Featured Investigator questions and answers
Who qualifies to become a Ghost?
Ghost access is for working private investigators who can lawfully perform the missions they accept. MiSpy verifies identity, active license information, jurisdiction, relevant business information, and any mission-specific credentials required for the work.
How are missions matched?
Approved missions are routed using jurisdiction, license, active bond/insurance policies, territory, mission type, availability, experience, and operational fit. Pie supports the match. The Ghost decides whether to accept.
What can I see before I accept?
Eligible Ghosts can review the mission type and category, every intake question and answer submitted by the Asset, territory, timing, expected deliverable, mission amount, MiSpy’s 20% platform fee, and expected Ghost payout before acceptance. MiSpy does not append unrelated Asset profile information to that view.
Can I pass on a mission?
Yes. Ghosts choose which missions to accept. Passing on a mission does not remove a Ghost from the platform or impact future matching.
How many missions can I run at once?
Up to three active missions. A Ghost can anchor the pipeline with one Full Investigation and fill the remaining capacity with Quick Hit or Focused Fieldwork missions—or choose another mix that fits the territory, schedule, and professional judgment.
What does MiSpy charge?
MiSpy retains a 20% platform fee on all missions. Nothing else. The fee and expected Ghost payout appear before acceptance.
Who owns the investigative judgment?
The Ghost does. Pie can guide intake, organize mission information, create an initial overview, support matching, workflow, documentation, and reporting structure. A MiSpy admin approves the mission. The Ghost validates the sources, weighs the evidence, records limitations, and authors the conclusion.
What does Serus provide to Ghosts?
Verified licensed Ghosts can add the Ghost Kit as a paid add-on: the full Serus platform, including professional intelligence and AI-powered OSINT, source search, dark-web lookups, breach intelligence, exposure analysis, research workflows, and online protection for their own identities. Those capabilities support lawful work; they do not replace license authority, mission scope, or investigator judgment.
Is MiSpy available internationally?
Not at launch. Initial network and mission availability depend on approved launch jurisdictions and license coverage.
How are disputes handled?
MiSpy reviews the mission record, approved scope, communication, evidence submission, and debrief, then renders a decision under the platform terms.
When are Ghosts paid?
A typical payout flow may require mission completion, debrief submission, and any defined review. Exact timing, holds, and payment terms appear in the Ghost agreement and mission record.
Additional Investigator questions and answers
Are Ghosts employees?
MiSpy is designed as a marketplace for independent licensed professionals, not an employer hiring investigators into a traditional staff role. The controlling Ghost agreement defines the relationship, responsibilities, and platform terms.
Can I change my availability?
Yes. Ghosts control active territory, schedule, mission categories, workload, and temporary availability within the platform.
Will I see the Asset’s real identity?
The ordinary mission view uses an Asset call sign and discloses only information reasonably necessary for the work. Some missions, legal duties, safety situations, payment processes, or disputes require verified information or limited disclosure.
Can I work with an Asset outside MiSpy?
No. Mission communication, scope changes, evidence handling, payment, and debrief delivery remain inside the platform. That protects the mission record, both parties, and the Ghost’s payout.
What if an Asset asks for an update?
Assets can request limited status updates through the platform. Ghosts can respond without exposing tactics, compromising safety, interrupting active work, or previewing unverified conclusions.
Can I upload evidence during the mission?
Yes. The product supports staged evidence uploads throughout the work. Draft or unverified material does not automatically become visible to the Asset. The Ghost decides what is ready for the final debrief, subject to law, policy, scope, and any defined review.
What if a mission cannot be completed?
If circumstances outside the Ghost’s control prevent completion, MiSpy reviews the approved scope, documented work, communication, time, expenses, safety issues, and reason the mission stopped. Compensation follows the published mission, cancellation, and review policy.
Can I use my own tools and methods?
Ghosts retain professional responsibility for lawful methods, evidence validation, safety, and compliance. Any tool still has to fit the license, mission scope, platform standards, and law.
Can I accept missions outside my licensed territory?
Only when the mission, jurisdiction, license, and applicable rules permit it. MiSpy filters opportunities using verified eligibility, but every Ghost remains responsible for understanding the limits of the license and declining work that cannot be performed lawfully.
Is MiSpy a law-enforcement platform?
No. MiSpy is a private marketplace and workflow platform. It does not represent law enforcement or a government agency, confer government authority, or change the legal powers of a licensed private investigator.
SpyDollars for Ghosts
How do Ghosts earn SpyDollars?
On the work itself. You earn 2,500 SpyDollars per completed mission, plus 500 when a mission you accepted within 30 minutes completes, 1,000 for completing three or more missions in a calendar month, and 1,000 for every five-star rating on a paid mission. Mission rewards post when the mission completes, and bonuses post at month end. SpyDollars earned by Ghosts may be treated as compensation and may be reportable, and each Ghost handles their own taxes.
What’s the flagship Ghost reward?
A free month of your Serus add-on, redeemed with 10,000 SpyDollars earned from completed work. Four completed missions get you there before bonuses. It applies to your next billing cycle, or to a cycle whose payment failed. The SpyDollar amount for every other reward will be published before redemptions open.
Do SpyDollars affect who gets matched to missions?
Never, and this is permanent: no reward at any level affects mission matching, priority, placement, ranking, visibility or assignment, for anyone. Rewards recognize your work. They never buy your next mission.
If a client redeems a discount on my mission, what happens to my payout?
Nothing. You’re paid in full. MiSpy funds every discount from our side of the transaction.
The Serus Ghost Kit
What’s in the Serus platform for Ghosts?
Professional access to Serus’s investigation platform, exclusively with your MiSpy investigator account (add-on required): case management, AI-assisted OSINT research, subject search across names, emails, phone numbers, usernames, and keywords, dark web exposure analysis, automated monitoring agents that watch a subject and compile a daily feed, and case reports you control from first line to last.
Who controls what goes in a case report?
You do. Choose what goes in, cut what doesn’t, and fine-tune the final document until it reads the way you’d write it. The mistyped name and the dead-end lead never reach the client, because the investigator decides what does. You sign the file. You own what’s in it.
Does Serus protect Ghosts too?
Yes. The same digital-footprint protection Assets get, data-broker removal, exposure alerts, and monitoring, covers you as well. People in this line of work know better than anyone why that matters.