BAIR SYSTEMSAnalytical Software Explore MICHAEL
The company behind MICHAEL

Analytical software for the people doing the work.

BAIR Systems builds crime and intelligence analysis software: spatial, temporal, behavioral, statistical, social network analysis, and AI, engineered to run on the analyst's own machine. MICHAEL is the flagship.

Decades of analytical software for police, the DOD, academia, and private corporations.

Explore MICHAEL Who we are
9analysis views 20statistical modes 6centrality metrics 0servers to stand up $2,450per seat, per year
01 Product

MICHAEL. A complete analytical workstation.

Nine analysis views over one dataset. Load a spreadsheet and every view lights up at once: the 3D globe, the charts, the statistics, the network graph, and an AI analyst with your data in front of it.

  • 01One dataset, every discipline. Spatial analysis on a real 3D globe, temporal and behavioral analysis, twenty statistical modes, social network analysis, narrative search over free text, patrol workload, and unsupervised crime series detection.
  • 02Runs where analysts actually work. Nothing loads from a CDN and there is no MICHAEL server. An automated build gate proves the app boots with every external request severed, because police networks block public CDNs routinely.
  • 03The math is accountable. The analytical core was carried forward from software agencies ran for two decades, verified against the original, and every method traces to the published literature it came from.
  • 04$2,450 a seat, per year. Everything included. No tiers, no modules, no paid upgrades. Academia and nonprofits, get in touch.
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Where it stands

Coming soon, and the waitlist is open on the product page. Windows desktop installer, running on the analyst's own machine against the analyst's own data.

The sunset guarantee

If MICHAEL is ever discontinued, or sold to somebody who discontinues it, the final version goes out free, unlocked, and with no time limit. That promise survives any sale or change of control.

MICHAEL Regional

The multi-agency, hosted version, for data shared between agencies rather than analyzed on one machine. In development, quoted separately.

02 How we build

Software that is honest about what it knows.

Analytical software gets briefed to commanders, read into case files, and handed to prosecutors. That is a different standard than a dashboard, and it is the one we build to.

  • 01A clean negative is a first-class answer. Our tools are willing to say there is nothing there. The near-repeat test reports when a pattern is chance, and the series finder prints the baseline every finding has to clear.
  • 02Every result is explainable. A finding opens with the fields that produced it and the real quantities behind it, in language an analyst can read out loud in a briefing.
  • 03Your data is yours. Import is local, analysis is local, storage is local. Nothing leaves the machine that imported it unless you switch on a feature that sends it, and the app names exactly what each feature sends.
  • 04It tells you when a method is struggling. Density surfaces warn when the kernel is too small to trust, thin sample cells say so, and skipped calculations are reported rather than returned as silent zeros.
Why it mattersAn analyst's credibility rides on every number they brief. Software that dresses chance up as a finding, or quietly drops the rows it could not parse, spends that credibility for them. Ours does not.
Who we are

BAIR Systems is the company that builds and publishes MICHAEL. It was founded by Sean Bair, who worked as a police officer and a crime analyst, managed the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program, and has been building analytical software for police, the DOD, academia, and private corporations for decades. He founded BAIR Analytics, and LexisNexis acquired it in 2015.

He teaches strategy at BYU's Marriott School now, and he has written four books, two of them on crime analysis and AI in policing.

Contact

Talk to us.

Agencies, corporate teams, academia and nonprofits, press. One inbox, answered by a person.

im@seanbair.ai