When a TikTok Live broadcast ends, it is gone. The recording, the chat, the gift activity: all of it disappears the moment the streamer taps "end". For most viewers that is a feature. For an AML analyst watching coordinated gifting move real money through a live stream, it is the whole problem. Today we are launching TikTok Investigator, a new Socialhose capability built to close that gap.
Why TikTok Live needed an investigation tool
TikTok Live lets viewers buy coins, send virtual gifts during streams, and lets creators convert the resulting diamonds to cash at a rate of 200 diamonds to the dollar, with no identity verification required for gifting. That is an unregulated, cross-border payment channel sitting entirely outside traditional banking oversight.
Criminal networks have noticed. Coordinated gifting patterns, circular flows between accounts, rapid high-value bursts, and fan-out/fan-in distribution networks are all ways to move and obscure money through the gift economy. And because everything vanishes when the stream ends, investigators have had no practical way to document any of it. As our founder Mo Elzubeir put it in the launch announcement: "When the stream ends, your evidence doesn't. Investigators told us they needed to watch the money and the chat in real time, then keep a record they could stand behind later."
What TikTok Investigator does
You add TikTok usernames, individually or in bulk, up to 100+ accounts per investigation. From there the platform runs the whole pipeline:
Live detection on a ~2-minute cadence. The moment a monitored account goes live, we connect and start capturing. Between broadcasts, we keep tracking regular posting, profile changes, follower movement, and video performance, so a subject is followed continuously, live or not.
Complete event capture. Gifts, chat messages, likes, follows, shares, member joins, and viewer counts are logged in sequence with full metadata: sender, gift type, diamond value, recipient, timestamp.
A dollar-valued gift ledger. Every diamond flow is converted to USD on every row. Leaderboards rank top gifters and receivers by diamonds, USD, and gift count, and per-account earnings intelligence aggregates payout and stream time across the investigation.
Risk-scored network graphs. Every gift relationship is scored 0 to 1.0 across five named flags: high-value transfer, rapid repeat gifting, circular flow, fan-out distribution, and fan-in aggregation, color-coded green through red. The interactive graph supports multiple layouts, diamond and risk filters, and an ego view to isolate a single account.
Trigger-term alerts in any language. Terms are matched three ways (exact, fuzzy, and semantic) across both live chat and stream speech, with Critical hits escalating by email while the stream is still live.
Recording, transcription, and AI analysis. After the stream, a watermarked HD recording, an original-language transcript, an English translation, and a structured AI analysis attach to the session. Right-to-left scripts (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, Urdu) are fully supported, and every AI finding cites the exact transcript segment it came from. A gift-and-trigger timeline aligns every gift event and trigger hit to the transcript, so you can find the call-to-action that preceded the largest gift cluster in two clicks.
Evidence you can walk away with
Investigations end in reports, not dashboards. Everything exports in open formats: CSV and branded PDF reports, publication-ready PNG network graphs with investigation metadata and USD valuation, watermarked MP4 recordings with 15-minute presigned download links, and analyst notes preserved across the case. Exports include audit logs, cryptographic hashes, and synchronized timestamps to support chain-of-custody requirements. For automated workflows, a REST API (OpenAPI 3.1) pulls every ledger, graph metric, and transcript straight into your case management system. No vendor lock-in; your investigation data is yours.
Who it is for
TikTok Investigator is built for law enforcement financial crime units, AML/CFT compliance teams, regulators seeking visibility into creator-economy money flows, trust and safety teams, OSINT analysts, and journalists who need reliable records of live stream activity. It runs inside the Socialhose platform, which already monitors X, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit.
Pricing
All plans are month-to-month with no setup fee and no minimum term. Billing is metered by accounts monitored and monitoring hours, and accounts can be swapped in and out at any time:
Investigator: $599/month (self-serve)
Investigator Pro: $999/month (self-serve)
Investigator Agency: $1,999/month, with a dedicated account manager and onboarding (contact sales)
Get started
Add your accounts and live detection begins immediately. Create an account to start investigating, explore the full capability breakdown on the product page, or download our free reference for practitioners, The Investigator's Field Guide to TikTok Live Money Laundering, covering detection heuristics, false-positive considerations, and network analysis methods.
