🕵️‍♀️ The Citizen Investigator’s Playbook

A Free-to-Need Toolkit for Justice After Financial Exploitation

When the system lets you down, the power to investigate, expose, and seek redress must come from you. That’s why we created the Citizen Investigator’s Playbook — a structured, AI-supported toolkit from Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation).

This Playbook is offered on a Free to Need basis — meaning there’s no cost if you’re in hardship. We believe financial justice should never depend on your ability to pay. If you’ve suffered exploitation, you deserve tools, support, and a clear path to reclaim your voice — free from further harm.

🔍 What Is the Citizen Investigator’s Playbook?

The Playbook is a Notion-based digital system that helps victims and advocates compile evidence, structure case files, and generate professional correspondence — all with precision and purpose.

You’ll be supported to:

Set up a digital evidence bundle in Google Drive
Organise your investigation in Notion, with clear sections and timelines
Use AI (ChatGPT) to replace emotional, ignored emails with powerful, focused communications

It’s designed for private citizens, not lawyers — but it speaks the language of the legal and regulatory system.

🧰 What’s Inside?

Your Playbook includes:

📁 Case Overview – Background narrative, positioning summary, witness statements
🗓️ Case Timeline – Chronological breakdown of key events
📑 Key Correspondence – Emails and letters to authorities
💷 Financial Evidence – Loss calculations and supporting documentation
📉 Regulator Failures – Logs of inaction, omissions, or neglect
🏛️ Political Advocacy – Templates and tracking for MP engagement
📣 Media & Legal Files – Press, case law, and support references

Each section includes example content and guidance, so you’re never starting from scratch.

🤖 Why Use AI?

Victims are often ignored not because their cases lack merit — but because their communication lacks focus and formality.

With AI support from ChatGPT:

Transform emotion into strategic, assertive impact
Create concise, targeted letters that demand action
Save time and stay professional, even under pressure
Gain the confidence to speak truth to power

💸 Free to Need — What That Means

We know that victims of financial crime often face financial hardship. That’s why Get SAFE offers the Playbook at no cost to those in need.

If you are:

Struggling to afford legal help
Exhausted by ignored complaints
Ready to fight back but don’t know where to start

…then this Playbook is for you — free, accessible, and purpose-built.

🚀 Who Is It For?

Individuals seeking justice after financial exploitation
Peer supporters helping others navigate complex cases
Campaigners, advocates, and journalists seeking structured evidence
Professionals assisting survivors of mis-selling, fraud, or institutional failure

You don’t need legal training — just determination, digital access, and our framework.

🛠️ How Do I Get Started?

Duplicate the Playbook into your own Notion workspace
Link your Google Drive to upload and organise your files
Set up a free ChatGPT account for correspondence drafting
Follow the guidance provided in each section
Start building your case — one document, one timeline, one voice at a time

💡 Why We Built This

At Get SAFE, we’ve walked alongside victims who were stonewalled by regulators, dismissed by institutions, and abandoned by systems meant to protect them.

This Playbook is born from those lived experiences — especially the tireless work of people like Ian Davis, whose pursuit of justice inspired the structure you now see.

💬 Final Thoughts

Justice should never be paywalled. It should be available to anyone harmed, anywhere, at any time.

With the Citizen Investigator’s Playbook, we’re putting that power directly into the hands of those who need it most — Free to Need, ready to act.

🔗 Access the Playbook
🔗 Learn more about Get SAFE

Together, we can expose injustice — and rebuild trust from the ground up.

About Get SAFE

Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation) was born from a simple truth: too many victims of financial abuse are left to suffer in silence.

We exist in memory of Ian Davis—for the ones who did everything right, only to be failed by the systems they trusted. We know that behind every vanished pension, every ignored complaint, and every stonewalled letter is a person—frightened, exhausted, and too often alone.

Get SAFE offers more than sympathy. We offer structure, support, and solidarity.
We provide a voice where there’s been silence, and clarity where there’s been confusion.
We stand beside those who have been exploited, not just to help them recover—but to help them reclaim their story and rebuild their future.

Because financial justice is not a luxury.
It’s a human right.

If you or someone you know has been affected by financial exploitation, we are here.
You are not alone.

Learn more at: Get SAFE (Support After Financial Exploitation).