Case Files / TRAINING / SYNTHETIC

Mirror Market

A fictional marketplace whose vendor accounts appear to be reflections of one another.

OPEN — Term IIOpened Week 16Confidence LOW

People

  • Vendor cluster V-A

    Suspected single operator group

    Low

Accounts & infrastructure

  • · vendor-a1
  • · vendor-a2
  • · vendor-a3
  • · range-cdn-2
  • · training-vps-06

Finance

  • · Synthetic cluster C7
  • · Simulated exchange endpoint SX-2

Follow the money.

Timeline

  1. Week 16

    Listing language overlaps detected across three vendors.

  2. Week 17

    Shared image-compression artifact identified.

Hypothesis board

  • One vendor operating three storefronts.

    ACTIVE

    Explains 52% of available evidence

  • Three vendors buying from one content supplier.

    ALIVE

    Explains 48% of available evidence

ARGUS requires that at least two hypotheses remain alive until the evidence closes them.

Network

Synthetic graph · Academy range

Entity inspector

Select an entity to inspect its relationships and edge confidence. Dashed edges are low confidence — they are leads, not findings.

CARTOGRAPHER note: two clusters now share one registrar artifact. Bridge confidence is moderate and a human must sign the assessment.

Legal

Synthetic marketplace inside the Academy range.

Team

HUNTER CELL 04-B — Lead Investigator (rotating): Jordan Ellis. Roles rotate at each case phase.

Debrief

Record what changed your mind and what you would preserve differently. Debriefs feed the competency read on your Hunter Path.