FaceUp
Founded by Jan Slama, David Spunar and Pavel Ihm, FaceUp is an all-in-one platform for whistleblowing, ethics and compliance which helps organisations foster trust, safety and integrity while protecting their reputation, employees, resources and culture.
FaceUp enables workplace disclosures, investigations and documentation to be centralised and streamlined into a single, structured system of record. Every action is time stamped, traceable and audit ready, helping organisations reduce legal exposure, regulatory risk, and costly disputes.
Anonymous reporting ensures personal safety and Faceup now features an AI-powered hotline, accessible 24 hours a day, and connected into your case management system.
FaceUp helps Compliance and People teams spot risks early, respond consistently, and maintain defensible oversight while protecting reputation, employees, resources, and culture.
FaceUp is now used across 70+ countries by over 3,600 organizations, including Zendesk, Heineken, Taco Bell, Sephora, KFC, Vercel and Mercedes-Benz, more than 1,700 companies and is available for free to schools in the Czech Republic.
FaceUp and OSACO have partnered to support organisations mnimise risk and maximise integrity.
Somoetic Intel Group (SIG)
Somoetic Intel Group (SIG) is a science-based, human-centered training and consulting firm specializing in investigative interviewing, information elicitation, intelligence analysis, and professional communication. SIG helps organizations enhance the quality of human intelligence gathered throughout all types of interactions and improve how that information is evaluated, interpreted and used to support sound decisions.
SIG’s programs are designed for professionals working across corporate investigations, retail asset protection, human resources, compliance, insider threat, law enforcement, mental health, and other public- and private-sector environments. Its training combines established behavioral science with practical interviewing, investigative and analytical experience, providing participants with flexible principles and techniques that can be adapted to different people, purposes and contexts.
A defining feature of SIG’s approach is the integration of practitioner expertise and psychological science. Programs are led by experienced investigators and behavioral health professionals who translate research on rapport, memory, cognition, communication and decision-making into practical skills. Interview training emphasizes ethical, science-based methods that support more accurate, complete, and actionable information without relying on rigid scripts, coercive practices, or unsupported assumptions about human behavior.
SIG’s intelligence analysis training builds on this foundation by helping professionals organize information, assess its reliability and relevance, identify patterns and information gaps, recognize the effects of cognitive bias, and develop well-supported analytical judgments. Together, these capabilities help organizations strengthen the full intelligence cycle, from eliciting information to analyzing and communicating what it means.
SIG is headquartered in the Chicagoland area in the United States and provides training and consulting services across multiple industries and professional disciplines.
Through its partnership with OSACO Group, SIG supports the use of EchoMind within the United States retail and corporate sectors. EchoMind’s AI-powered simulations provide professionals with opportunities to practice interviewing and communication skills through realistic, responsive interactions and receive structured feedback on their performance.
The partnership combines SIG’s instructor-led training and science-based methodology with scalable, technology-enabled practice. Together, SIG and OSACO are helping organizations improve how professionals communicate, elicit information, gather human intelligence and translate that information into actionable insight.
Global Credentials
OSACO Group continuously benchmarks its work against key global standards and accreditation frameworks. OSACO Group is licensed by the Ministry of Justice under the Private Security Personnel and Private Investigators Act 2010 (Licence No:22-096348)
OSACO Group is listed as a quality assured service provider on the directory of the global Resource and Support Hub for safeguarding.
Alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is central to our values and the way we operate. To find out more about the UN’s goals go here.
OSACO is proud to be an affiliated member of the New Zealand Council for International Development. To find out more about CID’s goals go here.
We are one of only a handful of NZ businesses that has joined this voluntary leadership platform for the development, implementation, and disclosure of responsible business practices.
Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. Our PSEA service providers specialise in training, safeguarding, investigations, complaints and reporting mechanisms.
OSACO Group is registered with Bond UK as an accredited supplier to its network of civil society organisations working to eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice.
New Zealand Credentials
Sustainable Business Network Impact Investor
Member of the Wanaka Business Chamber
Member of the New Zealand Middle East Business Council
Member of Kuma (Southern Māori Business Network)
Member of the Africa New Zealand Business Chamber
