Welcome to the Aleph User Guide and Technical Documentation

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⚠️ Project status: SUNSETTING ⚠️


Our involvement with this open-source project is being sunsetted. Maintenance of this version will officially end after December 2025. This documentation website will remain available for the foreseeable future.

Why?

This decision marks a significant strategic shift for us. Over the past year, our team has completely rewritten the Aleph codebase from scratch to launch Aleph Pro. As we transition to this new supported platform, we are focusing our resources entirely on Aleph Pro to ensure we can keep the lights on for investigations around the world.

For further details on this decision and what it means for the future, please read our official FAQs.

Timeline & Support

  • We will continue to provide maintenance for this repository until December 31st, 2025. After this date, no further updates, bug fixes, or support will be provided by the core team.
  • For any questions regarding the transition or the legacy software, please reach out via our Discourse community.
  • For those currently hosting their own Aleph instances, we will be in touch with you very soon regarding the transition.
  • Organizations and individuals looking to collaborate can reach out to aleph-pro@occrp.org.

Thank you! We are incredibly proud of what we’ve built so far. Thank you to all the contributors and community members who helped build this project and believed in our mission.

Are you a journalist or researcher?

Our user guide helps you getting started with Aleph and has step-by-step instructions that help you get the most out of Aleph.

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Are you a developer or an admin?

Our technical documentation has resources on how to install, run, and extend Aleph, as well as information on Aleph’s architecture.

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About Aleph

Aleph is a data platform created and maintained by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). The tool was built to help investigative journalists track people and companies, usually as part of their corruption investigations.

Read more about Aleph

What Aleph can do for you

  • 👀 Find insights in large volumes of data
  • ☁️ Securely upload documents and leaks
  • 📄 Make scanned documents searchable
  • 🕸 Visualize relationships with network diagrams
  • 🏢 Compare names of people and companies against hundreds of datasets
  • 📆 Create timelines of events

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