THE AIM PROCESS
Three disciplines. One file. No handoffs.
Most firms are a phone room with a letter template. When the easy calls fail, the file goes quiet. We built the opposite: the moment voluntary payment stops working, two more disciplines are already on the account.
Attorneys
Independent counsel, in the debtor's own jurisdiction
We are not a law firm. We manage a network of independent creditor's rights attorneys and we direct strategy to them — the evidence, the asset picture, the recommended venue. Every firm in the network is graded on one number: what it actually recovered, not what it filed.
Licensed Investigators
Establish what can be reached before filing
We are not a private investigation firm. We manage a network of independent, licensed investigators for field work, and we run our own skip tracing and public-record research in-house. Employment and income sources. Banking relationships. Real property and recorded liens. Business entities, officers, affiliates. Transfers and their timing. A demand backed by verified facts reads differently than a form letter, and a debtor can tell in one paragraph. But the real reason we investigate is enforcement — building a clear path to recovery, so the money can be collected even without the debtor's cooperation.
Mediators
Finding what actually gets a balance resolved
Most balances should resolve without a courtroom, and the fastest recovery is almost always a negotiated one. Real mediation starts with understanding the debtor — their situation, their constraints, and what's actually standing between them and payment — then using that understanding to find the path that gets the full balance resolved. Not a discount. Not a shortcut. A resolution that fits the debtor's reality while getting our client paid.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU PLACE THE FILE
Waiting is the most expensive option your debtor has.
Every stage below is cheaper for the debtor than the one after it. That is the entire leverage of this business, and it is why the first conversation matters more than the fifth.
1
Voluntary Resolution
First contact opens the shortest and cheapest path available: pay the balance, or agree to terms that close it. Most files should end here. Most don't.
2
Documented Demand
Every call, promise, dispute and refusal is recorded and logged. That record is what makes the file credible later — and it is built from day one, not reconstructed when someone needs it.
3
Investigation
We establish the real financial picture — employment, banking relationships, property, business interests, transfers — so that any decision about litigation is made on facts rather than optimism.
4
Attorney Review
Independent counsel licensed in the debtor's jurisdiction reviews the file and the evidence and determines whether suit is warranted and cost-justified. Files that shouldn't be sued don't get sued.
5
Litigation, where warranted
Suit is filed in the proper venue by network counsel. Interest, costs and fees permitted by the underlying contract or by statute may be added to the amount sought.
6
Judgment Enforcement
Once a judgment is entered, we move to enforcement — with or without the debtor's cooperation. From here, the question changes from whether the debt is owed to what can be reached. Depending on the state, and what that state protects, that can include bank accounts frozen, liens placed on assets, property seized, or wages garnished where the law allows it. What no state allows is for the judgment to quietly expire — it accrues interest at the statutory rate, and in most places it can be renewed.
INVESTIGATIONS
Most files stall for one reason: nobody actually looked
A balance is not uncollectable because a debtor says so. It is uncollectable when nobody has established what the debtor has, where it sits, and which of it the law can reach.That work is the difference between a file that closes and a file that gets returned to you as "no assets." We do it before the demand goes out, not after litigation fails — because the facts change what we ask for, how we ask, and whether suing is worth anyone's money.
INCOME
Employment, payroll sources, contract and 1099 relationships
BANKING
Institutional relationships and account activity indicators
PROPERTY
Real property, recorded liens, mortgages and encumbrances
ENTITIES
Business filings, officers, registered agents, affiliates
TRANSFERS
Asset movement and the timing that explains it
PRIORITY
Prior judgments, competing creditors, existing garnishments
STANDARDS
The boring part is the part that protects you.
A recovery firm that cuts corners on compliance eventually hands its clients the bill. Ours is built to survive an examination on any given day.
LICENSING
Licensed, registered or bonded as each jurisdiction requires, and current on every renewal. State list available on request.
DOCUMENTATION
Calls recorded. Contacts, promises and disputes logged to the account. The file is the evidence.
DISPUTES
Every dispute answered in writing, within the applicable timeframe, with collection activity handled accordingly.
CLIENT FUNDS
Collections held in a separate trust account and remitted on a published schedule, with a full accounting.