Investigations functions built to hold up when someone looks closely.
Astris Integrity Consulting helps organizations build internal investigations programs that fit their risk, rest on evidence and impartiality rather than organizational convenience, and remain defensible when regulators, courts, or boards examine how the work was done.
From first allegation to final report, the program is the product.
Most investigation failures trace back to the design of the function rather than the skill of a single investigator, so the work starts with how intake, planning, interviewing, analysis, and reporting are built to operate together.
Program design and maturity
Assessment of an existing investigations function against ISO/TS 37008:2023, with a practical roadmap that matches governance, staffing, and process to the organization's actual risk profile.
Method and training
Investigator training built on a five-phase method and information-gathering interview practice, delivered as self-paced courses or tailored sessions for HR, compliance, and investigations teams.
Oversight and measurement
Scored diagnostics and program dashboards that give ethics and compliance leaders a clear view of how the investigations function is performing from intake through resolution.
Tools and training that carry the method into daily practice.
TrustQ
A diagnostic and real-time dashboard that lets compliance and ethics leaders see how their investigations program is performing across the full workflow, from intake to resolution.
Visit TrustQ →Astris Academy
Scenario-based workplace investigation training grounded in the AGILE method and ISO/TS 37008:2023, with a certificate of completion for learners who finish the program.
Visit the Academy →The Agile Investigator
A free, framework-based introduction to the AGILE method for investigators, HR professionals, and compliance leaders, and the companion to the book of the same name.
Start AGILE-101 →AgileDesk
A case management platform that follows the AGILE phases, so that the structure of the method and the record of the investigation stay aligned from the first allegation onward.
Five phases, one defensible investigation.
AGILE gives investigators a shared structure that holds across allegation types and jurisdictions, which is what allows an investigation to be reviewed, repeated, and trusted.
Align
Establish authority, set the scope, and orient the investigation.
Ground
Scope, stakeholders, sources, timeline, and risk.
Investigate
Gather and verify evidence, map relationships, and probe for gaps.
Link
Analyze, compare, assess credibility, and synthesize.
Execute
Findings, conclusions, and defensible documentation.
Rick Schumacher, CFE
Rick has spent more than thirty years conducting, managing, and overseeing sensitive investigations, beginning with U.S. Army Special Operations Command, continuing through more than a decade of fraud and regulatory investigations at the state level, and extending into global corporate investigations leadership.
He founded Astris Integrity Consulting to give organizations the structure he found missing in most investigations functions: a method that investigators can follow, leaders can measure, and reviewers can trust.
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and ACFE Advisory Board member
- Certified PEACE Investigative Interviewer
- Advisory board member, ISO/TS 37008:2023, Internal investigations of organizations
- Author of The Agile Investigator and The Weight of Small Things
- Pat Tillman Foundation Tillman Scholar
- Doctor of Business Administration candidate, focused on building internal investigations programs
Talk through your investigations program.
Whether you are standing up a function for the first time or testing one that already exists, the first conversation is about where your program is today and what it needs to hold up.
Email Rick Schumacher