolis-based software company whose product, CrimeMiner, applies AI to criminal-investigation evidence for law enforcement agencies, prosecutors and task forces. The platform ingests body-worn and surveillance video, interview-room recordings, jail calls, interrogations and wire audio, images, documents such as warrants, reports, phone records and financials, ZIP archives, Cellebrite UFDR (.ufdr) forensic exports, and warrant returns covering social-media, phone, account and financial records. Material is processed into searchable evidence within a single case, so investigators can ask plain-language questions across all sources rather than reviewing each export in isolation.

CrimeMiner transcribes audio automatically across 25 languages with speaker separation and persistent speaker identities, and analyzes video visually — including scene description and on-screen text — in addition to the transcript. Identifiers extracted from evidence, such as license plates, phone numbers and social handles, become searchable case entities that can be followed across the rest of the material. Supported structured warrant returns are converted into entities and communication links showing who contacted whom, when and how often, while other readable returns are indexed for search. The system generates link charts, maps and timelines on demand and drafts reports and warrant affidavits from the case record with citations back to the source file, page and timestamp for officer review and sign-off.

The original product, launched in September per IBJ reporting, focused on transcribing and searching large volumes of recorded audio — inmate phone calls, body-cam footage and police interviews — so investigators could locate material that manual review would miss; one client reportedly had 2,000 hours of audio tied to a single cold case. Reported uses include surfacing a suspect's confession and identifying the locations of sought weapons.

Founding story

Cornelius George founded Chuqlab Inc. in Indianapolis in 2019 with co-founder Blaine Dirker, aiming to give detectives, law enforcement and prosecutors an additional investigative tool. George, a native of Liberia who moved to the U.S. as a child, earned a business degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 2004 and worked at Merrill Lynch and Raymond James before moving into cybersecurity at firms including Indianapolis-based Rook Security. The company name, pronounced "Chuck-lab," honors his late cousin Charles Johnson, who died of a stroke at age 36 in 2019 while visiting Liberia.

Business model

Chuqlab sells CrimeMiner as software to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors' offices and task forces. Pricing is scoped per agency rather than metered by recording-hour, file or query, and evidence processing — transcription, video analysis, document, image, archive and warrant-return processing — is included rather than billed by volume. The company positions contracts to come in under the combined cost of the separate link-analysis, forensic review, CDR mapping, transcription and analytics licenses an agency already holds, and pricing is quoted after a scoping conversation about agency size, caseload and existing vendor spend.

Agency-level software contracts rather than usage-based billing; transcription and other evidence processing are bundled into the contract instead of charged per recording-hour, file or query.

Traction

IBJ reported the technology in use by 17 organizations across the U.S., including law-enforcement agencies, prosecutors and task forces, following the CrimeMiner launch in September; Inside INdiana Business reported the platform in use by more than a dozen organizations as of January. Cited outcomes include discovering a suspect's confession and identifying locations of weapons investigators had been seeking.

Latest developments

The company's current positioning centers on CrimeMiner as a single case workspace spanning video, audio, images, documents, archives, Cellebrite UFDR exports and warrant returns, with on-demand link charts, maps and timelines, sourced first drafts of reports and warrant affidavits, per-officer workspaces, and CJIS-aligned handling with CMEK encryption and a full audit trail.