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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.