The firm
Curtis Pritchard, and the reason this agency exists.
A native Texan, a United States Marine, and more than twenty-five years spent establishing facts for people who needed them.
- #1 Private Investigator in Texas
- Twenty-five years of experience
- Marine veteran owned
- Statewide Texas coverage
- Free confidential consultation
Curtis Pritchard
Marine. Texan. Investigator.
Curtis Pritchard was born in Texas and went to high school and college in the north of the state, where he did well in the classroom and on the field. After graduating he joined the United States Marine Corps and served with honor and integrity. Honorably discharged, he came home to Texas, began studying the law, and started a new career in private investigations.
A True P.I. was built around a motto he adopted and has not moved off since: do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reason. In a business where the shortcuts are obvious and frequently offered, that sentence is doing more work than it looks like it is.
He works at staying current. The techniques and the technology in this field change constantly, and an investigator who stopped learning in 2009 is producing 2009 results. Continuing education and qualification is a requirement for every investigator who works for A True P.I., not an optional extra.
Curtis personally manages every investigation the agency takes. He takes the call, listens to what the client actually needs rather than what they first ask for, and builds the investigation around it. Clients get one investigator from the first conversation to the final report.
The motto
Do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reason.
It is on the door for a reason. Here is what each part of it costs us in practice.
Do the right thing
Including when it costs the agency the engagement. If an investigation will not help you, the honest answer is that it will not help you.
In the right way
Lawfully, and documented well enough that how the evidence was obtained never becomes the weak point in your case.
For the right reason
The client’s actual problem, not the largest invoice that could plausibly be justified.
The unglamorous half
Most of this job is reading.
Surveillance is the part people picture. Records are the part that solves cases - address histories, court files, property, entities, liens. It is slow, it is quiet, and it is where the answers usually are.
Credentials
What can be verified.
- Texas License #A12818
- Investigative work in Texas is a licensed activity. License documentation is provided on request.
- Insured and bonded
- Certificates are available for vendor onboarding, which carriers and corporate clients generally need.
- More than twenty-five years
- In the field, across family, civil, criminal, corporate and workers compensation matters.
- United States Marine Corps
- Served with honor and integrity, and honorably discharged, before entering this profession.
- Continuing education
- A requirement for every investigator who works for the agency, not an optional extra.
Where we work
Four metros, and the rest of Texas.
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio are where most cases start. Coverage runs to the whole state, and records and asset work is run nationally.
Free consultation
Tell us what is going on. The first call is free.
Describe the situation and we will tell you honestly whether an investigation would help, what it would involve and what it would cost. Confidential, no obligation, and no charge for the conversation.