Maltego is built to gather: transforms reach into a large catalogue of data sources and return entities onto a graph, fast. Filamental gathers nothing. It’s where the analysis is kept, with every entity a document carrying the reasoning and the source behind it, every connection a relationship you name, and the whole case in a folder on your own machine.
A transform returns what a source knows about an entity, and a large case can return a great deal of it. What the results add up to, which link you’d stand behind and which you only suspect, is the analyst’s work, and it tends to live in notes beside the graph.
In Filamental that work is the structure. Every node is a full document, with the reasoning, the original files attached and the source written down, and every connection is a type you name, such as “directed by”, “paid” or “registered at”, with a direction and a pull. Ask Pathfinder how two entities connect and it lights the route and reads it back as a chain of named relationships, which is the sentence you’ll eventually have to write in the report.
A Filamental case is a folder on your own disk or your own network: plain-text notes, the original attachments, no account, no sign-in and no telemetry of any kind. It makes no lookups and no outbound requests on your behalf, so nothing about the case leaves unless you send it. The only things that ever do are a link you choose to publish, encrypted on your device first, and requests to an AI provider you’ve connected yourself.
Keep the case on a restricted drive on your own network and it inherits that drive’s permissions: there’s no separate login to provision and no admin console, and revoking someone’s access to the folder revokes their access to the case. A privacy question gets an architectural answer rather than a policy one.
With a model on your own computer, through Ollama or LM Studio, not even the AI requests leave. Point it at a folder of documents and it reads them into a case of people, organisations and events, with every node naming the documents it came from.
Publisher Studio turns the case into something a reviewer, a client or a colleague can take in: a link that opens in any browser with nothing to install and no account, or a single HTML file. Each connection carries its type into the page, so the reader sees what you claim about each link, and the notes behind it.
Maltego’s free plan runs on a small monthly allowance of the credits its transforms draw on. Past that, its paid plans run to thousands of euros a year, and the larger ones are billed per seat.
Filamental has no credits, because it doesn’t query anything, and no seats to count. The Personal plan is free and permanent, with no account and no card, unlimited spaces and everything AI, and a folder of documents explored into a case arrives whole however large it is. The paid tier is $120 a year, or $12 a month, and covers handing work over beyond the one live link that’s free, including presenting.
For part of the job. Maltego is built to gather: transforms query data sources and return entities onto a graph. Filamental gathers nothing and has no lookups of any kind. It’s where the analysis is kept, with every entity a document carrying the reasoning and sources behind it, every connection a relationship type you name, and the case in a folder on your own machine. If you run a collection tool, keep it, and bring what you worked out into Filamental.
Yes, through the AI. Maltego can export a graph to a table as a CSV file. Attach it to a message in Filamental’s built-in AI window and ask it to build the case, with the entities as nodes and the links as typed connections. The result is a first draft that’s yours to check and arrange.
Only what you choose to send. A case is a folder on your own machine, with no account and no telemetry, and Filamental makes no lookups on your behalf. Kept on a drive on your own network, it inherits that drive’s permissions, with no separate login. A link you publish is encrypted on your device before it leaves, and requests to an AI provider you’ve connected go straight to that provider. With a local model through Ollama or LM Studio, nothing leaves the computer at all.
Yes. Write the source on the node, attach the original document to it, or let a folder exploration build the case, which gives every node a Source property naming the documents it came from. Pathfinder lights the route between any two entities and reads it back as a chain of named connections.
No. Filamental has no credits, transforms or data feeds, because it gathers nothing, so where Maltego’s paid plans run to thousands of euros a year, Filamental’s Personal plan is free and permanent, and AI requests go to the provider you connected, on your own account, or to a model on your own computer. The paid tier, at $120 a year or $12 a month, covers handing work over beyond the one live link that’s free.
Open the Beneficial Ownership & Asset Tracing Template, put them in, write down why each one’s there, and ask Pathfinder how the first connects to the last.